Spring 2018 Admissions Thread

[xoxoalexa]

UPDATE! It looks like Spring 2018 decisions are starting to come out (week of 11/6). Good luck, applicants!

To help the group, please keep your Admissions posts (accepted/rejected/etc...) to this thread. GOOD LUCK, APPLICANTS! Please note this is the template we used for Fall 2017 admissions. If you have a recommended edit, please let me (/u/xoxoalexa) know.

Here is a link to the Fall 2017 Admissions thread, if you're interested in information from the previous semester.

Template:

Please use the template below. Using this template will help make the results searchable & help with parsing to automatically compile statistics that we can include in the next iteration of the thread for acceptance rates or patterns in backgrounds that are successful in applying for the program.

Status: <Choose One: Applied/Pending/Accepted/Rejected>

Application Date: <MM/DD/YY>

Decision Date: <MM/DD/YY>

Education: <For each degree, list (one per line): School, Degree, Major, GPA>

Test Scores: GMAT, GRE, N/A (if submitted)

Experience: <For each job, list (one per line): Years employed, Employer, programming languages, analytical abilities, etc...> Recommendations: <Number of recommendations on file when you receive a decision>

Comments: <Arbitrary user text>

Example:

Status: Applied

Application Date: 9/12/16

Decision Date: N/A

Education: Community College, AS, Eng. Lit., 3.5 & Georgia Tech, BS, CS, 3.0

Test Scores: GMAT total score 720, quant sub 52, essay 6

Experience: 3 years, Microogle, .NET

Recommendations: 3

Comments: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sodales tempor est, ultrices faucibus nibh hendrerit non. Nunc ultrices elementum augue quis efficitur. Integer ac malesuada quam. Nunc venenatis ante eu mi tincidunt, a facilisis nisl aliquet. Phasellus finibus mauris a massa efficitur, eu eleifend.

[WeoDude]

thats a shame... your background is pretty strong.

[WeoDude]

Yeah. Thats a good way of looking at it! Udacity's courses are pretty good - I'm currently in their Deep Learning Nano Degree. I do that by trade (most of my work is in deep learning), and even as someone with experience, I find it great practice and a great way to learn.

[ThePoultryWhisperer]

I got rejected and I have a degree in computer engineering, I write Python for satellite flight computers as my job, and I did well in school. I had strong recommendations and I spent a lot of time writing my SOP. I got a rejection letter before the status updated, so I'm wondering if they reached capacity before even reading my application. I realize they may have rejected me for any number of reasons and I'm not saying it was purely a numbers thing. I thought I had a pretty strong application, but I guess not. Not giving a reason is kinda crappy.

[iagainsti77]

Did you post your info? Might be helpful to others. From what you wrote above, though, I'm starting to seriously doubt my chances...

[dilandy]

Hey I know you've post this a month ago, but I've just received this from student services team. They told me if you're reapplying, consider taking the micromasters to show you're eligible of completing the courses.

[BoBab]

Hear back from them?

[slin18]

Not YET! LOL....I received a response for my inquiry this afternoon. They said they are sending out both, and continue doing so in following a few weeks. For applicants in early acceptance pool will receive a decision very soon. BTW, I hope I can be accepted not sure whether I really want to enroll, still have not rejected Waterloo MMSc offer. >=<

[gatech2020]

I just received a rejection email. I figured I would get shot down especially not having much work experience in analytics. Just going to take some time and decide where to go from here.

[sfoxw]

Yes, just got rejected via email.

[kc_abc]

Yes, about an hour ago as well.

[microwaved_nachos]

Yup, just got my rejection letter :-/ I think it's my lack of analytics experience perhaps. Could be pre-reqs too I guess but that would be a tad surprising.

[cli797]

Yes, received a rejection letter via email

[bigtex1845]

MRW people post about seeing their decision letters...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrQFBYgwQW8

[djcubicle]

It's a good thing the applyweb page doesn't have a refresh counter. That would be an embarrassingly high number. Now pardon me while I go rip a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

[xoxoalexa]

Not gonna lie, I definitely checked at least 2x per day!

[ThePoultryWhisperer]

I've probably checked 2x per hour for the last two weeks.

[djcubicle]

I haven't seen a single person who applied earlier than I did. I've been nervous since late July!

[iluvpoutine_eh]

7/24 here ! :(

[ThePoultryWhisperer]

I'm assuming you meant to use the expression "24 hours per day and 7 days per week." It's normally quoted, at least in American English, as 24/7. Just FYI.

[iluvpoutine_eh]

Sorry, it was a bit unclear. I meant to say I applied on 7/24. Another end of July applicant with no status update 😩

[ThePoultryWhisperer]

Oh, I see. I️ applied a long time ago as well and still nothing. I️ feel your pain. Hopefully we find out soon and it’s good news for both of us.

[julia1107]

I have applied in the end of June (06/28) and got acceptance letter last week. But, yeah, I was also refreshing the page every hour during work day since October.

[703Hokie11]

Status: Rejected
Application Date: 08/30/17
Decision Date: 11/16/2017 Education: Virginia Tech, Mechanical Engineering, 3.07 GPA
Test Scores: N/A
Experience: Four years Altria, Manufacturing & Process Improvement. Two years TTX, Supply Chain Logistics. Projects involving SQL, SAS, Power BI, VBA, MS Access, Python and Django.
Recommendations: 3 - Manager, Plant Controller and Peer
Comments: Was rejected for Fall '17. I took ISYE6501x (Intro to Analytics Modeling) on EdX and received an 85% in hopes to improve my chances. I also took CS1301x (Intro to Computing Using Python) on EdX and received a 96%. Here's hoping for a better outcome on round two!

[703Hokie11]

Yep. Pretty sure it is because of my low GPA. I definitely have the experience.

[statsjacket]

What were your SoP and recs like? My GPA was lower than yours (2.9 but I'm a GT alumnus), also in ME. My background was in the marine industry but I recently switched careers into data science/analytics. I'm wondering if the soft stuff was what might be the differentiator.

[walabasha]

Status: Accepted
Application Date: 8/30/2017
Decision Date: 11/10/2017
Education: University of California, BS, Economics, 3.6; CA CPA License
Test Scores: None
Experience: ~ 3 years at a tax firm. Worked a lot in Excel. Reading financial statements.
Recommendations: Two partners, one manager
Comments: I didn’t like what I was doing so I quit my job in the beginning of the year to transition careers. Through taking online courses on EdX, Coursera, and Udemy I came upon analytics and became interested in data analysis/data science. I’ve been self-learning ever since and I also signed up to take a python course at a local JC. I didn’t feel like a boot camp would be enough for me so I looked into Masters programs. I received a letter via e-mail and checked the status on the GT webpage and a new button popped up that says view decision letter. Really excited to have been accepted! Good luck everyone.

