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Rejections:
taurenchieftain 2011:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: BAS in applied math and economics from Stanford
Undergrad GPA: 3.9
Type of Grad: MS in statistics from Stanford
Grad GPA: 3.9
GRE: 800 Q, 610 V, 5 AWA
Relevant Courses:
Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus (A+)
Multivariable Calculus (A+)
Ordinary Differential Equations (A)
Function of Real Variable (credit)
Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory (A+)
Theory of Probability (A+)
Statistical Inference (A)
Partial Differential Equations (A+)
Fundamental Concepts in Analysis (A+)
Linear Regression and Analysis of Variance (A)
Introduction to Stochastic Processes (A-)
Lebesgue Integral and Fourier Transformation (A)
Microeconomic Theory I (A-)
Microeconomic Theory II (A)
Macroeconomic Theory (A)
Introduction to Econometrics (A-)
Advanced Topics in Econometrics (A+)
Risk and Insurance (A+)
International Finance (A)
Financial Economics (A+)
Economics of Innovation (A)
Introduction to Optimization (A-)
Introduction to Stochastic Modeling (A)
Discrete Mathematics For Computer Scientists I (A)
Discrete Mathematics For Computer Scientists II (A)
Programing Methodology (A-)
Programing Abstractions (A)
Imperfect Competition (Pending)
Phd Micro I (Pending)
Financial Statisics (Pending)
Letters of Recommendation: one from chair prof in finance, one from assist prof in finance, one from assist prof in economics. Worked as RA for all three, knows me well and should be glowing.
Research Experience: 1 year each as an RA in economics and in finance. Doing honors thesis on a finance topic
Teaching Experience: ABSOLUTELY NONE
Research Interests: financial economics, corporate finance, IO, applied econometrics.
SOP: starting to write it
Concerns: I feel that I am prepared. My 3.9 GPAs are due to a few Bs in required humanities and writing courses (I am an international student).
Other:
Applying to: Top 15 finance and economics programs, but mainly in finance.
Accepts: - Institution: Northwestern University Finance
Decision: Accepted
Funding: coming in next email, but should be the standard package.
Notification date: 02/28
Notified through: Email
Posted on Grad Cafe: No
Comments: First admit. This gave me back some confidence that was totally lost after the ding from MIT and waitlist from Stanford. Really blew my worries away. Now I can wait for the other schools and eventually the stanford waitlist with ease.
- Institution: UCLA Anderson Finance
Decision: Accepted
Notification date: 03/01/2011
Notified through: via email
Posted on GC: No
Comments: I tend to stay on the business forum these days. This is just for untiltled's record and future applicants as a reference.
- Institution: Duke Finance
Decision: Accepted
Funding: coming
Notification date: 3/2/2011
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: no
Rejects: - Institution: Yale SOM Finance
Decision: Rejected
Notification date: 02/15/2001
Notified through: email directed to website
Posted on GC: No
Comments: None
- Institution: MIT Sloan Finance
Decision: Rejected
Notification date: 02/20/2001
Notified through: email
Posted on GC: No
Comments: None
- Institution: Chicago Booth Finance
Decision: Rejected
Notification date: 03/01/2001
Notified through: email
Posted on GC: No
Comments: Confirmed that I am not a top3 applicant. Bye-bye Chicago
Waitlists:
thesparky 2011:
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: BA Econ with honours, top 4 Canadian
Undergrad GPA: ~3.9X/4.0 (converted)
Type of Grad: none
Grad GPA: -
GRE: 800Q 650V 4.5AWA
Math Courses: Calc I-III (A-, A, A+), Honours Linear Algebra (A-), Proofs (A), ODE (A+), Probability (A+), Stochastic Processes (A+)
Econ Courses: Inter. Micro I-II (A, A+), Inter. Macro I-II (A-, A-), Stats-Metrics (A+, A+, A+), Development Econ (A+), Game Theory (A+, A+), Human Behaviour (grad; A+), Honours Thesis (A, A), Math Econ (A, A)
Other Courses: some commerce courses (As), some relevant non-econ courses (A, A+), several unofficial grad course audits
Letters of Recommendation: econ/psych prof; current boss (well known); econometrics prof
Research Experience: A couple of directed studies (A+s), thesis, some years RA for first letter of recommendation writer, currently full-time RA for second letter of recommendation writer.
