2025 PhD stats profile evaluation

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General questions: I'm looking for some suggestions for the school choice. My research interest is mainly about machine learning

I don't have professional research experience. I came to work as a data scientist at a life science company and currently work as a data scientist for a marketing company.

Undergrad Institution: US NEWS T50, Public universities T20 
Major(s): Applied Statistics 
Minor(s): Psychology
GPA: 3.52/4.00
Type of Student: International female

Graduate Institution: US NEWS T30

Major(s):  Statistics and data analytics
Minor(s): N/A
GPA: 3.91/4.00
GRE General Test: N/A
GRE Subject Test in Mathematics: N/A

Programs Applying: PhD in Stats/Data Science 

Research Experience: 

I don't have professional research experience, but I used to do several projects during academia and work.

Course Projects: 

• Data analysis for a bank deposit promotion
• classification project
• linear regression project

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean’s List, Semester Honor

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 

1. Develop a recommendation system and do data analysis for customer data at a marketing company

2. Develop and test a machine learning-based multivariate data analysis tool at the Research & Development department at a life science company

3. Do promotion planning data analysis for a marketing company

Letters of Recommendation: 

1. Linear regression Professor 
2. time-series Professor 
3. Detection and estimation theory professor

Math/Statistics Courses: Calculus I-III, Differential Equations, Elementary Diffeq, Stochastic Processes, Probability Theory, Math theory of statistics, Stat sequence, Statistical Learning, Regression Methods, Multivariate Analysis, Linear Algebra sequence, Optimization, time series,