Biostats offers in, suggestions? Please???

Graduate School
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<p>I’m sure a bunch of us are in the same boat as I am: receiving acceptance/denial (hopefully more of the first) letters and deciding where to go. Congratuations to everyone!</p>

<p>Well, I applied for master’s programs in biostatistics and received offers from:</p>

<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
</ol>

<p>Anyone have any suggestions? Comments? Factors that I’m considering are obviously how well the program is, the helpfulness of advisors, funding, living costs, and extracurricular activities. Help??? Anything?? Please???</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins gets my vote (I've not been there myself, but my supervisor definitely recommends it).</p>

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<p>Are you in biostats? Masters? PhD? Where do you go?</p>

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<p>Doing a PhD in statistics (particularly lifetime data analysis, so yeah it's related), at McGill (which, incidentally, will host the 23rd</a> International Biometric Conference this summer). I'm actually considering applying for a postdoc at JHU (among other places) eventually.</p>

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<p>To help you assess which school to go to....check on the faculty - how many? what research do they do? (do their interests match yours?) where do alumni end up? This should guide you. Could also check out <a href="http://www.amstat.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.amstat.org&lt;/a> for ideas on what to look for.</p>

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<p>biostatgrad, where did you attend? Did you do your master's or PhD?</p>

<p>I've cut down to 2 options: UCLA and Johns Hopkins. I went to UCLA for my undergrad so I know it well. I'm actually on my way to Johns Hopkins right now to take a visit... Know anything about these two?</p>

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<p>I went to UNC-Chapel Hill for MS and PhD. From their website, Johns Hopkins looks wonderful (didn't realize Tom Louis is now there). Full tuition if you go for Ph.D. (?!?) You couldn't go wrong with Johns Hopkins (or UCLA for that matter). Might be good to go to JH since you went to UCLA for undergrad....it's important to be exposed to a variety of experiences and thinking. I know someone who got their MS at JH a few years ago....solid training; I also know someone who got their PhD from UCLA - again, solid training. Check out what research/consulting each school does - select which one you prefer (because you'll be helping out with that most likely).</p>

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<p>Biostatgrad, what are you doing now? I mean, do you teach at another univeristy, research, ect?</p>

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<p>Am now in private sector (previously was in academia) - don't want to specify beyond that.</p>