2023Fall stat offer求比较?

陆本某Top2 stat方向在读，马上毕业了。成绩不算突出但大致也是系里中上的水平。2023Fall申请季接近尾声，目前拿到的offer有(都是phd）：UCSB (declined), UIUC, UNC, UWM (declined), Northwestern，项目都是stat。还有几个学校没出结果不过感觉至多也只是wait list了。前几天找系里老师聊了一下，老师认为UIUC不如UNC和Northwestern，和我想得一样，因此现在大致在UNC和Northwestern之间选择。

Northwestern:
综合排名很高，美Top10；私立学校，人均资源较好，生源较好；统计的专业排名不高，但有可能是由于系规模很小，去年新进了几个AP，背景都很强。

UNC:
老师原话是“历史上的统计重镇”，统计专排靠前，算是强势专业；系规模较大，方向比较多；公立学校，大部分生源是来自本州的学生，因此生源水平可能不及Northwestern；班级规模较大，对人均的资源存疑。

最近选择困难症犯了，哪个项目更好？Northwestern在美国的prestige是否符合它的usnews排名？UNC又如何？求有比较了解stat graduate study的同学&老师给些建议，毕竟是人生的一个大十字路口，感谢不尽！

建议lz不要抱有做题家思维。除非你的目标就是混五年毕业然后去外面投行找个工作，不然综排没有一丁点用处。unc 统计的名声已经实力都是非常强的，但是你更应该注意的是你自己的研究方向/潜在导师的match程度/项目的placement/你未来毕业的规划：industry/academia。还有一个很多人不注意的事情就是项目的drop out rate，比如有没有qualify强制踢人走之类的。我知道很多好项目甚至会踢走一半的人。相比这些，排名是最不重要的东西了。建议lz多reach out自己感兴趣的老师，以及和项目现在的phd多聊一下。

The quality of undergrads has nothing to do with your graduate program. The field and adviser you are interested in outweigh the pure school ranking. I personally prefer UNC. UNC has a strong statistics program, excellent faculty and great careers in academia and industry. As you said, you have lots of choices if you don't know what to choose now. The same is also true for northwestern. You get a preference from Chicago when you look for jobs. I don't know too much about northwestern. It's a prestigious school. I suggest you look into the profiles of your interested advisers and the career path of their former students.

不能只看学校啊，得看导师

andino 发表于 2023-03-04 21:59:33
The quality of undergrads has nothing to do with your graduate program. The field and adviser you ar

Could you give me some advices on how to choose between UNC and UW MS of Biostatistics. I intend to pursue PhD degrees. Thanks.

补充内容 (2023-03-05 15:34 +08:00):
sorry it's UNC vs UMich

UNC吧PhD还是看专排。也可以看看有没有特别想跟的老师

andino 发表于 2023-03-04 21:59:33
The quality of undergrads has nothing to do with your graduate program. The field and adviser you ar

Thanks for you advice! I will consider about it.

bonbonecho 发表于 2023-03-05 03:19:25
UNC吧PhD还是看专排。也可以看看有没有特别想跟的老师

专排UNC确实不错，但是感觉西北的排名低是因为它以前系规模比较小？其实两边都有想跟的老板，方向也相近，现在主要觉得就学校而言西北比UNC高一个Tier或许以后求职之类的会有加成？

UNC 吧

unc吧，我自己是umich的stats phd，当年也申了unc和uiuc但是没申西北的统计，同学去西北的也都是iems没有去stats的，unc的名声还是很不错的，恭喜楼主！