echlori

Well, I heard last year was an "anomaly", but it doesn't really matter now, does it?

Reason I asked: Last year they didn't give out many offers to people outside of the MS because most stayed.

Any idea how many current MS students are staying for PhD at Michigan?

Yeah, just got it as well.

It's as bad as it was last year, and having spent another year waiting to reapply again, the anxiety is even worse. An acceptance instead of the rejections coming in would help immensely.

Anyone else still waiting for the first offer?

Rash Decision

Stats? (Or Biostats..?)

Looks like I'm going to be getting a few more rejection emails soon :/

If only I really weren't flustered. Some pretty big personal factors on the table.

It would be nice - last year I applied to twelve places and only made it to one waitlist

3 rejections so far, all from the same university (I applied to a non-stats/biostats program as well). Waiting for Michigan!

I've kinda given up hope for getting any offer for UW Stats. Now to wait for Michigan...

I emailed them, told them I didn't get in anywhere, and that I will have to trouble them again for letters for the next cycle. I got really nice replies back from them. Hoping I don't have to do this again this year!

So, back to choice of schools. I'm currently involved in research in the area of machine learning. There are some obvious top choices like CMU, UW, Berkeley. However, I'm not exactly sure which schools are reasonable "safeties" that I could consider, perhaps some of you might have some suggestions?

What percentile should I be aiming for then?

As a reference, UW had >70% as a 4.0 (which seems reasonable as that's a first class honours in the UK system), and 65-70% as 3.7. I wouldn't say I did stellar for my calc and linear algebra classes (~65%) but it's not too bad either. I did do more real analysis than the average student in my programme - most don't even touch measure theory.

Moving this from the other thread to prevent clutter. Perhaps cyberwulf and biostat_prof could give some advice?

Undergraduate Institution: Top 10 UK university, top 3 department Major: 4 year BSc integrated Masters programme in Statistics GPA: Overall 66%, 4th year 69% GRE: Verbal 164, Quant 169, AW 4.5 Citizenship: Non-American international student Graduate Institution: N/A Important Classes: Measure Theory, Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, Biostatistics and Medical Statistics modules Research Experience: Summer attachment in my undergraduate institution, summer attachment at a research institute in my home country, Fourth year dissertation on multiple testing, currently doing a 6 month attachment in machine learning at the same research institute in my home country Publications: First author publication in peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal (from summer attachment in my UG school), second author in conference paper (from second summer attachment) Grants: None Teaching experience: None LORs: 1 from my personal tutor (well-known professor) who pretty much knew what I was doing both in and out of the classroom in those 4 years. 1 from my dissertation supervisor/first summer attachment supervisor (relatively young American PI) who liked the work I did under him. 1 from my current supervisor who was my co-author on the conference paper. Applied: Boston (Biostatistics), Berkeley (Statistics), Carnegie Mellon (Statistics), Duke (Statistics), Minnesota(Statistics), Michigan (Biostatistics), Stanford (Statistics), UBC (Statistics), UCLA (Biostatistics), UW (Statistics and Biostatistics), Warwick (Statistics). Accepted: None Waitlisted: Michigan (have been told they are full already though) Rejected: The rest Attending: None, obviously! Comments: I was pretty upset after being told by Michigan that they are full, as I was told previously that I was high up on the waitlist. I'm not sure which part of my application I should focus on improving. My first 2 LORs should be pretty good, as they both have experience of writing LORs and know me well. My third letter writer is pretty junior, and isn't familiar with the US system at all, but knows me well enough as well. I'm also unsure what to do with the extra year now - current supervisor suggests that I should try for an RA position in one of my target schools, but I'm pessimistic wrt visa issues etc. Another friend working in the local health ministry has suggested the possibility of a statistician type position, and would be happy to help me to secure one. And obviously, relook at my choice of schools to apply to for next year.

I'm in the same boat.

I would like to know as well. I've been told by my waitlist school that they are currently full and not giving out acceptances. I'm pretty much resigned to re-applying next year

I'm still waiting as well, but I have no other offers so I'm still holding out. Glad you had another offer to accept though!

One week more to wait...Sigh, getting really tired.