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Originally Posted by asianeconomist
An important consideration should be the level of the courses that you've taken in the Grad level. For instance, did you use MWG/ Varian's Analysis for your Micro theory course. If these courses were rigorous enough then they should definitely act as good signals. Your grade in econometrics is a bit on the lower side, considering you'll be doing a lot of time-series in FE. However, your Stat course performance may partially alleviate that problem.
I wouldn't say that you don't have a shot at top schools, but the general advice would be to apply widely across the board, with let's say 1-3 top 10, 5-6 reaches and 2-3 safeties. You might refer to the EconPhD.net rankings for selecting schools based on your specialties.
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my program is terminal, most of the students are just using it to get a leg up in industry. The prof would probably have been scalped if he'd used MWG! We used Reny and Jehle.
Frankly am targeting top 20 as my long reaches, and 20-45 as main targets, with more safeties further down the ranks. But there's a limit to how far down I'd go. I've seen on TM profiles/results the diversification a lot of people use, and it never hurts to apply to some long shots even just for the hell of it.
From what I've seen you seem to need a blemishless profile to enter a top 10, or some 'big thing' to make up. I just wonder how a master level real analysis class would go to shape up my profile now. Right now it seems there's no other way to improve my profile other than
LORs.