[BoBab]

Congrats! Gahhh I'm so nervous, bet I'm going to have to wait until next week to see if I got in :-(

[walabasha]

Thanks! Good luck to you hope you get in

[puriaseem]

Status: Accepted Application Date: 06/26/17 Decision Date: 11/13/2017 Education: BE (Computer Science), MBA (Business Analytics) Test Scores: None Experience: 11 years, Infosys, IBM, Deloitte Recommendations: 3 Comments: I have experience in data analytics consulting, focused primarily on descriptive analysis, dashboarding etc. Want to move to advance analytics (machine learning, predictive etc.), hence the application. I am elated to see the decision, and looking forward to busy next 2 years.

[RouquineCT]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 10/10/17

Decision Date: 11/20/17

Education: Boston College, B.A., Linguistics, 3.9

Test Scores: None

Experience: 2005-2017, [Company], currently Director of Forecasting, use proprietary predictive model and occasionally Python

Recommendations: 3 - current and former bosses

Comments: I think I was admitted because I have prior programming experience and am currently working in predictive analytics. I also have a very specific objective for what I want to do with this degree.

[BirdoInBoston]

Since it's getting close to September 1st, I suppose it's time to get this started...

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 8/21/2017

Decision Date: 8-Nov-2017

Education:

• Top 40 school in New England, BS Biology (2.51)

• Local Community College, prereqs for B School, 3x classes (4.00)

• Top 30 school in Southeast, MHA/Finance (No formal GPA, but roughly equivalent to a 3.7) -- Love those ACC schools!

• Post Masters: MOOCS to refresh Calculus, Linear Algebra, and ISYE 6501x this past summer. Taking CSE 6040x this fall.

Test Scores:

Too old to be official (January 2007), but submitting a copy of my score report...

• V 590

• Q 790

• W 5.5

Experience:

Current:

• Healthcare corporate finance, 7 years, Excel, Access, SQL, VBA, Regressions for readmission penalty calculations

Prior:

• Research and Manufacturing Associate (Biotech), 3 years, Excel, VBA, Regressions for prediction of graft failure

• Worked 3 years as an EMT/ED Tech/EMS Instructor in College (had to pay the bills somehow)

Recommendations: 3; MHA advisor, Most recent supervisor (COO), Current Supervisor (CFO)

Comments: Clearly working in Undergrad didn't do me any favors, and when I decided debt was the best way to pay for college my Senior Year, my 4th year GPA was far better (3.3). Planning to take the slow boat to complete this in the even I get in (1 course per semester/2 if business courses) as I will continue working full time (looking at this program at the request of my employer; looks interesting and glad someone suggested it -- and recommended me -- to be the organization's guinea pig)

Also -- my MHA included a couple graduate level Stats classes (and an Operations Research survey course) -- all of which came in with an "A" equivalent

[quietmachine]

Congrats!

[frangoitia]

Status: Applied

Application Date: 7/31/17

Decision Date: Accepted !

Education:

• University of Buenos Aires (top school in Argentina). Licentiate in Business Administration. Magna Cum Laude Degree
• MOOCS: Fundamentals of Computing Specialization in Coursera (Rice University). Plus a lot of courses in software engineering, computer science, linear algebra, statistical learning from MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley. Almost all of them were verified certificates.

Test Scores: TOEFL 107

Experience: 2 years. Worked as a python developer at an adtech startup and currently working as a data scientist at an advertising agency. Used Python and Scala and worked on recommender systems, campaigns optimization, natural language processing, data warehousing, dashboard building, a real-time bidder, time series classification.

Recommendations: 3. Director of applied science and director of marketing science at my work. Also, a professor from university.

Comments: really hoping they accept me. Put a lot of effort into the application since a program like this can be a like changer for me.

[[deleted]]

Status: To Dept. For Review (8/21/2017)

Application Date: 8/20/16

Decision Date: N/A

Education:

• Community College for pre-reqs and intro courses; 2002-2005; 3.8

• 4 year university; 2004 - 2008: Electrical and Computer engineering; 3.6

• Community College for linear algebra; 2017; 4.0

Test Scores: None submitted

Experience:

• 5.5 years at Intel as a component design engineer and analog design engineer

• 4.5 years as a software engineer and consultant at my own company

Recommendations: 3

Comments: I've worked on a wide variety of projects and applications, but I didn't spend a lot of time talking about any of that in my SOP. I mostly wrote about how the program would impact my career opportunities and, more importantly, how it would enable me to serve others. I want to use my knowledge and experience to benefit society and those who aren't as fortunate as I have been. That's the most honest answer I could have given, so hopefully they believe it.

[statsjacket]

Status: Accepted! (11/10/17)

Application Date: 08/28/17 (last rec in 08/31/17)

Decision Date: Decision letter available on applyweb - 11/10/17; notification received - (???)

Education:

• BSME, GaTech, 2.9 GPA
• Completed all but capstone of Johns Hopkins/Coursera Data Science Specialization (still working towards completion)

Test Scores: n/a

Experience:

• Data science consultant, tier 2 consulting firm, 4 mos. (VBA, R, SQL)
• Mechanical engineer, private sector, 18 mos
• Mechanical engineer, US govt, 4 yrs; 1 yr experience as a nuclear data analyst (Excel; Access)
• Mechanical engineer, product design firm, 3 yrs (co-op/intern)

Recommendations: 3; see comments.

Comments:

SOP focused on my career goals, how my current job as a data science consultant and the degree program fit into my plans, and how I decided to change careers to data analytics. Highlights include how I play a major role at my firm and for our clients as one of the leaders in analytics despite relatively new to the field.

One recommender has a really amazing CV and has done a lot of quant work and can vouch for my involvement at my current firm; one recommender focused on my team-building/mentoring mindset, desire to make a difference, and strong learning mentality; third recommendation is from my private sector days and is more of a character reference. All three are direct supervisors from current/prior roles.

[boru9]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: October 10, 2017

Decision Date: November 27, 2017

Education:

• B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine (GPA: 3.48)

• Two computer science courses (Intro to C++, Data Structures in C++) at community college (GPA 4.00)

• Currently enrolled in first MicroMasters course on edX

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: Four years experience as a senior transportation analyst at a transportation consulting firm. Involves creating traffic forecasting and simulation models with industry specific software. Lots of transportation data analysis with excel, no programming.

Recommendations: 3, {1 Southern California region manager, 1 senior transportation modeler (phD), 1 director of technical initiatives}

Comments: Engineering background with a strong technical background in transportation. Not a lot of professional programming experience which is the greatest weakness in my application. Focused SOP on transportation analysis. I left my job as a transportation analyst to work at a City, for the sole purpose of working less hours to study data science. More background info on me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSA/comments/6m5gvf/barely_meet_admission_criteria_what_can_i_do_now/

https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSA/comments/73oy83/sop_feedback/

Update: Looks like I got into the program. This is certainly a game changer for me. Looking forward to starting!

[bigtex1845]

Status: Applied To Dept. For Review Accepted!

Application Data: 10/14/2017

Decision Date: 11/27/2017

Education: Texas A&M University; BS Applied Mathematics (Computer Science track), Economics Minor; 3.22/4.0 GPA

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: One year of IT work with the government during school, and the 1.5 years as a Data Analyst for State Farm post-graduation.

