samus

Hey everyone, I've been lurking these forums and using the search button extensively.. but haven't found any useful threads. Could some of you lovely people could help me?
I'm a 2nd year CCC student who recently applied to UCB, UCLA, UCSD, and UCI. My fall grades haven't come out yet, but my guestimate would be:

GPA 3.7~3.8
honors program (TAP)
Political science
and statistics
(applying as PS, but plan on doubling in stats)

So my question to you is this: calculating the cost-benefit of academic competition, prestige, stress, social life, research, internships, etc... what UCs are known to have a good statistics department? (I know it's ultimately my choice, but I'd appreciate outside advice)

Ektaylor

I am actually thinking (strong emphasis on thinking) about doing the same thing, but maybe minoring in stats with polisci.

From what I have seen, UCB's polisci department places an emphasis on stats; they even go so far as to make a unique course at UCB, PoliSci 3, Intro to Empirical Analysis, a major prereq. I am not really sure about the prestige of their stats department, though.

hockeydemon05

I'm in the same boat (actually, im a Senior in HS). I want to Double Major in Statistics and Economics (eventually hoping to get into a OR/FE program), so I was wondering as well, how are the UCs ranked in terms of their Statistics departments (I applied to all except UCM and UCSC)