Operations Research/ Industrial Engineering 2010

[echoxg]

UMich should have sent you a "wolverine link" upon your application submission. Then you have to go sign up for a bunch of IDs...here is the email I got:

HOW TO CHECK YOUR STATUS

Applicants can now verify application data and status online. You will need to use a login ID and password, and confirm some personal data before viewing your application.

For applicants who are current students or employees: Log into Wolverine Access using your existing UMICH uniqname login and click New and Prospective Student Business.

For applicants new to the University: This is a 2-step process. First, you need to create a secure login using a UM Friend Account and second, you need to go to and log into the UM administrative services web site called Wolverine Access. To do this, you must follow both steps below:

1. Create a UM Friend Account

Use the following URL: https://friend.weblo...ich.edu/friend/

Note: If you have questions about creating a UM Friend Account, use the following URL for detailed instructions: http://www.itd.umich.../itcsdocs/s4316

2. Log into UM administrative services (Wolverine Access)

After you create your UM Friend Account, use the following URL to view your application data: http://wolverineaccess.umich.edu and click New and Prospective Student Business.

Yes, I did the same thing. But when I login to the Prospective student Business, they ask for the "University of Michigan ID" to access. I didn't get any information about my UMich ID. Do you get it by email? Thanks

[coolmicky]

Do you guys email professors to ask if they have RA positions? I'm not sure if I should do this or not, some friends told me to do so, while some departments' website says "Do not contact our professors until you get admission."

So what about you guys?

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Yes, I did the same thing. But when I login to the Prospective student Business, they ask for the "University of Michigan ID" to access. I didn't get any information about my UMich ID. Do you get it by email? Thanks

Yes, they send the info by mail. If you are refering to the "Friend account", the login should be your email and the password whatever you set it to be. It's quite intricate and not in a good way.

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Yeah, I'm trying to be optimistic and hoping that they would only send it out to students that they really want, but can't really guarentee anything today. Like, 95% of the people that got the email got in. I can hope, can't I? B/c it might be kind of unnecessary of the dept otherwise, where they really only needed to make us wait another week w/o saying anything. I want to know other people who got the email!

Hahah, I just read your "unfortunately" comment and I did the same thing! :-)

I've been obsessing with the email all day and now I'afraid that it might mean waitlisting in the sense "we like you but cannot offer you a position right now. We are going to make offers these coming two weeks (not you) and see how they turn out. If some students turn them down we will come back to you". Please tell me I'm wrong.

[floyd]

I've been obsessing with the email all day and now I'afraid that it might mean waitlisting in the sense "we like you but cannot offer you a position right now. We are going to make offers these coming two weeks (not you) and see how they turn out. If some students turn them down we will come back to you". Please tell me I'm wrong.

Haha, over-obsessing, it means your on the short list duh.

[bolani]

I've been obsessing with the email all day and now I'afraid that it might mean waitlisting in the sense "we like you but cannot offer you a position right now. We are going to make offers these coming two weeks (not you) and see how they turn out. If some students turn them down we will come back to you". Please tell me I'm wrong.

I asked 3 different people what they thought: a current grad student at my uni, a current grad student there, and one of my profs. They read the email and promptly told me that they were very sure that it was a good thing because of the whole "we can't promise you anything now" thing...sort of implies that they are rounding up decisions. It would be mean for them to send a vague email to people if they were waitlisted...and besides, in the US, students have till April 15 to settle on a grad school. So thinking that if they offer students positions before most schools that they would accept/reject right away is silly... If you are waitlisted at most schools they will call you. I think the email implies: "You are at the top of our stack. We cant offer you anything yet, but just wait and you probably will .Worst case would be we might waitlist you"

If students were receiving acceptances they

I'm pretty calm about this, much more than I thought I would be....just going to wait a week and see what they say.

If you are worried, you should call adam! He's super cool and helpful. :-)

[bolani]

Do you guys email professors to ask if they have RA positions? I'm not sure if I should do this or not, some friends told me to do so, while some departments' website says "Do not contact our professors until you get admission."

So what about you guys?

