in this thread i post a link to a blog

[KGkhan23]

Originally Posted by jeeves0923

And with that 178 and his GPA, I'd say he shouldn't have any trouble getting into Harvard and Stanford... Yale is a bit less predictable. Don't rule out the possibility that he wants to do both.

An aside, I'm sure he gets a lot of laughs out of this if he is reading it. "These total strangers pulled up my blog and are salivating over my profile..."

This is true.. I'm sure some profs do the same thing when we mention them by name/research.

And yeah, I'm sure he'll be in the auto-accept bracket for every law school with the possible exception of Yale. But if he's interested in law and economics, I would assume he'd rather go to Berkeley or Chicago than Yale anyway.

Speaking of which, I don't think I asked you before... are you going to apply to Harvard Law?

[slightlyconfused1]

I'm not sure that the LSAT score indicates any interest in law school... it's just one example, but I know someone planning to go to econ grad school who took the LSAT on a whim solely to lock in a high score and make money as a tutor.

[treblekicker]

Originally Posted by jeeves0923

And with that 178 and his GPA, I'd say he shouldn't have any trouble getting into Harvard and Stanford... Yale is a bit less predictable. Don't rule out the possibility that he wants to do both.

An aside, I'm sure he gets a lot of laughs out of this if he is reading it. "These total strangers pulled up my blog and are salivating over my profile..."

i think he'd be more interested in how cowen linked to his blog and gave it lofty praise.

[slightlyconfused1]

Originally Posted by treblekicker

i think he'd be more interested in how cowen linked to his blog and gave it lofty praise.

The original cause of Cowen's interest in the blog seems to have been a separate post on EconLog, which itself referred to a comment on another blog. It's amazing how one seemingly insignificant comment can pass through several layers of the blogosphere and bring so much attention to the author's site; I ascribe this to a mixture of luck and the mysterious properties of internet.

Of course, this presumably isn't so unusual -- in fact, I'll bet that most "undiscovered" blogs are found through a series of references like the one here. After all, unless the author is independently well-known, every blog needs to have a big break of some sort before it attains a broader audience.