wifey99999999
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agree with hasseye,... going to a liberal art college is like going to MIT for English.
However, you have very good numbers in pretty much all the areas, and your major is not very far off from OR/Stat, I'd say you have very good chance at top schools. I'd say apply to a lot of top schools, and a few second tier schools just in case.
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Good to hear. Were those all for masters programs? Or just U-Virginia?
all masters programs... and I got funding from UVa.
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Hey all, I took the GRE this past week after two weeks of studying for only the quantitative part (I didn't think I would have enough time to study for the verbal portion). I scored a 770 on the quant and 490 on verbal. Is my verbal score going to hurt me a lot in my applications? I have a paper published and I'm hoping my SoP will be decent enough to supplement the poor score, but I'm wondering if anyone else had similar scores and knew what the results were.
Thanks!
No. It won't matter much (although it's nice to have higher score). I had 770Q/490V, and I got into UPenn, U-Chicago, Cornell, Brown, U-Virginia (for masters degree program, though).
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Hey erm, they cant really accept 100% of applications. they get around >1000 applicants for ms a year. I dont think there are even enough rooms/professors to handle that many students in the cs dept alone.
100% is just an exaggeration. But if they seriously go for money, they might as well hire more part-time lecturers to accomodate more students, right? Business-wise, this could make them a lot of money!
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Which is not what people imagine it to be in the case of MS degrees. Really, look at all those rejected from MIT/Berkeley/Caltech but admitted unfunded to Stanford MS programs. Then they desperately see this as their only chance to get an "elite" degree and take it. Why would it be that easy? Doesn't it seem a little too good to be true? There's no free lunch: the Stanford unfunded MS programs are easy to get into precisely because they're not really anything more than money-makers. You pay, you get a "Stanford degree". Good for bragging to clueless lay people but those in your field know that it's not particularly impressive. Stanford is prestigious because of its undergrad, professional, and doctoral programs. The MS just tricks the prestige-obsessed folks into making Stanford lots of $$.
Getting into stanford is by no mean easy. Yes, their MS programs are not as selective as MIT/CalTech/Cal, but they still have pretty low acceptance rate, and you still need the grade to get in (they obvioulsy don't emphasize research as much for MS admission). they're not going to admit people who are not smart, but just have money. If Stanford's goal is to make money, can you please explain why they don't admit 100% of their applicants? I mean, that would at least quadruple their tuition revenue, right?
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Your chances of being admitted to a good graduate school of engineering in the US do not look promising. They are not going to take any "C" students from minor-league schools. You'd need to be very highly ranked in your program to be considered for admission to grad school.
Why don't you let us know what your ugrad GPA was and from which prestigious school?
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i still haven't heard anything out of usc yet, they're my last school to hear from, applied for masters in EE. anyone else still waiting as well? anyone already been accepted to the msee program? if so, when and what do your credentials look like if you dont mind sharing?
Don't waste your time on U$C. They're not worth your effort.
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Tough choice. USC is stronger in Engineering overall, but their students have a reputation of being pretentious and thinking they're "better than they actually are". Brown is a wonderful school, but sadly their Engineering isn't that great. I'd go with USC and just try to dispel the stereotype!
U$C students have the reputation of being rich (as their only reason of getting in). Go with Brown.
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when and how did you hear back from USC?
i also got an admit to Brown, waiting to hear back from USC. Although no funding and its a no go for me at USC since I didnt get funding at Brown either.
no brainer. Brown.
Brown is an Ivy league school and is world renowned. U$C is a school where rich (but not smart) people go and does not have the prestige of any Ivy school and is in the middle of south central LA ghetto.
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I am currently an Undergrad at UCLA School of Engineering and will be graduating with a CS&E bachelors and Accounting Minor. I currently have a 3.5 (exactly) and plan to apply to graduate school.
I wanted to know my chances of applying to schools such as Stanford, and other top engineering schools, and what schools I should be applying to.
I want to join a program that has some business aspect to it (the Stanford Managerial Science and Engineering program is ideal for me) and some engineering aspect.
As I stated, I currently have a 3.5, one good letter of rec (from research) from a MIT/Stanford graduate professor, an on campus job, and I will have an internship with a fortune 500 company this summer. For the other two letters of rec, I would find another professor and look for someone in the internship i have this summer.
Any recommendations? thank you.
Hey. I went to UCLA too. Do you know about UCLA's ESAP program? THey guarantee master program's admission for their undergrad students whose GPA is above 3.50. I took that advantage and never had to take GRE or ask professors/supervisors for LOR.
BTW, I'd recommend that you take GRE now before the new format. New format will actually be harder in my opinion.
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Thank you for your response. My first immediate thoughts were that I have a high probability of getting into these schools, but as you said I figured my application most likely would not receive any awards. If you think I would most likely not get funding, should I try to get a full time employment first to try to pay for it or try to take out some loans and offset the cost later on? Or do you think I should I apply to a lower ranked school to try to get funding? For example, I actually live in NJ so should I consider Rutgers due to in state tuition and better chance of funding or go for a school for a higher reputation name and try to figure out a way to pay for it? I really have no source of income after graduation and I don't expect my parents to support me after undergraduate education.
I agree with what Hasseye said. You probably would get admitted into some of the better schools (with no funding as most money is allocated to PhD students). For masters application, if you have high GPA, good LOR (doesn't have to great unless you apply for PhD), great GRE scores, you should be able to get into most top programs.
But if funding is problem, I'd suggest you to work for a big company first as most big companies offer 100% tuition reimbursement for their employees, but you would have to do the degree part time and work full time.
