[Operations Research / Industrial Engineering Fall 2011]

Your profile looks pretty good. I think all you need to do is focus on your current courses and see if that will boost your GPA. Also, if you can, sign up for a grad. course or two. My advisor recommended that I took a few grad courses to see if graduate school is actually for me. I also think it is beneficial in the application process as well.

Thanks Weierstrass, pale's in comparison to your portfolio

I actually graduated in May so I probably won't take any more courses

[Operations Research / Industrial Engineering Fall 2011]

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,...)?