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chestnut.cc 2009:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergraduate: BA Economics from a Top 10 college in my country (south east Asia) with math and stat minors
Undergraduate GPA: Currently (Final Year) 84%. We don't use the GPA system so I'm unsure of how much that translates to. It's similar to a UK percentage system though
Type of Graduate: NA
Graduate GPA: NA
GRE: 760V, 800Q, 5.5 AWA
TOEFL: 119
Math Courses: Three Year long Industrial Mathematics courses. Audited Real Analysis, Linear Algebra of the more rigorous sort.
Statistics Courses: Three Year long Applied Statistics courses.
Economics Courses: Economics Specials I II III IV. Basically intermediate micro, macro, international trade, history of economic thought, monetary, development economics.
Letters of Recommendation: Head of Department, Senior Lecturer, no one known, will serve my purposes.
Research Experience: NA
Teaching Experience: NA
Research Interests: Political Economy, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Micro theory.
SOP: Short, Simple, just tried to signal course content, courses audited, interests.
Applied to: LSE, Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Toulouse, UPF BGSE, Tilburg, Erasmus Mundus
Acceptances: LSE EME(2 yr), Toulouse M1, UPF, Tilburg (MPhil), Erasmus Mundus MMEF1, Cambridge PG Dip (Econ)
Rejections: Oxford, UCL, Erasmus Mundus QEM
Attending: LSE
Accepts: - Institution: Toulouse School of Economics M1 Economics
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Applied for Eiffel Scholarship
Notification date: 12-23-2008
Notified through: E-mail
Comments: Applied early December
- Institution: Barcelona GSE MSc Economics
Decision: Accepted
Funding: None
Notification date: 02-03-2009
Notified through: E-mail
Comments: Applied in early January, have to pay a reservation fee of Euro 500 by the 24th
- Institution: Tilburg MPhil (1st Year)
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Euro 7812 fee remission, Applied for CenTER Scholarship
Notification date: 02-17-2008
Notified through: E-mail
Comments: Applied late January
- Institution: Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne
Programme: Erasmus Mundus MMEF1
Decision: Accepted
Funding: NA
Notification Date: 17/03/2009 via email
- Institution: LSE
Programme: MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (2 yr)
Decision: Accepted
Notification Date: 31/03/2009
Funding: None
Comments: Conditional upon set GPA, and attending the September math courses.
- Institution: University of Cambridge
Programme: PG Diploma Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notification Date: 06/05/2009 via email
Funding: NA
Rejects: - Institution: UCL MSc Economics
Decision: Rejected
Funding: NA
Notification date: 01-27-2009
Notified through: Letter
Comments: Applied in early December, expected
- Institution: Oxford
Programme: MPhil
Decision: Rejected
Notification Date: 31/03/2009 by mail
Waitlists:
2009dw 2009:
Institution:Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Program:QEM
Decision:Acceptance
Funding:21000 Euro/year
Notification date:Mar 2nd
Has anyone got the offer and decided to go?
Accepts: - Institution:Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne QEM
Decision:Acceptance
Funding:21000 Euro/year
Notification date:Mar 2nd
Has anyone got the offer and decided to go?
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verio16 2009:
Type of Undergrad: BA (Honours) Economics from University of Delhi, India
Undergrad GPA: The university does not have a GPA system. My aggregate over 3 years is 72.4% (60 0s 1st division, the highest grade), roughly in the top 5 percentile(out of around 1000 students) in the university and ranked 3rd in college
GRE: Q800, V610, AWA 4.5
Math Courses:
Linear Algebra,multi variate Calculus, Constrained optimization(covered in a single course titled Mathematical methods for economics)
Reference books -Knut Sydsaeter and Peter J. Hammond, Mathematics for Economic Analysis and Alpha C. Chiang, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics
Statistics
Distribution, probability, regression,hypothesis testing (covered under statistical methods for economics)
Reference books - P.H. Karmel and M. Polasek, Applied Statistics for Economists and M.R. Spiegel, Theory and Problems of Statistics
Also had an Econometrics paper
A.S. Goldberger (1998), Introductory Econometrics
Econ Courses: Principles of economics, Micro, Advanced Micro (game theory), macro, development theory, money, public economics, economy state and society, other courses specific to the Indian Economy
Other Courses: Formal Logic (Others of hardly any importance)
Letters of Recommendation: From my college professors, but i doubt any of them are internationally recognised (potentially a serious hurdle)
Research Experience: Worked as an intern with an NGO for 2 months, was RA for a paper that later got published. Worked for 6 months in the research wing of Watson Wyatt Worldwide(consultancy).
Teaching Experience: NIL
Research Interests: Macroeconomic modelling
Other: Good bunch of extracurricular s (I dont really know if it matters though)
Results
Acceptances: Warwick (Msc), Bocconi (Msc, $$), Tilburg (Msc, $?)
Pending: Tinbergen, Paris school of economics, UCL
What would you have done differently? should have taken the GRE earlier. Missed a lot of deadlines and sent in hurriedly assembled application.
Would have been more careful about being on good terms with my professors during my unergrad.
Accepts: Acceptances: Warwick (Msc), Bocconi (Msc, $$), Tilburg (Msc, $?)
Rejects:
Waitlists: Pending: Tinbergen, Paris school of economics, UCL
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