Fall 2019 Stats PhD Profile Evaluation International Applicant

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Hi all! I’m from China and doing stats master in US right now, and I’m going to apply to PhD programs this fall. Since I’m in a small department, few students apply to other PhD programs, and thus I really lack the information on application evaluation. Any suggestions on my program list are welcome!

 

Additional notes: Most students that go on pursuing PhD just stayed in our own department. Although my advisor said that my chance of staying in the department is quite high, nothing can be guaranteed. Therefore, I plan to apply 5-8 programs just in case.

 

Undergrad Institution: Top 5 university in China

GPA: 3.86/4; 87.17/100

Grad: Top 20 in us news, public

GPA: 3.96/4

Major(s):  Both in Stats

Type of Student: Female, international Asian

TOEFL: 107(expired), took a new one last week
GRE General Test: 156V+166Q+3.5W

 

Programs Applying: PhD in Statistics

 

Research Experience: 

1.    Summer intern in the third year of undergrad: survival analysis on genetical data at a small Canadian university, first author of the paper published in a genetics journal with impact factor 4.151

2.    Community detection of the stochastic block model, responsible for both simulation and theoretical proof, on going with a professor in the department.

3.    Speed up kernel method, mainly responsible for writing a R package, on going with another professor in the department.

 

Research Interests: Network models, graphical models, developing models that performs well but also have theoretical support.

Teaching: TA for several Upper Division stats course.

 

Letters of Recommendation: From the professor I performed research with. All of them are assistant professor.

Math and Stat Courses:

A+:  Advanced Analysis, Advanced Linear Algebra

A: Real Analysis, PDE's, Mathematical Stats, Time Series, Data structure and algorithms (CS)

A-: Probability, Stochastic Process, Linear Regression, Experimental design 

B+: Multivariate analysis, Financial economics II

 
Applying to Where: 

 

1.    Michigan Ann-Arbor, Wisconsin-Madison

2.    NCSU, UIUC, UCD, UCLA, Texas A&M, Iowa State, UMN, OSU

3.    UFL, UVA, UConn

 

 

[Stat Assistant Professor]

Your list of schools looks very reasonable with your profile. Good luck.