Which school? Have you already applied? My advice would be that you kind of want to wait until you get an email from a prof or you get admitted to talk to profs about research....because you might risk making them annoyed otherwise. Most advice I have heard is that you should contact profs about 6 months BEFORE you apply...so that when they see your app they will remember you. Professors at this point are probably picking their favs among the applications in front of them; having a random student contact them might make them feel sort of used....if you have a real interest in a professor(and not getting simply RA funding) it is good to mention that in the application.

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If you are worried, you should call adam! He's super cool and helpful. :-)

Lol, true, I have not spoken to him but exchanged a few emails about missing material and he has been really nice and helpful in spite of the probable 100s emails he must get every day.

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Which school? Have you already applied? My advice would be that you kind of want to wait until you get an email from a prof or you get admitted to talk to profs about research....because you might risk making them annoyed otherwise. Most advice I have heard is that you should contact profs about 6 months BEFORE you apply...so that when they see your app they will remember you. Professors at this point are probably picking their favs among the applications in front of them; having a random student contact them might make them feel sort of used....if you have a real interest in a professor(and not getting simply RA funding) it is good to mention that in the application.

I agree, I have not contacted faculty but I doubt now is a good time for this, quite the opposite actually. It would probably be interpreted as feigned interest in order to get some information or influence the decisions.

[coolmicky]

I agree, I have not contacted faculty but I doubt now is a good time for this, quite the opposite actually. It would probably be interpreted as feigned interest in order to get some information or influence the decisions.

Thank you for your guys' suggestion. I'd better wait patiently.

[Deleted]

I am also applying for Ph.D. in IEOR. But I only apply for 4 programs. Others are all Operations Management in Business School.

Till now, no news from them. I even don;t know my materials are complete or not. Do you guys know how to check the materials status for Umich and PSU? Thanks

What programs in Operations Management did you apply to? Among my applications are 3 B-Schools programs:

UCLA Anderson DOTM

Duke Fuqua Operations Management

CMU Tepper Operations Research

CMU sent an email yesterday to acknowledge applications and say they were going to look at all the material they received to inform applicants if anything is missing. I had contacted UCLA a few weeks ago and they answered I would get an email shortly after the application deadline to inform on application completion. So for both these schools I think it is safe to say that no decisions are going to be made very soon.

If you cannot find the info on the material on the websites, just email the adcoms, I have only dealt with helpful and nice people so far.

[echoxg]

What programs in Operations Management did you apply to? Among my applications are 3 B-Schools programs:

UCLA Anderson DOTM

Duke Fuqua Operations Management

CMU Tepper Operations Research

CMU sent an email yesterday to acknowledge applications and say they were going to look at all the material they received to inform applicants if anything is missing. I had contacted UCLA a few weeks ago and they answered I would get an email shortly after the application deadline to inform on application completion. So for both these schools I think it is safe to say that no decisions are going to be made very soon.

If you cannot find the info on the material on the websites, just email the adcoms, I have only dealt with helpful and nice people so far.

I also apply the three OM programs. For CMU, i got the same email titiled as “Thank you for applying". I thought it was a rejection when I first saw it? hehe, for UCLA and Duke, no news till now.

[floyd]

I am curious, what are everyone's research interests and how did you get involved in that topic? My undergrad is not in IE, so mine are quite vague.

[bolani]

I am curious, what are everyone's research interests and how did you get involved in that topic? My undergrad is not in IE, so mine are quite vague.

I want to do healthcare OR or energy OR. I like the medical side of OR...think radiation optimization stuff, or energy = modeling energy use/systems and figuring out how to minimize energy consumption based on logistics.

I could babble about it, but mainly i want to do OR for "the good" of society, aiming at changing policies based on math-y reasoning. In normal people speak. :-)

[Deleted]

One more week of waiting has come and gone and we are closing in on answer time. I have been obsessing about knowing when the results were going to finally arrive so I have done some research in the results page.

I have looked for all OR / IE / Operations Management... programs by searching for (industrial|operation*).

Then I have excluded all Masters results to keep only PhD.

Excluded results that were "Other" or "Interview"

Cleaned the raw data (eg transform gatech into Georgia Tech)

I have also merged programs within a school (for instance Operations Management and Operations Research at CMU)

Deleted the years in the dates, to have only day and month

...

