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The data below comes from testmagic forums and shows accepted, waitlisted, and rejected applicants for 2010 for economics graduate school. Clicking on points in the graph above will make the most recent profile appear in the space below the graph.


Acceptances:

cjw10 2009:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: liberal arts college Economics, BA (with honors) + English minor
Undergrad GPA: 3.65
Type of Grad: N/A
Grad GPA: N/A
GRE: 760Q, 540V, 4.5AWA
Math Courses: (3.73 average) Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, Stats, Differential Equations (Audit), Real Analysis (spring 09).
Econ Courses: (4.0 average) Intermediate Micro, Intermediate Macro, Public Finance, Environmental Econ, Market Experiments, International Econ, Money and Banking, Econometrics I, Senior Thesis
Other Courses: English minor, Env. Studies, Scuba Diving.
Letters of Recommendation: 4 Econ profs -- exceptional. 1 well known.
Research Experience: REU at top 50 econ Program. Research internship at consulting firm in London. Honors Thesis.
Teaching Experience: TA for Prin. Micro + Market Experiments; Academic Tutor (Micro + Macro)
Research Interests: Environmental/Resource, Experimental, Development, Applied Econometrics
SOP: Why I want a PhD + career goals + research experience + research interests matched with faculty. 2.25 pages, 1.5 spaced.
Other: 1 conference presentation + internship at investment bank
Post-doc goals: Academia.
RESULTS:
Acceptances:
NC State (RA 17k + 5k fellowship + tuition + health insurance)
UC Santa Barbara (TA 16.6k + 5k fellowship + tuition + health insurance)
Iowa State (TA 14.4k + 2.5k scholarship + in-state tuition + health insurance)
Oregon State AE (RA 12.6k + tuition + health insurance)
UC Davis ARE MS (readership)
Washington-Seattle (waitlisted for funding)
Colorado-Boulder (waitlisted for funding)
Oregon (no funding)
Rejections: Berkeley ARE, Maryland AREc, Wisconsin AAE
Will be attending: North Carolina State University
What would you have done differently? Im satisfied.
Accepts:
    Acceptances: NC State (RA 17k + 5k fellowship + tuition + health insurance) UC Santa Barbara (TA 16.6k + 5k fellowship + tuition + health insurance) Iowa State (TA 14.4k + 2.5k scholarship + in-state tuition + health insurance) Oregon State AE (RA 12.6k + tuition + health insurance) UC Davis ARE MS (readership) Washington-Seattle (waitlisted for funding) Colorado-Boulder (waitlisted for funding) Oregon (no funding)
  • Institution: UCSB Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: Decision in March Notification date: 2/17 Notified through: Website status Comments: Thrilled that my profile is competitive outside of ARE... Re-posting from other thread
  • Institution: Oregon State AREc PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: RA - 15K+tuition+health insurance Notification date: 1/22 Notified through: Phone Comments:
  • Institution: University of Oregon Economics Decision: Accepted Funding: Decision in March Notification date: 2/20/09 Notified through: Informal email from Grad. Secretary Comments: 3/4. Pretty satisfied. Fingers crossed for TA.
  • Institution: UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics - MS Decision: Accepted Funding: Nothing stated--do they fund MS students? Notification date: 2/23/09 Notified through: Email Comments: I applied to the PHD program, but didn't make the cut... Better than a rejection, I guess!
  • Institution: University of Oregon Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: Currently being evaluated for GTF Notification date: 3/5 (I was offered an informal admission before this. Notified through: E-mail Comments: Will most likely decline--although I hear Eugene is great.
  • Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: Unable to offer funding at this time. Notification date: 3/12 Notified through: Email Comments: Very cool. Wish it were funded--makes my decision easier...
  • Institution: North Carolina State University Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: RA, details to come! Notification date: 3/12 Notified through: Email Comments: Glad to hear it! Big day!
  • Institution: Iowa State University Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: Grad Asst: $1600/mo Notification Date: 3/24 by Email Comments: Just when I thought my decision was getting easier....
  • Institution: Washington-Seattle Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: "Cannot offer you funding right now" Notification date: 3/24 Notified through: e-mail Comments: Same as Texcards. Well. That's my application season. Time to make a decision.
Rejects:
    Rejections: Berkeley ARE, Maryland AREc, Wisconsin AAE Will be
  • Institution: Wisconsin AAE PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: Notification date: 2/17 Notified through: Email Comments: Can't win em all...
  • Institution: Berkeley ARE ARE PhD Decision: Rejected Notification date: 3/6/09 Notified through: E-mail Comments: Shocked. I thought UCB was a safety for me...
  • Institution: Maryland AREc Decision: Rejected Funding: Zing Notification date: 3/23 Notified through: Testudo, my boy. Comments: Now 85ure I'm headed to UCSB.
Waitlists:

