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@icantdoalgebra did Lebron make this suggestion based on anything in particular?

Thanks for the advice. I will coordinate with my letter writers to highlight my research experience and make sure to emphasize that in my SOPs. How relevant is external funding during this whole process? The lab i’m at has a grant for funding graduate students during their PhDs and my group leader said they could arrange for me to get this grant if I want. Is using this funding source necessary or does funding not matter and it’s just about space for each program?

Thanks for the timely response and for all your advice! It ranks right around 100 for US national universities and it is one of the 17 schools ranked by USNWR for applied math. Sorry but I am trying to keep some level of anonymity. The school I attended wasn’t impressive and I know I consistently performed poorly in numerics. Aside from that which other parts of my application will be scrutinized the most and is there anything I can do to fix that? Given my fixed items would be it realistic to get admittance into a top ten school, or am I best served shooting for something around that NCSU Minnesota range?

Hi! I’m a domestic male applying to stats PhD programs for fall 2021. I’m uncertain of what tier of schools I should apply to and what I could do to improve my chances of being accepted into a quality program. Below is a brief description of my resume. Applied math at a large state school UGPA: low 3.8 Master’s GPA: high 3.8 GRE: Q 168 V 165 W 4.5 Relevant grad courses time series (A), stochastic processes (A), bayesian stats (A), linear modeling(A), stats consulting (A), Numerics (B+,A-), spatial stats (A), Math stat (A), ML related CS classes (A,A-) Relevant undergrad courses Diff Eq (A-), Linear Algebra (A), Analysis (A), complex analysis (A), Discrete Math (A-), PDEs (B), Numerics (B), Probability (A-), finished calc before college, standard CS classes for a minor (As). Research during undergrad with a physics team and the stats consulting group on campus. Several posters and a coauthorship on a paper in an average physics journal. TA/undergrad course assistant for LA, calc and some low level math classes. Post graduation i’ve spent three years at a national lab as a statistician. Few coauthorships in conference proceedings, handful of talks at average stats conferences, two first author papers in average stats journals and my name on some student posters. LOR They said they would be strong. I’ve done research with two of them and have taken several grad courses with the third. I’m concerned primarily with what caliber of school I could expect to get into and what I can do to improve before applying. Please be constructive and forward. Thanks in advance!