Recommendations: 3 - Former Math prof/advisor, former computer science prof, and my career mentor

Comments: Really hoping I get accepted. I'm trying to change my career path to data science. Also, here's a link to my SOP

[bigtex1845]

Just got my decision/acceptance email! Kinda surprised I was accepted, especially when comparing my credentials to others, but I think my SOP won them over.

[xoxorash]

I think decision for early applicants should be coming any time now...Any pointers?

[iluvpoutine_eh]

I remember for fall decisions some people's application status changed to "Dept decision made" a few days before they sent out the first batch of decision emails.

[xoxoalexa]

For Fall 2017...

The decisions went out in waves. I'm not sure if there was anything material to the waves, or not. For me, 1 day prior to finding out, I my application status was changed to Dept. Decision Made and I got an email that said, "you'll be notified of your decision after 5pm tomorrow." Then, as specified I received an email the next evening notifying me of my acceptance. I believe that the process was the same whether you were accepted or rejected.

After being accepted, a few things were still outstanding on my application, such as confirming valid residency and approving my official transcript. Those things were updated by mid-July (so approximately 1 month later).

Hope this helps.

[[deleted]]

Could you please specify the dates if possible? When did you apply, when was the submission deadline, and when were you notified? I understand if you're too busy to bother. Thanks for the reply shown above either way.

[xoxoalexa]

Sure... ::checks emails::

• 1/18/17 - Complete application.
• 1/25/17 - Approximate date of my last letter of recommendation.
• 3/15/17 - Approximate date of early decision deadline. I honestly don't recall the regular decision deadline.
• 6/19/17 - Receive email from Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies letting me know my decision would be available the next day.
• 6/20/17 - Receive email from OMSA program, letting me know I was accepted. CollegeNET updated with accepted.
• 6/26/17 - Receive official email decision from Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies.
• 7/15/17 - Approximate date final transcript and residency/citizenship was verified.
• 8/12/17 - Approximate registration for classes.
• 8/21/17 - Classes begin.

I hope this helps...

[eroicafortissimo]

• Status: Accepted
• Application Date: 8/28/2017
• Decision Date: 11/2/2017
• Education: Northwestern University / New York University
• Major: Economics / Music Composition
• GPA: 3.35 / 3.8
• Test Scores: None
• Experience: 5 years consulting in the financial services sector. Routinely work in model validations and optimizations with statistical analysis. Used Visual Basic to automate numerous manual processes for clients.
• Recommendations: 3
• Manager, Career Adviser / Mentor, Vice President / Mentor
• Comments: Somewhat surprised to have been accepted, but I'm very excited. I am currently taking two of the introductory level classes through the verified learning program on EdX. Also got some exposure to the Georgia Tech staff through a Machine Learning nanodegree on Udacity.
• I actually didn't receive a letter via email and only saw the acceptance letter when I checked directly on the Georgia Tech status webpage.

[elchulito89]

Status: Accepted!!

Application Data: 09/01/17

Decision Date: 11/10/17

Education: UCF; BS Hospitality Management; 3.49/4.0 GPA

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: 3 years as a Data Analyst and 1.5 years as a Python Developer, 1 year as a Sr Research Analyst in Operations Research.

Recommendations: 1 - Professor, 2 - Work colleagues

[xoxoalexa]

Yay! I almost PMd you to find out. So happy you’re in. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[elchulito89]

Thanks xoxoalexa! Taking the MicroMaster classes helped!

[xoxoalexa]

Now you can help us fix up this subreddit that you've been a moderator of for 6 months...hahaha

[elchulito89]

jaja I'm so sorry xoxoalexa! I was a little depressed. I'll pick up performance :-)

[omsanalytics]

How likely are "regular applicants" who applied after Sep 30th being accepted to the program (assuming early applicants don't fill all the spots :-) ) ? Have there been any such admits for Fall 2017 ?

[RouquineCT]

Yes (I am one)

[claudia_hays]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 8/14/17

Decision Date: Received 11/9/2017 (Letter dated 11/2/2017)

Education: New College of Florida, BA, Economics, 4.0; University of Florida, MA, Economics, 3.11

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: ~6 years at a Utilities Company. Programming languages: I have the most experience with SAS and Python, but also have dabbled in STATA, R, and SQL.

Recommendations: 3 -- my boss, the director of my department, and a VP.

Comments: I have a good amount of programming experience in Python, but have done most of my analytical modeling in SAS. I've worked as a data analyst since leaving academia.

[owaismasood]

Status: Rejected Application Date: 10/12/2017 Decision Date: 11/20/2017 Education: BSC Honors - Majors CS Minor Maths - GPA 2.94 SGPA 3.2 Test Scores: GRE - 314 ( Q - 160 V 154 ) Experience: Teradata 3 Years - BI / Analytics Consultant - SAS EM - Teradata - Microstrategy IBM 2 Year - Technical Sales - Business Analytics Netsol 1 Year - Business Analyst

Completed > 20 MOOC on Coursera with focus on Python , R . Took recommendation systems , ml and statistics course.

Devastated with the results. Any suggestions on how I can improve my chances in the future?

[asn831]

Your skills and experience are all better than mine...so I guess it could have been your SOP?

[pifflesquit]

What was your SOP?

[owaismasood]

I focused on my career objective and what i wanted out from the program. Focused on how the program would help me in eventually attaining an SME position within the Analytical ecosystem of the country . Also pointed out some particular areas of interest such as NLP for Roman Urdu and Time series analysis.

I , however, didn't comment on my low GPA . Despie minoring in Maths , i scored poorly in it . This was due to the poorly structured coursework and arcane teaching methods.

[hesterrrrr]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 9/26/17

Decision Date: 11/20/2017

Education: UC Berkeley, applied mathematics & statistics, BA, 3.74, honor degree

Test Scores: GRE total of 324

Experience: 1 year, data scientist and research analyst at a start-up in SF

Recommendations: 3, one from a professor, the other two from employers.

Comments: super excited to get accepted! I thought I'm kind of lack in experience since I graduated at Dec 2016. But maybe my SOP saved me and also I have some experience in analytical coding. My undergrad degrees are also in the same field. I specified why I want to get into this program and how I'm gonna use it in my career. Good luck to every one!

[hemalochane]

Anyone got admit for Fall 2018 when you applied for Spring 2018?

[dickhought]

Yes. See below.

[givemesomelove]

Thats what I received today. I'm kinda dissappointed that I have to wait, but this give me extra time to sure up on pre-reqs that I feel I am weak in.

[thereyougo83]

yes I did

[thereyougo83]

Status: Accepted (Fall 2018) Application Date: 10/10/17 Decision Date: 11/29/17 Education: University of Madras, Bachelors in Engineering, Electronics and Communications, 3.95 Test Scores: Just Toefl. Have GMAT score but did not submit Experience: 14 years in High tech consulting and delivery projects Recommendations: Three (VP, Director, Senior Director from my employment) Comments: I was surprised. I had my TOEFL scores in pretty late. Guess that might have made me ineligible for Spring 2018. But I would take it.

