Biostatistics Graduate school HELP!

Graduate School
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<p>I am wondering if there is anyone out there who could lend some advice about graduate schools in biostatistics. I am currently an undergrad student at a pretty prestigous tech school with a major in Applied math. My GPA is 3.81 with GRE's 760 Q 640 V and 600 W. I have worked on several research projects in the field of biostatistics, numerous papers written, presented research at symposiums, and am on my way to have 2 papers published. On top of that, I am a Goldwater Scholar nominee and a current research assistant at a biostat consulting organization. Do I stand any chance at getting into the following grad programs for biostat: </p>

<p>University of Washington
Brown University
Harvard University
University of Michigan
Yale University </p>

<p>I really have no idea, so any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>Sounds good to me (I imagine you should be able to get into any of the schools listed). My suggestion: University of Washington.</p>

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<p>Did you do your undergrad at U of Rochester?</p>

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<p>Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)</p>

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<p>Your credentials are comparable to mine and I got into UW easily, denied at Harvard though (but managed to get into Berkeley, go figure). I didn't apply to any other of your schools (UCLA, Stanford for stats, Iowa State for stats)</p>

<p>Blobof, why UW (still haven't made my decision yet so I'm curious)</p>

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<p>Of all the places you listed, it's the one most profs I know would recommend for grad school. It appears to be really one of the best places to do statistics overall.</p>

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<p>UW...I have heard they have a pretty spectacular program there. Nblarson, where did you decide to go?</p>

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<p>I've got it down to Berkeley, UW, and ISU (because they're offering me an NSF-IGERT grant)...and I'm pretty much stuck. :(</p>

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<p>Roll a die? Berkeley ain't bad either apparently. ISU I don't know, but if they're offering you the best money. You have to look deeper into either specific people/projects or geography/climate/living conditions of the place before you make a decision I guess. (My choice would still be UW, but purely because Washington is not half as tropical as California...)</p>

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<p>Haha, I almost feel like that's what I have to resort to...I'm very keen on entering a statistical genetics/computational biology path (my interest in such is why I have been offered the NSF grant from ISU). Of course, Berkeley has an amazing Computational Biology program and UW has some of the best stat-gen professors on the planet.</p>

<p>Of course, with ISU, I've been offered freedom to travel to any national or international conference that the faculty deems of worthy interest and have the great options at international studies and dibs on internships (plus I get flagged as a IGERT scholar for the rest of my life).</p>

<p>Yeah...no progress yet :(</p>

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<p>Check out <a href="http://www.amstat.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.amstat.org&lt;/a> - has a list of biostat schools. Your list of ideas is good but incomplete - UNC-Chapel Hill has an awesome biostat program. Also check out Univ Wisconsin at Madison; U Minn; U Iowa; Rice Univ. UCLA (but list goes on and on)</p>

<p>Look at how many Ph.Ds/Master degrees are confirmed per year...check out placement of alumni.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>