Teaching Experience: none
Research Interests: Behavioural econ
SOP: Its a statement of purpose alright.
Concerns: No real analysis. Oh well.
Other: Had a SSHRC (Canadian NSF) last year.
Applying to: Some top 5 (with B-schools) and a few others
Accepts: - Institution: Caltech Social Sciences PhD
Decision: Accepted
Funding: $28k/year
Notification date: Feb 10
Notified through: email
Comments: All accepts probably today. [edit]phone also[/edit]
- Institution: Cornell Economics
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Sage Fellowship
Notification date: 03/11/11
Notified through: Email
Comments: Glad to have it.
Rejects: - Institution: Chicago Booth MOB
Decision: Rejected
Funding: n/a
Notification date: Feb 16
Notified through: Email to check website
Posted on GC: No
Comments:
- Institution: Stanford GSB Economic Analysis and Policy
Decision: Rejected
Funding: N/A
Notification date: February 18
Notified through: Email to check website
Posted on GC: no
Comments: Was never going to happen.
- Institution: MIT Sloan Economic Sociology PhD
Decision: rejected
Notification date: 2/22/2011
Notified through: email to check website
Posted on GF: No
Comments: Email to check website = reject. No B-school for me :/
- Institution: UC Berkeley Economics
Decision: Rejected
Funding: N/A
Notification date: 3/2/2011
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: No
Comments: another one bites the dust.
- Institution: MIT Economics PhD
Decision: Rejection
Funding: Probably none
Notification date: 3/7/2011
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC : no
Comments: figures.
- Institution: Stanford Economics
Decision: Rejection
Funding: -
Notification date: 3/4/11 (mailed)
Notified through: Mail
Posted on GF:
Comments: Finally able to check what I knew was there.
- Institution: Harvard University Economics PhD
Decision: Rejected
Funding: N/A
Notification date: 3/14
Notified through: mail
Posted on GC: No
Comments: there's the end of it. all official notifications received.
Waitlists: - Institution: UMich Economics
Decision: waitlisted
Funding: 1st year tuition waiver, TA/RA 2nd year onward (if admitted)
Notification date: 3/3/2011
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: no
Comments: they ask us to keep them updated about our other offers.
blueser 2011:
Type of Undergrad: One of the Lower Ranking Big 10
Undergrad GPA: Cumulative 3.84 Econ 4 Math 3.81 (PhD course grades not counted)
Type of Grad: N/A
Grad GPA: N/A
GRE: Q800 V720 AW4.5
Math Courses: Cal 1,2,3 (all A's) ODE (A+) Linear Algebra (A) Linear Algebra-Proof (A) Honors Real Analysis (B)
Econ Courses (PhD-level): Micro 1 (B+) Micro 2 (B) Math for Economists (B)
Econ Courses (undergrad-level): Standard basic courses + IO + Game Theory + International Finance + Econometrics + Honors Thesis (All A's and A+'s)
Other Courses:
Letters of Recommendation: 1 professor- MIT PhD (strong), 1 assit prof - Stanford PhD (strong), 1 assit prof - Stanford PhD (not strong), 1 associate prof - Northwestern PhD (not strong)
Research Experience: Honors Thesis in IO, 1 independent research in labor econ - paper just submitted to a journal, 1st author
Teaching Experience: UTA for 1 semester in the department of English (probably not gonna help...)
Research Interests: IO, Game Theory, Labor
SOP: Nothing special
Concerns: I really shouldn't have taken soooo many PhD Econ courses this past fall... bombed all of them... I was simply too busy too keep up with everything...
Other:
Applying to: 18 schools ranging from Harvard to UC Davis with a very significant emphasis on schools ranking in the 10th to the 30th, which I think is more realistic for me.
Accepts: - Institution: Toulouse School of Economics M2 EMO
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Chances low since there are 70+ students competing for 5-6 scholarships
Notification date: April 11 Snail Mail, April 6 email
Notified through: Emailed inquiry last week; received snail mail this Monday
Posted on GC: No
Comments: Will definitely go if awarded scholarship; will seriously consider going even if without funding. I don't have many choices...
