<p>Hi, I am now a rising sophomore majoring in Applied Math at Brown. However, I strongly desire to go to grad school studying IEOR right after my undergrad career and now I feel that Brown might not be a good place since not many professors interested in this field. I already got accepted as a transfer student to Northwestern's IEMS and UPenn's Systems Engineering. So I need to decide soon where I will attend next year. I kinda love Brown, but also appreciate Northwestern's strong IEMS department, and UPenn sounds great, too. Please help me decide. I am an international student. Thank you in advance!</p>
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<p>I’d go to Northwestern for academics. If you really love Brown though, talk to your advisors and see how their students fare when applying to OR PhD programs. You could always get a Masters from Columbia or Princeton in OR to help you in your studies. </p>
<p>Penn’s Systems has a fair EE background to it which turned me off. Also, a good amount of the Operations research at Penn is in Wharton’s OPIM department.</p>