kgrzesik

Sorry for the late reply! I visited VTech on their bill at the end of February and I liked the area and the program well enough. No snow in February was nice as I'm from NY state. The program is larger than I've seen, the PhD program has about 15-20 students across the years. They have a lot of opportunities for internships and working with the professors. The professors seem really open with their students and have a pretty good open door policy. What I liked the best was that their consultation lab gets traffic from almost every department on campus. This way you get a lot of exposure to different areas in statistics and a lot of experience with consultation. As compared to other consultation departments I've seen/heard about, this one may provide the best training. The program at VTech is very applied despite the amount of theory you do actually learn. They realize the benefits of balancing the two, but the applied aspects definitely shine through in the program. So overall, I am seriously considering VTech especially since I secured a funding offer. I am still waiting on Columbia (not top choice), George Mason, and Chapel Hill. I've been accepted with a fellowship to University of Rochester and waitlisted to Penn State as well. So it'll be a tough decision if I hear back positively from any of the remaining schools. Have you heard back from any on your list since this posting?

I have heard from Virginia Tech and I saw one other person also got an acceptance. My letter was dated January 14th. Doesn't seem like they sent out many other notices based on the postings. Still waiting on 5 other schools to send out anything for their stats programs. Fingers crossed!