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Valhalla 2008:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: BA in economics in continental europe, huge public university but internationally not very well known I'd say.


Undergrad GPA: 3.72/4 (using WES-conversion table), top 5% in my university

Type of Grad: MA Economics (I'm currently in the second year)

Grad GPA: 3.77/4 until now


GRE: 790 Q, 600 V, 4.5 AWA

Math Courses:

(900f those courses were not required in the economics-track (BA and MA) but I did those courses additionally as offered by the math department for math-students)

UG-Level: Mathematics I,II, III (dealing basically with integral calculus, differential equation systems, vector calculus...), Real analysis I, II, III, Functional Analysis I, II, Probability theory I,II,III, Linear Algebra I, II, III, Topology I, II, Differential Topology, Measure Theory, Optimization Theory,



Graduate Level: Real Analysis, Topology, Linear Algebra, Operator Theory, Recursive Methods/ Dynamic programming, Statistics I (using Casella and Berger), Statistics II (using Davidson's Stochastic limit theory)


Econ Courses: That's just an endless list... but some highlights:

UG Level: Micro I,II,III, Macro I,II,III, Game theory I, II, Evolutionary Game Theory, Cooperative Game Theory, Industrial Organization I, II, International Trade I, II, III, Monetary Economics I, II, ...


Graduate level: Micro I,II, (using MWG) Macro I,II, (using Ljungquvist and Sargent/ Stokey and Lucas), General Equilibrium Theory, Incomplete markets, Asset pricing, Public choice theory, Auction theory, Game theory, Voting theory, Industrial Organization

Letters of Recommendation: 3 econ profs, 2 are well known

Teaching Experience: TA UG Level for elementary economics, TA Graduate level in math and macro


Awards: 2 merit based awards from my UG - university, scholarship from my graduate institution, award from our central bank for my diploma thesis,

Research Interests: Micro-theory

SOP: talked about personal interests/ hobbys and connected it with some papers I read... but I don't think someone cared about it


Schools I applied to:

NW
UPenn
UCSD
Tilburg
UIUC
JHU
Purdue

U Arizona
BC
UC Davis
Toronto
IUB


RESULTS:


Acceptances:

UPenn (nada $)
Tilburg ($)
UIUC ($$)
U Arizona ($$)
BC ($$)
IUB ($$)
UC Davis (?)


Rejections:

NW... (I'm still shocked):eek:

Pending:

Toronto, Purdue, JHU, UCSD


What would you have done differently?

A lot! I wouldn't underestimate me anymore and I would apply for some top ten universities. My tip: aim as high as possible otherwise you get a lot of acceptances from middle-ranked universities and what can you buy with that?









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mamama 2008:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: Engineering-best university in my country
Undergrad GPA: 3.31/4.00
Grad GPA: 3.7/4.00 same university economics department

GRE: 800q, 400v, 3.5w
Math Courses: Calculus I,II linear algebra, differential eq. real analysis
Econ Courses: master courses and many micro courses
Letters of Recommendation: from economics department/ applied to some without master thesis advisors LOR
Research Experience: 2 years, a published article in native language and 2 ongoing

Teaching Experience: TA for a couple semesters in UG and G
Research Interests: micro,io
SOP: standard

RESULTS:
Attending: Austin

Acceptances: Austin ($$), Boston College ($$), Duke ($$), Rochester ($$), Rutgers ($$), UIUC ($$),Pompeu Fabra($$), Tinbergen ($$), Tilburg($$), Wisconsin Madison
Rejects: Upenn,Nyu,Columbia,NW
What would you have done differently? have chose another university for master Accepts: Rejects: Waitlists:
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: Rejects: Waitlists:
miaataro 2009:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad/Grad: BSc in Economics (minors in Mathematics, Statistics and Business Studies) and MSc in Economics (+ a still unfinished MSc in Statistics) from an unknown university in Finland.
Undergrad/Grad GPA: Overall 4.90, Econ 4.94, Math 4.83, Stat 4.94 (on a scale of 1-5)
GRE: 800Q, 390V, 4AWA

TOEFL: 111 (29R, 30L, 23S, 29W)
Math Courses: Unfortunately, they don't have illustrative names. I tooks a course sequence for a minor in math that dealt with the basic areas (linear algebra, differential calculus, integral calculus, real analysis, etc.) in more of an applied fashion.
Stat Courses: A lot. Mathematical Statistics 1 & 2 and Probability Calculus A & B + courses in time series analysis, survival models, mixed models, regression models, multivariate statistics, stochastic simulation, computational statistics, bayesian statistics, robust and nonparametric methods etc.
Econ Courses: A lot. Intermediate and advanced level courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics and econometrics + courses in labour economics, regional economics, microeconometrics, applied econometrics, game theory etc. I also took the econometrics core course in the Finnish Doctoral Program in Economics during the ongoing academic year.

Letters of Recommendation: 2 economics professors and a statistics professor from my university and a research director from an economics research institute. I guess they all know me quite well and believe in me, so their letters should have been good in that sense. None of them were well-known, however (but apparently they had some important connections after all).
Research Experience: BSc and MSc theses in economics, RA for one of my economics professors for 7 months, two last summers as a research trainee in an economics research institute, two last falls as an assistant researcher in an economics research institute, a researcher in an economics research institute from January onwards.
Teaching Experience: None
Research Interests: Econometrics and empirical/applied microeconomics

SOP: Nothing spectacular. Tried to emphasize my research experience and convince the reader that my educational background in economics, mathematic and statistics is strong enough, I guess.

RESULTS:
Acceptances: MIT, Tinbergen, LSE MSc EME (Research), Tilburg MPhil (2nd year), Uppsala (it was never official, though, as I withdraw my application)
Waitlists: -
Rejections: Princeton, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, U Michigan, UCL MSc


What would you have done differently? Absolutely nothing. I'm still amazed by my outcomes and really happy that I listened to my recommenders advice to try my luck with some of the top US schools. It definitely paid off... :grad: Accepts: Rejects: Waitlists:
LouisBD 2009:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: M.A. Economics B.A. Communication studies
Msc. Mathematical economics and econometric methods (highest honors expected)
Undergrad GPA: ?
GRE: 800 Q, 610 V, 4.5 AWA
Math Courses: analysis I-III, linear algebra, applied linear algebra, probability theory, dfferential- and integral theory, stat courses....
Econ Courses (PhD-level): micro II (MWG), micro III (MWG), econometric models
Econ Courses (undergrad-level): a lot
Other Courses:
Letters of Recommendation:
1 from full prof, well known, cambridge connected should be very good if not excellent
1 from young assistant professor, just good I guess
Research Experience: master thesis (highest honors)
Teaching Experience: private teacher (do not know if this counts)
Research Interests: theoreticaleconometrics, empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, macro-finance, microeconometrics (to soon to decide?)
SOP: not very special
Concerns:
I am only looking for an offer with funding and I do not aim at a very broad range of schools. Very mixed background. Study results were rather low in my early days. GRE verbal and GRE AWA are not that impressive.
Other:
Applying to: Tilburg (M.Phil 2nd year econometrics track)
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