Fall 2019 Applied Math Profile Eval + Advice

[beatsbydre]

Undergrad Institution: Big State School
Major: Mathematics

Minor: Computer Science
GPA: 3.8

Graduating: 2019

Awards: Scholarships from department

Type of Student: International SE Asian Female

Relevant Courses:  Calculus I-II (A), Multi (A-), DiffEq/Linear Algebra(A-), Prob/Statistics (B+), Numerical Analysis I-II (A), Coding Theory (A-), Number Theory Seminar (A),  Intro to Programming (B+), Data Structures & Program Design (B-), Discrete Math (A)

In Progress: Abstract Algebra I-II, Mathematical Logic, Real Analysis I-II, Advanced Algorithms, Machine Learning

 

GRE: (will take mid October)

GRE Subject Math: (taking 9/15 for the first time)

(PS: Looking at the practice tests I have taken I hope to score ~50%ile , spooky )

 

Programs Applying:  Computational and Applied Math PhD

 

Research Experience: 

- Will work with Numerical Analysis for senior thesis

- REU in Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Summer, 2018): Will present at JMM and paper in progress, hopefully will be on arXiv before applications are due

- Researched mathematical ecology for 2 years at an Ecology Lab 

- Did a short exploratory project at a Natural Language Processing lab

- Unrelated social science research from when I was an econ major

 

Teaching Experience:

-Tutoring athletes in Calculus

-TA for intro to college-type course

 

Recommendation Letters:

-REU mentor fosho, they're from a small state school

-Coding Theory professor who is pretty well known in cryptology research and knows me well from the course

-Algebra professor who is also well known

-Numerics research mentor

 

Coding/Scripting Experience: I have classes in Python and Java, have worked a lot with Python in research projects. The REU involved extensive coding in latex.

 

Other: women in math club, several leadership activities, writes extensively about equity in math/STEM education, >5 research presentations outside of my own school

 

Research Interests: Computational and Applied Math (Data Science, ML) or Mathematical/Computational Biology (Genomics) or Numerical Analysis. I'm broadly just applying to Applied Math Programs

 

Schools of Interest:

TOP CHOICE:

-NYU

-Stanford CAM

-UChicago CAM

-UW Seattle

UT Austin

 

MEDIUM CHOICE:

-Maryland, CP

-Michigan, Ann Arbor

-Ohio State

- UCLA

-Northwestern

 

As of now I have no idea what a safety school would look like with my profile. I would appreciate suggestions for schools. 

Also, I would not mind working in an Applied Math lab for a year before applying, so if anyone has any suggestions of labs please go ahead (PS: I'm not a national)4

I would also appreciate input on the importance if a good MGRE score and maybe the importance of taking a grad class (I'll probably take one senior spring but if i haaaavvveee to)

[StatsG0d]

The users of this forum are more concentrated in statistics / biostatistics. I would post your profile on a site like www.mathematicsgre.com