Rejects: - Institution: Wharton Applied Econ PhD
Decision: Rejected
Notification date: 2/22/2011
Notified through: email to check website
Posted on GF: will do
Comments: Thought I might get a chance of interview when I didn't get rejection in the first round... But more or less kinda expected... 3 rejections and no ad does make me kinda sad...
- Institution: MIT Sloan Economic Sociology PhD
Decision: rejected
Notification date: 2/22/2011
Notified through: email to check website
Posted on GF: Yes
Comments: 4th rejection... No ad so far... Just saw a very good job posting on my schools career services website... Hope it's not too late to have a backup plan to apply for a JOB...
- Institution: Duke PHD economics
Decision: Rejected
Funding: N/A
Notification date: 02/25/2011
Notified through: Email to check website
Posted on GC: no
Comment: ......
Waitlists:
conger 2011:
Institution: Northwestern Kellogg (MES)
Program: PhD
Decision: Interview
Funding:
Notification date: 2/19/2011
Notified through: Email
Posted on GF: no
Comments:
Accepts: - Institution: Northwestern - Kellogg Managerial Economics and Strategy (PhD)
Decision: Accepted
Funding:
said a bit more generous than regular econ program
Notification date: 2/21/2011
Notified through: phone (unofficial)
Posted on GF: no
Comments:
- Institution: Upenn Economics
Decision: Accepted
Funding: $$
Notification date: 02/24/2011
Notified through: email
Posted on GC: no
Comment: Happy!!
- Institution: Penn State PHD economics
Decision: Accepted
Funding: $$/$$$
Notification date: 02/25/2011
Notified through: Email
Posted on GC: no
Comment:
- Institution: Princeton Economics
Decision: Accepted
Funding: Yes
Notification date: 03/10/11
Notified through: Email
Comments: Incredible!
Rejects: - Institution: Rochester Economics (PhD)
Decision: rejected
Notification date: 2/22/2011
Notified through: email
Posted on GF: no
Comments: Well, first rej
- Institution: MIT Sloan Finance PhD
Decision: rejected
Notification date: 2/22/2011
Notified through: email to check website
Posted on GF: No
Comments: Rej after interview. so far today is not a good day....
- Institution: Duke PHD economics
Decision: Rejected
Funding: N/A
Notification date: 02/25/2011
Notified through: Email to check website
Posted on GC: no
Comment:
Waitlists: - Institution: Minnesota Economics (PhD)
Decision: Wait List
Funding: N/A
Notification date: 2/23/2011
Notified through: Email
Posted on GC: no
Comments: Probably will not go to Minnesota
sourdiesel 2011:
Institution: MIT Sloan
Program: Finance PhD
Decision: rejected
Notification date: 2/22/2011
Notified through: email to check website
Posted on GF: No
Comments: should've cared more about grades...rejected by yale but also accepted by duke today (no word on funding).
Accepts:
Rejects: - Institution: MIT Sloan Finance PhD
Decision: rejected
Notification date: 2/22/2011
Notified through: email to check website
Posted on GF: No
Comments: should've cared more about grades...rejected by yale but also accepted by duke today (no word on funding).
Waitlists:
oikomaniac 2011:
I am a new member. My results below (all funded offers):
Institution: Stanford GSB
Program: PhD in Finance
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Yale
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Duke
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Northwestern
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Harvard
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Maryland
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: MIT
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Stanford
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Chicago
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Columbia
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Accepts: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Yale
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Duke
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Northwestern
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Harvard
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Maryland
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: MIT
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Stanford
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Chicago
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Institution: Columbia
Program: PhD in Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Stanford GSB Finance
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Yale Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Duke Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Northwestern Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Harvard Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Maryland Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: MIT Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Stanford Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Chicago Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Columbia Economics
Decision: Accepted
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Rejects: - Institution: MIT Sloan Finance
Decision: Rejected
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Chicago Booth Financial Economics
Decision: Rejected
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Columbia Business Finance & Economics
Decision: Rejected
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: London Business School Finance
Decision: Rejected
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Wharton Finance
Decision: Rejected
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Berkeley Economics
Decision: Rejected
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
- Institution: Princeton Economics
Decision: Rejected
Notified through: E-mail
Posted on GC: yes
Waitlists:
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