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This was ISyE, not stats, and it was 5 years ago, but I was amazed by how much extra work some people would do to avoid having to learn anything but Excel (meanwhile, I was messing around with R and whipping programs up to get better results in less time). This was at a highly ranked engineering program, too.

Based on a few people I've kept in touch with, it seems like it hasn't changed all that much at the undergrad level. The grad level was where the problem sizes and difficulty really forced you to use better tools.



In case anyone else is wondering, ISyE == Industrial and Systems Engineering.




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