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Applying to the Econ and Finance PhD Programs. My profile looks decent in general:
Georgia Tech CS/Econ double major
GRE: 630V/800Q/5.0AWA
GPA: 3.79 Overall, 4.00 Econ
Math: Multivariable Calc (A), ODE (B), Combinatorics (A), Prob and Stats (A), senior-level Linear Algebra (A), Real Analysis (C, alas), will take Stochastic Processes and more stats next semester (and will do well)
Econ: Intermediate Micro (A)/Macro (A), Econometrics (A)
TA Experience: 6 semesters of teaching twice-a-week recitations (from Pre-calc to Multivariable Calc), graded homeworks and tests for some upper-level math classes
RA Experience: Awarded 2 internal undergraduate research grants working on economic research since 2004 ($3000)
Related stuff: 6 full-time semesters of Co-op internships as a SAS programmar/analyst for the Insitute of Nuclear Power Operations (established after Three-Mile Island in 1979)
B-School list:
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
University of Chicago
New York University (Stern)
Columbia University (NY)
Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)
Harvard University (MA)
University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
Duke University (Fuqua) (NC)
Cornell University (Johnson) (NY)
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
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