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Nope, it was operations. I don't know how a 770 q on the GRE would rank in percentile; you might want to check that. My quant score on the GMAT was 51 (98%). But your chances are still high if your other credentials are stellar. I'd also guess that IS is not as tough to get in as other fields in business.

I got in there last year. And, yes, I was interviewed.

If your main problem with the GRE is vocabulary (which is the case with many international applicants) I would consider taking the GMAT instead. I guess this strategy is going to work for you unless you are also applying to some IE programs which accept only the GRE. I am also an international student with a 116 on toefl IBT and a 760 on the GMAT, but I scored only 350 on GRE verbal. As for schools emphasizing only on the Q part, are you sure the website you reviewed were those of business schools? I know that most engineering programs (including IE which was your major in undergrad) almost ignore the GRE verbal (actually a Stanford MS&E professor told me they didn't even look at that). But I don't think this is how things are in any business school.

I guess your transcript and teaching assistantship might work against you in this case. The committee might say "s/he has been here in a US college for three years and has taught some classes but still didn't manage to get an acceptable verbal score". If you were not from a US school they would assume that the problem would be solved after a semester or so. But this is not the case now. I'm not sure if this will actually happen but it seems probable to me. Just my two cents.

I'm not attending but I wish you'll enjoy it. Will Ariel Rubinstein be teaching you there? It would be really great if he will!

Hey guys. I was wondering if I could find forum(s) where PhD students (or maybe even profs) share research ideas or at least discuss and criticize works that are already published. I haven't been successful in finding one. Does anybody know if there exists such forum out there? I am specifically interested in Game Theory and Decision Theory. Thanks for your help!

1. Your first question is very broad. I'd say go through this forum and similar ones across the web to get a good idea of what the best strategy is. After doing so, any questions that remain would be narrowed-down specific ones with which people on this board might be better able to help you. 2. As for the second question, I would say, first go surf the websites of some schools that cover the 1-200 range, looking for their admissions statistics. By the way, there should be some considerations regarding your specific case: first, your GPAs (especially your undergrad gpa) are not that high. Second, your school is pretty unknown to admissions committees (you might not agree with me on this, but any school that knows University of Tehran well, knows it for its engineering school). That said, the GMAT score you need to get into a given school, in my opinion, should be well above the average it puts on its website. So, just a rough estimation would be: 750+ for top 50 (or even top hundred) and 700+ for top 100 (or even top 200).

It seems that Business School econ graduates getting positions at Econ departments is also quite common. Maybe even as common as such graduates ending up at B Schools. The following link provides a sample: Job Placement | Kellogg School of Management | Northwestern University If you have a look at placement records of other business school econ programs, you will see this pattern is quite prevalent.

I don't think the length of paper is positively correlated with how long it takes to develop. In fact, I think of it the other way around. Most academics don't like papers that are nothing but short. They but like papers that could have been long, but have been intellectually shortened with no harm to the main ideas and contributions of the paper. So, I think writing a short quality paper takes much more out of you than does a long one.

As far as I know, this is a school dependent issue. I was interviewed at 4 schools. I know three of them had made a shortlist of students and they were intended to accept around half of them. I also know that they first interviewed only half of their shortlisted students, and they were planning to interview other ones if something went wrong in their first-round interviews. With such schools, you could be almost sure that you will be accepted if you get an interview. But there are also some schools (or departments) with other policies (as was mentioned in this thread). But the thing is, you don't know which policy each school is pursuing unless you access some insider source of information.

It's a good idea to share the lessons from our experiences, phdhope. Good job! Here are what I have learned: 1. Develop the ideas you want to include in your SOPs long before you start to write them. I have seen many applicants who were not satisfied with their SOPs and who attributed this to not having seen useful SOP advices. On the contrary, I believe that the general advices (which could be found on many websites) are adequate and that the bottleneck here is to actually implement the advices in one's SOP, which I found to require a long enough time for brainstorming and designing. I started early enough and used a mind-mapping software to organize my thoughts, and I was (and still am) quite satisfied with the outcome. 2. (For those from unknown schools) When choosing where to apply, check if there is someone (a faculty or even a phd student) who knows you well or, at least, knows the school you are graduating from. Contact them and ask if they will communicate your background and accomplishments with the admissions committee if they are being asked. Then, to ensure that the committee will ask them about you, mention in your SOP that you have contacted them. 3. As long as you still have enough time and energy to customize your application to each university, apply to as many schools as possible (for me, the threshold was 14 applications). Even if you are aiming high, you will find nothing beating an early acceptance from a safety school, in terms of relieving you during the stressful period of waiting and waiting.

She was waitlisted, but unofficially (she wasn't told she was waitlisted). That Noon hasn't heard back, hence, doesn't mean s/he is not on the waitlist. But I agree with you in that if s/he is not, then it's a rejection.

Not necessarily. A friend of mine got into Mcmaster yesterday (not in marketing though). So you still have a chance unless American schools are different from Canadian ones regarding this (or unless possible_phd's comment is specifically about the schools you listed, not about whether to be hopeful to get admitted in late April)

I agree with you on this. But I'd argue that the kind of researcher one is might be affected by whether s/he is a famous professor or s/he is just in the beginning of his/her tenure track. For instance I guess assistant are typically easier to talk to/ email to. Or I believe they usually devote a greater time to you. On the other hand, full professors are typically more well-reputed (the factors I am mentioning are explicitly mentioned in your post) The advice regarding fellow students was great. Had never thought of that! Good luck with the presentation!