econominee 2009:
Institution: Columbia
Program:Economics PhD
Decision:Extreme unwillingness to accept
Funding:-Application Fee
Notification date:March 5
Notified through:E-Mail
Comments: I have no idea why I applied to Columbia. I wish I had used the application fee to apply to somewhere else. This is the second rejection which further brought me down. I also contacted Rice and they told me that they already made the first rounds and they would wait till April 15th for the second round. In short, two official and one unofficial rejections so far!
Accepts:
  • Institution: UW-Madison Economics, PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: No 1st Year Funding Notification date: 3/12 Notified through: Email Comments: This is my first acceptance and I am very delighted about that. At least I understood that my credentials are worth being accepted to such a good school like UW-Madison.
  • Institution: Iowa State Masters (Applied to PhD) Decision:Acceptance Funding: if you have the resources to attend Iowa State on your own funding, we hope that you will enroll Notification date:04/01/2009 Notified through:E-Mail Comments: Iowa State hurt my feelings and more than that my professors counting on Iowa State hurt me further. The e-mail regarding "if you have the resources part" is not kind at all. It sounds indifferent and exploitative.
  • Institution:West Virginia University Economics PhD Decision:Acceptance Funding:Tuition wavers + waitlisted for assistanship Notification date:03/18/2008 Notified through:E-mail Comments:My first half-funded admit....unable to accept if not offered assistanship
  • Institution: Missouri University Science and Technology Master of Applied Mathematics Decision: Accepted Funding: Graduate Assistantship 1,850$ a month Notification date: April 23 Notified through: E-mail Comments: I have a place to go! I am so happy.....
Rejects:
  • Institution: Washington University in St. Louis Economics, PhD Decision: Rejected Notification date: 3/13 Notified through: E-mail Comments: Totally shocked!
  • Institution: Boston College Economics, PhD Decision: Rejected Funding:..... Notification date: 3/16 Notified through: Mail Comments: I had told my key referee that I needed safer places, but I could not convince him. Meanwhile, I got the UW-Madison acceptance letter and Boston College at the same time. What a strange thing!
  • Institution: NYU Economics, PhD Decision: Rejected Funding:............ Notification date: 3/16 Notified through: Test Magic Comments:I know I am not admitted for sure.
  • Institution:Rice University Economics PhD Decision:Rejected Funding:--*-- Notification date:04/03/2009 Notified through:E-mail Comments: I e-mailed the grad director and he wrote back to me on the same day. The earlier you know the less painful it becomes......
Waitlists:


