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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.
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Acceptances:
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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Rejections:
killpueino 2011:
PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: BSc. Economics in a Economics and Business Scholl of the University of Chile (n 1 -2 depends on ranking of country) Undergrad GPA: 3.1 (Equivalent) (Historically, the max of each cohort isn't over 3,5) Type of Grad: N/A Grad GPA: N/A GRE: Q780 V510 E3 (In E I made a mistake and didn't sent one essay even when I have finished like 15 min before the deadline ) Math Courses: Calculus (B), Algebra (A), Analysis (Grad level) (B+), Optimization (A), Analysis (Undergrad level) (A+). Econ Courses: Macroeconomics I (A+), Macroeconomics II (A), Introd. Macroeconomics Economics (A), Intro. Economics (B+), Intro Microeconomics (B+), Microeconomics I(C), Microeconomics II (B+), Industrial Organization (B), Labor Economics (B), International Finance (B+), Economic Policy (B+), International Economics (C+), Econometrics I (B), Econometrics II (B), Finance I (B+), Finance II (A), Applied Macroeconomics with Matlab (B+), Mathematics for Economics (A+), Economic Development (A), Economic History (C+), Public Finance (B+), Welfare Economics (B), Research Topics (B+) Other Courses: Bussiness courses, average (B) Letters of Recommendation: Two great LoRs (one a very known professor in the Economic Theory Field, and another one of a MIT PhD.) Research Experience: R.A. in Macroeconomic Consultant Agency, with one of my letter of recommendation, R.A. twice as intern in the Central Bank of my country, one of them at the Financial Research Area. Teaching Experience: I was Teaching Assistant and Head Teaching Asssitant of all Macroeconomics lectures of the School. Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Financial Macroeconomics, Finance and Bubbles. SOP: I talked lots of my experience and how I get into this field, Why I'm Applying, what do I expect and things I had to do to learn more about of economics (Like I travelled more than 130km for a 2 hours seminar from my city to the Central Bank each friday) Other: I was encouraged to apply sooner than I was planning to, but I really wanted to start the PhD path before 26 (I have 25) to finish my PhD before 32). RESULTS: Acceptances: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (MSc), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (MPhill) (60% reduction of tuition, attending to) Waitlists: N/A Rejections: Bonn (MSc) Pending: N/A What would you have done differently? I would started my path in Economics before (I was in Engineering first). I would put some extra effort on the lectures I didn't liked and I would try to improve more my statistical basis, I also would liked to realize more Teaching Assistanships in different areas (like micro) also.
Accepts: Acceptances: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (MSc), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (MPhill) (60% reduction of tuition, attending to)
- Institution: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics MSc. in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Funding: No
Notification date: May, 9th
Notified through: e-mail
Posted on GF: No
Comments: Have almost 1 month to decide, which implies 1 month to make a deposit of 3k euros in their account to save the place.
- Institution: Universidade Nova de Lisboa Research Master in Economics (MPhill)
Decision: Accepted
Funding: 60% reduction fee =D.
Notification date: May 9th
Notified through: e-mail
Posted on GF: no
Comments: Attending.
Rejects: Rejections: Bonn (MSc)
- Institution: Bonn University (Not Bonn GSE) Master of Science
Decision: Rejected
Funding: -
Notification date: May 31st
Notified through: e-mail
Posted on GF: no
Comments: I really thought that I got in, but nevertheless I already had decided to attend to Nova's Research Master and also had paid the fee.
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