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Tronathan

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  1. Have you looked into taking these classes somewhere? I think most colleges will require you to have taken the prerequisite courses that are needed to enroll in a course even if you are not seeking a degree. Can anyone confirm if this true? If you are allowed to take a masters level mathematical statistics course without the required background I still think it is a pretty bad idea and you will almost certainly fail it. I think a good strategy may be to look at the prerequisites for the Masters' level mathematical statistics course at UCLA (called 200B at UCLA) or UCI and work backwards. This class will probably require theoretical linear algebra, real analysis, and undergrad math stat. To enroll in those courses you probably need Calculus 3, some type of discrete math/ logic/ intro to proofs class, and upper division intro to probability. The calculus courses are in sequence; you need calc 1 to take calc 2 to then take calc 3.
  2. I am not sure you can enroll in two graduate programs at the same time like you can with some undergrad programs. I don't think there is any graduate statistics program that will admit someone without any college level math, even the shittiest state schools. It may take a year or two of nearly full time course taking to catch up (not just a summer). What about a B.S. in statistics? Masters' in Public Health/Epidemiology or Education (Administration) can land jobs where you do quantitative analysis and may have work environments like you mention. They might also require less catch up work at the undergrad level. Maybe you should compile a list of core/intro courses for masters programs, do some searching online to find what books are often used to teach them, then go browse through them at the local university library. Maybe you will get some ideas of what is interesting or not this way.
  3. I am curious about why you ruled out some places but not others? Was Penn because of the neighborhood? Isn't Johns Hopkins also in a high crime area? Yale? I'm curious why you ruled out this one? I agree that Minnesota is cold but so is Colorado. If you ask me, out of all the places you mentioned, Seattle has the highest quality of life. Plus, it is arguably the best program you listed. If you hate rain then it also rains a ton in Florida (maybe more?) plus it gets really hot and humid. Not sure about Columbia, is it because of high cost of living in NYC? I would argue the same for Harvard, UCLA, Berkeley, maybe even UCSD. I also didn't think that NCSU and Duke for stat are tougher to get into than Johns H, Harvard, UNC and Michigan for biostat or CMU for stat. I may be totally wrong here. Of all those places you mentioned I have visited Texas A&M, UTHSC-Houston, Florida, Emory, NCSU and UNC and I will be attending UNC in the fall. Feel free to ask if you have any general questions about these.
  4. The math stat exam has typical questions you would find in the homework of the Casella & Berger book. I highly doubt Boston or any university has lower division undergraduate courses available that would prepare a sophomore to ace that test. Also, NRC has Stony Brook ranked 16th in applied math, between Cal Tech and Georgia Tech.
  5. Occasionally when there is a cold front the temperature will be in the 15-30 degree range. Anything lower than that is usually a record. I think it is normally in the high 50's mid day for most of the winter. There is a huge difference between high and low temperatures compared to somewhere more humid. 55 in the afternoon and 30 early in the morning is common. The frequent strong winds make 30 feel like 10 degrees. Unless you are from somewhere like Los Angeles or New Orleans you will probably think that the winter is very warm.
  6. You don't really provide enough details but I am assuming that you are talking about UT Austin vs. Tulsa. I would pay the extra 50k over 5 years with all things equal just to live in Austin instead of Tulsa. If you are talking about a master's then 50k is pretty steep and you probably want to consider if you will make some of that back by landing a better job.
  7. I don't know about specific schools or programs or the economic situation of the states overall but... the state of Illinois has cut spending on higher education less than Ohio and less than almost every other state in the country during the recession. This is true both looking at cuts as a % and the raw $ amount of cuts. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3927
  8. Sorry to hear that. I thought that whoever wrote your lor would have said something if they had any doubt about you getting into U Pitt after looking at the schools you were applying to.
  9. I checked out the GT webpage when I was looking for PhD programs and if I remember correctly the program is almost exclusively operations research. If you want to study OR and go by the NRC rankings it is #2 in the country behind Stanford. Edit: Or possibly #3 behind MIT as well
  10. I'm using the chronicle.com but I think you would need to subscribe to access it.
  11. I don't think I would go by that list, at least not by itself. It looks like the PhD in statistics is awarded by the Math department in the college of arts and sciences. Going by the ranking of the biostatistics program in the school of public health may not be accurate. If you use the S ranking the math department is somewhere below Columbia and above Cornell.
  12. Where do you get the rank of 42nd? I don't see that ranking for the Math department or the Biostatistics department with the R or S ranking. In both departments the S ranking is much better than the R ranking. It seems Boston has one of the largest discrepancies in the two outcomes and I don't know why that is.
  13. Something to pay attention to is the curriculum for the individual programs. Baruch leans far to the applied side and specifically for business applications. If you went on to a typical PhD program this might not look good and you may have to take a lot of masters level theory courses, effectively starting over. Hunter, on the opposite side of the spectrum, looks like it is really a Math degree with some specialization in Statistics. Most of the faculty is math. This would probably be better for PhD applications but you would be less prepared for private sector work right after the MS if you decide against the PhD. Columbia has more course options and looks more like a typical statistics MS but I would be wary of taking on lots of debt. 30,000 alone isn't too much to handle but that is on top of what you would be paying at CUNY. What about other options nearby that have a typical statistics MS but at much lower cost? Maybe Rutgers, UConn, Stony Brook? Or is moving not an option?
  14. The USNews list is confusing. UCLA, UCDavis, and Columbia are all in the 30-40 range and many of the rankings are Biostat departments. From what I have seen the top 5, maybe top 10 biostat programs have a lot of faculty that publish on methodology. If you have access to journals look at the publications of the faculty that specialize in the topics you are interested in.
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