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Congratulations! If you are particularly interested in machine learning, nonparametric, or bayesian, you should definitely go with CMU. It's heard that it is not safe in the University of Chicago as the school is surrounded by very scary neighborhoods. Though this may not be something you would weigh too much when making a decision. Both departments are fantastic, you would be happy at either school. Congratulations!

Vote for Duke.

Congratulations! I also applied to Columbia Stat, but I am pretty sure I will be rejected. If you want to go to industry, NYU and Columbia are almost the same. If you want to get a faculty position, Columbia Stat is way better. They provide very rigorous theoretical training and they have stronger faculty members like Andrew Gelman and so on. While Stern Statistics has some difficulty placing their students in the academia. You received the interview invitation from Stern Statistics, right? Me too.

The statistics phd program of Yale, Columbia, Wharton, Harvard are better than Stern's Stat phd program. Harvard and Wharton are top5 schools in the statistics. Did you receive any offers from these schools?