IEOR Department at Columbia University

wincnd

okay,以下是我的推测，请各位发表意见：
根据email里的两个电话号码，我去columbia website看了一下，分别属于Student Affairs Manager和Academic Coordinator。从两个人的工作简介来看，像是负责招生的paperwork，收发email之类的(我们的所有email就是其中一个叫Adina的人寄的)。换句话说，跟她们两个中的任何一个面试都不太可能问到很实质性的问题。而且该问的该说的都在PS里讲烂了。现在临时加一个call-in出来，我觉得应该不是为了再挑人的目的。再联系到前一封(倒数第二封)email最后一段里说的"If indeed you do ...... and would accept our offer of admission if admitted ......"。意思也就是说“如果我们录取你的话，你确定要来”，所以我猜有很大可能这个电话就是打去确认一下你的"candidacy and interest in Columbia University" (最近一封email里的原话)。如果这样的话，一个电话5分钟之内就可以搞定。

他们今年第一次这样做的原因，我觉得是因为申请的人多，所以想把AD发给真正有兴趣的人。不然一过4.15许多人不从他家，岂不是招不满学生，收不到钱了？

大家认为呢？

mhe2

直接申OR的无消息怎么办?

高空空

也不知道他们调剂了多少人，如果真的5分钟搞定，为啥预留了3×4考试的电面时间？

Bettyliu1987

总共只有12个小时，能面多少人，而且没有给我们分配time slot， 只是在这个时间内打过去就行，我想应该不会将很长时间吧。分三天，也许是怕我们没空电话吧

back2moon

估计今年FE甩过去太多人，临时弄的面试最后拒一批人,  通过率不好说阿现在。。。

wangxianming

Never worry about the ad from ieor from Columbia (not including FE),
Got the ad you only need to be a normal people and willing to pay for the tuition, nothing else.
Last year only OR admit 180 students and 60% is from china.
When take the class it just llike you are in the mainland china.
For the job placement, you can ask the previous 3 years students,
only about 1/20 can got a decent job.
This year for the summer internship, students from mainland china in OR got 0 offer.

wincnd

我重新算了一下，每个面试长度应该在10分钟左右。原因如下：
一共两部电话，每部最多12个小时，所以就是一共24小时， 听哥大的学生说现在MSOR差不多有100个人，这样假设的话，今年他们要面试至少100个学生，所以每个学生有24/100=0.24小时=14分钟。这个是上限，包括两个接电话的人每天4个小时连续3天不休息。而且100还不包括不想去的和去不了的。所以他们提供的24小时一定要有很大的宽裕空间才可以保证每个人都打到电话。这意味着每个面试的实际长度很可能大大少于14分钟，再加上她们吃午饭上厕所的时间，最后可能只有5到10分钟留给每个人。

what's your take on it?

mhe2

Never worry about the ad from ieor from Columbia (not including FE),
Got the ad you only need to be a normal people and willing to pay for the tuition, nothing else.
Last year only OR admit 180 students and 60% is from china.
When take the class it just llike you are in the mainland china.
For the job placement, you can ask the previous 3 years students,
only about 1/20 can got a decent job.
This year for the summer internship, students from mainland china in OR got 0 offer.

-- by 会员 wangxianming (2010/3/16 4:31:46)

前辈在OR读？

aphra

呼唤lz

amberhooo

Never worry about the ad from ieor from Columbia (not including FE),
Got the ad you only need to be a normal people and willing to pay for the tuition, nothing else.
Last year only OR admit 180 students and 60% is from china.
When take the class it just llike you are in the mainland china.
For the job placement, you can ask the previous 3 years students,
only about 1/20 can got a decent job.
This year for the summer internship, students from mainland china in OR got 0 offer.

-- by 会员 wangxianming (2010/3/16 4:31:46)

应该差不多，听哥大Fu的学长说OR去年的就业不好，还不如stat