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Admission Year: 2015 Test Used for Admittance: GRE Test Scores: [ 329 , 167 Quant (94%ile), 162 (89%ile), 4 AWA (56 %ile) Undergrad GPA: 3.4 Graduate GPA: 3.3 Industry Experience: 2 years / Automotive Manufacturing Research Experience: Research projects during master's studies and thesis work. The application process necessitated applying before undertaking thesis work (Jan-July), I had discussions with my supervisor and undertook a mini-thesis, both to acclimatize myself and boost my profile. Concentration Applied to: Operations Management Range of Schools Applied: top 20 Total Schools Applied To: 12; interviews 3; 5 rejected; 4 withdrawn Final Remarks: Extremely thankful to the Urch community and especially YaSvoboden , tm_associate ,XanthusARES and rsaylors. Going through the forum, past and continuing, preserved my sanity and gave me perspective. I will be here for next fall sweating and hopefully give back to this amazing community.

Thank you YaSvoboden for you response, I will particularly keep in mind the questions pertaining to the project types and project timeline with students !!! I was worried about coming across as asking just for the sake of asking, but looking at your sample list, indeed i can have a few viable questions !!! Thanks !!!

Thank you for your response and agree with using a bit of tact to ask the same straight forward question, will do that !!!

hi all, I have a question regarding what to ask the POI at the end of interview, if there is an invitation to do so. The thing is most of the information that i need to know is available on the net and the rest of knowledge gap got taken care of, thanks to you guys and now frankly, I dont have anything to ask him, i just want to get an admit. So how to convey that to the POI and furthermore is it ok to ask this, When can I expect the decision of the admission committee? thanks and good luck to all !

I too got the same mail from Indiana and in fact from 4 other schools.......similar in content ! and its such a bummer, and this is the time when you have one ear dedicated and tuned to the signal from phone for mail and the display shows mail from XYZ university, with thumping heart you open the mail, with wild imagination.......and its just to tell you that wait a bit more !!! cheeky sods !

hi fellow urchians !! enough of lurking for me for now, am taking the plunge !!! I got a mail indicating a skype interview with a POI at one of my top 3 options later this month !!! operations management stream and will post in gradcafe right after the interview ! although after having lurked for so long, i am seemingly not so panicked and have an idea of what it is going to be but still to fellow sweaters out there, any help or tips would be appreciated !!!

Hi All, I am interested in pursuing PhD in Operation Management from Business Schools in USA. I want to complete the course requirements in operations research, optimisation techniques, micro-macro economics, game theory, supply chain management. I am interested in research with respect to optimisation/game theory/decision in supply chain specifically or any business operation in a generic way. Profile - 1. Undergraduate - State Govt. University (non-IIT), B.Tech in mechanical engineering. 8.37 CGPA and top of the class as well as best graduate. Bachelor's thesis on ant colony optimisation application. 2. 2 years work experience with Tata Motors Ltd. recruited as Graduate Engineer Trainee and posted as Assistant Manager in Plant Operations. 3. Graduate Currently pursuing M.Sc in Transport/Infrastructure and Logistics from TU Delft. Courses include optimisation/logistics/game theory/supply chain analysis/economics etc. currently I have started second year of studies and will commence thesis from january to june/july (2013-2015 session). CGPA now is 7.5/10 , realistically will reach a maximum of 7.7 or 7.8. 4. GRE - 329/340 [ 162v, 167q, 4 AWA] 5. TOEFL - 114/120 [27, 28, 29, 30] 6. exceptional letter of recommendation from professors of undergraduate university and good/strong letter of recommendation from a professor at TU Delft. Can you please shed light on my chances on getting admit in oprerations Management PhD in USA. Specifically which universities should I target. I am not thinking of HBS, Sloan or Wharton. But is Ross, Anderson (UCLA) or Cornell achievable ?? Thanks in advance. Regards,

Hi All, I am interested in pursuing PhD in Operation Management from Business Schools in USA. I want to complete the course requirements in operations research, optimisation techniques, micro-macro economics, game theory, supply chain management. I am interested in research with respect to optimisation/game theory/decision in supply chain specifically or any business operation in a generic way. Profile - 1. Undergraduate - State Govt. University (non-IIT), B.Tech in mechanical engineering. 8.37 CGPA and top of the class as well as best graduate. Bachelor's thesis on ant colony optimisation application. 2. 2 years work experience with Tata Motors Ltd. recruited as Graduate Engineer Trainee and posted as Assistant Manager in Plant Operations. 3. Graduate Currently pursuing M.Sc in Transport/Infrastructure and Logistics from TU Delft. Courses include optimisation/logistics/game theory/supply chain analysis/economics etc. currently I have started second year of studies and will commence thesis from january to june/july (2013-2015 session). CGPA now is 7.5/10 , realistically will reach a maximum of 7.7 or 7.8. 4. GRE - 329/340 [ 162v, 167q, 4 AWA] 5. TOEFL - 114/120 [27, 28, 29, 30] 6. exceptional LOR from professors of undergraduate university and good/strong LOR from a professor at TU Delft. Can you please shed light on my chances on getting admit in oprerations Management PhD in USA. Specifically which universities should I target. I am not thinking of HBS, Sloan or Wharton. But is Ross, Anderson (UCLA) or Cornell achievable ?? Thanks in advance. Regards,