trynagetby Posted February 12, 2021 Author Share Posted February 12, 2021 Does anyone know if UT Austins QS and U.S News rankings are deceptively low? I got into Duke, Umich (Ranked Top 10 programs), and Wisconsin but got waitlisted at UT Austin (Top 50). I'm super grateful/happy for my acceptances and not complaining. I'm just curious if this means that the rankings are not reliable at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vibsong Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 17 hours ago, possumvibes said: I submitted it back in early November. Okay! Congrats on the admit!!? possumvibes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayessays Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 33 minutes ago, trynagetby said: Does anyone know if UT Austins QS and U.S News rankings are deceptively low? I got into Duke, Umich (Ranked Top 10 programs), and Wisconsin but got waitlisted at UT Austin (Top 50). I'm super grateful/happy for my acceptances and not complaining. I'm just curious if this means that the rankings are not reliable at all. UT is newer and smaller so yes it is under ranked. It is also in a location that many many people want to live in, unlike the midwestern schools which many people don't even apply to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spark Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 5 hours ago, skibayes said: Yeah I'm in the same boat. Haha I also was starting to wonder whether they somehow lost my app, but if there's two of us that seems less likely! Well that makes me feel a little better! I wonder what's up. At first I figured I just didn't get in and was gonna get an email with the rejects, but then all sorts of decisions came out so now I have no idea. Maybe it's just a bit all over this year? Or they lost both of our apps, hah, but hopefully not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spark Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 5 hours ago, Taudin said: It's happened to me too. Maybe it could mean they're gonna offer us masters admits... unless they came out already. I already have my MS, so I wouldn't expect to be getting a master's admit... but it does seem like if they're gonna reject everyone left they would have already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taudin Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Spark said: I already have my MS, so I wouldn't expect to be getting a master's admit... but it does seem like if they're gonna reject everyone left they would have already? Yeah, that's a good point I hadn't considered. Some of us already have / will have their masters. If under the assumption that both waitlist and rejection notifications have been sent, I don't know what to make of it. Unless there's like a waitlist for the waitlist, ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
confusedbear Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Are Washington and Chicago finished sending interviews/offers now, or will there be more? Also I haven't seen any CMU - they haven't started, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csheehan10 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 20 minutes ago, confusedbear said: Are Washington and Chicago finished sending interviews/offers now, or will there be more? Also I haven't seen any CMU - they haven't started, right? I think Chicago are done - I got a rejection anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spark Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 4 hours ago, Taudin said: Unless there's like a waitlist for the waitlist, ? You think at that point they'd just say waitlist, but who knows. It seems like if they were going to reject all of us, they would have already, so maybe they're just doing batches this year. Or just giving us hope to reject us in the future, haha. Did you get the request for your fall transcripts in December? I've been wondering if they just send that to everyone or not. Not that it matters, all we can do is wait and hope that a badger hasn't eaten our applications ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taudin Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 8 minutes ago, Spark said: You think at that point they'd just say waitlist, but who knows. It seems like if they were going to reject all of us, they would have already, so maybe they're just doing batches this year. Or just giving us hope to reject us in the future, haha. Did you get the request for your fall transcripts in December? I've been wondering if they just send that to everyone or not. Not that it matters, all we can do is wait and hope that a badger hasn't eaten our applications ? Yeah, I actually did get that request and I was thinking that everyone else did as well. You're right, that's all we can do, lol. It's all so ironic to me since I submitted my application on November 6, pretty early as well thinking it would expedite some sort of decision. Guess not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spark Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 20 minutes ago, Taudin said: I submitted my application on November 6 I submitted my application the day it was due, so it looks like there's no effect there. Well, guess we'll see if we ever hear... I'm just trying to convince myself it isn't automatically a rejection at this point ? Taudin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storyny Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 US news ranking of Harvard statistics is high (right after Stanford and Berkeley). But almost all of my professors say that the ranking is overestimated because of the name "Harvard". Does anyone have idea about this? I also saw someone saying NCSU Stat is better than Harvard Stat in Fall 2020 Statistics Survey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhysicsKid Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 14 hours ago, csheehan10 said: I think Chicago are done - I got a rejection anyway. From my understanding, UChicago PhD explicitly says that they send out in batches and this is backed up historically. Seems like once they start, they send out new batches once a week. Based on this reasoning, another round should be coming Sunday/Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangobear Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 9 hours ago, storyny said: US news ranking of Harvard statistics is high (right after Stanford and Berkeley). But almost all of my professors say that the ranking is overestimated because of the name "Harvard". Does