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Hi everyone! 

First post in the thread! Due to COVID-19, I have decided to graduate a year early as my exchange is probably going to get cancelled. I'd like to see if my profile is competitive and maybe get some advice from all of you. I am not planning on doing a PhD afterwards. 

Undergrad Institution: Top 3 Canadian Undergraduate (UofT, McGill, UBC)

Undergrad Major: Bachelor of Science in Math

GPA (Undergrad): 3.88 Overall GPA , 3.96 major GPA (so far)

Type of Student: Asian Canadian Male

GRE General: Might take later this summer.

Relevant Courses(Undergraduate): 

Freshman Year: Calculus I-IV (A [93, 94, 97, 97]), Linear Algebra and Geometry (B+ [Final was unfortunately 30 minutes after Calculus 2 and I thought I could get through it without eating.])

Sophomore Year: Probability (A [95]), Statistics (A [98]), Stochastic Processes (A [99]), ODEs (A [>95]), Abstract Algebra (A-), Complex Analysis (N/A [Summer 2020]), Linear Algebra II (N/A [Summer 2020])

Planned Junior/Senior (graduation in 3 years) Year: Analysis I & II, Applied Regression, Introduction to Statistical Computing, Fundamentals of Statistical Learning

Relevant Courses(Graduate):

Planned Junior/Senior (graduation in 3 years) Year: Generalized Linear Models, Non-parametric Statistics, Sampling Theory and Applications

Relevant Research: Informal mentorship under a biostatistics professor at my school. Will be doing research with a Professor who graduated from Stanford's Bioinformatics program at Columbia starting in June regarding medical data science.

Pertinent Activities: Calculus and Probability tutor. Graded Probability (not when I tutored) assignments for department.

Scholarships: $1250CAD from Government, $3000CAD from University, $5000USD from Fulbright Foundation Killam Fellowship (unfortunately, may have to decline due to COVID).

LOR: Probability professor who wrote for my Killam Fellowship application, hopefully my research professor, and one more from Statistics, Stochastic Processes, or ODEs. 

Programs Applying: Oxford MSc in Statistical Sciences, Cambridge MASt in Mathematical Statistics (I may not end up taking the GRE this summer). Open to suggestions!

I prefer to do my degree in the UK since the courses are only a year long compared to 2 years in the States. I will also consider Biostatistics programs!

Thank you for looking at my profile!

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Your profile is not extremely strong but it is good considering you are applying to only UK masters. The MASt is a good preparation for PhD and is generally well known in academia. A majority of the applicants will be admitted if I recall correctly. But I'm not sure it is a good option for industry biostatistics.  

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