I am a stat student at SUFE, a classmate of mine with GPA 81/100 was accepted. He told me that he has a good friend who is currently enrolled in that program and he asked his friend to talk with the director about admissions stuff. He believes this helped a lot.

Their class size is ridiculously small. The ms class ADMITS(not enrolls) 12 per year. For simplicity purpose, the director may just need to admit the one he knows so that no more reviews are needed. Everything can be done within a week or so.

UNC stat sucks. As an admissions director, Ji should be fair to every applicant. He should be blamed for his incompetency. I strongly suggest that applicants in later years NOT apply to UNC stat if you do not have some connection with Ji.

To the poster below, I think it is just because of the fact that Ji is responsible for everything of admission. If you could have some connection with him, you are most likely to be admitted despite the GPA, maths background, ..., and everything. It is ridiculous. Universities should admit students based on merit, not "guanxi"! UNC stat sucks!

UNC stat has a rather strange criteria, I know two accepted with low GPA(3.1-3.2) from ok college(SUFE and Xiamen) but some rejected ones with better grades(e.g. 3.5 from Fudan, 3.4 from USTC, 3.6 from Shanghai Jiaotong, etc.) Don't know what Ji is thinking about.

UNC is the worst school I've ever applied to! Ji sucks and the whole department sucks! just go to hell! They're not responsible at all!

Frustrated, U Minnesota undergrad. Will attend UC Davis or UCSB.

I just called the admissions manager, and she told me the admissions process is complete. No more acceptance will be made. I am firmly confident that they did not reveiw my application and just throwed it. Ji seems only review applicants from Chinese Universities(I am a senior at Maryland). My RUC and SUFE friends received rej a week ago through the portal though.

To the poster below: now it's May and I know someone was accepted, so I think The chance is quite low. UNC sucks.

Don't get me wrong, the reason people don't know Ji can't be accepted is due to their limited quota. They only ADMIT 12 students each year.

My friend in thi program told me most of the admitted are predetermined. He was an accounting major but visited UNC for one semester and knew Ji before application, so he was accepted. He suggested me not to apply to UNC since I don't know Ji so I didn't.

Ji doesn't care because every year they receive more than 500 applications even if he never responses.

Chuanshu Ji is ridiculous, if he doesn't want to be the admissions director he can do so.

Lol, calm down bro, the director dominates. This also happened this year, but I think if you know the director you are at a great advantage. I had a chance to talk with Ji 2 years ago. He is not a bad guy.

That's so sad. I know someone who was rejected by their OR program but accepted by the stat coz he knows Chuanshu Ji. This is ridiculous because they only allow applicant to choose on of the three programs.

Basically all 10 acceptances were released yesterday.

They don't respect applicants. I have a friend who is a ms there told me Ji only skims a small portion of applications.

I agree. The director Chuanshu Ji sucks. He even doesn't look all applications, some are just throwed. He is not fair to every applicants. One student there told me if you want to be admitted, you'd better to make some connection with Ji.

My friend from CUEB was accepted today. And I believe it is equivalent to a rejection if no email from them in this week. If you know the director in person before you apply, you will definitely be accepted, he is nice if you have change to talk with him in person( not through email).

Anyone haven't heard from UNC? Do I assume a rejection if haven't heard of anything at this time?