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Undergrad Institution: Unknown State School (100% admittance rate) Major(s): Applied Mathematics (Essentially Applied Statistics) Minor(s): GPA: 3.25/4 😰 Type of Student: Domestic Hispanic Male GRE General Test: Taken: 08/2019 (Refused to retake for Ph.D. applications) Q: 149 (38%) V: 158 (61%) W: 3.0 (13%) GRE Subject Test in Mathematics: M: NA Grad Institution: Large State School USWN (50-100) Concentration: Statistics GPA: 3.95/4 😏 Programs Applying: Statistics Ph.D. (Wide variety of interests) Research Experience: Undergraduate Research and presented at 3 conferences/symposiums. Graduate thesis research in soft statistics for machine learning(publishable) and will develop an R package for it (Summer), presented at 2 conferences. Graduate research in biology mathematics for stochastic simulation presented at local conference. (Technically forgot to add this to resume, but in my math stat 1 course, we developed a workflow for the 4-parameter uniform (location-scale family) that should be getting published eventually) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Fully funded MS student. Pertinent Activities or Jobs: x2 TA for high level undergraduate probability course (rice textbook), Recitation leader for Intro to Stats with R course. Graduate Instructor for College Prep, Trigonometry, and Intro to Stats. Letters of Recommendation: Recommendations should be good, they are from Advisor (Assistant Department Head), Faculty who I did the bioMath research with (Associate Department Head), Math Stat I Instructor (A in class). Math/Statistics Grades: Undergraduate: Typical core 5 for undergraduate (C's and B's), Stats and Probability courses (B's and A's). Graduate: Applied Spatial, Data Vis, Intro to Mathematical Statistics, R Computation, Bioinformatics, Mathematical Statistics I (Casella and Berger) (A), Geostatistics (A-) Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I did everything that I could to rectify my poor undergraduate gpa, and GRE scores. I believe I accomplished that. UC Berkeley - Statistics Ph.D. Rejected Washington - Statistics Ph.D. Rejected Duke - Statistical Science Ph.D. Rejected North Carolina CH - Statistics and OR Ph.D. Ghosted/Waitlisted NCSU - Statistics Ph.D. Rejected Rejected UC Davis - Statistics Ph.D. Ghosted/Waitlisted Texas A&M - Statistics Ph.D. Ghosted/Waitlisted UCLA - Statistics Ph.D. Ghosted/Waitlisted Iowa State - Statistics Ph.D. Ghosted/Waitlisted UC Irvine - Statistics Ph.D. Interview 1/20 - unofficial admittance 1/26 - Official Admittance + UC Funding 2/1 - Matriculated 3/31 UT Austin - Statistics and DS Ph.D. Rejected Colorado State - Statistics Ph.D. Ghosted/Waitlisted Virginia Tech - Statistics Ph.D. Rejected Oregon State - Statistics Ph.D. Ghosted/Waitlisted Home University - Statistics Ph.D. WithdrawnReflection: I knew going into this that my low undergrad GPA and bad GRE, will potentially overshadow all of the great diverse research that I have done. It was clear on my rejection from Virginia Tech, since my reason for rejection was "non-competitive". Other programs have me waitlisted, officially and unofficially, personally those programs took too long in making a decision. Regardless of the outcomes from the remaining programs, I plan on attending UCI. They have something really special cooking out there, and I am excited to be apart of that.

UC Irvine visitation day is this weekend, some students might reject after their visit, which could open up some spots. UC Davis has sent out first round offers, and should be sending out second round offers hopefully soon (I'm in the same boat as you for Davis).

1st round offers and visitation day (which is remote, I believe) have been sent out. 2nd round offers should be coming out in mid-march. They told me that if you don't here back from them, than probably don't expect an offer from them.

You got this dude! I paid ~$1800 for applications, and still waiting on about 10 programs 😕

From UCLA: "Thanks for reaching out. I can tell you that the first round of admission offers have gone out this week. If you do not hear from us by mid-March, it is likely you will not be offered admission. However, we will send everyone notice at some point once the 23-24 cohort is finalized and admission is officially closed. Thank you for your patience." Good luck to everyone that applied to the UCLA Statistics PH.D.

Haven't heard back from both, but I applied as PhD.

Just got the Berkeley rejection.

UCD = UC Davis? I do not believe they have sent them yet, I am still waiting on Davis.

Probably not directly, but if a professor that you directly mention reads your application, that might help you out a little more.

Exactly, additionally I don't even know if it holds any additional weight, if one fills it out or not.

Don't know about interviews but I think they are still looking at applications. From the UCLA admission website they had 700+ applications last year, and they also sent out a google forms in mid-December about listing top 3 faculty.

Wow, the website is clear. Thanks!

I agree, and it does seem that those that got interviews and accepted are on their high priority list.

Question for you @randomwalker, were you also contacted by a faculty member from UC Irvine with a personalized email recently? I am wondering if this is customary for the department or a recruiting tactic. Thanks!