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I know many of us have posted our profiles and stats in threads, but they seem to get buried in the forum. Now, instead of going through all the threads to match up an admit with a profile, we can use this thread as an 'official reference' (unless Erin dissaproves). P.S. Erin: I thought Success would be the place for this thread, but if you think it belongs elsewhere, plz move it there!

 

Now, if everyone would be kind enough to post (or re-port) their profiles/stats in the following manner, we can be more efficient!!!!

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Mindcraft's profile:

 

Degree: B.S. in Applied Mathematics/Pure Mathematics

Minor: Computer Science

Math GPA: 3.95/4.0

CGPA: 3.7/4.0

Undergrad Univ: Univ. Central Arkansas

GRE: V470 (ouch) Q800 AWA5.5

Research: 2 yrs in symmetries of nonlinear partial differential equations

Talks: Several conferences, including 2005 national MAA session

Prof. Exp: Actuarial internship at major health insurance firm

Desired field of graduate study: MS in Financial Engineering

SOP: Very good, I think!

Reccs: Very good to excellent

 

Admits/Rejects:

 

- Florida State Univ. (unofficial admit)

 

Pending:

 

- Boston Univ.

- New York Univ.

- Princeton Univ.

- UC-Berkeley

- Columbia Univ.

- Georgia Tech

 

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Who's next? :)

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Who's next? :)

That'll be me :):)

 

Degree: B.Tech in Information & Communication Technology

CGPA: 3.97/4.00

Rank: 1 out of 240

GRE: Q 800 + V 670 + AW 4.0

TOEFL: 287 (Essay 6.0)

TSE: result not out (Didn't go too well)

Area of interest: Image Processing

Undergrad Univ: DA-IICT, Gujarat

Selected Projects:

- with Indian Air Force on MIG 21 image analysis

- implementation of steganographic algos in Logitech webcam

Research/Papers:

1. published and adjudged among best 2 student papers at 12th international conference on advanced computing and communication (ADCOM)

2. selected for presentation at global signal processing conference, santa clara, ca

Recos: i hope excellent

SOP: i think decent

Admits:

None

Rejects:

Ohio State University (MS EE)

Pending:

University of Arizona (MS EE)

University of Illinois -UC (PhD EE)

University of California - SB (PhD EE)

University of California - Berkeley (PhD EE)

University of Southern California (PhD EE)

Polytechnic University (MS EE)

Georgia Institute of Technology (PhD EE)

Notre Dame (PhD EE)

Texas A & M University (PhD EE)

Johns Hopkins University (PhD EE)

Purdue University (PhD EE)

University of Florida (PhD CS)

University of Rochester (PhD EE)

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Degree: BSc in Economics (Greece), Graduate Diploma in Math (UK, pending)

Undergrad GPA: 3.4

Undergrad GPA final two years 4.0

Graduate GPA (PhD in Business Strategy) 3.1 (resigned)

Rank: 1st out of 400

GRE: Q 770 + V 430 + AW 5.0 (A760 2002)

GMAT: 700 (2004) , 710 (2002)

Area of interest: Economics (Game Theory, IO, Micro)

Papers/Projects

Graduate Level: 3

Undergrad Level: 6

Graduate TA/RA 1year

Undergrad TA/RA 1 year

Recos: excellent

SOP: radical, math oriented

Admits:

Still waiting

Rejects:

None

Pending:

University of Toronto (MA Doctoral stream)

University of British Columbia (MA Econ)

Queen's University (MA Econ)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) (MSc Econ)

Toulouse (MSc Econ)

UCL (MSc Econ)

LSE (MSc EME)

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Degree BSc: Economics

BSc GPA: 7.72 / 10

Class Rank: 5 out of 300

Major: International Economics, Economic Theory

Major GPA: 9.13 / 10

 

Degree MSc: Economics

MSc GPA: 9.82 / 10

Class Rank: 1st for all times sicne the foundation of the MSc in 1978

 

GRE (2004): V660 (92%) Q800 (92%) A5.0 (71%)

TOEFL (2003): 260

 

Applying: Economics, PhD

Desired Area: Macroeconomic Theory, Dynamics, RBC Methodology, SDGE models, Numerical Methods and Computational Economics, Economic Policy, Trade Theory

