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Did anyone else apply to Michigan OpRes, Cornell ORIE, GeorgiaTech ISyE and/or Purdue IndEng? Has anyone heard back from any of them? It's my impression that Michigan and Purdue have not been very popular with applicants here this year. Is that really the case? Why so?

I'm also curious about that. Did they pre-reject some people (based on some overarching criteria) and are going to review select applications now? Or have all decisions been made? It would be really bad if they just rejected people (me) outright, on account of lower-than-holy-GPA, and didn't even read the documentation... Also PhD: does anyone know if Berkeley IEOR and Stanford MS&E admit people without interviewing them? Or should I take the absence of an interview invite by now as a rejection?