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Hello Everyone! My application cycle went pretty much as expected. I got into almost every large public schools I applied to but did not get into any private schools. I wanted to get opinions on this forum so that I do not end up committing without thinking thoroughly. 1. Michigan- Ann Arbor: The stipend is decent with a fellowship for first year. It is a little more money but I still have to do TA (10 hours) and 20 hours starting from second year. 2. Penn State: The stipend is decent (slightly more than Michigan), but no teaching duties for first year. 3. NC State- Stipend is slightly less. But I love Raleigh. Location wise, NC State is the most preferable to me. Right now, I am leaning towards Michigan. But NC State is also a school worth considering. I am not excited about the weather in Michigan as I have spent all my life in subtropical regions. The lack of teaching duties at Penn State might give me a headstart. But again it is just a year, so may not have much impact in a long run. As of right now, I am not sure if I want to go to academia or industry. I have never worked in industry, so I would like to do at least one internship during my PhD. Thus, I am trying to optimize both prospects at the moment. Sadly, I do not have any strong preference about the area of research either as I have only taken couple of stats classes. However, just looking at faculty profiles, all there schools have a couple of folks that I would be grateful to work with. What are your opinions regarding these schools? What might be the pros and cons attending one over another?

While looking at faculty almost all top 20 or top 30 schools, I did not see many faculty members who got their PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Does anyone have any idea about this? Being somewhat large and such a reputed department, I would expect at least couple of CMU graduates in the faculty of almost all top department. I wonder if this is because most CMU graduates prefer to go work in the industry.

If we have not heard from Austin, should we expect rejection at this point?

Got an offer from Michigan as well. Two good news on the same day after months of anxiety. Beyond grateful for their generous offer.

Does anyone know if Duke send out acceptances in batches? I see some posts on survey site but I have not heard back from them. I assume it is a rejection at this point.

I applied on 13th of December.

I am an international student. 4.0 GPA, 168Q/158V, a year of real analysis including measure theory, a year of measure theoretic probability, couple of papers in pure mathematics lined up for publication, but undergrad from virtually unknown school in the US.

Just got an unofficial acceptance from NC State in an email from Graduate program director. Finally some relief!

I do not know about statistics, but in our mathematics department "Europe educated" usually means "obviously she is great." Of course, this need not always be true, but you sort of get a sense how European schools are viewed.

They say it takes about two weeks. But, in my experience sending GRE scores, all the official scores that I reported were sent in less than a week. Take this with a grain of salt, but I think TOEFL is more of a requirement for official acceptance through grad school than an admission decision by the department. If you have self reported your unofficial score, then you can email the admission officer of the department and explain your situation.

I have not been invited. I just saw that in grad cafe admission page. I would love to know that as well.

Saw an interview invite from Berkeley statistics in the admission page. Is anyone else invited?

this process has started my intellectual downfall. gotta doubt if I can go through my Ph. D.

yo boy getting insane as well. need to get off this but cant help myself. hope this ends pretty soon?

Wharton already sent the interview invitations?