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@Dawnbreaker That's a very insightful comment! Do you happen to know much about these places: Wharton OID, Kellogg OM, USC ISE, and CMU Tepper OR/OM. I'm mostly considering the first two. @myh Congratulations on those offers! Stanford MS&E is my ideal place, but I did not make it. ^^"

I have seen a lot of posts on the results page lately. Let's discuss here guys! Seems like Stanford MS&E and Cornell are the big ones that acceptances were started to roll out. First rejection from MIT Social and Engineering Systems program today.

@ORPhDFall16 Good luck to you! I ended up not applying to Cornell and NU IEMS. Although, I did Kellogg instead, plus NYU Stern and UChicago Booth. Have you heard from NU IEMS?

Hi all, I'm applying to multiple PhD programs in OR/IE (and also some OM) for Fall 2016. I haven't seen a topic for these fields yet, so I created one! Would love to get to know other applicants and let's wait for the results together! Programs I applied to: MIT ORC Stanford MS&E Stanford OIT Columbia IEOR Columbia DRO Berkeley IEOR USC ISE Cornell ORIE Northwestern IEMS Wharton OID Stanford OIT Not sure if I'll apply to some more programs like NYU, Chicago Booth, CMU, and UCLA Anderson.

Anything about Stanford MS&E or MIT CDO? Thanks!

I'm really torn now. Any other thoughts/advice?

Hi jhpark! Nice to meet you, too! I like everything about Stanford MS&E, but MIT is slightly better because of the research opportunities (and funding). MIT is good for supply chain/operations management I think, but faculty who work on these topics do not take new students. For your case, I think Columbia is a great school in FE, but I still think MS&E will probably be better than Stats as, although it's broader, you can still focus on Finance/FE applications at MS&E.

I didn't have research experiences back in undergrad, so I would like to spend a year or two working on projects before applying to Ph.D. programs in the future.

Hi all, I got accepted into the Master's programs at - Stanford (Management Science and Engineering) - MIT (Computation for Design and Optimization) - Cornell (ORIE in Financial Engineering) - UMichigan (Industrial and Operations Engineering) My ultimate goal is to go to the Ph.D. program in Operations Research or Operations Management. My current interests are: (1) financial engineering - risk management, credit risk, dynamic pricing (2) om - supply chain, vehicle routing, airline scheduling (3) stochastic optimization (4) machine learning Basically, I'm choosing between Stanford and MIT now; though if you have strong opinions about Cornell/UMich, please share as well. Thanks a lot!

Hi all, I got accepted into the Master's programs at - Stanford (Management Science and Engineering) - MIT (Computation for Design and Optimization) - Cornell (ORIE in Financial Engineering) - UMichigan (Industrial and Operations Engineering) My ultimate goal is to go to the Ph.D. program in Operations Research or Operations Management. My current interests are: (1) financial engineering - risk management, credit risk, dynamic pricing (2) om - supply chain, vehicle routing, airline scheduling (3) stochastic optimization (4) machine learning Basically, I'm choosing between Stanford and MIT now; though if you have strong opinions about Cornell/UMich, please share as well. Thanks a lot!

Hi all, I got accepted into the Master's programs at - Stanford (Management Science and Engineering) - MIT (Computation for Design and Optimization) - Cornell (ORIE in Financial Engineering) - UMichigan (Industrial and Operations Engineering) My ultimate goal is to go to the Ph.D. program in Operations Research or Operations Management. My current interests are: (1) financial engineering - risk management, credit risk, dynamic pricing (2) om - supply chain, vehicle routing, airline scheduling (3) stochastic optimization (4) machine learning Basically, I'm choosing between Stanford and MIT now; though if you have strong opinions about Cornell/UMich, please share as well. Thanks a lot!

Thanks for your advice! What if I am still not 100% sure on Ph.D., does Stanford have some advantages? I contacted MIT professors that I wanted to work with, but some replied that they did not have available positions. I might have to find one if I don't mind which project I will be working on. Still, I am very indecisive here.

I just got into Stanford MS&E today as well. Now it's between MIT and Stanford. Tough choice. Any thoughts?

Hi, I applied to 9 MS programs in OR/FE/related fields and heard back from a few. Currently, I'm comparing between Columbia MS&E and MIT CDO. Any thoughts? I also created a thread here: Thanks!

Hi, I recently got admitted to two MS programs: Columbia Univerisity - Management Science and Engineering (1.5 years) MIT - Computation for Design and Optimization (2 years) I'm interested in applications of Operations Research in financial engineering, logistics/supply chain, and vehicle routing/transportation systems. My ultimate goal is to continue at the Ph.D. level in the field of Operations Research. I decided to apply to M.S. program first because I did not have much background or experience in research. Any one has any thoughts on these programs? Thanks a lot!

Hi, I applied to 14 PhDs program and so far interviewed with 4 and got rejected from 9... I kinda lost hope, but one school which interviewed me last month is the most promising one. I believe I did pretty well on the phone interview (as it was my 4th one), and I did send a thank you note to the interviewer (one of the committee). There are lot of rejections last week, and luckily I have not heard anything from them yet. I hope it means that they're still considering me seriously. Now, I am wondering if I could send another email to the interviewer as "a follow-up" and state that I will definitely accept the offer if I got in. It is indeed my top choice. I am not sure how to phrase my letter, and if this will help or hurt my chance. Any thoughts? Thank you so much!

Hi guys, I got rejected from a Ph.D. program in Operations Research from Columbia. In the rejection letter, they mentioned that I could request to be considered for a M.S. program. The letter exactly said that " If indeed you do wish to be considered for admission to one of our MS programs and would accept our offer of admission if admitted, please respond to this email by Friday, February 17th". So far, I haven't got any offers yet, but there are like 10+ schools I am waiting for. I do love Columbia, but other top programs still haven't sent out offers/rejections yet. Now I am worried and not sure if I should reply to Columbia regarding the MS option. What if I replied and then I got accepted to other schools for PhD later? Can I change my mind later? The deadline to reply is tomorrow.... Thank you so much for anyone's help!

I saw a few rejections from Columbia IEOR PhD program today... Seems like we have quite a few IEOR applicants this year, so please come say Hi here!

I thought they are both similar in size? How did you find out about the '200 students were admitted' thing? PS. Glad to see more IEOR applicants! Seems like all the top programs haven't sent out offers yet.

I'm wondering why there are not many people applying for OR this year! (Or at least showing up here...)

I am applying to IEOR/MS&E/IEMS programs as well! Will come back and post my stats.

Thank you so much everyone! Now the question becomes, should I request a rescore?

Hi! I'm a rising senior at one of the ivies and I plan to apply for a master's or phd in industrial engineering or operations research. My gpa is around 3.93 and I just took my first GRE last month. I got 780 for verbal and 800 for math. I'm an international student. The scores look great to me until i got my writing score today. It's a 3.5! I'm pretty shocked. I wonder if I should retake the exam, request a rescoring or just stay with it? I basically do not want to study for it anymore as I want to focus on research but, if it will be a big obstacle preventing me from getting into top schools like MIT, Stanford, or Columbia, I need to do something. Thank you in advance!