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School suggestions for a Stats phd?


minka

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Undergrad: Ivy w/ Grade inflation

Major: Mathematics

GPA: 3.9

Student Type: American Asian Male

Courses: 

Lower division courses: Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra (A+), Multivariable Integration (A-), ODE (A)

Upper division courses: Linear Algebra (A), Applied Statistics (A+), Intro to Real Analysis (COVID Quarter, no letter grade), Honors Real Analysis (A), Introduction to Topology and Geometry (A), Measure Theoretic Stochastic Processes (A), Complex Analysis (A), Measure Theory (A-), Discrete Probabilistic Methods (A), Galois Theory (A), Groups and Rings (A)

Graduate courses (All Master's level unless otherwise indicated): Data Analysis and Data Mining (A), PhD Level Probability with Measure Theory I and II (A, A-), PhD Level Bayesian Statistics 1 and 2 (A, A), Mathematical Statistics (A), Stochastic Processes 1 and 2 (A, COVID Quarter), ANOVA and Linear Models Theory (Credit)

Research Experience: 2 years of research with a professor about phylogenetic tree inference. Submitted a preprint.  Also have an honors thesis on stochastic processes, and various expository papers in classes I've taken.

Rec Letters: I plan to get letters of recommendation from (1) a well-known professor that I did my honors thesis in stochastic processes on, (2) a lesser-known biostatistics assistant professor that I did 2 years of research with, and (3) a letter from a professor whose Bayesian statistics classes I've taken.

I have not taken the GRE yet, as I'm applying in the following year. I'd like to know what schools I'm competitive at, though. My main concern is that I declared math and decided I wanted a PhD all in my junior year, so I had a pretty late start at taking classes, getting stuff in order for applications, etc.. Also, my school has a lot of grade inflation; I'm not sure how this factors into admissions?

 

 

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You have a very strong profile. Make sure you get great letters of recommendation, and you should be good to go! 

I would recommend that you apply mainly to Statistics programs ranked in the top 15 of USNWR. You'll certainly be able to get into some (maybe even most) of these programs.

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