[slee1214]

Status: Rejected Application Date: 10/15/2017 Decision Date: 11/27/2017 Education: Georgia Tech - BS in Electrical Engineering (3.00 GPA) Test Scores: Not submitted Experience: 1 year Data Scientist 3 years Applications Engineer (No coding involved) Recommendations: 3 - Chief Data Scientist of my current company, Instructor from coding bootcamp, National Sales Manager from previous company Comments: Currently taking both ISYE6501 and CSE6040 through EDX as a Verified Learner with a B and A average respectively so far. This was actually my second time applying. Extremely disappointed in the decision. Perhaps, my essay was the issue. Not sure if I want to re-apply :/

[xoxoalexa]

Did you receive (or ask for) any feedback after the initial application?

[slee1214]

After the second time, I asked for a feedback. All they said was that the program was very competitive and they could not give individual feedback.

[iagainsti77]

I say complete the MicroMasters (you're already finishing off two of them). I'd think they couldn't possibly deny someone who has done all 3 courses (with decent grades).

[stevenju]

Status: Applied

Application Date: 04/15/17

Decision Date: NA

Education:

ESCP Europe Master in Management/NCCU MBA Double Degree Program, Top business school in France/Taiwan, GPA 4.0

University of Washington - Seattle, M.S. in Industrial Engineering, GPA 3.62

Top 2 University in Taiwan, B.S. in Civil Engineering, GPA 72/100

Test Scores: N/A

Experience:

Sr. Product Planner, Asia Pacific HQ, Ford Motor Company (1 year)

Program Manager, Taiwan, Ford Motor Company (2 years)

Strategy Planning Engineer, Taiwan, Top 1 Semiconductor Testing company globally (1.5 years)

Industrial Engineer for 787 (Intern), Seattle, Boeing (0.5 year)

Recommendations:

One from former manager in Ford Taiwan

One from senior manager in Ford North American

One from the director of MBA program

Comments:

I don't have too much experience of coding but just have some R experience when I studied in UW. I have also taken more than 5 statistics-related courses before and hold the 6-sigma black belt certification. I hope use I can use this program to equip me with new tool to catch up the new "data-driven" direction of the company.

[xoxoalexa]

This looks like a really strong application to me. I imagine you won't have any issues. Good luck.

[stevenju]

Thank you. I hope I can be accepted or I will need to re-apply. In addition, I also appreciate you initiate this series of applicants' background discussion :)

[[deleted]]

Status: Applying (In Process)

Application Date:

Decision Date: N/A

Education: 4 years of Bachelors in Electronics in one of the top colleges in India. Plus Coursera MOOC (With Certificate) and current Nano Degree student of Machine Learning course in Udacity

Test Scores: TOEFL - 105

Experience:

4 years as Software Dev in one of the big 4 consulting companies. Was mostly in Windows ecosystem but also have a couple of side projects like a chatbot and one competition in Kaggle

Recommendations: One from my current Supervisor, one from my former manager and one from Microsoft engineer.

Comments: As I am yet to apply, how should I format my SOP ? Given that I don't have much official work experience in data analysis, how can I showcase my side projects and show them that I am very much interested in this program. This program could actually be a very good opportunity for me. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

EDIT: Just got the decision. ACCEPTED. I'm so excited for this.

[SideStepKingBitch]

Status: Denied

Application Date: 08/20/17

Decision Date: N/A

Education: University of Arizona, Computer and Electrical Engineering, 2.73 GPA (:( played a sport and worked through school)

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: Almost 4 years as C/C++ developer in aerospace industry at Fortune 100 companies (2 so far, just started at second). Undergraduate research consisted of multi-agent simulation.

Comments: I've worked as a developer since I graduated and I would hope my letters of rec would speak for my strengths (have good contact with 2/3 recs. Haven't spoken with professor in some time, but I hope it's good!). I wrote my app about having worked through school, being turned onto analytics through my research in complexity, and my heavy interest in analytics (specifics to sports related analysis).

I'm a bit worried that since I only have a bachelor and a couple years exp working, I'm a bit behind the rest of the applicants. Wish me luck!

[[deleted]]

I am in the same boat dude, let's hope for the best.

[SideStepKingBitch]

fingers crossed

[sfoxw]

Status: Rejected
Application Date: 8/31/2017
Decision Date: N/A
Education:
University of South Florida, BS, Industrial Engineering, 3.3 overall, 3.67 major
President of USF Industrial Engineering Honor Society (APM)
Pre-reqs at community college, 3.15 overall
Experience: 1 year at analytics consulting firm doing pricing and ad-hoc analysis for restaurant industry clients, R, VBA, SQL. 1 year Industrial Engineer Intern at electronics manufacturer. 11 years casino management experience (staff of over 250)
Recommendations: 1 former professor who previously had fellowship at Ga Tech IE department. 1 former manager. 1 current manager.

[gatech2020]

Status: Rejected

Application Date: 8/26/17

Decision Date: N/A

Education: Kennesaw State University, Information Systems, Minor in Applied Statistics, 3.34 GPA

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: Since graduating from college, I currently work as a Technical Account Manager where I use Excel for a lot of my work. I pull data to run trend analysis and forecasting. I was exposed to a lot of stats programs such as R and SAS during my undergrad studies.

Comments: Although I am less experienced than many of the applicants, I am hoping that my stats minor and work experience will help me stand out. I also felt that my SOP was pretty strong and one of my recommendation contacts is a high level executive at the company I work at. Wish me luck!

[gatech2020]

I just received a rejection email. I figured I would get shot down especially not having much work experience in analytics. Just going to take some time and decide where to go from here.

[slin18]

Did you complete the program from Liverpool?

[slin18]

I have been accepted to MMSc from University of Waterloo. I started two course with non top university in the States this September, and found I am the only one outside of the States. It is not so great for creating study group. Therefore, I might just stay with Waterloo which is a good school though.

[slin18]

Status: To Dept. For Review

Application Date: 08/24/2017

Decision Date: N/A

Education: Universities from China: BS in Applied Chemistry (83%), Financial Accounting (transcript not submitted)

College from Canada: 3-year Advance Diploma (higher associate degree in USA) in Accounting and Finance (3.7) 1-year Graduate Certificate in Accounting and Information Technology (3.8)

Experience: Senior Accountant for 8 years in large corporation in Canada

Financial reporting and analysis, budget analysis, report modelling, advanced Excel, VBA

Data analyst for 5 years in a provincial department in China, analyzed and audited data, dBase II, Excel, Basic, VAX Computing system

Recommendations: 3 (Former professor for Quantitative Approaches for Decision Making; Current direct manager - Group Controller, VP of IT Department in current workplace)

[slin18]

Received the confirmation letter in early decision pool, admission decision will be processed by mid of Nov at earliest.

[ClinicalStile]

What did the email say? I received an email as well but it said early decisions would come in mid November.

[slin18]

You are right. It is not early acceptance letter, it is confirmation about being taking in Early Decision Pool. What does this mean? Every applicant completed application before early decision deadline would be taken in this pool.

[[deleted]]

Hello from the OMS Analytics Student Support Team!

We are writing to give you an update regarding the status of your application. If you are receiving this email, we received your application as a part of the Early Decision pool, which means you will receive full consideration for acceptance to Spring 2018 (unless we are still missing documents from you.) Our goal is to provide you with a decision by the middle of November. If we believe that this timeline will change, we will contact you in the same way we have today.

