Hi everyone. I am an international female student with a non-traditional path to Biostatistics. I am applying to Biostatistics PhD programs for the Fall 2020 cycle and would really appreciate an evaluation of my profile
Undergrad school: A well ranked school from India
Undergrad Major: Dentistry (yup! Non-traditional)
Graduate School: Top 10 Statistics school on USNWR
Master Major: MPH with Biostatistics concentration
Undergrad GPA: 3.8/4.0
Grad GPA: 3.8/4.0
Student Type: International
Math courses: None in undergrad. Grad school: Statistical Methods in Public Health I (B), II(A), III(A), IV(A), Spatial Analysis (A), Health Economics (A), Quantitative Risk Assessment(A), Longitudinal Data Analysis (A)
GRE general: Q 163, V 165, AWA 4.5
GRE Math: expected in a few weeks
Work experience: 6 years as a scientist and bio-statistician at an academic research institute where I did my MPH.
Research: 8 published papers in decent impact factor mental health journals (one first author, two second author). All of these papers were applied and not pure stats papers.
Master's thesis on developing a risk score for identifying patients at risk of delayed cancer care.
Skills: Proficient in Stata and R. Working knowledge of Python, Latex, markdown.
Interests: Non-parametric and Bayesian statistics, multilevel modelling, psychometrics.
LOR: Three very strong letters from my work supervisor and PI’s who I have worked with on the papers published.
Targets: All Biostats
Washington, Berkeley, Hopkins, UCLA, UC San Diego, Stanford, Columbia
Concerns: I am an international student with a non-Math/Stat major. I am also a little concerned about the Quant GRE score but with my work schedule I cannot really re-take it before the admission deadline. I also have not been in school for the past 5 years although have taken some online for-credit courses while working. I know a lot of the schools on this list are reach schools and wondering how competitive I would be as a candidate? I am mostly looking at schools on the West Coast and would welcome any suggestions for those some additional schools that you think would be a good match for me.