 

LORs: Excellent

SOP: Research-oriented, clearly defined

 

Teaching: --

Research: MSc Thesis: ''Solution Strategies for Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Models'', 200 pages, grade: 10.0 / 10.0

Maths and Stats: 1st-2nd year Econ phd level

 

Admits:

U of Minnesota TC - full funding

UCLA - funding pending

 

Rejects:

--

 

Pending (loosely, in order of preference):

Harvard

MIT

U of Chicago

Stanford

Princeton

Berkeley

Yale

Northwestern

NYU

U Penn

Columbia U

U W Madison

UC San Diego

U M Ann Arbor

U of Rochester

Brown U

LSE

Boston U

Maryland College Park

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Dragonfinity's profile:

 

Degrees: A.A. Liberal Arts

B.A., Liberal Arts, concentration in mathematics

J.D., cum laude

Additional upper-level math credits at Yale, Columbia

Math GPA: 3.85/4.0 overall, 3.72/4.0 at Yale/Columbia (4.0/4.0 elsewhere)

Undergrad Univ: Exclesior College (f/k/a University of the State of NY, Regents College Degrees)

Law School: Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law

General GRE: V750 (99%), Q800 (92%), AWA5.0

Math Subject GRE: 650 (57%)

Publications: Many law publications in law reviews and journals, no math

Prof. Exp: 8 years as an attorney in various prestigious positions

Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D. pure mathematics

SOP: I am biased, so I can't say.

Reccs: Very good, I'd like to think.

 

Admits/Rejects:

- None

 

Pending:

- Georgia Tech

- University of Georgia

- Emory University

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First of all, a little background: my concentration is in heterodox economics (ie marxian, post-Keynesian, etc.) and political economic theory/thought (an extremely marginalized sub-field of economics), and I am a pluralist (or generalist), which is to say my education is compiled of no single discipline, but rather the areas where the social sciences intersect. As my profile below details, I will only pursue the MA/MS in economics and then finalize my education in political science (for the PhD.). Some of you may find this approach foolish, but I am not pursuing my education as a means to wealth, but rather to better understand human nature.

 

Undergraduate Degrees: BA Liberal Studies (minor Philosophy)

BA History

BA Economics (most recent)

GPA: Liberal Studies 3.33, History 3.62, Economics 3.90

Undergrad University: Cal State (All)

Gradaute Degree: MA History (w/ full funding and university scholar

fellowship) - withdrew from program due to family health

problems, but discovered economics.

Graduate University: University of California Riverside

GRE: taken as a History undergrad, V450, A700, Q700

LOR: 2 Great, 1 Could be better (Hope this does'nt bite me in the @$$)

SOP: Grrrrrrrrrrrreat!

Applying: PhD in Econ (w/ the goal of just an MA, but shhhh!)

 

Applications Pending:

 

Heterodox Economics Programs (All top amongst Het programs)

Colorado State

University of California Riverside

University of Massachusetts

University of Denver

 

Non-Heterodox Programs

Miami University, Oxford (If anyone is looking for a school that offers just

an MA, full-funding, research and assistantship

opportunities, and places their students into top

20 programs in Econ, check-out this school)

Cal State Fullerton

San Diego State (FYI a good placement record into UC San Diego)

NC State

 

Anticipated PhD programs (next year) in Poli-Sci

UCLA

UCSD

USC

CGU

UC Berkeley

UC Irvine

UC Santa Barbara

Rochester

MIchigan

Wisconsin

 

If anyone has any questions about California (costs, culture, universities, etc.), let me know...I have friends in many of the grad programs, and I have lived here forever. Yes it is expensive:crazy:, but it is worth it:tup:.

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Undergraduate Degrees: BA Economics

GPA: No gpa method. top 2%.

Undergrad University: India

Gradaute Degree: MSc. Economics

Graduate University: LSE

GRE: V600, A5.5, Q800

LOR: 3 LSE 2 Undergrad

SOP: Uhm... looks okay to me.

TA/RA: TA & RA at LSE - RA at undergrad.