anyone have idea about this? I also saw someone saying NCSU Stat is better than Harvard Stat in Fall 2020 Statistics Survey. To go oof that, is USWN accurate? What are the "good" stats programs lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trynagetby Posted February 13, 2021 Author Share Posted February 13, 2021 Harvard is also ranked that high on the QS rankings. Seems consistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayessays Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 9 hours ago, storyny said: US news ranking of Harvard statistics is high (right after Stanford and Berkeley). But almost all of my professors say that the ranking is overestimated because of the name "Harvard". Does anyone have idea about this? I also saw someone saying NCSU Stat is better than Harvard Stat in Fall 2020 Statistics Survey. Harvard has Murphy, Imai, Meng and I don't think NCSU has any senior people quite at that level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyBarnes Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 What makes a department "good." Is it the students who graduate and go on to do impactful things? Or is it the faculty there - then in schools where there are a lot of junior faculty, or younger departments, do they have a chance to rise in the rankings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storyny Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 How about Harvard vs Berkeley? Berkeley is higher in us news and Harvard is higher in QS. (veey close though in both rankings) mangobear and darkreunion 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frequentist Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 While looking at faculty almost all top 20 or top 30 schools, I did not see many faculty members who got their PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Does anyone have any idea about this? Being somewhat large and such a reputed department, I would expect at least couple of CMU graduates in the faculty of almost all top department. I wonder if this is because most CMU graduates prefer to go work in the industry. Nothalfgood 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stats viscacha Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 On 2/12/2021 at 11:02 PM, confusedbear said: Are Washington and Chicago finished sending interviews/offers now, or will there be more? Also I haven't seen any CMU - they haven't started, right? I was wondering about CMU too, seems like they had sent offers earlier previous years. Anyone know when we might expect to start hearing back ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMeanGene Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 On 2/14/2021 at 12:31 AM, frequentist said: While looking at faculty almost all top 20 or top 30 schools, I did not see many faculty members who got their PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Does anyone have any idea about this? Being somewhat large and such a reputed department, I would expect at least couple of CMU graduates in the faculty of almost all top department. I wonder if this is because most CMU graduates prefer to go work in the industry. You can see some data as to where graduates go here https://www.cmu.edu/career/about-us/salaries-and-destinations/post-grad-dashboard-updated.html A lot of what I am about to say is quite opinionated as I have no experience with CMU's PhD program, but I did go there for undergrad. This is a generality, and may not be true for every department, but the school has pretty poor work life balance and a general toxic working culture in my opinion. Lots of students get turned off by academia after their general experience with the school. There are also a lot of other factors that I think would steer most students at CMU to industry, e.g. strong cs reputation. Lots of tech companies heavily recruit CMU students and I'm sure it doesn't help to see your peers all leave academia for high paying "cushy" jobs (if your goal is to remain in academia). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
confusedbear Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Is it okay to drop a technical class (optimization) that I was enrolled in this semester that I listed on my applications for spring courses? It won't interfere with my graduation requirements since I just took it for general knowledge but I found myself a bit busier than expected. I'll check in with admissions committees just to be sure, but have other people done stuff like this before? snedecor and mangobear 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statenth Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, confusedbear said: Is it okay to drop a technical class (optimization) that I was enrolled in this semester that I listed on my applications for spring courses? It won't interfere with my graduation requirements since I just took it for general knowledge but I found myself a bit busier than expected. I'll check in with admissions committees just to be sure, but have other people done stuff like this before? Even if they don't require it I think it's better to tell them bc you are making changes in your official records. Edited February 16, 2021 by statenth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayessays Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 hour ago, confusedbear said: Is it okay to drop a technical class (optimization) that I was enrolled in this semester that I listed on my applications for spring courses? It won't interfere with my graduation requirements since I just took it for general knowledge but I found myself a bit busier than expected. I'll check in with admissions committees just to be sure, but have other people done stuff like this before? I was terrified of stuff like this when I was applying, but I very sincerely doubt anyone will care unless it's a core course like calc 3, linear algebra, or real analysis and even then, only if they told you your admission was conditional on those classes -- your admissions letter admits you on the condition that you graduate with your bachelors and that's likely all that matters. I never had anyone mention when I did stuff like this (failed or dropped classes multiple times during last semester of undergrad/masters). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StatB Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Does anyone know if TAMU and Ohio State put students in waiting list ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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