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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:

packerdevil 2012:
I guess this profile shows some good things with some "what-ifs" on my mind. A few regrets, but nonetheless I'm in to a few PhD programs, so my goals are being met.
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: BS Econ/Math, ASU
Undergrad GPA: 3.43
GRE: 155/161/4.5 (Equiv: 530/770/4.5; V/Q/W)
Math Courses: Calc I (HS), Calc II (B+), Honors Calc III (B), Lin Alg (B), Diff Eq (A), Real Analysis (B), Adv. Lin. Alg (C), Lin. Opt. (C), Chaos Theory (B+), Probability (B+), Stochastic Processes (currently taking)
Econ Courses: Beg/Int/Adv Macro (A+/A-/A+), Honors Micro (B+), International Econ/Trade (B+), Health Care Econ (B), Honors Behavioral Econ (A), Game Theory (A), Econometrics (C), Law & Econ (currently taking)
Letters of Recommendation: One Nobel Laureate Economist, Behavioral Econ/Law & Econ professor/Thesis Director, Diff Eq/Chaos Theory Professor/Thesis Second Reader
Research Experience: My undergraduate thesis, which focused on the behavior of people in BitTorrent and the economic efficiency of such behavior. I also did a research project on stochastic modeling of the Black-Scholes Financial Model, a project on networking in basketball to predict outcomes of games, and helped with a project on people's behavior on incentives and cheating.
Teaching Experience: Tutoring math and economics courses
Research Interests: Microeconomics, maybe Econometrics. Really into how individuals in certain markets behave efficiently (comparison/contrast of different types of markets)
SOP: How I always wanted to seize any (research) opportunity that came my way, or really any opportunity that gives me more knowledge and gets me a push forward to reach my goals
Concerns: Obviously my overall GPA. If I could do undergraduate studies again, I would have worked harder in school, and put a lot more effort into making those B's into A's. Also, I would have chosen some different professors and classes. Adv. Lin. Alg. and Lin. Opt. were simply no fun because the professors did a bad job teaching, plus Adv. Lin. Alg. was just way too difficult for me. As far as Econometrics, I should have waited until this semester to take it with a professor who was really good at teaching it, instead of who I had who just used powerpoint slides and told us what formulas to use. He did not explain what he expected us to take from this course at all except "money tree." I'm working hard right now and on pace of getting straight A's. Also my GRE scores are to be somewhat desired.
RESULTS:
Acceptances: Colorado, Oregon (funding "unlikely"), George Washington (no funding)
Waitlists: Colorado (funding)
Rejections: Vanderbilt, UVA
Pending: ASU, V Tech (has anyone heard from any of these two schools?)
Attending: As of now Colorado, unless some funding offer comes from left field.
What would you have done differently?
Stated with Concerns.
Accepts:
    Acceptances: Colorado, Oregon (funding "unlikely"), George Washington (no funding)
Rejects:
    Rejections: Vanderbilt, UVA
Waitlists:
    Waitlists: Colorado (funding)

conman 2012:
Institution: Boston College
Program: Economics PhD
Decision: Rejected
Funding: N/A
Notification Date: 3/17/2012
Notified Through: Mail
Posted to GC: No
Comments: Dated March 13
Accepts:
  • Institution: CUNY Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: Waitlist for Fellowship Notification date: 04/09/12 Notified through: Email Posted on GC: Yes Comments: TA/RA positions available. Good match of research interest and the faculty members I have met were wonderful people.
  • Institution: George Washington University Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: No Funding. Notification date: 04/06/12 Notified through: Email Posted on GC: No Comments: Unfunded. A Professor I contacted stated getting a certain cutoff gpa in the first year will mean consideration for funding (no gurantee, but students with the gpa are usually funded). Preferred since I want to work in private sector/economic policy and GWU has good placement record with WB/IMF.
  • Institution: Stony Brook University Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: Waitlist Notification date: 03/19/12 Notified through: Email Posted on GC: No Comments: Funding Waitlist, but been told high likelihood of fudning if I decide to attend. Rejections: BC, UVa, Georgetown, UMD, Cornell, UCSC
Rejects:
  • Institution: Boston College Economics PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: N/A Notification Date: 3/17/2012 Notified Through: Mail Posted to GC: No Comments: Dated March 13
Waitlists:


Rejections:

kmoney 2012:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: Top 40 US School.
Undergrad GPA: 3.5
Type of Grad: None
Grad GPA: -
GRE: Q-161, V-151
Math Courses: A little of everything (double degree in math and econ)
Econ Courses (grad-level): -
Econ Courses (undergrad-level): advanced micro and macro, finance & investment, econometrics, international, game theory, etc.
Other Courses:
Letters of Recommendation: three econ profs - all with PhDs from Berkeley and current research being published
Research Experience: Micro-finance research in India
Teaching Experience:
Research Interests: Economics Development
SOP:
Concerns: Low GPA and GRE
Other:
Applied to: UCLA, Michigan, BC, BU, UNC, Georgetown, GW, Virginia Tech, Clemson
Accepts:
  • Institution: Clemson Econ PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: FF + $15K Notification Date: 02/03/2012 Notified Through: E-mail Posted on GC: No Comments:
Rejects:
  • Institution: Berkeley Econ PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: - Notification Date: 02/24/2012 Notified Through: E-mail Posted on GC: No Comments:
  • Institution: Georgetown Econ Decision: Rejected Funding: - Notified: 3/8 Notified through: email Posted on GC: No Just got the email to check the status online - decision letter is at the very bottom!
  • Institution: George Washington University Economics PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: N/A Notification date: 03/16/12 Notified through: Email Posted on GC: no Comments: Bummmmmer
Waitlists:


Waitlists:
Admit summary statistics:
As submitted and recoreded from Test Magic:
There were 2 accepted out of 3 applicants.Of those accepted, average GPA was 3.43, average GREQ was 770.0.
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