Profile Evaluation for 2016

[youngspartan]

Can someone please evaluate my profile for 2016? I still need to take a GRE and get the actual letters of rec, but I just need to know where to shoot based on the Undergrad major, gpa, ect.

 

Profile: youngspartan

Type of Undergrad: Mathematics and Economics (B.A) (double major) at top 50 US research university, non-PhD granting institution in economics

Undergrad GPA: 3.7

Type of Grad: N/A

Grad GPA: N/A

GRE: Taking over summer

Math Courses: Calc I-III (A,A,A), Statistics (A), RA I and II (B, B), Discrete Mathematics ©, Complex Analysis (B), Differential Equations (A), Linear Algebra (B), Abstract Algebra (B), Dynamical Systems (in progress)

Econ Courses: macro, micro, game theory, econometrics I and II, environmental economics, calc based intermediate micro, developmental economics, intermediate macro (all As)

Other Courses: 3 writing intensive course that focused on building and developing research papers

Letters of Recommendation: 1 professor who I have worked with extensively as a research assistant and who was my project advisor, my real analysis professor (had for 3 semesters), and a second economics professor at my university who knows me fairly well from my senior project work

Research Experience: 3 semesters as undergraduate research assistant for economics department

Teaching Experience: none

Research Interests: labor (sports in particular), macro, financial econ

SOP: will explain research interests and look for specific professors at school who I would like to work with

Other: Have a writing sample from senior project that is a full research paper with a data, model, results. NCAA Varsity athlete all 4 years, US Citizen

 

Was thinking about applying to Vanderbilt, Texas-Austin, Clemson, U of Chicago, Duke, and Michigan. Open to all suggestions though

[spivakisgod]

For the type of institution you come from, your math grades are definitely problematic.This means that UChicago, Duke, and Michigan are going to be steep uphill battles, and I think UT-Austin and Vanderbilt will be troubled too. Hopefully you can get a 166 or above on your GRE Q score. Perhaps some stellar letters of recommendation can give you a boost; it is hard to say. But I would cast a wider net in terms of the types of institutions to apply for...