Then I have built a dynamic table with, as outputs, the number of entries for each school, the "average" date of result and the earliest day on which someone has heard back.

All this in order to evaluate when we should be hearing from the schools we have applied to.

And the results are:

University Number of entries Average Date Min Date

Arizona State University 2 1-Apr 20-Mar

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School Of Business 4 9-Mar 26-Feb

Chicago Booth School Of Business 2 27-Feb 27-Feb

Columbia Business School 3 27-Feb 26-Feb

Columbia University 26 25-Feb 6-Feb

Cornell University 20 18-Mar 8-Feb

Duke University Fuqua School Of Business 7 7-Mar 19-Feb

Georgia Institute Of Technology 33 18-Mar 13-Feb

GSB - University Of Chicago 1 27-Feb 27-Feb

Harvard Business School 2 11-Feb 9-Feb

Indiana Bloomington 1 12-Mar 12-Mar

Kellogg School Of Management - Northwestern University 3 11-Mar 5-Mar

Lehigh University 2 14-Mar 14-Mar

London Business School 4 2-Mar 26-Feb

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) 16 27-Feb 25-Feb

MIT Sloan School Of Management 3 8-Mar 26-Feb

NCSU 1 27-Feb 27-Feb

New York University (NYU) Stern School Of Business 11 10-Mar 22-Feb

North Carolina State University 5 26-Feb 4-Feb

North Dakota State University 1 17-Mar 17-Mar

Northeastern University, Boston 1 30-Mar 30-Mar

Northwestern University 32 17-Feb 6-Feb

Ohio State University (OSU) 1 12-Mar 12-Mar

Penn State 12 22-Mar 8-Feb

Princeton University 26 27-Feb 19-Feb

Purdue 11 13-Mar 1-Mar

Rotman Business School (University Of Toronto) 1 20-Mar 20-Mar

Rutgers 6 9-Apr 18-Mar

Southern Illinois University - Carbondale 1 21-Mar 21-Mar

Stanford University 6 28-Feb 24-Feb

SUNY - Buffalo 4 9-Mar 25-Feb

Texas A&M University 11 2-Mar 13-Jan

The Univerisity Of Connecticut 1 4-Mar 4-Mar

The Wharton School - University Of Pennsylvania 2 4-Mar 4-Mar

University Massachusetts-Amherst 1 14-Apr 14-Apr

University Of California, Berkeley (UCB) 21 28-Feb 4-Feb

University Of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson 5 17-Mar 27-Feb

University of Central Florida 1 15-Mar 15-Mar

University of Cincinnati 1 9-Mar 9-Mar

University Of Florida 6 28-Mar 11-Feb

University Of Illinois Chicago (UIC) 1 5-May 5-May

University Of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) 6 2-Apr 21-Feb

University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor 18 20-Feb 1-Feb

University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 5 16-Mar 3-Mar

University Of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Of Business 5 21-Feb 12-Feb

University Of Pittsburgh 5 20-Mar 11-Feb

University Of Rochester 1 8-Mar 8-Mar

University Of Southern California (USC) 8 2-Mar 19-Jan

University Of Texas At Dallas 1 24-Mar 24-Mar

University Of Toronto 2 31-Mar 13-Mar

University Of Washington - Seattle 3 29-Mar 21-Mar

Virginia Tech 2 2-Mar 9-Feb

Washington University, St. Louis 2 28-Mar 11-Mar

Edited January 31, 2010 by ORmalv

[Deleted]

Argh, it looks much better on my Excel, but I couldn't manage to write them as a table.

Of course this is not very scientific but there are some conclusions to be drawn. In particular as to what are the favorite schools: Gatech, Northwestern, Columbia, Princeton, Berkeley, Cornell, UMich, MIT, Penn State, NYU Stern, Purdue, TAMU are the top 12 in number of entries.

[bolani]

One more week of waiting has come and gone and we are closing in on answer time. I have been obsessing about knowing when the results were going to finally arrive so I have done some research in the results page.

I have looked for all OR / IE / Operations Management... programs by searching for (industrial|operation*).