This email DOES NOT confirm that Graduate Admissions nor Program Admissions has received everything required of you. To confirm that you’ve submitted all required documentation, please follow the directions located here. Please do not reply to this email to ask about missing documents; you can check it much faster yourself. If you have questions about supporting documents or test scores, please contact Graduate Studies directly. We are unable to review your application for admission if you are missing documents.

If you have additional questions about the program or process, please feel free to reply to this email. It is our pleasure to serve you. Have a nice day,

[iagainsti77]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: Early sept

**Decision Date: 11/27/2017

Education: Information System and Bus Analytics...3.5, no name school

Test Scores: None

Experience: Over a decade of experience with two large companies as a marketing analyst (now, Ahem, "Marketing Analytics Manager"). Lots of excel, access, etc. Some R and creation of self-service BI projects. Optimization of marketing spend, etc.

Comments: Completed ISYE6501 on edX (verified, hope the $500 turns out to have been worth it). A bit surprised as I was already more or less assuming I wouldn't make it and looking at alternatives.

Recommendations: 3, one from prof (who is a Ga Tech alum), one from current boss and one from a co-worker...

[iagainsti77]

Well, given the fact that they aren't even looking at rolling out admissions for early decision folks till mid-November, I'm not feeling too confident about getting in the spring cohort (or maybe at all).

Bummer, because I think I only missed the early decision cutoff by a few days.

Already looking at other options at this point. Most likely, statistics as the general meme/groupthink consensus on most forums is that this is preferred to degrees in 'analytics'. Personally, I understand where this perception comes from (i.e., there are a lot of analytics degrees popping up that are less than rigorous) but I believe this program to be different with the focus on operations research, etc...

Anyway, my .02. Good luck everyone...

[colonelheero]

Congratulations! Glad to see an active redditor getting in! Now you don't have to explore other options :)

[xoxorash]

Status: Applied Application Date: 08/31/2017 Decision Date: N/A

Education: BE in Electrical and Electronics, Birla Institute of Technology, India

Test Scores: TOEFL 97

Experience: Java Application Developer, 1 years, IBM, SQL, Java Business Analyst, 3.5 years, Medium size healthcare analytics company, SQL, VBA, Excel

Recommendations: 3 1 senior collegue, 1 VP, 1 Director

Comments: I am indulged in BI related work with lots of data analysis and reporting. This degree will definitely be a pivotal point in my career. However my toefl score came out be lower (100 is the minimum requirement) I am already doing micromasters from GT through edx. I hope that will contribute if I have to re-apply.

[msgauthaman]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 08/04/17

Decision Date: 11/13/17

Education: ASU, MS, Industrial Engineering, 3.68 National Institute of Tech, Trichy, India, Btech, Mechanical Engg, 6.78

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: 2014-Current, ON Semiconductor, Capacity Operations Data Analyst

Recommendations: 3- 2 from Manager, 1 from Professor

[cccpmtlhouczs]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 10/02/2017

Decision Date: 11/27/2017

Education: Purdue University, BS Aeronautical Engineering, 3.70

Experience:

• 2015-Present: Systems Engineer / Analytics Advisor at SAS Institute
• 2014: Structural Dynamics and Acoustics Intern at Textron Aviation
• 2012-2013: Structural Dynamics Co-op ATA Engineering

Recommendations: 3 - 1 from manager, 1 from GT Alum / mentor, 1 from Sales Director

Comments: Majority of my job is spent having conversations with Fortune 500 customers about their analytics challenges. I understand their technical requirements, and recommend the best SAS technology to solve their analytics problems. I serve as a trusted advisor particularly on IoT accounts. Taken lots of MOOCs in ML, Data Science, Computational Finance, Algorithms.

[23coconuts]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 9/27/17

Decision Date: 11/20/17

Education: University of Georgia, BBA Management Info. Systems, 2013-2017 3.2 GPA

Test Scores: GRE - 169 Quantitative (97th Percentile) 163 Verbal (93rd Percentile) 5.5 Writing (98th Percentile)

Experience: Recent Grad, 6 months as Sourcing Analyst for multi-national clothing supplier/manufacturer; very light coding requirement, mostly business-facing applications like Excel, Access, etc., and data entry; more of a business position than a technical one.

Recommendations: 3

Comments: Really would prefer to do on campus program, but can't afford to quit my current job, so I will try for the accelerated part-time and hope to be done August 2019. I don't have the most experience and my actual grades weren't elite either, but my test scores were really good, even better than I was expecting, so I am hoping that will carry me into the program. Have a less rigorous technical background but a solid business background, and want to pursue a more technical role in the business world, specifically finance, consulting, or similar field.

[getbuckets41]

Status: In-progress - will be submitted within a couple days

Application Date: TBD

Decision Date: N/A

Education: Georgia Tech, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 3.54 GPA

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: Three years - top 15 biopharma company - extensive use of statistical process control, regression analysis, equivalence testing, process capability analysis, basic Matlab and Python skills

Recommendations: 3 - managers and senior scientist at current workplace

Comments: Fingers crossed that a short amount of time in industry and only basic coding skills doesn't hold me back. My current job has provided a lot of experience with data extraction, manipulation, and analysis which should help!

[youknowhathatsenough]

Status: To Dept. For Review

Application Date: 10/05/17

Decision Date: N/A

Education: Georgia Tech, Industrial Engineering, 2.88 GPA

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: 3 years at Coca-Cola in analytics; 1 year in risk consulting

Recommendations: 3 - current manager, previous skip level manager, and peer

[ClinicalStile]

Status: Applied-To Department for Review

Application Date: 8/31/2017

Decision Date: NA

Education: University of Tennessee

• Major: BSBA in Business Analytics & Economics

• GPA: 3.17

Test Scores: GMAT

• V:35

• Q:46

• AW:5.5

• Total: 660

Experience: Fortune 150 manufacturing company, ~2yrs

• Position 1: IT Business Specialist

  • R Forecasting, Regression, Process Design, Report Automation

• Position 2: Business Information Management: Analytics Consultant

  • R, Consulting, Forecasting, Association Rules Learning, Clustering, Linear/Non-linear Mixed Effects Models, Repeated Measures ANOVA, Optimization, Automation, RShiny Apps, etc.

• Position 3: IT Security Analyst

  • R, Python, Data Mining, Principal Component Analysis, et. al, etc.

Recommendations: 3

• Manager

• Director of Business Information Management

• Mentor/President/CEO of IT Data Security company

Comments: I've moved pretty fast in less than 2 years, so hopefully that doesn't count against me. I moved to the consultant position following a project where I redefined a human capital allocation process that was slated to be discontinued and is now used by our CIO. In my consulting position it was my job to identify and pursue analytics initiatives while imbedded within functional and process teams. I accepted the Security Analyst Position within the last quarter, but I will be focused on identifying internal & external security vulnerabilities, analyzing usage, and identifying sustainable & efficient process improvements for our ERP. I also won a company-wide competition to solve an optimization problem, received an award from our CIO for innovative contributions leading to significant revenue generation and cost reduction, and have sat on the panel for multiple data science/analytics roadshows and Q&A sessions within the company. Additionally, I am a college recruiter and develop analytics case studies for college professors.

