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Hi all, as deadlines are approaching, I am doing this last minute chance me/asking for advice post to see if there's anything I missed. Any feedback is welcomed! Type of Student: International student Undergrad Institution and Courses: UCLA stats major, mathematics minor, cumulative GPA 3.85, major GPA 3.72. My grades suffered in freshman year because I was home-sick and I was also juggling a part-time lab assistant job. That said I got a C+, 2 Bs in a lower division math classes. But ever since my second year I have gotten straight As in all my classes. Relevant courses: machine learning, optimization, network theory, numerical methods, real analysis, linear algebra, statistical methods, Intro to Programming. Test Scores: Q169/V164/AWA 4.5, TOEFL 30/30/30/27 LOR: one from an assistant professor at anther prestigious institution who taught me while she was a post-doc at my university one from a very well respected continuing lecturer from my home institution one great one from my last internship mentor. Work/Research Experience: freshman year: Part time at a physical science lab as a lab assistant, did mostly very busy lab work (literally cleaning dishes and data entry) but got exposed to linear regression short internship at an e-commerce company in my home country, worked on business analytics and practiced SQL and A/B testing sophomore year: Worked with a UCLA PhD to quantify social interactions (her paper is now published, but since I only did data cleaning and data analysis work so no title for me) local start-up as a research assistant (doing meta-analysis on Covid related papers) and also did some business analytics work where I analyzed user responses and evaluated the performance of new features junior year: Head project manager at a UCLA data science club Interned at a top US health firm, worked on their fraud detection algorithm (ML stuff like SVM), built data pipelines, data cleaning Current Programs List: NYU MSDS Columbia MSDS Cornell MPS DS track CMU MISM BIDA CMU MCDS Harvard Health DS Harvard DS Stanford MS Stats, DS track UW MSDS JHU DS UC Berkeley Master of Analytics Duke MIDS I am not sure if I am overreaching here. I have talked to few people before and they seem to think this list is more or less reasonable, but I am not that sure myself. I know prestige schools are Harvard and Stanford are definitely hard to get into, but I was hoping I could at least land one school from the list. Thank you for your time in advance! I look forward to hearing any kind of response.