Rejections:

hawksfanatic 2009:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: U.S. Top 30 Public, B.A. Philosophy and Economics
Undergrad GPA: ~3.4
Type of Grad: Econ
Grad GPA: ~3.5
GRE: 740 Q, 470 V, 5.0 AW
Math Courses: Calc I-III, Intro to Stats, Linear Algebra, Theory of Probability
Econ Courses: Standard Micro Macro sequence all the way through the PhD level, Econometrics I and II, Public Choice, Math for Economists, International Finance, Antitrust, Theory of Gov't Regulation
Other Courses: A lot of philosophy courses
Letters of Recommendation: One well known econ professor from UVA, 2 lesser known econ professors (Chicago and Brown). All very excited.
Research Experience: None
Teaching Experience: None
Research Interests: Undecided, but leaning towards econometrics at the moment
SOP: Body was generic for every school, changed a few things for each school
Other:
RESULTS:
Acceptances: NCSU ($$), TAMU ($-wl), UGA($-wl), GMU(no $)
Waitlists: None
Rejections: UVA, Vanderbilt, ISU
Pending: None
What would you have done differently? Maybe study for the GRE more. Hard to say that when I came to college that I wanted to pursue a PhD, it never crossed my mind until the 2nd part of my junior year which is hardly enough time to take all the recommended math courses. In the end I got what I wanted, a place that wants me and is large enough to accommodate any possible changes in my fields of interest. I will be attending NCSU.
Accepts:
    Acceptances: NCSU ($$), TAMU ($-wl), UGA($-wl), GMU(no $)
Rejects:
    Rejections: UVA, Vanderbilt, ISU
Waitlists:
    Waitlists: None

buckykatt 2009:
Institution: Caltech
Program: PhD Social Sciences
Decision: Rejected
Funding: N/A
Notification date: 2/27/09
Notified through: Email
Comments: Not really a surprise. I wish I had done a better job on my application so I'd know it wouldn't have made a difference, though.
Accepts:
  • Institution: University of Connecticut Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Notification date: 3/19 Notified through: Other Funding: $$ Comments: Thank you, UConn, for believing in me!
  • Institution: George Mason U Economics Ph.D. Decision: Accepted Notification date: 3/25 Notified through: Snail mail Comments: No funding decision yet
Rejects:
  • Institution: Caltech Social Sciences Decision: Rejected Funding: N/A Notification date: 2/27/09 Notified through: Email Comments: Not really a surprise. I wish I had done a better job on my application so I'd know it wouldn't have made a difference, though.
  • Institution: Rochester Decision: Rejected Notification date: 3/5/09 Notified through: E-mail Comments: Phooey!
  • Institution: Johns Hopkins University Economics PhD Decision: Rejected Notification date: 03/11 Notified through: email Comments: At least I'm not alone?
  • Institution: WUSTL Economics, PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: Notification date: 3/13 Notified through: Email Comments:
  • Institution: Iowa State Economics, PhD Decision: Rejected Notification date: 3/16 Notified through: Email Comments: This is getting depressing...
  • Institution: SUNY Stony Brook Economics PhD Decision: Rejected Notification date: 3/19 Notified through: E-mail Comments: sigh
  • Institution: Brown University Economics Ph.D. Decision: Rejected Notification date: 3/20 Notified through: E-mail Comments:
  • Institution: University of Michigan Economics Ph.D. Decision: Rejected Notification date: 3/20 Notified through: E-mail Comments:
Waitlists:


Waitlists:

