<p>Hi you all!</p>
<p>I have been admitted so far to the programs at:</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO
UFlorida</p>
<p>I would like to know your opinion about which one I should attend</p>
<p>Adittionally, I have the admissions decission pending in these universities:</p>
<p>UT Austin
Ohio State U
Michigan
Purdue</p>
<p>My scores are GPA:2.86 (according to Wold Education Services. Yes, pretty low). TOEFL 97. GRE 400V 790Q 4.0AW
Which ones do you think I have a chance to get admitted and if so how are they compared to the 2 I was admitted in? Thanks!</p>
<p>PD: Rejected in UMadison-Wisconsin, Penn State and UArizona</p>
<p>After you find out which other schools you get into I would try to narrow down exactly what you’re looking for in a program.</p>
<p>I can tell you that the IE grad program here (Purdue) is going through a rough patch and is in a rebuilding phase. A lot of the long-time professors that have kept the IE program near the top have retired - and replacements of that caliber are hard to find. </p>
<p>I can’t speak for any of the other programs, but all of the schools you applied to are good. In fact, for your GPA and GRE I would just be thankful that you already have some good options. UF and Cal Poly are both decent programs.</p>
<p>Hi frank thanks for your message. I am looking for something not strictly theoretical. I know Cal Poly has as a flag the hands on experience, but I see it’s program and it seems more close to business than to math and so on. I want sth rigurous but applicable. Not pure theory, just a good balance. </p>
<p>Purdue has probably the most luring program among the one I applied to. It is broad and deep at once. I didn’t know the teachers stuff but the program still looks great!</p>
<p>I am thankful! But I want to make the best choice. In my defense I will say that my grades are like that because it is way harder to get good marks in engineering in Spain than in USA. Sadly, In Spain teachers have the misconception of prestige = fail everybody, instread of teaching well. Seriously. I have never met anyone with an average grade in engineering more than 8/10… that is 3.2, whereas in america this is far from being impossible.</p>
<p>In which area of IE do you want to focus? That should have a major affect on the school you attend. </p>
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<p>Schools take that into account. When we get hundreds of applicants from a particular country all with very low GPAs but high GRE scores, you know what is going on. You’ll also see a wide variation between schools. If School A lets in a Spaniard with a 2.8 GPA and he does very well, School A is much more likely to bring in other Spaniards with low GPA’s than School B that let in a 2.8 GPA Spaniard who turned out unsuccessful.</p>
<p>G.P.Burdell thanks for the info, I didn’t know to what extent it was taken into account. At least sometimes they consider that.</p>
<p>My idea is open-minded operations research. Not pure maths, but maybe half of it in hard OR, and then to take a subject in production management, other in supply chain management or sth… I like all that OR thing of programming (although some programs seem to have too much programming), markovian proccesses, factory layout, route planning, workforce estimation, etc… more than the pure business part. I consider that things like what is the reverse logistics is something I can learn in my job in a minute. I neither want to be a Math PhD. Something in between. I always liked the algorithmic part mostly. I don’t know… numbers without becoming a freak. I don’t know if I’m being clear… probably not</p>
<p>In that one paragraph, you described your interests as including: Operations Research, Stochastic Optimization, Supply Chain, Logistics, Manufacturing, and business. You do realize those are different degree programs at most schools and not just classes, right? </p>
<p>It sounds like you’re not really sure what you want to do, or what you want to do is so cross disciplinary that it will require all aspects of ISyE (not just IE). As far as general programs go, all schools are a good option. If you want to narrow things down a little further(e.g. OR, SCM, etc) that would be helpful. At most schools, you have to settle on a specific degree (MS IE, MS OR, etc)</p>
<p>And you think reverse logistics is something you can learn “in a minute”? There are teams of PhD’s that have spent the better part of a decade studying that topic. It’s a good thing you’re not headed to Penn State or Georgia Tech - those are fighting words at both of those schools :P</p>
<p>I mean… the concept of reverse logistics. What I say is that I have had some lame courses in a similar degree in Spain where they explain you the types of productive systems or the inventary renewal strategies… some things that, as a concept, are pretty obvious and that is the kind of business-like and nonengineer-like subject I want to avoid. The so-called human factors are pretty similar. I don’t want courses where I feel I’m being explained something I could find out by myself.</p>
<p>What I like about supply is the quantitative part (strategic decisions) and for production the same, the quantitative part. So I’m into algorithms and maths, but nothing too extreme and theoretical like “Advanced Non-linear global complex optimization in non-euclidean problems” :D. I want some programming and some stochastic, but nothing too hardcore. I want to work in a company, not to become a PhD. And my experience is that if you get too theoretical sometimes what you learn is more for academics than applicable. So I would say it would be nice some markov, queues, linear, integer and even a bit of nonlinear programming, decision systems and simulation. I mean, mostly OR, but also open for the rest to learn a bit of manufacturing and logistics. But mainly OR</p>
<p>So… with this, i hope, more concrete description, do you see me more like a Poly guy or a Gator?</p>
<p>PD: kicked from OSU too</p>
<p>Keep in mind that I do not have any detailed knowledge of either program
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<p>However, just judging from what I know about both schools I would say that UF probably falls more in line with the OR side of your interests. Plus, you just gotta love the Gators
If you get dinged from the rest of the schools on your list, personally, I’d go with the Gators.</p>
<p>Hi frank! Don’t bother. I don’t like watching sports but I have tons of personality and even if people only think in Gators Gators Gators I thing amongst 50k people I can find at least 10k who are not interested in Gators. Plus, I can have a relationship with Gatorists too sharing other hobbies and if they are good people, of course. Apart from that I’m heading for IE… is there a place with more indian/chinese/arab people? Are they hardcore Gators? I doubt it</p>
<p>What do you want to do in industry?</p>
<p>That is really a thing to discover. To put you in context… my major is not IE, it’s computer engineering. Aditionally I have had some courses in IE, without pursuing a degree. I really like it but I do not know where exactly I will end. I like large-scale problems you can find in companies like P&G, a place where I would really like to work. IE at Disney is very attractive to me too. Planning, optimizing and so on. Maybe pure manufacturing is my least favourite application. I don’t like heavy consultancy due to its principles (or lack of them), but IE consulting in a medium company or a large and humane one (if that exists) would be cool too. But as I said, I have never worked in this, a person who did for 3 years could tell you more accurately</p>
<p>If you don’t know what you ultimately want to do, why would you go to graduate school?</p>
<p>I know I want to do something with IE, I have had a sample of courses and I liked it a lot. I’m fed up with CompEng from my third year, when I realized it wasn’t my fate. And I was the third, fourth, fifth and sixth years studying just because I started it. In one subject I bumped into some Queueing theory. Boy was that cool! I joined another university at the same time, not pursuing the degree (nor registered) and attended some 6 courses on my own. So I know what it is and I know that I like it. And the discipline is generic enough for not to have a perfect idea of what you want to do before starting. If having done half of the master I still don’t know it I will start to have a problem, but not now.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m the only person with this problem. That is why in many programs you don’t have to submit your official masters plan and if so you can change it anytime. People, even those who have things clear, sometimes change their mind. Even more, many people working in places like consulting companies only know they want to earn money and be popular but they haven’t the foggiest idea about what they really like. At least I know I like IE. Particularly, as I said before, I’m more into OR than pure manufacturing and logistics. Come on, this degree is pretty versatile! I have no worries at all about not knowing exactly what I’m going to work in yet. Again, If you do the grad studies in a field you have worked or majored is much simpler to know what you want, but not in my case.</p>
<p>can u help me w/ these 2 universities? regarding job opportunity which is better?</p>