Help!~~Another profile evaluation in biostat

[yoyolulu]

STUGGLE with selecting MS programs in biostat these days~~ Seek help here~~

I am an international biology student (with undergraduate GPA 3.7) and now enrolling in a master in biochemistry (GPA 3.65) WITHOUT ANY RESEARCH EXPERIENCEC IN BIOSTAT. I wan to apply master in biostat this fall. My gre score: V510 Q800 AW3.5

I have taken two semesters of calculus, however performance sucks!! ( got B in theses courses), a course in linear algebra (got , probability and mathematical statistics(A). I have also taken courses in programming (C++ A-, MATLAB A).

Hope you gus can give me suggestions about

Reaches: Harvard, UW Seattle, UCB, UCLA, Brown, UNC

More possible: Columbia, USC, Rutgers, Tufts, UC Davis

Rochester, Maryland, Northwestern

I feel very lost at current stage and eager to know the chances I get into these master programs!

Thank you all !!!!

[Shostakovich]

STUGGLE with selecting MS programs in biostat these days~~ Seek help here~~

I am an international biology student (with undergraduate GPA 3.7) and now enrolling in a master in biochemistry (GPA 3.65) WITHOUT ANY RESEARCH EXPERIENCEC IN BIOSTAT. I wan to apply master in biostat this fall. My gre score: V510 Q800 AW3.5

I have taken two semesters of calculus, however performance sucks!! ( got B in theses courses), a course in linear algebra (got , probability and mathematical statistics(A). I have also taken courses in programming (C++ A-, MATLAB A).

Hope you gus can give me suggestions about

Reaches: Harvard, UW Seattle, UCB, UCLA, Brown, UNC

More possible: Columbia, USC, Rutgers, Tufts, UC Davis

Rochester, Maryland, Northwestern

I feel very lost at current stage and eager to know the chances I get into these master programs!

Thank you all !!!!

nobody really knows your true chances because the schools don't release an exact rubric or anything, but from what i've read here and on school websites the most important criteria are:

- GPA, especially in the Math/Stats courses

- Letter of Recs

- Personal Statement

- GRE Scores

(roughly in this order)

supposedly research exp isn't as important although it could help. experience with programming helps too. and MS programs are a lot easier to get into than PhD programs. if i had to guess you should have a good shot at most of the "more possible" places and at least some of the places on the "reaches" list.

[yoyolulu]

Thank you~~

I am so worried cause my poor permance on mathematics-related courses. All of them were taken in the first year in college, you know, did not spend much time studying at that time. And there is no recommendation letter from mathematics or related fields. So these two will be two big backwards for me

[cyberwulf]

nobody really knows your true chances because the schools don't release an exact rubric or anything, but from what i've read here and on school websites the most important criteria are:

- GPA, especially in the Math/Stats courses

- Letter of Recs

- Personal Statement

- GRE Scores

(roughly in this order)

supposedly research exp isn't as important although it could help. experience with programming helps too. and MS programs are a lot easier to get into than PhD programs. if i had to guess you should have a good shot at most of the "more possible" places and at least some of the places on the "reaches" list.

This is more or less right, though I would move 'personal statement' to the bottom of the importance list.

Also, yoyolulu, you should make sure that you have taken multivariable calculus before you graduate; this is a prerequisite for essentially all biostatistics graduate programs.

[yoyolulu]

Thank you~ Cyberwulf

In my case, it is kind of different. I have taken two semesters of advanced mathematics. Its contents includes Calculus1,2,3~~ So that would be ok. And do I need make some supplemental statement about my transcripts?

[Shostakovich]

Thank you~ Cyberwulf

In my case, it is kind of different. I have taken two semesters of advanced mathematics. Its contents includes Calculus1,2,3~~ So that would be ok. And do I need make some supplemental statement about my transcripts?

Few of the schools I'm applying to had a section where I input the courses I took to satisfy certain mathematics requirements. Cyberwulf probably has better answers, but personally I think the personal statement may be a good place to clarify your math background a little bit and how you feel about your readiness for graduate studies ("Being equipped with courses like multivar Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Statistics, I think ..." or something along those lines). Good luck!

[cyberwulf]

Few of the schools I'm applying to had a section where I input the courses I took to satisfy certain mathematics requirements. Cyberwulf probably has better answers, but personally I think the personal statement may be a good place to clarify your math background a little bit and how you feel about your readiness for graduate studies ("Being equipped with courses like multivar Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Statistics, I think ..." or something along those lines). Good luck!

A good thought, but this isn't really necessary. All biostat departments know what two semesters of "Advanced Mathematics" means on a Chinese transcript.

[yoyolulu]

Thank you~~~