Serious question about graduate school

JHS
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:55:10 +0000

I don’t know. Not Phi Beta Kappa. Not competitive for PhD programs (or not, at least, successfully competitive). The people I know who did this are casual friends of my kids, or distant relatives of mine, or children of co-workers. Believe it or not, I tend not to know people’s GPAs unless they talk about it. I don’t ask.
I don’t know. Harvard’s AM in Statistics program looks relatively small – about 15 students/year. And, on an eyeball basis, all but a handful are Korean or Chinese. So it could be very competitive.