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econ_hopeful · 2006 March 15th, 04:28 PM

I wrote to Prof. Levitt through his Freakonomics e-mail to tell him about his thread here at TestMagic.

He also sent me a reply with additional details about his pre-graduate school profile:

For what it is worth, if you want to add it to the discussion:
I did work as a management consultant for two years before going back to get a Ph.D.

My only college math course was calculus 1a, the very first intro calculus course.

I got 800s on math and logic section of GRE.

My letter writers were Alberto Alesina, Philippe Weil (my thesis advisor), and one of my bosses at the consulting firm.

I got the NSF after my first year at MIT...I didn't know enough to apply to NSF when applying to grad schools.

I am told by the admissions people at University of Chicago that if I had applied there (I didn't), they would have thrown my application out before a faculty member ever saw it because I had too little math.

2006 March 15th, 04:28 PM	#33 (permalink)
econ_hopeful I JUST got here. Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 3	wrote to Levitt about this thread I wrote to Prof. Levitt through his Freakonomics e-mail to tell him about his thread here at TestMagic. He also sent me a reply with additional details about his pre-graduate school profile: For what it is worth, if you want to add it to the discussion: I did work as a management consultant for two years before going back to get a Ph.D. My only college math course was calculus 1a, the very first intro calculus course. I got 800s on math and logic section of GRE. My letter writers were Alberto Alesina, Philippe Weil (my thesis advisor), and one of my bosses at the consulting firm. I got the NSF after my first year at MIT...I didn't know enough to apply to NSF when applying to grad schools. I am told by the admissions people at University of Chicago that if I had applied there (I didn't), they would have thrown my application out before a faculty member ever saw it because I had too little math.