tmdruie 2009:
So I can get on the shiny charts!
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: B.A. Physics and Economics from a top 10 liberal arts college
Undergrad GPA: 3.14/4.0
Type of Grad: One stats class
Grad GPA: 3.3
GRE: 790Q, 600V, 5.0AW
Math Courses: Calc I-III(I took them in high school, I really dont remember and nor do my transcripts), Linear Algebra (B), Mathematical Probability and Statistics (B-, B), Real Analyst(A, at a different school then my undergrad), Stochastic Processes (B+, grad course, at a different school then my undergrad)
Econ Courses: AP Micro and Macro (A, in high school), European Economic History (B+), Law and Economics (B), Intermediate Price Theory (B), Intermediate Macro Theory (B), Econometrics (B), Contemporary British Economy (B), Industrial Revolution-Britain (A-), Econ of Multinational Corps (A-), Thesis (labor econ)
Other Courses: Physics, which I put in my math lists. Quantum Mechanics I, Partial Differential Equations (B+), etc. I only did the bare minimum for a liberal arts major
Letters of Recommendation: 2 econ professors (my thesis advisor and the person who led my study abroad), 1 physics professor (thesis advisor), 1 economist who is my supervisor
Research Experience: RA for 2.5 years at a central bank
Teaching Experience: Tutored, graded and lab assisted for two years for physics in college
Research Interests: All over the place. Labor, policy, experimental, applied micro, development, etc.
SOP: Intro, I did physics I can do math!, I wrote a thesis in economic and liked doing research, Im working as an RA and like doing research, I took extra math and can write proofs, I was part of an econ paper reading group and like reading papers, interests (changed a bit depending on what the school had, and more policy oriented for ag econ schools). Also a few sentences about things I did that I removed or added depending on the school. The 500 word schools were hard, the 1000 word schools were easy. I also had a Personal History Statement about being a female doing math for the schools that wanted it.
Other: Applied for the NSF. I tried not to say anything to risky, and not say much about interest in policy to non policy/ ag econ schools. I like Aikido.
RESULTS:
Acceptances: Boston University (waitlist for $), Michigan State(no $), University of Essex (ISER), Ohio State (Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics) ($-Fellowship), Indiana University ($-TA), Iowa State University ($-TA)
Waitlists: University of Minnesota
Rejections: MIT, Harvard (Econ and Political Economy and Government), Yale, Berkeley (Agricultural & Resource Economics), Northwestern, NYU, U Penn (Econ and Wharton), University of Wisconsin Madison (Econ and Agricultural and Applied Economics ), Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Caltech, University of British Columbia , Ohio State, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Econ and Public Policy and Economics), University of Maryland (Econ and Agricultural Economics), Boston College, Johns Hopkins, University of Minnesota (Applied Economics), University of California Davis (Econ and Agricultural Economics), Duke, University of Essex, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, Carnegie Mellon (Econ, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Public Policy and Economics)
Pending: Toronto MA, Queens MA
What would you have done differently?
Gotten better grades in undergrad. When I really started understanding what the things I need to do for a PhD I think I did the best I could, took real analysis, applied for the NSF (if only to write a SoP for them), read papers etc. I probably could have gotten more research experience at my job (co-author), and I defiantly could have gotten better grades and taken more math as an undergrad. But over all Im happy.
Attending:
Boston University
Accepts:
    Acceptances: Boston University (
Rejects:
    Rejections: MIT, Harvard (Econ and Political Economy and Government), Yale, Berkeley (Agricultural & Resource Economics), Northwestern, NYU, U Penn (Econ and Wharton), University of Wisconsin Madison (Econ and Agricultural and Applied Economics ), Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Caltech, University of British Columbia , Ohio State, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Econ and Public Policy and Economics), University of Maryland (Econ and Agricultural Economics), Boston College, Johns Hopkins, University of Minnesota (Applied Economics), University of California Davis (Econ and Agricultural Economics), Duke, University of Essex, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, Carnegie Mellon (Econ, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Public Policy and Economics)
Waitlists:
    waitlist for $), Michigan State(no $), University of Essex (ISER), Ohio State (Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics) ($-Fellowship), Indiana University ($-TA), Iowa State University ($-TA) Waitlists: University of Minnesota
Admit summary statistics:
As submitted and recoreded from Test Magic:
There were 2 accepted out of 5 applicants.Of those accepted, average GPA was 3.65, average GREQ was 760.0.
From the Department webpage in 2010 (please send me a link if this is wrong!)
There is no single, sufficient condition for admission with financial aid. We look at a portfolio of items that include (not in any order): GRE scores (especially the Quantitative); transcripts; grades in math and economics courses; letters of recommendation; and the written statement of purpose. Each year, out of about 250- 300 applicants, we offer admission with funding to approximately 35 Ph.D. applicants and approximately 15 M.S. applicants.
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