Suede

My opinion is your 3.2 GPA shouldn't discourage you, if the programs you'll be applying to are more professionally oriented rather than a stepping stone for the PhD. If that is the case, your internships will be a huge asset, especially if the program includes financial applications of IE/OR tools and methods (relative to your internships). However, your greater liability for the adcoms will be your questionable quant background. You come from a non-engineering UG, with rather average grades in math (that C in prob/stats might hurt you). If you had the opportunity to take courses from a respected institution in Stochastic Processes and Mathematical Modelling I'd say you'd pretty much make up for it, displaying both determination and good understanding of the science. GA Tech has a reputation for being too strict with their GPA standards. Don't take my word for it though. If I were you, I'd also cross Oklahoma,Auburn,Clemson and Texas A&M off my list. If you are able to support the tuition on personal funds, you could perhaps aim for a top 10 institution. Good luck!

Early January.

I applied directly and was interviewed last week but I'm still waiting for the final decision. From what I've seen in other forums, students redirected from their financial engineering program seem to have a priority in this procedure. Does anyone know when the final decisions will be sent?

Why is UT Austin's ORIE department reputation so low compared to its overall top engineering school name?

Take it easy big player.

From what I've seen in the results page and the relevant threads, both of these programs have sent most decisions for the PhD programs (Columbia has also sent decisions for MFE from which many students are redirected to MSOR). Therefore, you should be expecting results or invitations to interviews soon enough. Best of luck with your applications!

Since there is a separate thread for PhD applications and the differences in the applications approach are significant, I thought we could share information, feedback and insight about Masters graduate programs here. Any fellow applicants for Masters degrees in Operations Research around? We could start off with profile information and decisions received so far. Please allow me to start: International Student GPA: 3.4/4.0 GRE: 157V/167Q/4.0AW Toefl iBT: 112/120

Hello fellow OR applicants, I need your advice! I've been invited to an interview for a Operations Research Masters program and from what I can infer, the content is going to be more technical and less personal. What kind of questions should I prepare about? Should I expect only field and coursework-related conversation with the professor, or could there be a set of problems I'll be required to solve as well? I don't know what to expect so your feedback will be immensely useful! Thank you!