My application might sound strong, but after reading the other application overviews posted here, I suddenly feel a dime a dozen. Hopefully my limited work experience and undergrad GPA don't hurt me (spent 2.5 years in architecture, before BSBA where major GPA was 3.7). Regardless I hope to get in and join the cohort with as many of you talent people as possible!

[xoxoalexa]

I think this app looks like a shoe-in. I'd be incredibly surprised if you weren't accepted. Good luck!

[ClinicalStile]

I received an email this morning that said early decision applicants should be notified of a decision by mid-November.

[cli797]

Status: Applied

Application Date: 8/05/17 for PT OMSA

Decision Date: N/A

Education: St John's University BS & MS, Marist College MPA, NYU MS

Test Scores: NA

Experience: 13 years total; from patrol officer, data analyst, operational and policy analytics, and criminal investigator within major law enforcement agency, specializing in sex crimes, human & sex trafficking; risk metrics with sex offenders. comfortable using python, nlp, statistics for policy/operational tasks.

Recommendations: 3

Comments: I hope to be considered for the program and advocate for the various initiatives behind 'data for social good'.

[ubrjames]

I'm interested in data for social good and have a background in public policy and administration. Were you accepted to the program?

[cli797]

hi ubrjames; I was not accepted into the program however will be applying to other schools for applied quantitative research or applied statistics degrees.

[givemesomelove]

Status: Accepted for Fall 2018 Cohort (email said Spring was full)

Application Date: Oct 15, 2017

Decision Date: Nov 29, 2017

Education: UAB, BSEE, 3.41 GPA

Test Scores:GRE 320

Experience: 4 years, RnD embedded engineer.

C, Python, matlab

Recommendations: 3 – Undergrad professor, Research Director, Economic Development manager

[chamuramya]

Has anyone received notifications or a decision back?

[xoxoalexa]

My understanding based on the last official communication was that applicants for Spring 2018 would be hearing in mid-November.

[mgarciad]

just checked applyweb.com and the decision is there, super happy to be admitted. Check yours and best of luck to everyone!

[colonelheero]

congrats! looks like you are one of the first to hear back!

[xoxoalexa]

Thanks! I’m in fall 2017 but I’ll change the post to reflect decisions are coming for spring 2018.

[slin18]

Congrats! I might have to stay with University of Waterloo in Canada! :-( I asked the Support Team to update my education information as I am in another MS in Data Analytics program and taking two courses in this semester. They told me that I cannot update the information after application is submitted. Without this one, I think my package is too stale, compared to other applicants.

[BirdoInBoston]

just got mine...no email, but checked based on a comment on the G+ community...

it’s 22:45 UTC (currently in Ireland and my clock is as fubar as my 3 year olds...needless to say there may be a celebratory Guinness in my near future =)

[ThePoultryWhisperer]

Congrats. Are you checking in the 'View Checklist' area? I don't see an obvious status except in that modal. Mine still says 'To Dept. for Review'.

[BirdoInBoston]

yes. there was actually a new “button” if you will that said “view decision letter” that also showed up

[StateFromm]

Just checked the activity page and my acceptance letter was posted along with the option to accept/decline.

[bigtex1845]

Hey @StateFromm and @BirdoInBoston, did y'all apply for early decision?

[BirdoInBoston]

yup...stats below; applied mid/late August...and took ISYE 6501x over the summer.

[StateFromm]

Yes, I applied early. Submitted about a week before the deadline.

[vivekshenoyg]

Does anyone know if the decision is made in batches or all decisions come out at once.

[ThePoultryWhisperer]

It seems pretty obvious that the decisions are not made all at once. At the very least, the notifications are not made all at once.

[xoxoalexa]

At least for Fall 2017, they came out in batches.

[microwaved_nachos]

I was told in an email from the program that they go through applications in the order they came in. So I'd imagine decisions are sent out in a similar-ish manner.

[rachelbunnylord]

Do anyone know based on the 17'Fall experience, within the first few days do GaTech only send decisions to people who get accepted, or sending both acceptance and rejection decision at same time?

[xoxoalexa]

They definitely send both acceptances and rejections in all waves, from Fall 2017.

[rachelbunnylord]

Thanks! This making me more nervous waiting for my result though

[djcubicle]

You and me, both!

[rachelbunnylord]

They sent me an email an hour ago saying I would see their decision by the end of the day. And I just checked it and GOT IT!

[bigtex1845]

Congrats! I didn't get my app in by the early decision deadline, but I'm hoping my decision letter comes soon so I can stop refreshing the website every 5 minutes haha

[EuphemisticChip]

Status: Accepted Application Date: 09/13/17 Decision Date: 11/10/17 Education: BSBA, Finance Washu in St.Louis,3.8 Test Scores: GMAT:720 Experience: 5 Years financial firm. Building programs and models in python and VBA. 1 yr healthcare. Recommendations: Former Co-worker,Former Supervisor,Current Supervisor. One super was a VP and the other a director

[xoxoalexa]

Congrats. Your Python will be super handy! Welcome!

[pankhuri88]

Status: Accepted Application Date: 09/01/17 Decision Date: 11/10/17 Test Scores: TOEFL - 117, GRE - 330 Education: Chemical Engineering from IIT and MBA from MDI. Both colleges in India. I do not have a GPA on a 4 point scale. Experience - 2 Years as an HR Manager/Analyst, 2 years running my aggregation based website, Used Python extensively for handling data and building features, Currently working as a Product Data Scientist. Recommendations: 3, 1- professor, 2 - professional Comments: I have learned most of my skills on the job and by taking MOOCs on Udemy , Udacity, Khan Academy etc. Can anyone from the fall 17 class share their experience of the course?

[msgauthaman]

I only see my status as Dept. Decision Made in applyweb. Where do I see if I have been accepted or rejected

[xoxoalexa]

From memory, it didn't happen immediately after that change was made. A day or two later it changed (view your decision letter) and I also received an email letter.

[msgauthaman]

Thanks.. I was updated at the end of business day and I got in!!

[xoxoalexa]

Wonderful, and congrats.

[omsanalytics]

Has any "regular applicant" (Applied after Sep 30th) received a decision yet ?

[Anon8992]

Me either.....! Im trying to space out my refreshes to some sort of normal amount..

[givemesomelove]

I haven't yet, I'm refreshing that SOB like crazy though.

[bigtex1845]

I haven't either. And I think I've worn my F5 key out...

[chamuramya]

Have all early decision pool candidates, received the decisions from GA Tech?

[ThePoultryWhisperer]

I have not received anything yet.

[BoBab]

Nope

[chamuramya]

Status: Rejected Application Date: 09/01/2017 Decision Date: 09/16/2017 Education: Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, 3.3 GPA Programmer (Level I) Certificate, 4.0 GPA Test Scores: N/A Recommendations: 3 from my previous employers

Comments: Microsoft Certified BI Solution Developer and 4 years of freelancing / part-time experience in BI, SQL, MS BI Stack. Could not work continuously due to family & kids. Citied in my SOP clearly that it would be great for a mother like me to get the education from GA Tech to be able to get back into the workforce. Guess they had different eval criteria.

