Math preparation for PhD

[nevena]

Hey guys!congratulations to all the people who are going to nice places in the Fall I am a person who is not going to too fine place so I would ask for your help.I am going for a Master in Canada but I wanna apply for PhD in top 15 in USA.Please tell me what are the math and stat courses which are absolutely required to make me competitive?up to now,from undergrad I have Calculus 1-3,Linear algebra,statistics and mathematical statistics,econometrics and time-series analysis(all of them taken with A- or A).I don't wanna lose time and start preparing the math since the first semester in the master.so what else do I need?thanks in advance.good luck to all!

[bsl]

See advice from G. Mankiw

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/...h-courses.html

and Sargent

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ts43/MATH/...anfordmath.htm

re math courses.

Good luck.

[nevena]

Thanks very very much

[Prometheus_Econ]

I think you really need to take real analysis to have a good shot at the top 15. A class in probability theory also wouldn't be bad. If you want to be really competitive in terms of math, throw in some functional analysis, topology, or measure theory class.