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Originally Posted by kkitkat
Unless they are math professors. I was always under the impression that LORs from math profs are just as good as from econ profs provided you have at least one LOR from econ prof. |
I wouldn't agree with that unless they are math professors who have a large pool of econ applicants with whom to compare you, and who are well informed about or well connected to economic research. Econ departments are not looking for future mathematicians; they are looking for future economists. They want evidence that you can do the necessary math to succeed, but also testimonial that you have good economic intuition, creativity, and other characteristics correlated with doing good economic research. Math professors can provide convincing arguments that you are smart and well prepared on the mathematical side, but they can't provide the rest. If your transcript shows sufficient mathematical preparation, then I would guess you are better with a letter of given quality from an econ professor than a letter of the same quality from a math professor.
But of course this is all just speculation since I'm not on the admissions committee!!
