Dear all,
Sorry to bug you with another profile evaluation post.
I am a South Korean international who graduated from a college in the US a year ago and am now back in my own country serving in the army. I will be discharged from my service in about six months, and have recently decided that I want to get a masters in Statistics after this.
Here goes my profile:
Undergraduate Institution: USNEWS TOP 30
Majors: Mathematics, Economics
GPA: 3.67
Type of Student: Asian international
Courses taken:
Math: Calc III(B), Linear Algebra(A), Intro to Proofs(A), Differential Equations(A), Mathematical Programming(A-), Intro to Analysis(A), Intro to Abstract Algebra(B), Mathematical Statistics(A), Stochastic Processes(A-), Advanced Statistics(B+)
Econ : Statistics(A), Econometrics(A), Advanced Econometrics(A), PhD Micro Theory I (B+)
Pretty familiar with R and Stata
GRE General Test: 159V / 170Q / 4.0
GRE Subject Math: N/A
Research, work and publication:
Undergraduate honors thesis in economics: On selection bias and wages, did a lot of coding and data cleaning in Stata, nothing extraordinary
Part-time RA for a quantitative psyc lab: model fitting related research in R, some theory but basically a coding job
Summer RA for an evolutionary economist: data cleaning and coding in Stata
Letters of Recommendation: One from my thesis advisor (good), one from my math professor with whom I took major math classes (strong), one from the lab professor (ok)
Schools(MA):
UBC, U of T, Waterloo, McGill, SFU
I've only looked into Canadian programs because I noticed they give out funding to international students. I know there are some US schools that do the same, but I haven't done my research on them yet.
I'm aware that my profile isn't solid after all; so please feel free to leave any kinds of comments, suggestions, or advices you may have in order to talk some sense into me.
Thank you all. Hope you all have a great and safe day.