sassy2020

If you get into any of the PhD, go for it rather than MS. However, if you are choosing between three masters, UM will be attractive. It is higher internal admission and if you get a GSRA position, it's two years of guaranteed research experience and almost sure admission into PhD. I think Duke is more Bayesian and UM is more genetics + imaging.

Just personal opinion, if you are not going to do research on nonparametric/categorical/time series, having some CS courses to show computation skills or pure math course (like real analysis) will better strength your profile.

Today has seen a huge wave of rejections which gets me into anxiety as well... The bar for biostats PhD is steadily increasing for sure, with Master programs' sizes getting larger at all schools and more students considering PhD because of increasing bar in the industry. COVID probably pushed more graduating Master students to apply directly... BTW just for last year, BU admitted many Harvard Masters which also pushed the bar higher for the remaining space.

I think it really depends on programs and their funding structure. For those programs that offer rotations or departmental findings, they probably care less about it. Other schools, especially where partial funding comes from PIs, they will care more.

Sorry I was trying to say headcount... Just went back to check, and that person say GPH admits 7-8 PhDs per year, and ~2 are for biostats.

Sackler gave out interviews, from my friend. I heard Global public health only had 2 HC this year?

sorry, biostats here. Clarified.

For those biostats programs with early deadlines, how many has already sent (PhD) interview lists? I know NYU and UPenn both sent the invitations. Anyone heard from BU yet?