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MORE THAN enough!! I do not know your background, but that might be overkill!! There is not that much to study...except for vocab ..but 3 months is a long time to memorize words!! I studied about 4 days before my test (not very good time management on my part) for about 2-3 hours each day, and managed to learn close to 750-1000 new words, and it worked out pretty well for me. but if you are that dedicated I say go for it! Good luck!

Hey Bloodybyrd, I also got into Stanford for Management Science and Engineering!! Pretty cool:) ... I would say I would hope to see you there, except I think I am going to Columbia ..smiles, but Stanford is a great school .. congratz!

Vipul, NYC is amazing for sooo many reasons. Its the epicenter of the United States! There is soooo much to do...and I can't explain it .. its more or less ineffable. I realize alot of people make their decisions based on prestige or reputation, but I think this decision comes down to gut feeling. My gut tells me I would have a better time at Columbia and in NYC. Also, I want to let everyone know that I have appreciated the support and advice from this board!

Final results. Accepted: Stanford Columbia Cornell for MS in ORIE ... I know Stanford is the best school out of the 3, but I fell in love with NYC last week ... and I think that is where I am headed (ie. Columbia) :)

The reason people rarely reveal the tough questions they found on the GRE is because before you take the exam the proctors make you sign a form that says you will not disclose any material found on the GRE ...or something to that effect.

Hehe how did I make it? *shrugs* just very lucky and very thankful. I have to decide between Cornell and Columbia, and I think its going to be Columbia because I have always wanted to live in NYC!!

Here is another way to look at the first one: 1/(1-.03) = 1/(97/100) = 100/97 1.03 = 103/100 100/97 = 1+3/97 1.03 = 1 + 3/100 3/97 > 3/100 so A.

IN AT COLUMBIA!!![w00t][bounce][w00t][bounce] for Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.... YAY!! I am SOOOOOO excited!! got some calls to make .. just wanted to share on here:)

Hehe sure, but I am by no means an expert:)

Hey, sure my profile is as follows: Applied to: Cornell, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, and UF. GRE: 800Q 670V 5.0 AWA 3.30 GPA at Cornell BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering 3.53 Degree GPA

I applied for MS in IE&OR .. anyone heard anything from them yet...good or bad? Update: In at Cornell rejected at Princeton

The ivy league colleges include: Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, UPenn, and Brown. They are hard to get into because there are a ton of applicants for relatively few spaces. They are prestigious because if you can get into one of the "elite eight," it is like a verification that you are one of the brightest students in the United States (generally, ivy league students represent the top 1% of all students in the US). hope this helps.

Me thinks Erin did not read the post :P:P I was thinking the same thing though Erin, its ok:)

And of course as soon as I post I get the admission package:P .. No worries though I attended U-grad at Cornell so I prolly get my admissio notification alot earlier than anyone else.

I got into the M. Eng program for Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell :) no more worrying if I will have anywhere to go..YAY!:)

If it makes you feel any better, I go to Cornell, and I applied to their ORIE program and I still haven't heard back :P:P .. hehe, the deadline for applications was February 1st, you probably will not hear anything until early March.

Being from Tallahassee, Florida, home of FSU (yet I go to school in NY..yes I know what was I thinking. sun vs. snow...) I know for a fact that Tallahassee has a very small Indian population, much less FSU. I do not know if this makes a difference to you, but I just thought I would give you the heads up.

Real GRE: 1470- 800Q 670V Kaplan CAT diagnostic exam (offered by my school) - 800Q 710V Paper GRE practice - 800Q 650V So I guess I am about right :)

The GRE measures the ability of the individual to do problems under timed conditions and without the assistance of others, and while I agree that in the real world such scenarios are few and far between; unfortunately, college is one of those scenarios. The GRE is supposed to test how well a person will do in graduate school and for the most part it does serve as a good predictor of a student's first year graduate school grades. However, it rarely predicts success outside of school. The problem isn't the GRE, the problem is that universities test students under conditions that are ridiculously aberrant to the "real world." Colleges give tests and quizzes that are to be done alone and under timed conditions, so while I agree that the GRE should not alone discourage an individual from pursuing a particular major or concentration. I feel that the larger problem is the layout of American institutions (and yes I am American), they assess individuals as individuals rather than as members of a team or an interdependent group. The main flaw lies in the disparity between the American schooling system and the real world. Do I win anything? :D

Hi Vidyha, I am currently a senior at Cornell University, if you have any questions feel free to ask and congratulations:)

Not sure if this is in the right forum but here goes: Does anyone know the approximate GRE range for engineering applicants to an ivy league graduate school? smiles and would it be lower than 1470 ?:) (800Q 670V)

Just wanted to say that this is a really good question, took me a couple of minutes to get it:D

Where does it say the percentage of people who your questions right or wrong? .. I am not seeing that.

Unfortunately, that Q percentile you looked at for 1999-2000 probably overestimated 770 at 93 %. I took the GRE in July and got an 800 Q for 92% ...I think 770 is somewhere around 86th-89th. As for verbal, 570 is somewhere close to 75th, the average score is 470 or something like that, and 600 is like 82nd percentile.

Location of a school matters because it dictates the type of social environment a school will have. Cornell is in the middle of nowhere, and in general, the only activities available are those on campus. Ithaca is a very small town, and can get pretty boring :( Also, the people here are not as friendly as the people in Florida. New Yorkers tend to live up to their reputations :P (yes this is a generalization, but from my experience it is alot easier to meet new people in the south) Education should be the foremost concern when applying to a graduate school; however, I don't think a potential employer will look at my resume and say, "hmm Columbia is 10 spots behind Cornell in USnews graduate school rankings, we shouldn't take him" :) I also realize that Columbia is still in NY ..hehe, but there are ALOT more people in NYC than in Ithaca so I have a better opportunity to meet new people and make friends. The social aspect of a university is just as important to me as its academic credentials, if not more so. As for GPA vs. GRE vs. reccomendations, I would guess that all are equally important. GPA is important, but there is a big difference between getting a 4.0 at a school like University of Florida, and having a 3.0 at Cornell, if I had chosen the easy route (UF) I porbably would be near a 4.0, as it is I have about a 3.2 at Cornell just because the competition is alot fiercer. GPA is important, but it is also relative. I would say that reccomendations are CRUCIAL!! You have to have good reccomendations and a great statement of purpose (which I am currently working on). hehe, I hope this little stream of conciousness has helped!! ps you seem like a nice person too