OR applicant for fall 2011
BSc.: combination of lots of stats, lots of CS, lots of math, and some business
School: good canadian undergrad program... probably not well known in US
GRE: 800Q, 640V, 4.5AWA
SOP: in production
Research: Been working as RA on machine scheduling and supply chain simulation since April. Programming in C++ and OPL. Planning on having first submission mid December in some IE journal and possibly second a month or two later.
GPA:3.35 (3.5 last 2 years)
internship: one year at government genomic lab as computational biologist (essentially building SQL DB, researching compbio theory, web stuff, and writing some r script)
Research interests: combinatorial models with uncertainty, discrete optimization, algorithms
I know my GPA junk but any suggestions if my other work gives me a chance at top 10 (Berkeley, MIT, GaTech, Northwestern,...)?