2019 profile eval

[Statstu]

Hey I will be applying to statistics/biostatistics phd this fall and I'd like to know where I stand among other applicants. Any evaluation/advice is greatly appreciated. Here is my profile:

Undergrad Institution: big SEC state school
Major(s): Applied math
GPA:  3.85/4.0

 

Grad Institution: Same school

Major: Applied Statistics

GPA: 3.9/4.0

Type of Student: DWF

 

Relevant Courses:

Calculus 1-3 (A, A, A+). Linear Algebra 1-2 (A+, A+). Diff EQ I and II (A,A-), Probability (A), Numerical Methods (A), Boundary Value Problems (B), Real Analysis (A), Graduate math stats I and II (B,A), graduate level Regression analysis I and II (A,A), graduate level Data Mining I and II (A,A), graduate level Data Analytics (A), graduate level dynamical systems (A)

GRE General Test: 
Q: 169
V: 166
W: 4

Research Experience:  Working as an economics research assistant. Have developed 1 working paper currently being submitted to conferences 
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: masters student of the year in my stats masters program, math tutor for my university for 2 years during school; math grader for 2 years for the university also

Letters of Recommendation: One from my economics research professor, one from dynamical systems professor who can speak to my work analysis, one from math stats professor
 

Coding Experience: SAS, Fortran, Matlab, Mathematica, R

Applying to Where: 

Statistics: 

Harvard

Duke

NCSU

Columbia

UNC Chapel Hill

A&M

Johns Hopkins

Yale

UCLA

Rice

UT Austin

 

 

Biostatistics:

University of Texas MD Anderson

Berkeley

Emory

UT Houston

 

Thanks for your help!

[omicrontrabb]

You have a really solid application and your math background will help especially. Schools like Harvard are super hard for anyone to get into and they are basically enrolling 1 domestic student a year, so that's going to be hard. But you should have a real shot at everything else. I'd be pretty surprised if you didn't get into NCSU or UT Austin for stats or any of those biostats schools except for Berkeley.

 

Can I ask why you picked those schools? Some of those are kind of strange picks. Johns Hopkins statistics program is combined with applied math, so it is very focused on optimization and other industrial/financial math topics. Berkeley does not have a biostatistics department. It's just a research group of people from other departments. They are well recognized for their work, but that is very different than the other programs in schools of public health. UT Houston and and MD Anderson are not well known for their work in biostatistics. You could definitely get into better recognized schools, unless you really want to live in Texas.