01 Mar 2013

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Decision Sciences And Engineering Systems, PhD (F13)

Accepted via E-mail on 27 Feb 2013

Note

1st official acceptance. Funding (TA + tuition waiver) provided on same day after contacting program head through email. Suprisingly no interview. Speciality chosen - Statistical Forecasting/Exploratory Data Analysis Below average Undergrad Academics from a decent Engg school in India. Outstanding professional work experience in business world. No publications etc Rejections so far --> Stanford - Mgmt Sc and Engg (under consideration for Masters), Wharton - Statistics, Univ of Michigan/Ross - Tech and Operations, MIT - Operations Research, Kellogg - Operns Mgmt Waiting for results or is it rejection :) from --> Texas A&M - Marketing (3 interviews till date - Went just ok), Univ of North Carolina - Stats/OR, Univ of Michigan - Industrial Engg/OR, Duke/Fuqua - Decision Sciences, Univ of Washington - Operns Mgmt, Univ of Texas/McCombs - IROM, London Business School - Mgmt Science, Carnegie Mellon/Heinz - Machine Learning/Large Scale Data Analytics, Rutgers - Marketing Science, Penn State - Marketing

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