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I’m a first year PhD student at A&M and I like it a lot. I go to Houston pretty often and Austin occasionally. I’m very liberal and lived in Boulder before moving to College Station. College Station is conservative but it’s not an issue. If you are interested in a particular professor you can ask Andrea to set up a zoom call with them. Do you mind me asking which professor you’re interested in working with?

I think a macbook is the way to go. They're simple and work for a long time. In terms of computing power it really doesn't matter. I have a five year old macbook pro with a 2.7GHz i5 and 8gb of ram. At home I have a couple of linux boxes with two 1060s and a 2070 and maybe 80 gigs of ram in total. I never have any issues. You'll probably have access to a cluster, so you might as well get used to using one. A laptop is really just for displaying homework, showing results at meetings, emailing on the go, and SSHing into something that actually does work. Also since price is always a consideration consider buying something off govdeals. I once got a thinkpad with a 3.6 GHz i7 and 16gb of ram for around $200. Just had to drive to the city near me. https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.AdvSearchResultsNew&kWord=Macbook&whichForm=vehicle&searchPg=Main

Hi all, The US embassies in most (if not all) countries are not scheduling interviews for incoming graduate students, and as you know one must do an interview to get an F1 visa. What will happen to these students? Do you think it's possible that the students will have to defer and that the cohorts for this coming year will just be really small? I am not international but I would be very sad if my cohort, which was supposed to be around 12-15 people, was less than half of that. Thanks in advance!

I think both will be impacted. A friend of mine is a PhD student at a private institution that told every department to reject everyone on a waitlist (this was back in April) and to plan on smaller cohorts next year.

Thanks for all the input. I chose A&M for the reasons mentioned by statsforyou and anotherday.

@DanielWarlock Kreyszig is pretty heavy without already haven taken a real analysis course.

Thank you @bayessays and @Stat Postdoc Soon Faculty as always you have helpful and thoughtful advice. I will decide later today, and for now I will just look at UMich faculty that I might want to work with.

Hi All, I have been accepted to the PhD in stats at Texas A&M and today I was accepted into the bridge masters at UMich. Does anyone have experience with this bridge masters, and know how likely it is for bridge masters students to transfer to the PhD? Right now I am just deciding between the two and I would love input from anyone. Both are fully funded with stipends/insurance coverage. Thanks in advance!

I did applied math for my masters and I know a lot of applied mathematicians through work. I would choose Courant if the research interests match. If you’re going to apply to applied math PhDs then all the programs you apply to will likely place Courant above Columbia.

Do you mind me asking why you want a PhD? Not trying to talk you out of this just want to understand your goals more clearly.

@bayessays I have also heard that to be true. I don’t know anyone who has actually done that though even after getting a better offer after the deadline. People much more clever than me have said that might hurt my career.

If both schools abide by the CGS’ april 15th deadline you might have to get a release from the first school to attend the second one. Just something to keep in mind.

@bayessays Thanks for the advice. I just emailed them and now I am waiting for a response. @BJA thank you for your input and good luck to your son!

One of my colleagues did his PhD in that sub department and he is a good statistician (I work in a lab) and my undergrad advisor did his PhD there but doing dynamical sysytems and networks stuff. Both of them are good at what they do and they both spoke highly of the applied math department there. I dont know how it is in terms of stats but it is a good applied math program. I imagine you’d have to do an analysis and numerics sequence which would take away from stats classes you would do at another department though. My 2¢

I have been waitlisted by Umich stats and accepted by TAMU stats, both PhD. How often do people get off the waitlist at a program like UMich? I am tempted to just accept the TAMU offer but I think Michigan is a better research fit for me. Any input would be nice. Thanks!