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I wasn't interviewed anywhere I applied. I've heard in Business schools sometimes they do phone screens

So Columbia will provide you on campus housing that ranges from ~800 (small room with roommate, no kitchen) to ~1100 (I-house) which is pretty cheap for the area. You could possibly do better but you'd have to really hunt and maybe be away from the upper west side which is a hassle. Most everyone stays in the cu housing, at least for the first year or so. After that food is my next biggest expense, I spend ~15$ a day on food and ~60a week on groceries which works out nicely for me. 15$ is essentially I go out for lunch, and I buy coffee and snacks through out the day; breakfast and dinner I cook myself. At the end of the first semester I pocketed a good amount of money so I could have spent more aggressively if I wanted. Conceivably you have enough that you could get away with never cooking as long as you didn't eat at really fancy places. tl;dr: Money is fine, no one has any issues. You have enough that you could go out on the town every so often but not enough to do it every night.

I wouldn't call us a fe school, we're pretty evenly spread between opt, stoch, fe and some recent machine learning type stuff

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It's masters leading to phd if you don't already have a masters. I bet it doesn't matter if you goof though, you go into the same pile of candidates. As far as I can tell there's no preference or quota for students w/ masters vs w/out

I know Duke does

Everyone in my year came from math so I'd say that's true

Good luck everyone!

I got in! Who else is going to Columbia?

AGGGGGGHHH I got in!

Cornell's OR is the best of the three although if you're interested in application UMich is a good choice. They have a lot of industry involvement. For what its worth, I've never heard of the Berlin Mathematical School.

GT ACO is hardcore, I would go there

For data mining I'd pick NCSU

C'mon everyone, be nice. Rejection hurts, lets just try and be empathetic okay. Only nice things

I'd also pick USC, I think it's definitely your best option

Oh I definitely don't think its better. I get the impression looking at faculty that there's more of a theoretical bent at Columbia which I suppose is nice but otherwise I'd call them equal. Definitely not the weather, I'd rather be in Ann Arbor ^^. I feel like people get too hung up on winter in MI, in my experience its no worse then winter in the NE. A little colder and snowier but people prepare better, plus summer is just perfect. Nah, I want to be in nyc for a girl. Foolhardy huh?

Congrats!! I might see you up there! Ahh, did they say that? :[ Oh well I'm staying positive. Nope, I didn't really email anyone anywhere this admission season, maybe I should have... Did you?

Getting accepted April 16th. That'd sting

NCSU is a gorgeous campus and Raleigh is a wonderful town. They just built a new math building that's really awesome. Everyone I met there was really friendly and they have a really good OR reputation. Also supa strong stats. I know very little about OSU and I'm pretty biased but I would choose NCSU

Haha yeah man, his work is awesome, others Denton ><. Are you the undergrad I sat next to during the hockey game? If so, hi! It's really lame that MIT's weekend is so late. As the top school they're holding up the whole process :[

Not yet, I'm still waiting on Columbia. I guess you and me are in the same boat? Small world, I emailed them and they said the waitlist was pretty short so I'm gonna try and hold out

No, I asked who my initial adviser would be but they said it wasn't set. It's a little worrying, the two people who I like and who I've been in contact with were pretty popular. Did they tell you? Whens the MIT weekend so supa-stars can start turning down offers?

Sooooo, anyone decide where they're going yet?

UCSD has better theory if that matters to you

So I tried the whole: I got into another school, very polite strong arming tactic. Didn't get me anywhere except that apparently the waitlist I'm on is short and unordered. Its my top choice and probably the best school I applied to in my area but I'm not sure how I feel about being someones second choice. Is that just arrogance on my part? Is there anyone around here lurking who attended a school they got into off the waitlist? Did it feel like anyone treated you differently when you got there? I mean its not like undergrad with thousands of people, these are small and personal >.>