Your particularly distinguished Master’s Program in Statistics at XXXX University is my first choice for graduate school because of your program's sheer quality reflected in the curriculum's thoroughgoing nature and your attention to applications of statistical models and theoretical foundations. I also appreciate that your student body is diverse since I am a young man from China who enjoys learning from my peers and professors, especially those from other Asian countries. I see it as necessary for granecessarydents from different parts of the Developing World to compare notes about the common and uniquestandardenges that we face in terms of the eregardingelopment of our countries of origin. I look forward t

 an intensive learning experience in Statistics at XXXX heightens and cultivates my identity as a global citizen, characterized by a profound sense of social responsibility as a scientist and scholar.

Still only 22, I was born and raised in China. In 2012, I relocated to the USA for my studies; living first with an uncle in Boston for a few months studying English intensively to bring it up to a level where I might excel in college, and then moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in August of that year to begin my undergraduate studies in Mathematics. I will be graduating this coming May of 2016. I am thankful that in addition to much of my native China, now the USA, I have also gotten to see Japan along with the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, and Netherland, serving to heighten my sense of international identity and responsibility.

I have also been gaining invaluable professional experience to complement my studies. This semester, I have been serving as a Math Tutor at UIUC, holding office hours, and going that extra mile to help students understand the material in advanced and introductory Math courses. I also enjoyed two exciting summer positions with XXXX in Champaign, Illinois, in 2014 and the Bit Valley Info Technology Company in China in 2015. In this latter position, I was hired to design and build websites for local government organizations. Web site building has been a sideline that I have been cultivating for several years. I find it especially useful and hope to continue doing so in ways relevant to my studies in Statistics.

I look forward to many decades of applying the skills that I will earn in statistical analysis at XXXX University to work on various problems and issues in many areas of inquiry or industrial fields. For example, nothing excites me more than the idea of helping companies accurately estimate yields and evaluate the quality of their products. I am most interested in statistical models that are especially useful at the intersection between demographics and economics—big data analysis extensive my center of gravity. As a Math major, I have taken advanced courses in statistics and excelled, feeding my conviction that it is in this area where I might be most helpful to my most beneficial want very much to attend graduate school in Statistics rather than pure Mathematics because I am a firm believer that one should study in the area in which they feel the greatest passion. For me, this is statistics and its applications.

In addition to a solid grounding in theoretical foundations, I hope to acquire the fullest and most immersion experience possible in the real world by applying real-world statistical methods. I see XXXX University as the best choice, especially for learning as much as I can about Data Science (Big Data, Analytics), and their real’world application program represents the optimal springboard to build my career on the cutting edge of applied statistics. I seek to contribute to the advancement of both science and technology, and I see Statis, tics as the bridge between the two, helping to make the application of science as effective as possible.

My long-term goal is to become a professor/researcher at the university level in Statistics with particular consideration for the relevance and utility of Statistics for human and economic development, particularly in China. There are a growing number of critical issues in China that will be betthatesolved with the help of statistics theory. One especially salient example is traffic and the hope for advances being made in intelligent transport control. Nowadays, in China, you can find traffic jams in every city, and it is not uncommon to spend 40 minutes driving 5 miles in our urban environment.  Sometimes even ambulances cannot get through the traffic. Thus, it would be a special privilege for me in the future to work in the area of better estimating the evolution of traffic flows. I am very much excited by the fact that I earn about statistics; the more connections I see for harnessing its power to make life better for all, especially by facilitating and assuring our commercial transactions. Thus, I plan to continue to focus my attention, in particular, on the Banking, IT, and Insurance sectors.

This semester, serving as a Math Tutor at XXXX, I have invested a lot of energy in learning as much as possible about the challenges students face. I always give my all to my studies, and it has been a special privilege to give my all to heshasharers learn.

Thank you for considering my application to your competitive Statistics Program at XXXX University.