Applying: PhD in Econ

 

Applications Pending:

 

Princeton

NYU

U of Chicago

NSF Grad Fellowship

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kamer's profile

 

Degree: B.S. Computer Science (Honors, magna cum laude)

Minor: Mathematics

CS GPA: 3.94/4.0

CGPA: 3.80/4.0; last 2 years: 4.0/4.0

GRE: V590 Q780 AWA5.5

Research: 0.5 year in Data Mining; 1.5 years in Scientific/High Performance Computing

Publications: 2 in major ACM conference (won prize for 1 in category dominatd by doctoral students; second accepted and conference is this year)

Prof. Exp: Been working since the age of 15. Highlights include: lead programmer for medical expert system, tech director for online radio station, coordinator for student pubs dept.

Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Bioinformatics, Data Mining)

SOP: Advisor thought it was very good; Focused exclusively on research; made no mention of grades, awards, etc.

Reccs: Excellent I think. Main advisor is author of widely cited book.

 

Admits/Rejects:

 

- Duke University: Official with full aid package worth $49k+. Invited for visit.

 

Pending:

 

- Harvard-MIT program

- Harvard EECS

- CMU

- UIUC

- Princeton

- Texas-Austin

- Georgia Tech

- U. Chicago

- Northwestern

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Degree: B.S. Electrical Engineering

EE GPA: 4.0/4.0

Cum. GPA: 3.98/4.0

GRE: V460 Q770 AWA5.0

Research: 2 Independent Studies, 2 yrs working in AFRL speech lab

Publications: none

Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communications, Signal Processing)

SOP: Let the admissions committee be the judge...

Reccs: Let the admissions committee be the judge...

 

Admits:

 

- Ohio State (no info on aid)

 

Pending:

 

- UIUC

- UC-Berkeley

- UC-San Diego

- UC-Irvine

- UMD-College Park

- Stanford

- UT-Austin

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Degree sought PhD

GRE - 800Q, 570V:crazy: , 5.5AWA:yuck:

TFL - 277

Current GPA - 4.0

MS GPA - 3.92

BS GPA - 4.2/5.0:mad:

 

Subject - EE, specialty Signal processing (Speech) and Intelligent systems.

Research bcgrnd - 2.5 years

Publication - 5 Int Conference (4 reported to schools, one pretty recent hence couldnt report), 1 Journal (under revision)

Work exp - 2.5 yrs

 

Apped -

1. Polytechnic Univ (apped for PhD gave me MS admission :crazy: )

2. Lehigh (status not known)

3. Upenn (status not known) (pbbly not going to work)

4. SUNY SB(status not known)

5. UMD (status not known) (pbbly not going to work)

6. UDEL (status not known)

7. Columbia (status not known) (pbbly not going to work)

8. JHU (status not known)(pbbly not going to work)

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Major: Management Information Systems

Undergrad Institution: Top University in Turkey

CGPA: 3.60/4.00

GRE: Q 800 V 720 AWA 5.0

TOEFL: 283

Research/Paper: Yes (CS related)/Not published

Applying for

IE/OR/Technology Management master degrees in USA

Management related degrees in UK

SOP: Good I hope

LORs: Some good some ok

 

So far applied to

Stanford Pending

Duke Admitted

MIT Pending

Oxford Admission stage 2-Invited for interview (Nervous!!!)

LSE Pending

 

will apply to in a week

Cambridge

Imperial

Purdue

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Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D. in Computer Science

 

Research interests: AI--more specifically information retrieval, knowledge rep, and automated reasoning on the Web; also interested in robotics.

 

Degree: B.A. Computer Science

 

Undergraduate School: Amherst College ('03)

 

CS GPA: 4.0/4.0

Cum. GPA: 3.93/4.0

GRE: 790 Q, 640 V, 6 AW

Research: Senior thesis (with distinction) researching genetic algorithms applied to sports scheduling. I also did two other independent research projects (expert systems and genetic algorithms/A-life robotic simulation)

Professional experience: Since graduation, I've been working for Deitel & Associates, writing and editing college-level CS textbooks, like Java How to Program and C++ How to Program. I'm a co-author on one book--Internet & WWW How to Program. During college, I had summer internships at Microsoft and Prodigy Internet (two different internships).

