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I was accepted by Columbia MS in OR, too. It says "the academic department will notify you if you have been awarded departmental financial assistance" Has anyone been awarded? or anyone know how this process works? I am in no financial condition to attend unless tuition is waived...

Wow. Congratulations. Did they email you or you learned by chance when you checked the website? I just checked mine- it says no decision has been made. You are probably still thinking which one to choose. Are you leaning towards Cornell or Gatech?

By the way, am I the only person here who applied to University of Florida ISE PhD program? They will announce some of the offers in a week, I am trying to be optimistic...

Cornell said the same thing to me when I contacted them two weeks ago. I guess they are waiting to see the responses of students who already got accepted. or may be they are lazy to send the rejects honestly, I have not seen any rejects from Cornell PhD so far...

I contacted Gatech early this week. They said my application is still under review. I guess they started reviewing the applications later than other universities because their deadline was Feb 15. They just gave responses to students who submitted very early. In my opinion, they do not have a waitlist for now...

On the left side of "Sumbitted" there is "Fall 2009". Go into that, type your password, then press "Continue".

Rejected from UCLA DOTM. Check yours here: https://www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu/new ... Status.asp

Congratulations. Were you informed very recently or back in mid-February? I am now waiting from 4 programs and it seems you also applied 3 of those 4, assuming that you applied to UCLA DOTM. One difference between Cornell ORIE and GeorgiaTech ISYE is the size. While Cornell has 40 PhD students, GeorgiaTech has around 180. Also, GeorgiaTech has may be two times faculty of Cornell's size. I am not very well in these, PhD placements of the two programs seem similar, maybe Cornell slightly better. And also as fakeworm said, Cornell is mainly focused on OR. Financial engineering part of Cornell is more stronger than GeorgiaTech's. It will depend on research area probably, in which research area are you interested?

to allyoop, If you search the results for the last years in gradcafe, you will find similar discussions for GeorgiaTech. As far as I remember, it was written there that you are accepted if you receive two packekts. By the way, when your documents reached the dept? and are you for PhD for GeorgiaTech? I applied for PhD and they were in dept around Feb10. My status is still unchanged.

To IOEgirl and mar, Today I requested to be considered for masters program for Columbia, waiting for response now. Do they fully or partially waive the tuition for masters? What about availability of TA-ship etc? Do they mention these things in the acceptance letter?

I learned my rejection when I emailed them last week. By the way, I saw 2 acceptances posts for Berkeley PhD. Congratulations to them. If they write in the forums, may those guys share their profile with us?

This year is indeed tough. If the companies and banks will be firing people or applying hiring freezes next year, then same thing might happen next year. It depends on the economy. Thing is that if the graduating undergrad thinks he/she can not get a good job, or if the person who has a job does not feel safe, they will apply to grad schools. Second, the incoming class this year will not be more, probably less than previous years...

Congratulations iemsnw. What other schools did you apply to?

I received from MIT 15 mins ago. Reject as expected. Lets see what will come from Cornell and GeorgiaTech.

There is 1 rejection and 1 acceptance for MIT ORC. They are dated Feb28(Saturday) I did not receive anything; I thought that they will announce them on Monday(2nd) Please, respond if you received anything from them...