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Old 09-22-2006, 06:01 PM   #11 (permalink)
gredow
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Bay Area, California
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thanks for your suggestion on online math courses- an option i hadn't considered.

well i've only had cal 1 so 2 & 3 will be new to me. should i still use the 1,000+ pg stewart book?

taking cal 1-3, analysis, math stats, wont do me any good as far as influencing what programs i get into in fall 07, but assuming they're offered and i can take them, is 11 months enough time to go through this material and be ready and not be distracted by a math deficiency first year?

i was looking at top 20 schools but since i dont have the above-mentioned math do i even have a shot? my undergrad gpa 3.68, solid LOR's from a state college, all the standard econ classes for a BA econ, i am retaking the GRE because previously i scored a pitiful 650Q 510V.

i am wondering if it will be wiser, as a canadian peer on here suggested, to take a MA before continuing on to PhD. Would that help me get into a better PhD program assuming i do well in the MA? Wouldnt i be as busy with an MA as i would in the first couple yrs of a PhD to not have time for Math there either?

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