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zeira · 10-11-2006, 10:09 PM

Hi everyone,

I posted a while ago about my concerns on whether I should go to graduate school right after graduation or it would be beneficial to work for a while. Meanwhile I am leaning more towards going to graduate school, but I am worried whether I have good chances of getting into a good program.

Here is my profile.

- international student, top LAC + classes taken at a univ nearby
- Math & Econ double-major

- my Math courses are really spread out - I skipped a lot of core classes, but I know the material. I have one B and all A's. I've taken through Anaysis II which covered Lebesgue integration and some measure theory. Placed top 200 in the Putnam in the past two years.

- Econ (4.00/4.00): regular intemediate classes, an advanced Macro class (used Romer), Econometrics, some field classes, taking graduate micro now.

GRE - Q800 V740, still waiting for the AWA, should be around 5.0

TA: both for Math and Econ. Tutoring, grading...

Research experience: RA for an econ professor for a summer.
Math REU with paper to be soon published in an academic journal.
Doing an Econ senior thesis at the moment.

Interests: Applied Micro (Labor and Public), maybe microtheory.

So... what do you think? Are schools like MIT and Berkeley completely out of my reach?

Thanks!

10-11-2006, 10:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
zeira Within my grasp! Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 121	Another one of these... evaluation needed Hi everyone, I posted a while ago about my concerns on whether I should go to graduate school right after graduation or it would be beneficial to work for a while. Meanwhile I am leaning more towards going to graduate school, but I am worried whether I have good chances of getting into a good program. Here is my profile. - international student, top LAC + classes taken at a univ nearby - Math & Econ double-major - my Math courses are really spread out - I skipped a lot of core classes, but I know the material. I have one B and all A's. I've taken through Anaysis II which covered Lebesgue integration and some measure theory. Placed top 200 in the Putnam in the past two years. - Econ (4.00/4.00): regular intemediate classes, an advanced Macro class (used Romer), Econometrics, some field classes, taking graduate micro now. GRE - Q800 V740, still waiting for the AWA, should be around 5.0 TA: both for Math and Econ. Tutoring, grading... Research experience: RA for an econ professor for a summer. Math REU with paper to be soon published in an academic journal. Doing an Econ senior thesis at the moment. Interests: Applied Micro (Labor and Public), maybe microtheory. So... what do you think? Are schools like MIT and Berkeley completely out of my reach? Thanks!