Finance/Business School (PhD level) applicants - profiles/stats

[don_ny01]

Illinois seems to be quite generous on funding. $20k for the fellowship and another $4.5k for the summer TA/RAship.

But, alas, Champaign is in the middle of nowhere.

Ram

Great and congratulation ! I believe UIUC will provide with more incetives for your future development. For Finance, UIUC is on the rise.

Btw, how is your interview with Emory ? I may have an interview soon and I hope to receive your advices from you and other Tmians. Thanks

Great Ramlau ! UIUC Finance is among top programs ! They will provide you more benefit for your future develpment.

Btw, how did Emory interview go ? Could you share your experience with me as I may have an interview in coming weeks. I am nervious after some rejects at beginning of this week.

Any advice is welcomed pls...., Tmians experts !

[Bamboochiken]

congrats ramlau! Just out of curiousity, how are you going to decide between econ and finance?

[ramlau]

Great and congratulation ! I believe UIUC will provide with more incetives for your future development. For Finance, UIUC is on the rise.

Btw, how is your interview with Emory ? I may have an interview soon and I hope to receive your advices from you and other Tmians. Thanks

Yeah. I just found out that UIUC has a cult/gang of professors from MIT after getting accepted. (Wonder how that happened!) Another new discovery is that their website claims that they gave admission offers to only 7 students out of 204 (or roughly 1 out of 30) last year. That's quite flattering to know.

Emory's interview ain't gonna happen till late March, although I have an internal (i.e. Georgia Tech) scholarship interview this Sunday. In any given interview, I just take it easy and stay true to what I really think in answering whatever the "committee" asks. I don't do much preparation, but I do make sure I get to tell them what I want them to know. Actually I was the chairman of the same scholarship select committee last year, so I did learn from the mistakes made by the applicants. Having been on the other side of the table, I think it's easy to tell whether you really mean what you say. So honesty and sincerity count. Also, staying clam and cool adds a lot of impression points. My skin has grown real thick after all these years of teaching and public speaking, so I don't get nervous easily. Unless you try to shoot me in the face. LOL! (Sorry I just can't get over with the Cheney jokes.) That's my generic strategy.

I'm no authority on the interviews, so let's not see mine as any advice. Good luck on the interviews!

Ram

congrats ramlau! Just out of curiousity, how are you going to decide between econ and finance?

No clue. Please give me another two weeks or three to figure it out. The all-that's are still taking their time, including Wharton. And speaking of which, I didn't even attach the right SOP in my Wharton application. (A huge screw-up. Later I contacted the secretary and emailed her my "correct" SOP.) So I wonder how I still haven't been rejected.

Yep, I just made a word up at 4AM. Worthy of a reputation point?

Ram
P.S. Am I the first one who uses this Zoloft/Prozac smiley?

[ramlau]

These entries are not helping. All from Gradcafe today:

"Stern Business SchoolOperations Management PhDRejected2006-03-06 (E-mail)2006-03-06IApparently they have decided first list of offers and waitlist. i wasnt among them. kinda disappointed

Columbia UEconomics PhDRejected2006-03-06 (E-mail)2006-03-06I

Columbia UniversityEconomics PhDRejected2006-03-06 (Postal Service)2006-03-06A"

I guess no news is good news for me.

Hysterically,
Ram

[financier]

Has anyone heard from MIT Sloan Finance? Where are they in the process?

[monyet]

haven't heard from sloan finance either, though i did notice an entry on gradcafe with someone having been admitted. oh well.

[Capone]

Financier,
I had a talk over phone with a prof from MIT last week. He told that I'm very likely to get admission and they wanted to ask if I had accepted any offer yet. However, I haven't received anything from them since then.

[don_ny01]

Financier,
I had a talk over phone with a prof from MIT last week. He told that I'm very likely to get admission and they wanted to ask if I had accepted any offer yet. However, I haven't received anything from them since then.

Congratulations on all yr great admits. Good luck on MIT. Could you share yr profile with us ?

Thanks

[Econcyclist]

Hi all!

I am an international student and I am applying for PhD in Finance and Econonomics.

I got some offers, but I am particular inclinated to go accept Chicago GSB ( Finance ) or Princeton (Economics).

I really don't know what to do...

Do you think that in a PHD in Economics I can get a stronger micro-background?

And the university enviroment?Is that true that Chicago GSB is freaking competitive?

And Job Maket? at Chicago homepage I could get the last 10 year placements and looks good, anybody knows how to get Princeton´s job placements?

Thanks....

Chicago GSB (Finance),Haas ( Finance), Princeton(Economics), LSE(Economics).
Wharton(Waitlist-good chance), NYU Stern(waitlist-small chance)
Stanford(Economics), Harvard(Economics), MIT(Economics)

[don_ny01]

Any one for CMU Financial Economics, Rocheter Simon Finance Ph.D. and Penn State Finance Ph.d. Have you heard anything from schools ?

There is an abnormal reject post for Simon today on Grad Cafe. Just checked the website, nothing on my status.