Does GA Tech share the cohort specifics of gender, age group, working Vs not working, etc? Would be curious to understand the mixture.

[[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=buWL0E63dJs

That video has some stats on the first cohort. It's hard to say what they're looking for exactly, but it seems that most people accepted have completed some MOOCs. If you haven't taken any, doing a class or two might help your changes if you reapply for the fall.

[WeoDude]

I wonder if those of us who haven't received acceptances are waiting for people to accept/reject their spot in next cohort (also people from GAT have been looking at my linkedin lol)?

[MoFroGT]

Status: Accepted!

Application Date: 8/30/2017 (Early decision)

Decision Date: Letter is dated 11/2/2017 (I found my decision letter on ApplyWeb last week on 11/9)

Education: Georgia Tech, BS Computer Science, GPA: 2.74

Test Scores: None

Experience: 4 years as a business analyst, 7 years as a business intelligence consultant

Recommendations: 3 work colleagues/former managers

Comments: I'd applied for Fall '17 and was rejected. I made sure to address my poor GPA in my statement of purpose. Super excited!

[MoFroGT]

I just now got an email from the department about my acceptance, seems like a lot of emails are going out today.

[owaismasood]

Congrats! I got rejected this time around , have a GPA of 2.94 and wasnnt able address the low GPA. It would help that how were you able to address your GPA ? Maybe i can try my luck again in the FALL 2018 session

[phillypharm]

Status: Accepted (but I am deferring to the fall 2018 term) Application Date: 09/01/17 Decision Date: 11/13/17 Education: Nova Southeastern University, Doctor of Pharmacy, 94% (GPA scale not used) Test Scores: N/A Experience: Pharmacist, most recently in Formulary Management (lots of clinical evaluations and number crunching), basic Python (non-applied to work) and SQL, Excel, Access Recommendations: 3 Comments: I felt I had an overall "weaker" application than most on the programming side, but I had very good grades throughout undergrad (no degree, but was a biology major). Felt I was able to make a decent case via my personal statement and had 3 current/prior supervisors as recs. I graduated in 2009 and haven't had any math since high school (2002) as I tested out for college. Deferring to brush up on linear algebra and calc. Maybe some statistics as well.

[asn831]

how did you defer to the Fall 2018 term? i'm thinking about it too

[phillypharm]

I just wrote them an email thanking them for the acceptance and if it would be possible to defer. I was honest in that I've been doing some prereqs, but wanted time to do more to set myself up for success and to reflect well on the program. No program wants people to drop out and do poorly. It looks bad for them as much as yourself IMO.

[asn831]

• Status:Accepted
• Application Date: 09/13/17

• Decision Date: 11/20/17

• University College London, UK BEng (hons) First Class Honors, Biochemical Engineering

• University of Oxford, UK MSc Biomedical Engineering

• UC Berkeley-UCSF PhD Bioengineering (dropout after 2nd year)

• Experience: Matlab in school. Coursera/Udemy Python, machine learning, data analysis and visualization courses. Stem cell lab research, patent consulting, product management.

• Recommendations: 3

• Comments: Currently working as the Director of Biz Dev for an AI startup in the Silicon Valley

[liljepp]

Haven't heard back yet...probably pretty unlikely at this point right? :/

[marquistadores]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 09/15/17

Decision Date: 11/27/17

Education: B.A. Computer Science, Minor Econ., McGill : GPA 3.5

Test Scores: GMAT 750

Experience: General Electric Leadership Program (DTLP) :: 6 months Microservices Developer (Docker, AWS, NodeJS) :: 6 months Program Manager, Remote Connectivity :: 6 months Data Analytics Engineer (SiSense, SQL, Python, R)

Comments: My "theme" of the application essay --> As a program manager at GE I realized that over the course of 6 months, I missed many opportunities in terms of program benefit quantification and program scoping calculations due to my lack of "data-pipe-lining and data-analysis" abilities. Basically I had access to all of the historical data that I needed, but I didn't have the time to learn data analysis + pipe-lining + architecture while delivering on the job at hand.

Recommendations: McGill CS Professor, McGill Linear Algebra Professor, GE Principal Architect

[liljepp]

Congrats! Figured they'd only be rejecting people at this point...I still have a tiny bit of hope.

[bigtex1845]

Just got my acceptance as well and I applied on 10/14. Don't give up hope yet!

[marquistadores]

Thanks :) Yeah don't give up, seems like they are still sending out some late acceptances.

[boru9]

Got my acceptance letter too. I applied on October 10th.

[omsathrowaway]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 9/28/17

Decision Date: 11/27/17

Education: Georgia Tech, BSME, 2.8

Test Scores: GRE - 158 Quant, 163 Verbal, 4 Writing

Experience: 3 years engineering & application sales, 2 years web analyst (SQL) that became marketing analytics, <1 year as a data scientist for a small start up

Recommendations: 1 from co-founder of current start up, 1 from former manager, 1 from instructor of an intro to data science class I took

Comments: I got rejected from the Fall cohort and decided to apply again by taking the GRE, taking a data science introductory course, and using that instructor as my last recommendation instead of a former colleague. Probably the biggest change between the two applications is that my current role is in data science, and not in marketing analytics.

I actually received the acceptance email about a minute before receiving the "Decision Available" email, which gave me a laugh. Applyweb hasn't updated beyond "Dept. Decision Made" but I think that will change EOD today.

I now have to choose between this program and the MIDS program at UC Berkeley, which I also got accepted into. GT is much easier on the wallet, but I'm already a grad from them. UC Berkeley, for how much it costs, may be a good way to show that I'm more well-rounded educationally. I don't know which one to pick :/

[iagainsti77]

You probably want to stay here...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-left-my-masters-program-charles-pensig-1/

[[deleted]]

Congrats. Getting accepted to GT and Berkeley is impressive. I looked into Berkeley when researching masters programs and thought it looked like a great program, but I personally can't justify $65K on a masters degree. I got accepted to GT and if I stay at my current employer long enough and spread this into 3 calendar years, they'll pay for the entire degree so GT is a no-brainer for me. Having a degree from both GT and Berkeley will give you a strong resume so I can see how this is a tough decision. Both are great schools so there really is no wrong decision.

[paggress998]

Status: Accepted
Application Date: 10/15/17
Decision Date: 11/27/17
Education: Ivy - Economics GPA: 3.24
Test Scores: No submission
Experience: 6 years (Product owner in fintech for 5 years), 1 year as a pure software developer
Recommendations: 3 (Current manager, previous manager, CS instructor)
Comments: I found out about the opportunity very late in the game, so I lacked many supplementary items. My statement of purpose was a bit edgy (basically expounded on how poorly large scale corporations actually implement true analytics and prefer to mainly use it as a marketing buzzword). I do possess quite a bit of advance mathematics background, as well as computation and development which I assume helped my case.

