Hi, I'm an ivy grad who majored in Economics & Statistics, 3.7 cumulative GPA, 167 Quant/165 Verbal on GRE. I've been doing strategy for a big tech company the past 2 years and been functioning as the go-to analytics/data science person on the team. Now I want to make a full-on transition to data science (goal is to become a ds at a startup!) and am realizing that I need more training in math and statistics to thoroughly understand the stuff I'm doing.
Data Science Masters at Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia are my top choices. I'm also considering Statistics masters as well, since I want to hone in on the modeling/statistical part of data science. Although I have a ton of projects and experience at my current job & Kaggle applying machine learning/statistics, I don't have any research experience. I took 2-3 machine learning/data mining courses and 4-5 econometrics classes in college, and plan to get 2 rec letters from each field. I also did an online certificate program from MIT in Big Data.
Do you think I stand a chance for statistics masters or data science? Would also appreciate any and all tips on crafting out my SOP. I'm so much more used to writing professional resumes... Thank you!