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He said typically Berkeley would send out all the interview during 2 days. However I do not know anyone else for now who also get the interview invite. It might still be some possibilities?

Got the interview invite from Berkeley Stat today. I was told by someone who already in this program that the ranking of the candidates might have already been decided prior to interview. The interview will be behavioral as the committee described in the invite email.

Sorry for late response. Yes, I had the interview last week. Most of the questions are quite behavioral and they did ask which math stat book I used for the course. Describe the research, why Rice, some questions related to my background etc.

Thanks for sharing the interview experiences. I have the same situation with JeroldJJ but I mentioned a few professors in my SoP in case this is useful.

I submitted it on Nov 30 I think. This early interview really surprised me as well. Definitely think this should not be the only batch of interviews! :) Btw, do you by chance know what they would ask during interview?

Just got an interview invite from Rice Stat PhD.

I have just applied to PhD programs in Statistics. These programs are in the T-30 or so, and I would like to get honest feedback on my chances of getting into these programs. Furthermore, I would like advice on how I should proceed if I don't get in this cycle. Undergrad Stats: Degree: Statistics Major (International Institute) Cumulative GPA: 3.71/4.00 Major GPA: 3.85/4.0 Courses Taken (Grade) : (Upper level Math Courses) Mathematical Analysis I-III (A,A,A-), Real Analysis (A) , Complex Analysis (A), Topology (A) Master Stats: Degree: Applied Mathematics Major (UPenn) Cumulative GPA: 4.00/4.00 Courses Taken (Grade) : (All Math & Stat PhD courses) Analysis (A) [Stein Functional Analysis (2/3) + Real Analysis(1/3)] Partial Differential Equations (A+) [Evans] Probability Theory (A) [Durrett] Stochastic Processes (A) [Durrett + Michael Steel] Numerical Linear Algebra (A+) Mathematical Statistics (A+) [Casella & Lehmann] Asymptotic Statistics (A) [VDV + MJW] Research Experience: 5 papers on arXiv [One is under major revision at EJS; two are reviewed under JMLR; one is ready to submit to AoS; one is ready to submit to JASA] Letters: 2 letters from Wharton: very strong [Have finished three papers with them, two of them are first-authored], 1 letter from Probability course Professor: very strong [famous in probability community], 1 letter from UCL Professor: very strong. [Finished the EJS paper with him, first-author]. Schools: (All Stats PhD) Stanford, Harvard, CMU, Duke, Wharton, Chicago, Yale, Rice, NCSU, Berkeley, Columbia, MIT (IDSS), UW, UWM, Cornell, Michigan. Am I too aggressive? Any comments are welcome! Thank you.