Courses to take for Statistics PhD?

[mathstats]

<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>My university doesn't have a statistics department or a statistics major. What classes should I take to strengthen an application toward a statistics PhD and which math classes can I generally avoid (for example, I've read that classes like abstract algebra don't help).</p>

<p>So far I have taken or are planning to take the following:
Calculus I/II/III
Ordinary Differential Equations
Intro to Linear Algebra
Upper Division Linear Algebra
Probability and Stats
Econometrics</p>

<p>Should I take partial differential equations?</p>

[b_r_um]

<p>Take real analysis. Advanced probability theory is done in terms of measure theory, which is usually introduced in a 2nd semester analysis course.</p>