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@mansy2257 I called them yesterday and the department administrative office said they don't believe any offers have gone out yet...

Congrats to those that have received offers! Just wondering, has anyone received any info from PhD programs at Cornell ORIE or Princeton ORFE?

@ghjk I didn't post that one. I didn't receive an offer right away--the interviewer simply said the admissions committee now has all the information they need and will be in touch within the next two weeks. Congrats to whoever got the offer!

@ghjkI'm sorry to hear about Columbia IEOR... I was very fortunate to have been contacted by Columbia IEOR towards the end of last week. I had my interview this morning, and it was relatively short at around 15 minutes. We chatted generally about my background, including projects and any publications, as well as research interests and goals going forward. The professor, who I assume is a member of the admissions committee, also asked me which faculty members in particular I'm interested in working with. I applied to PhD programs in both operations research and statistics. For OR programs, I applied to Columbia, Cornell, Princeton and Stanford. I'm a domestic applicant currently doing a Statistics MS at a top program. My research interests are spread out across applied probability, finance and statistical theory. It would be nice to hear about others' interview experiences. The interviewer told me I should hear back with the final admissions decision within about two weeks. Best of luck to everyone!

Hi there, This year I have the choice of taking either graduate real analysis (measure theory and functional analysis), or the first year PhD theoretical statistics sequence. Could someone please advise me about which course sequence might be more beneficial for someone applying to statistics PhD programs? Also, what's a good balance between math and stats classes? I've heard math background is more important for statistics PhD programs. Is undergraduate analysis enough or would graduate analysis be helpful? Here's some other info that might be relevant. Concurrent to either choice of course sequences above, I will be taking the graduate sequence in probability and stochastic processes this year. I've taken some undergraduate analysis courses at my university which covered basic measure theory and functional analysis. Thanks very much!