美国签证白皮书/丁晓-Harvard-Biostatistics

　Harvard/Biostatistics 中国科技大学计算机本科，统计金融

案例特点:研究生+上海签证+科大少年班

1) What will you study in the United States?

Biostatistics

2) What is your major? In what aspect of your major will you study?

Statistics, Biostatistics

3) What will you do in USA?

I will study for PhD degree in Harvard School of Public Health.

4) Are you going to study in USA?

Yes. Of course.

5) When/where did you get your BS/MS?

I have just passed the defense for my graduate thesis on June 6th.I will get it in the coming 10 days

6) What/where are you studying now?

Bayes Statistics

7) How long will you study in USA?

I think about five years

8) Have you any scholarship?

Yes. I got full finance support.

9) What do you want to study in USA?

Biostatistics

10) What do you do with your work for BS/MS/PhD?

I am working mainly on the Bayes, Empirical Bayes Estimation and Test problem.

11) What is your purpose for the Visa?

I need the Visa to go to HSPH for study.

12) What is your academic background?

I am a master degree graduate student in USTC.

13) How do you know this Univ.?

I think there are very few men who do not know Harvard, right?

14) What is your plan? What will you do after graduation?

I am sure with the PhD degree of Biostatistics from Harvard, I have much advantage in finding a research position in government academe or a leading corporation in China, to do some biostatistics research and application work for my home country.

While in the US, unlike China, this area is saturated and has been studied for about fifty years. Biostatistics is a newest application research area in China. As a developing country, China is paying more and more attention to the problem of public health. There is a burning need in China for the experts with good knowledge of biostatistics to collect information, make mathematical model, do data analysis. For example, experts of biostatistics are indispensably in the process of validating the effect and security of the newly developed medicine

You know, many leading research-based pharmaceutical company like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Bayer and Roche pay great attentions to put their medicine into Chinese Market, for example medicine for AIDS. What is more, they are in great demands of the experts in the area of biostatistics. But in fact, such experts are very scarce in China. So it will be quite easy for me to seek a position in this area in those companies after graduation from Harvard.

15) Give me three reasons that you will come back to China?

First, my goal is to do some application of Biostatistics for people's life. So I am certain I should come back to my home country, right?

Second, you know, Biostatistics has been studied for many years in America, so the market demand for its application is saturated. But in China, it is a newest area of application.At last, I am the only child of my parents. I should stay in China with them.

16) Can you explain why 90% Chinese students didn't come back?

不知道怎么回答

17) Why do you choose this Univ.?

Harvard, the name is enough. And HSPH rank top3 in the area of Biostatistics.

18) Why do you like your major?

My undergraduate major is Computer Science, while my graduate major is Statistics. And they are both the base of biostatistics, I can use all my knowledge better.。And choosing a research direction

19) Why do you want to study in USA?

Biostatistics is a newest academy area in China. So I must go to USA to study it.

20) Why do you want to pursue a doctor's degree?

I just don't want any PhD degree. Actually, what I want is Harvard's PhD for my graduate study. Because studying in Harvard can best fit my long-term career objective as a researcher.

My interests are in Biostatistics, which Harvard is the best in the world. Do you know that now Harvard Department of Biostatistics comprises 85 students, 57 faculty members, and 22 research associates and fellows? I have talked with Professor Stephen Lagakos, the chair of the department, for about forty minutes by phone. He told me that Harvard can give me the best education in this area and its program is the best fit for me.

And, this area is very promising and a degree from Harvard will enable me to find a very satisfactory position in a leading company or a government institute in China after graduation. 　　

21) Why do you receive financial aid from this Univ.?

I think I am the right student that they want. I have talked with the head of the department of biostatistics by phone. He is very satisfied with me.

22) What is the difficult class do you have?

23) Do you want your wife to go with you?

I am single now.

24) Why do you change your major?

I think it cannot be called changing major. Biostatistics is a part of statistics. In USA, many Universities make biostatistics a program in the department of statistics, instead of make it a new department outside Statistics Department..

25) What's the difference between your major now and the major in USA?

Statistics and Computer Science are the basis of the Biostatistics, and biostatistics emphasize particularly on the application of the statistics in project in area of medicine and public health.