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Did anyone receive admission packet via postal mail? What does acceptance packet contain?
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Do they send out admisssion packet to admitted students? WHat does the packet consist of? cuz I heard Cal no longer sends out paper admission acceptance packet to students to save money....
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Don't waste your money on U$C....
If you like suburban style, go to Cornell, if you like urban setting, go to Penn... either one is a great school, you can't go wrong with either (but it'd be a terrrible mistake if you pick U$C) but I'd say Cornell has better reputation in engineering.....
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I got accepted, too. But I have no idea whether it could be a wise choice to go there...they told me $80,000 could be sufficient for an international student--like me. It's pretty expensive after all. And thinking about the current economy situation, I don't know whether Berkeley starts this program is all about the high tuition or not. And I don't know whether they have a low standard to accept a student, for I thought my application was a mess( Berkeley was the first grad school that I have applied for...)......Hope I am over-thinking about everything....
Do you mind telling me your stats?
sounds like one of the new professional master programs to generate revenue (UC system is in budget crisis).... but you still need great academic backgoround to get in.... doesn't mean it's a cakewalk...
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Did anybody apply or hear back yet?
never heard of this program from Cal... you have a website about this degree?
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what are my chances...( I resisted this..but finally gave in to the tension which is simply going over the roofs now
) given the following credentials: GRE General ...800 Q 690 V 4 AWA ... TOEFL 108... GPA 3.25(approx.)..I am from a reputed institute in India where they are pretty stingy with grades 
... also my grades were pulled to the ground due to some soft courses in Biology... my grades in courses like Differential Equations, Linear Algebra etc. are top notch. I will be awarded a BS-MS in Physics and Maths this may. I have a year of research to my credit. I am really worried about my seemingly low GPA.... Stanford doesn't look superfluously into the transcripts right?3.25 GPA will kill your application... many top schools' admitted students have average 3.7 GPA.
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I have heard this as well that incoming students at MS and MS/PhD level seldom are funded on RAs. And the lucky ones who get TAs have to cover the out-of state tuition out of pocket.(Surprisingly unlike most other schools TAs at UCB (GSI as they are known in UCB jargon) dont cover complete tuition and stipend.
I hope some combination of fellowship and RA/TA is offered to us guys.
BTW how many of you are still planning to attend UCB IEOR. I mean is this the top choice school for most or is it second fiddle to MIT ORC, GaTech ISYE, and Cornell/Columbia?
Cal's IEOR is one of the top along with Ga TEch, Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Stanford. Cal is definitely not 2nd fiddle to any school.
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Sure, here we go:
GRE: 800Q / 650V / 5.0AW
Undergrad and MS in IE in the top school in my country (but not known at all outside it).
GPA (as converted by WES). Undergrad: 3.8/4.0 Grad: 4.0/4.0
Research: 2 publications in proceedings, 1 submitted journal, several talks.
Three years working on OR team in Fortune 100 company. Here we have done interesting research, but publications are hard due to legal issues, I pointed that out in my SoP.
LoRs from PhDs from GaTech, NCSU and Penn State.
Good luck to all
How did you get rejected by Columbia OR and accepted by Cal IEOR?? Cal IEOR is supposedly much harder to get in with much smaller intake than columbia....
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Any advice? I see that on USNews Berkeley is ranked #3 vs. 19 for Columbia...but I really don't trust these rankings...
What are your thoughts on this? I could use some help! Thanks.
where did you see this ranking? I think USNews only has the Industrial Engineering ranking up to 10.
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Hey everyone,
So I graduated with my BS in math a few years ago and have been working ever since. I've been wanting to go out and get my MS in Statistics, but I'm not anywhere near a decent program. Also, my wife is in her first year of pharmacy school so it'll be a while before I'd have the option of moving to one.
I was wondering if anyone has ever done (or knows someone who has) one of the online MS programs in stat?
I've been looking at Colorado State (looks mostly theoretical), Penn State (MAS), and TAMU (looks mostly applied). They all have online programs that I could finish before my wife leaves pharmacy school. I'm worried that people might not consider them "legit" though. Would doing one of these online programs kill my chances at getting into a decent PhD program if I decide to later? Does anyone know if they would even provide sufficient preparation for PhD programs?
I'd appreciate any info/advice that anyone could offer.
Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving
Yes they are legit. You do the same homeworks, take the same exams... how can that be not legit?
Texas A&M is great school... I'd pick A&M out of your 3 choices.
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Some people believe that Stanford's Master programs (in engineering school) are "cash cow" because their admit rate is higher than most other prestigious schools.... although I don't agree with them since it's still very hard to get into MS program at Stanford, what do you think about such claim?
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an applicant for Fall 2011 here (MS in IE/OR)
Undergraduate: not bad and huge school on the East Coast
Majors: Math, Econ (double major)
GPA: 3.6 (majors=~ 3.7~3.8)
GRE: 600V/800Q/3.5
and nothing special to make my app look fancy. (research, decent internship, etc)
Here goes my list:
U Mich
UC Berkeley
Columbia
Stanford
U Texas Austin
U Washington
Johns Hopkins (applied math)
+thinking of applying PhDs for
Carnegie Mellon Tepper (OR)
NW (IEMS)
I dont think i have good chances for these schools, but im doing my best.
Its 3 am and I'm still working on my SoP. ....
If you only want to apply for Masters, then I think you ahve good chance with all the schools that you listed because Masters programs generally look at your academic background like test scores and GPA (good research may offset some weak test score, but 800Q is strong). But if you want to apply for PhD, that's another story if you don't have good research experience.
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Cal and UCLA.
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