Publications: Thesis (but not submitted to any journals); Textbook:

Internet & WWW How to Program, 3/e (with Deitel & Deitel).

SOP: I think it was pretty good, and my thesis advisor agreed. Focused on

my research experience, post-undergraduate work, and a desire to teach.

Reccs: Should be pretty good, especially one from Harvey Deitel (who I

think most AdComs would recognize). The other two are from Amherst professors--my thesis advisor and my regular academic advisor.

 

Admits:

- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (w/ aid, but waiting to hear aid details)

 

Pending:

- UC Berkeley

- Stanford

- CMU

- MIT

- University of Washington

- University of Wisconsin-Madison

- UC San Diego

- Brown

- Brandeis

- Wash U in St. Louis

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(I'm reposting with an update to my acceptances/rejections)

 

Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D. in Computer Science

Research interests: AI--more specifically information retrieval, knowledge rep, and automated reasoning on the Web; also interested in robotics.

 

Degree: B.A. Computer Science

Undergraduate School: Amherst College ('03)

CS GPA: 4.0/4.0

Cum. GPA: 3.93/4.0

GRE: 790 Q, 640 V, 6 AW

Research: Senior thesis (with distinction) researching genetic algorithms applied to sports scheduling. I also did two other independent research projects (expert systems and genetic algorithms/A-life robotic simulation)

Professional experience: Since graduation, I've been working for Deitel & Associates, writing and editing college-level CS textbooks, like Java How to Program and C++ How to Program. I'm a co-author on one book--Internet & WWW How to Program. During college, I had summer internships at Microsoft and Prodigy Internet (two different internships).

Publications: Thesis (but not submitted to any journals); Textbook:

Internet & WWW How to Program, 3/e (with Deitel & Deitel).

SOP: I think it was pretty good, and my thesis advisor agreed. Focused on

my research experience, post-undergraduate work, and a desire to teach.

Reccs: Should be pretty good, especially one from Harvey Deitel (who I

think most AdComs would recognize). The other two are from Amherst professors--my thesis advisor and my regular academic advisor.

 

Admits:

- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (w/ aid, but waiting to hear aid details)

Rejects:

- University of Washington

- Stanford

 

Pending:

- UC Berkeley

- CMU

- MIT

- University of Wisconsin-Madison

- UC San Diego

- Brown

- Brandeis

- Wash U in St. Louis

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Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D. in Economics

 

Research interests: Macro, growth, development and their intersection.

 

Degree: B.A. Econ/Philosophy, Math minor

 

Undergraduate School: A uni with a top25 econ dept

 

Cum. GPA: 3.9/4.0

 

GRE: 790 Q, 760 V, 5.5 AW (89/99/89)

 

 

Maths: Multiv, Diffeq, two semesters of analysis, lin alg, econometrics, prob/stats. (4.0 Math GPA)

 

Admits:

Brown (Fellowship)

UCSD (Funding decisions not made until end of month)

 

Pending:

Stanford

Berkeley

UCLA

UMinnesota

Chicago

Northwestern

Penn

Princeton

Rochester

NYU

Columbia

Yale

Harvard

MIT

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Desired field of graduate study: Ph.D/MSc. in Economics or Development Economics

 

Research interests: Development economics & population/demographic economics

 

Degree: Double- major B.A. Econ/Math

 

Undergraduate School: Clemson University

Cum. GPA: 3.91/4.0

 

GRE: 750 Q, 580 V (ouch) 5.5 AW (79/79/86)

 

 

Maths: GOD everything: Multivariable Calculus, Dif Eq, Linear Algebra and Operations Research, Statistics & Linear Regression, Probability, Modern Algebra (Abstract), two semester of Analysis.