Then I have excluded all Masters results to keep only PhD.

Excluded results that were "Other" or "Interview"

Cleaned the raw data (eg transform gatech into Georgia Tech)

I have also merged programs within a school (for instance Operations Management and Operations Research at CMU)

Deleted the years in the dates, to have only day and month

...

Then I have built a dynamic table with, as outputs, the number of entries for each school, the "average" date of result and the earliest day on which someone has heard back.

All this in order to evaluate when we should be hearing from the schools we have applied to.

Wow! Thanks! Have you heard back from anywhere? I've been obsessing this week too...

[Queues]

I've been following this thread, but I finally decided to register on The GradCafe Forums. My interests are game theory and queueing theory, so it made sense for me to apply to a few operations research and operations management programs.

I applied for operations management at:

CMU Tepper (I also applied for ACO here, since there is a CS professor I'd like to work with)

NYU Stern

USC Marshall (accepted!)

I applied for operations research at:

MIT Operations Research Center

I've already gotten into USC Marshall (and have been nominated for a fellowship; which is probably why I heard back early), so that's pretty exciting, and I'm waiting to hear back from the others.

I don't have any publications yet, but one of my advisors and I have a draft of something ready that we want to submit to Performance Evaluation.

Majored in math and econ; GPA: 3.5; GRE: 800 Q, 710 V, 6.0 AW; LoR: should have two strong ones and one decent one

Edited January 31, 2010 by Queues

[coolmicky]

Argh, it looks much better on my Excel, but I couldn't manage to write them as a table.

Of course this is not very scientific but there are some conclusions to be drawn. In particular as to what are the favorite schools: Gatech, Northwestern, Columbia, Princeton, Berkeley, Cornell, UMich, MIT, Penn State, NYU Stern, Purdue, TAMU are the top 12 in number of entries.

Thanks for your work and your kindly sharing:P

[bolani]

I have had a week of at least one email a day from a school(even Sat!)....all vague: either questions or communication from profs or something along the lines as "we think you might qualify for this funding source, and finding funding for students in part of the process of admitting them for us. please expand on how you are committed to diversity"

Stressful...adcomms should just let me know!

[Deleted]

Thanks for your work and your kindly sharing:P

I have uploaded it here

http://rapidshare.co...sults.xlsx.html

Edited January 31, 2010 by ORmalv

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I've already gotten into USC Marshall (and have been nominated for a fellowship; which is probably why I heard back early), so that's pretty exciting, and I'm waiting to hear back from the others.

Congratulations! First acceptance on the topic, I hope many more are going to follow

I have had a week of at least one email a day from a school(even Sat!)....all vague: either questions or communication from profs or something along the lines as "we think you might qualify for this funding source, and finding funding for students in part of the process of admitting them for us. please expand on how you are committed to diversity"

Stressful...adcomms should just let me know!

Well, it is rather positive that they are looking for possible funding for you. They wouldn't bother if they had no interest in your application.

And to your previous post about hearing anything (I assume you were refering to Northwestern), I have not, so this should be THE week.

[floyd]

Update on my front, a POI from MICHIGAN contacted me. "As a member of the Gradate Admissions Committee, I have had an opportunity to read your application in detail. I am very impressed. I wanted to send you an email to make contact (others here at Michigan might do the same if they see a potential match), and thank you for your application." SWEET, UofM is one of my top 3.

[Deleted]

Update on my front, a POI from MICHIGAN contacted me. "As a member of the Gradate Admissions Committee, I have had an opportunity to read your application in detail. I am very impressed. I wanted to send you an email to make contact (others here at Michigan might do the same if they see a potential match), and thank you for your application." SWEET, UofM is one of my top 3.

That is great news!

[bolani]

Update on my front, a POI from MICHIGAN contacted me. "As a member of the Gradate Admissions Committee, I have had an opportunity to read your application in detail. I am very impressed. I wanted to send you an email to make contact (others here at Michigan might do the same if they see a potential match), and thank you for your application." SWEET, UofM is one of my top 3.

You got that too? I got the same email almost word for word a little over a week ago. PM and let me know the name...it'd be interesting if it were the same!