Where would you recomend I apply?

[tmdruie]

Seeing someone else from my school here got me thinking: where would TM think I might be able to get in?

What would your advice be?

You can look up my profile for where I'm going, but it would make me sad.

Type of Undergrad: B.A. Physics and Economics from a top 10 liberal arts college
Undergrad GPA: 3.14/4.0
Type of Grad: One stats class
Grad GPA: 3.3
GRE: 790Q, 600V, 5.0AW
Math Courses: Calc I-III(I took them in high school, I really don’t remember and nor do my transcripts), Linear Algebra (B), Mathematical Probability and Statistics (B-, B), Real Analyst(A, at a different school then my undergrad), Stochastic Processes (B+, grad course, at a different school then my undergrad)
Econ Courses: AP Micro and Macro (A, in high school), European Economic History (B+), Law and Economics (B), Intermediate Price Theory (B), Intermediate Macro Theory (B), Econometrics (B), Contemporary British Economy (B), Industrial Revolution-Britain (A-), Econ of Multinational Corps (A-), Thesis (labor econ)
Other Courses: Physics, which I put in my math lists. Quantum Mechanics I, Partial Differential Equations (B+), etc. I only did the bare minimum for a liberal arts major
Letters of Recommendation: 2 econ professors (my thesis advisor and the person who led my study abroad), 1 physics professor (thesis advisor), 1 economist who is my supervisor
Research Experience: RA for 2.5 years at ‘a central bank’
Teaching Experience: Tutored, graded and lab assisted for two years for physics in college
Research Interests: All over the place. Labor, policy, experimental, applied micro, development, etc.

[One on One]

Well your grades are low, but everything else is great so I'd say apply to 25-50 ranked schools. I saw where you got in and I really hope I can get in there...why does it make you sad?

[tmdruie]

Originally Posted by One on One

why does it make you sad?

It would make me sad for people to look at my results rather then giving me feed back based on my profile with out looking.

[KGkhan23]

Fun game! I'm gonna go higher and guess you'll get into 15-50 ranked schools. Will edit when I've checked...

edit: Nasty admits! Good luck to you!

[Gecko]

maybe 20th-30th ranked. the gpa could be a slight issue.

[tm_guru]

Wow, how on earth did you apply to that many schools and remain sane? I wonder what effect the letter writing burden you inflicted on your recommenders may have had on the quality of your references... I'm not sure it would be trivial...

[OneMoreEcon]

Originally Posted by tm_guru

Wow, how on earth did you apply to that many schools and remain sane? I wonder what effect the letter writing burden you inflicted on your recommenders may have had on the quality of your references... I'm not sure it would be trivial...

I'm pretty sure that was saying to apply to schools ranked 25-50, and not "send 25-50 applications."

And your recommenders write one letter and print X times, where X is the number of applications you're completing.