 

Admits:

Oxford (at St. Antony's college) MSc in Development Economics

UNC - Chapel Hill, PhD

 

Rejections: Well, not outright, but on the LSE waiting list

 

Pending:

Penn

University of Maryland (College Park)

Columbia

Brown

UCL

Manchester

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Degree: BCom (Bombay University) ICWA, CFA (India), Mphil (pending)

Undergrad GPA: 3.09 (WES evaluation)

GMAT: 650 (2004), 580 (1999)

TOEFL: 267 (2004), 657(1999)

Area of interest: Accounting, management

Papers: 5 in all , one single authored, four co authored, one in decent journal rest 4 in not so good journals

Recos: very good one, from three professors

SOP: Ok

 

Admits:

Still waiting

MBA: ASU, Oklahoma State U, Alabama (Manderson), Virginia Tech (Pamplin)

PHD: UST HK, NUS (Singapore), Indiana (Bloomington), U of Mississippi

U of Tennessee (wont be admitting for 2005)

 

Rejects:

MBA

IOWA (Henry Tippie)

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Wrusin's profile:

 

Degree: MSc Pure Math, MSc Economics

Math GPA: 4.84/5.0

Econ GPA: 4.80/5.0

Undergrad Univ: Warsaw Univ. / Warsaw School of Economics

GRE: V440 Q800 AWA4.5

TOEFL: 287

TSE: 50

Research: 3 yrs in biophysics, 2 yrs in PDE

Prof. Exp: visiting scientist in Germany, 2.5 yrs TA and RA @ Warsaw School of Economics

Desired field of graduate study: PhD in PDE

SOP: Cannot assess...

Reccs: Very good to excellent

 

Admits/Rejects:

 

- Northwestern University (official) :tup:

- Indiana Univ., Bloomington (official) :tup:

- Carnegie Mellon Univ., (official) :tup:

- Syracuse Univ. (official)

- Northeastern Univ. (official)

- Univ. of Pittsburgh (unofficial)

- Minnesota Univ. (unofficial) :tup:

 

Pending:

 

- Boston Univ.

- New York Univ.

- UC-Berkeley

- Columbia Univ.

And a long long list of others :D

 

Rejects:

 

- Princeton

- Yale

- Univ. of Chicago

- Univ of Notre Dame (SIC!)

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Undergraduate :

Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France)

Major Econ/Maths GPA 3.8

Overall 3.5

 

 

Prior undergraduate , Lycée Saint Louis, Paris, France

Major Maths GPA 4.0

 

Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France), BA Economics

GPA : 3.8

 

GRE : 800Q 570V 5.0A

TOEFL 263

 

Pending applications PhD Economics

Stanford

Chicago

Yale

Harvard

Princeton

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Undergraduate :

Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France)

Major Econ/Maths GPA 3.8

Overall 3.5

 

 

Prior undergraduate , Lycée Saint Louis, Paris, France

Major Maths GPA 4.0

 

Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France), BA Economics

GPA : 3.8

 

GRE : 800Q 570V 5.0A

TOEFL 263

 

Pending applications PhD Economics

Stanford

Chicago

Yale

Harvard

Princeton

 

Toumi... u are gonna be the next xavier gabaix. =)

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Hi,

 

PDE indeed stands for Partial Differential Equations. I'm especially interested in Navier-Stokes and Euler equations (describing fluid mechanics)...

 

So you are applying in PhD in Mathematics, right? (I thought economics :o )

I think that for PhD in Economics you would be a very strong applicant.

 

I have been to Warsaw and Olzstyn were the statue of Copernicus is!:D I had a great time ! (two months ago!)

I know he studied in the University of Krakow so I guess he was born in Olzstyn. :grad:

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Degree: BA in Economics and Mathematics from Northwestern

Undergrad GPA: 3.75

Major GPA: about 3.9 each

GRE: Q 800 + V 480 + AW 5.0

Area of interest: Economics (Game Theory, IO, Micro)

Undergrad RA 1 year

Recos & SOP: Good enough to get into 4 so far

Math Classes: Accelerated Program first two years (Multivariable Calc, Linear algebra (2 quarters), Differential Equations (2 Ordinary, 1 Partial)) Intermediate Linear Algebra, 3 quarters Probability and Stochastic Processes, 1 quarter Real Analysis currently in 2nd and 3rd to come.

 

Admits:

UCSD (2/8)

Caltech (2/16)

UCLA (2/26)

Northwestern (2/28)

 

Rejects:

 

None

Pending:

Stanford

Berkeley

Yale

Minnesotta

Wisconsin

NYU

Penn

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