Fall 2024 MS Statistics/IE/OR profile evaluation

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Undergrad Institution: Large T200 public school 
Major: Industrial Engineering
GPA:  >3.8 
Type of Student: URM, domestic
GRE General Test: Haven't taken it yet, but I don't anticipate that I will have any issue getting a 95th+ percentile math score.

Research Experience:
Did computational biophysics research with an engineering professor at my school for a year. No publication yet. I did make use of Python and MATLAB for basic tasks but it's largely unrelated to my field of interest. 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions:
Research scholarship, dean's list every semester but one, likely summa cum laude, won a competition at a national conference (non-research related)

Letters of Recommendation:
I expect to have one great letter from my research mentor and another decent letter from a professor who I took a lot of upper-division classes with. I am also planning to begin another research project within the next few weeks (stochastic optimization) and hope to get an above-average letter from that professor as well.
 
Relevant Classes (all A's unless otherwise indicated):

• Calculus I
• Calculus II
• Calculus III
• Engineering Mathematics (diffeq + linalg combo, no proofs)
• Discrete Mathematics
• Probability & Statistics I
• Probability & Statistics II
• Linear Optimization (A-)
• Stochastic Processes
• Simulation (taking this fall)

Schools:
Some departments I'm interested in:
MS Statistics: UChicago, Columbia, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, NCSU, UWashington, UIUC, Purdue, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, UCLA, TAMU
MS Operations Research: UT Austin, Columbia
MS Industrial Engineering: Berkeley, Columbia, Michigan, Georgia Tech, TAMU

Need some suggestions on which schools to apply to, as my list is pretty ambitious. My main concerns are a lack of relevant research/work experience as well as a weak math background compared to other stats applicants. 

Edited June 23, 2023 by no_data
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[dirichletprior]

I think you have a good shot at the schools you listed. The only downside I see to your application is the lack of a mathematical linear algebra class.