Undergrad Institution: US public university Major(s): Biology and Statistics Minor(s): None GPA: 3.16
Grad/Master's Institution: US private university
Program: MPH Biostatistics
GPA: 3.5
Type of Student: International Asian Female GRE General Test: Have not taken yet (planning to take late August)
GRE Math Subject Test: NA
Research Experience:
· No published paper.
· Research as part of master’s program (no thesis but presentation to faculty members and submitted a written report)
· Research experience as a graduate student at the asthma center for a year – poster presentation to faculty & students
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: NA
Pertinent Activities or Jobs:
· TA for one quarter of SAS course & one quarter of biostatistics II course (help students with lab hours, grade homework and lab assignments)
· Stat consulting group (9 months)
· Worked as a statistician/data manager at CRO (~3 years)
· Currently working as a statistician in research hospital (~2 years)
Letters of Recommendation: 2 professors from master’s institution, 1 manager from current work
Coursework and grades(Math/Stat):
Undergraduate Lower Division: Calculus I (A), Calculus II (A), Calculus III (B), Elementary of Probability & Statistics (A), Elements of Linear Algebra (B+)
Undergraduate Upper Division: Statistical Methods in Biology (B+), Intro to Probability Theory I (A-), Intro to Probability Theory II (B+), Statistical Inference I (B), Statistical Inference II (A), Sampling Procedures Surveys (A), Intro Stochastic Processes (A), Regression (A), Adv Stat Package Data Analysis – SAS course (A),
Master's/Graduate: Biostatistics I (A-), Biostatistics II (A), Biostatistics III (A), Analytical application of SAS (A), Research Data Management (A), Survival Analysis (A-), Intro Modern Nonparametric Statistics (A-), Applied multivariate analysis (A-), Survey & advance research methods (B), Advanced data Analysis (B+)
Future Coursework (Fall 2021): planning to take Multivariable Calculus from nearby community college
Programs Applying: I will apply to Stat/Biostat PhD programs (mostly Biostat PhD programs). Still not sure which programs, here are my tentative list:
PhD Biostatistics
· University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
· Vanderbilt University
· Medical college of Wisconsin
· Michigan State University
· University of Texas Health Science Center--Houston
· University of Washington
· University of Michigan School of Public Health
· Rollins School of Public Health
· Chapel Hill School of Global Public Health
· University of Pennsylvania
· UCLA
· University of Minnesota School of Public Health
· University of Iowa College of Public Health
PhD Statistics
· Purdue University
· North Carolina State University
· UCR
University of Wisconsin- Madison