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  1. I am an international student but I've heard that for master's programs, it doesn't matter that much if you are domestic or international so I will just share my experience. I applied last year with pretty similar GRE(V159/Q169/W4.0), GPA(3.3), and course work with you but with Real Analysis and without any research experience (but I doubt this would matter that much for terminal Master's degree). I got admissions from several top 20-30 schools (mainly state universities in midwest) while I was rejected from The Ohio State University. I think OSU only admits a very few master's student and they offer TA positions to some master's students. I think master's admission for UC is quite competitive because of their locations regardless of their rankings. Admissions for master's programs is quite different from Ph.D programs. It highly depends on the size of the program and whether they pay their students and its location. That being said, I think you might have chance at FSU because they don't fund their students (They even sent some non-funding offers to their Ph.D admits last year). I didn't apply to any other schools that you listed, so I can't comment on them.What I can suggest is, go to their websites and see how many master's students they admitted last year. I hope you hear a good news from those schools soon!
  2. @icantdoalgebraThank you! @bayessays Thank you for letting me know that! I am planning to apply top 40-60 statistics and top 10-30 biostatistics programs. Do you think they will care less about this? or Do you think it was just random that Michigan biostat asked you this?
  3. @icantdoalgebraThank you for sharing your experience! If you don't mind, could you tell me if you are pursuing a Ph.D in biostat or stat?
  4. Hi all. I'm an international student and I obtained my B.S in Statistics degree outside the U.S. In my country, calculus is offered for two classes; one semester for single variable and another for multivariable calculus. In my department, we had a one semester calculus course for stat major which covers single variable calculus and basic multivariable differentiation and integral mainly for probability theory. I took Analysis I and got A+ in this course. I have taken calculus for stat major / Linear Algebra I, II / Analysis I and thought this would be enough for Ph.D application. However, I am attending a small university in the U.S pursuing a master's degree and my advisor asked me why I have not taken any calculus class yet. I explained him that I took one semester calculus but it seemed like it confused him a little bit. (I've heard that for some big state universities where they have a lot of international students, the professors are more aware of that some countries only offer calculus throughout two semesters). I have never had any issue studying probability with my calculus knowledge, in fact, I aced in a probability course. However, when I looked at the syllabus for multivariate calculus, I noticed that the course actually covers a lot more than I studied from my undergraduate (such as Lagrange Multipliers and Gradient Vectors) In this case, do I need to take multivariate calculus? If I need to take this course, I would like to audit instead of getting credits, but is this a good idea? because I won't have multivariate calculus on my transcript. In addition, I am planning to take graduate-level real analysis as well. I've sometimes heard that taking advanced classes might compensate undergraduate level courses. I am also planning to apply for a few stat Ph.D programs and mostly biostat Ph.D programs. Any advice will be very appreciated!
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