Stat Biostat PhD Profile Eval

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Hello, I am an international student interested in high-dimensional data analysis and penalized regressions.

1. GRE
   • VR 152, 54%
   • QR 169, 95%
   • AW 4.0, 57%
2. TOEFL 100
   • R 25 L 25 S 24 W 26
3. BA and MA in Applied Statistics (earned in the college ranked between 90 and 95 by 2020 QS asian university rankings)
   • Undergrad GPA 3.78 (major GPA 3.9)
   • Grad GPA is relatively low (3.2), though all courses were marked A+. I got two Fails due to extenuating circumstance.
4. Some prerequisites taken:
   • two undergraduate + one graduate Mathematical Statistics courses (All A+)
   • two Introductory Real Analysis + one Lebesgue integral and Lp space courses (A+, A, A+)
   • three Calculus, one Linear Algebra courses (All A+)
   • 30 stat, math, and computation courses in total
5. Academic works:
   • [1^st Author] Under minor revision at Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
   • [2^nd Author] Under review at Statistics since Dec 2018
   • [2^nd Author] published at Korean Party Studies Review, an application paper on topic modeling using LDA in Python
   • [3^rd Author] published at Journal of Future Politics
   • Awarded Honorable mention for a poster presentation of research (Korean Statistical Society)
6. Industrial projects
   • Currently working on real-time object detector development, image augmentation, and GPU computing in Python
   • Worked as an assistant researcher in Multi-Drug Resistance Stewardship project. Conducted CDA and machine learning in R, Python in collaboration with developers and infectious disease specialists.
7. Recommendations from
   • A professor I worked with on the first paper
   • A professor I worked with on the second paper
   • Graduate advisor

I am currently planning to apply for schools in the range of USNR 60 or lower including  GWU, USC, and UCR. Also considering applying to MSU, Uconn, CSU, U of Iowa, UFL, U of Pitt, and OSU as high reaches.

Edited October 2, 2020 by JJJ184728

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Would these schools be appropriate for my profile or should I consider other schools?