Statistics PhD Application Profile Evaluation - 2023 Fall

[chapolincolorado]

Undergrad Institution: Best Latin America university
Majors: Statistics and Data Science
GPA:  9.3/10  = 3.72/4

Type of Student: International Latino Male
GRE General Test: 168 Q / 153 V / 3.5 W

GRE Subject Test: Not taking it
TOEFL Score: 110
 

Research Experience:

2 years and a half (since sophomore year) on econometrics under a professor from Brazil and one professor from UC, Boulder, submitted a manuscript to the 2023 Midwest Finance Association.

UCLA REU sponsored by the NSF and a big tech company, presented the project at the company headquarters and approved to present it at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings.

Senior thesis advised by a professor from UC, Boulder.

Awards/Honors/Recognitions:

2nd out of 40 students from the Statistics and Data Science bachelors.

Gold (bronze) at a state (national) mathematics olympiad.

First student from a university of my country to be accepted to the UCLA REU.

Pertinent Activities or Jobs:

Data science internship at a bank in Brazil for 11 months.

Project assistant for a economics professor from a university from Czech Republic for 4 months. 

TA for 3 statistics classes.

 

Letters of Recommendation:

I expect to have at least three really great letters, one from my research advisor (professor) from Brazil (knows me for 2.5+ years), one from the professor of UC, Boulder (knows me for almost a year), one from my UCLA REU mentor (researcher at the big tech company). 

Expect to have one more good (possibly great) letter from a staff of the UCLA REU.

 

Programs Applying:

Dream - UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, Duke

Reach - Washington, Stanford (stats), Stanford (finance)

Others - Cornell, UNC, Northwestern, Berkeley

 

Questions:

Any idea on what are my chances of getting accepted?

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by chapolincolorado