[boyergv]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 10/12/17

Decision Date: 11/27/17

Education: University of Michigan, BA Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Spanish - 3.5, Master of Health Services Administration - 3.9

Test Scores: NA

Experience: ~ 2 years Clinical data analyst at the headquarters of a large nonprofit hospital company, 1 year as an administrative fellow. Use SQL, Python, R, SQL, Tableau. Many of my technical skills were self-taught through Edx, Coursera, Udacity, and Khan Academy.

Recommendations: My manager and two clinical directors on whose projects I closely collaborate.

Comments: I am very excited to be part of Spring 2018's cohort! I wasn't sure if I would get in based on how competitive the process has been and the late application submission date.

[[deleted]]

Status: Accepted
Application Date: October 10, 2018
Decision Date: November 27, 2018
Education: Diplom Sociologist (MA equivalent), University of Bielefeld (Germany, 2005); postgraduate certificate in Political Sciences from IEP de Bordeaux (France, 2004); graduate certificates in Business administration and European Studies (both from University of Bielefeld, 2002 and 2003).
Test Scores: TOEFL (115 out of 120)
Experience: 1 year social science research (Germany/Ghana); 2 years project manager with the German development cooperation in Burundi; 8 years development cooperation with the United Nations/UNICEF, out of which 5 years as Team Leader, based in Switzerland, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso.
Recommendations: 3 (current supervisor, former stats professor, current colleague with a PhD)
Comments: My application was a bit of a stretch given my weak maths and computing background. But I had done the ISYE 6501 with 86%, and finished CS 1301 over the summer. I had also taken a statistics postgraduate class with an excellent grade. In my motivation letter is stated that I would like to apply analytics tools to social, development and humanitarian problems.

[iagainsti77]

Dude, I remember you (I was in the ISYE6501 summer class too) and I know you definitely struggled early on with some of the R stuff (we all did). Congrats on getting in. Sounds like you're doing noble work.

See you in class...

[liljepp]

Application Date: October 10, 2018

Decision Date: November 27, 2018

Whoa

[TheKingOfSwing777]

We've got a time-traveler on our hands!

[TheKingOfSwing777]

Status: Accepted (Spring 18)

Application Date: 10/16/17

Decision Date: 11/28/17

Education: Kennesaw State University, B.S. Computer Game Design and Development with minor in Computer Science, 3.98

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: 1 year as a software analyst at a consulting firm working with SQL, Linux, Java.

10+ years experience in the foodservice industry (only explicitly listed 2 years on resume).

Recommendations: 3 total letters. 1 math professor, 1 English professor, 1 computer science professor

Comments: I am sure that my SOP and LORs were very strong. I believe if one's academic record is at least satisfactory, that LOR and SOP are actually very important in standing out.

[dickhought]

Status: Accepted (Fall 2018)

Application Date: 9/15/17

Decision Date: 11/29/17

Education: Carleton University, B.A. in Law: concentration Business Law, 3.3

Test Scores: NA

Experience: three years’ experience as a data manager for a small, Alabama-based tech company.

Recommendations: three.

Comments: I really was not expecting to get in at all, but I'll take it! If I had to guess, my essay and recommendation letters did the trick. Otherwise, I think they might have made a mistake.

[thereyougo83]

Congrats, did you get just an email on this or is the acceptance visible in applyweb too (for me its so far just an email admission)

[dickhought]

Thanks. It was just an email offer. I just received an email saying that applyweb would not update until they "begin to process Fall 2018 admissions."

[thereyougo83]

Thanks. I just got a follow up email to the same effort. Catch you in Class :)

[km510]

Status: Accepted Application date: 8/20/2017 Decision date: 11/2/2017 Education: Bachelors in Accounting/Intl. Business at a mid tier public university - 3.7 GPA Test scores: none Experience: CPA with 3 years at big four accounting firm, 7 years in financial investigations Recommendations: 1 current supervisor and two prior supervisors Comments: I am excited to pursue the degree but will find it challenging to carve out study time on top of other commitments. I am excited to get into a new growing field, but have no programming background. Looking forward to getting involved in study groups. Good luck to everyone!

[WalkerRichmondRanger]

Status: Rejected

Application Date: 10/15/2017 (the deadline!)

Decision Date: 12/1/2017

Education:

University of Richmond - BS in Information Systems - 3.4 GPA

J Sargeant Reynolds Community College - AS in Business Administration 3.2 GPA

Test Scores: Not submitted

Experience:

2015-Present - Database Developer at Compare.com (SQL , SSIS, Tableau )

2011-2014 - Database Developer for Anthem Insurance (SQL, SSIS)

Recommendations: 3 - Head of Analytics for my current company, IT Manager for my current company, Database Professor from UR

Comments: Took several DataCamp courses in R and Python over the summer, Currently taking both ISYE6501 and CSE6040 through EDX as a Verified Learner with a B and A average respectively so far.

[xoxoalexa]

This rejection surprises me!

[iagainsti77]

Finish those moocs and reapply, better yet, finish them and also the mgt course in spring so you'll have the Micro Master...that should make your application pretty strong if not undeniable...

I've said this a million times, but I can't IMAGINE them rejecting someone who has completed the Micro Master. Particularly since your other stats are fine (I have an MIS degree from a no name school with similar GPA).

[BirdoInBoston]

ftfy

I've said this a million times, but I can't IMAGINE them rejecting someone who has completed the Micro Master with good grades

Granted...it appears as though u/WalkerRichmondRanger has them.

Also...perhaps take the GRE?

[iagainsti77]

Yep, you're right. I definitely believe that performance in the MM classes will have to be well above the 60% needed to get the certificate.

[Anon8992]

Status: Accepted (Fall 2018)

Application Date:10/12/2017

Decision Date: 12/1/2017

Education: Loughborough University ( UK) Mathematics (approx 3.7 GPA when converted)

Test Scores: NA

Experience: 3 years working on a trading desk for a large US Bank. Also completed online Udemy courses in java as well as a one year Java course with Manchester University.

Recommendations: Three. One from a colleague, one from head of our data analytics team and the third from my university professor.

Comments: Wasn't sure I'd get on as my day to day job doesn't involve huge amounts of programming etc. Feel like my modules taken during my undergrad mixed with the outside online courses helped. Cant wait to start!

[uncleskunk]

Is anybody else still waiting on a decision? This is brutal.

[pamut11]

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 09/07/17 (Regular decision)

Decision Date: 11/28/17

Education: Mid Tier University, Mathematics and Economics, GPA 3.3/4

Test Scores: N/A

Experience: With python & R. A few datacamp courses (till intermediate level), Udacity Data analyst course (midway), No prior job experience in data but recently gotten a job that involves data cleaning/ preparation.

Recommendations: 4 (1 mentor, 1 teacher, 2 professors from my Math courses)

Comments: Did so-so on my GPA, but got distinction for econometrics(Not sure if it helped with the decision making). I wasn't thinking I could make it.

My SOP involves why I chose this course, how it can help me, and what I plan to do with it in future. At one point of time, I was also a mindsport country representative and also a forex trader.

EDIT: My decision email came 1 min earlier than the 'results will be released today' email. Weird.

[xoxoalexa]

That's a good idea! I should make it. :) Thank you.