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Originally Posted by Nalfien
OneMoreEcon might of sounded mean but I know it is tough love he is trying to get accross. Seriously, he has your best interest in mind and makes some good points :-)
Good luck
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We are talking about rational choice here, aren't we? I have been unabashedly blunt on the costs and benefits of devoting five years (or more) of one's life and lost income to obtain a doctoral degree. There's the false hope that you can get tenured at Harvard or work at the World Bank coming from Podunk University, but empirical observations are cruelly against those odds. Then some may be okay with teaching at a community college as an adjunct instructor after all that time and effort, even that kind of utility function still boggles my mind.
The admissions committees want to see a high quant score for very good reasons. First, of course, they want to know that you are not a moron. But bottom line is that they want to see that you are serious about going to graduate school, and that you are willing to spend a week or two to study for it and score high.
In short, a doctoral program may not be a good idea if you can't ace 8th grade math.
Ram