Canada MS Stats Application - Profile Evaluation

[woodsandy]

Hi all, 

 

I would really appreciate some feedback on the below, re my chances of admission. I have applied for Jan 18 admission.

 

Undergrad Institution: Top university in Ireland
Major(s): Statistics
Minor(s): Mathematics
GPA: 3.76/4.2 (Award), final year GPA was 3.87/4.2

Type of Student: International male
 

Programs Applying: Statistics MS, McGill

 

Research Experience:

Final year research project for which I received an A-. Project took 12 weeks in all. My supervisor wanted me to enter into a European undergraduate research competition, but this wasn't possible in the end. I have also continued on this research in my own time. In my statement I also stated two more areas which I would like to research.

 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: None to speak of.

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: I have just completed a one-year graduate program at a large insurance company's data science centre. I stated in my application that I built an outlier detection algorithm for insurance data in this job.

Courses:  Final two years (courses which contributed to degree classification)

Research Project A- 3.8

An Intro to Coding Theory C+ 3.0

Actuarial Statistics II B+ 3.6

Categorical Data Analysis A+ 4.2

Multivariate Analysis A 4.0

Applied Statistical Modelling A 4.0  

Models - Stochastic Models A+ 4.2

Actuarial Statistics I A+ 4.2

Nonparametric Statistics B 3.4

Monte Carlo Inference A 4.0

Data Programming A- 3.8

Data Prog with Python (online) A+ 4.2 

Cryptography: Theory & Practice A 4.0 

Ring Theory C+ 3.0

Statistical Data Mining B 3.4

Design of Experiments B+ 3.6

Bayesian Analysis A- 3.8

Economics and Society A 4.0

Functions of One Complex Variable 5.0 5.0 B- 3.2

Metric Spaces 5.0 5.0 B+ 3.6

Research Methods for the Social Science, Business and the Humanities A+ 4.2

Time Series A 4.0

Models - Survival Models D 2.2

 

Letters of Recommendation: One of my letters is from my research supervisor who knows me well. They are relatively young and have their PhD 4/5 years.

My second letter is written by a much more senior lecturer, head of the statistics department, who taught me two courses, in both of which I got an A grade.

Programs considering: Only the MS at McGill for now.

Concerns: My grades were very poor for the first two years. I have addressed this in my application and explained that this was the case as I was also working a job to finance my studies.

For the final two years I made the decision to quit my job.

 

Thanks,