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My passport does not have surname and the given name is XXXYYY and my i20 has surname as YYY and given name as XXX. I found this discrepancy during my first appointment for Visa. Though all my documents have been submitted, am worried if I will get my visa. Secondly, should I ask my school to issue a new i20 with surname as XXXYYY and given name as FNU? Please respond at the earliest. Thanks

Hi I too face same issue now, would like to know your final outcome at that point of time plz

PROFILE International Student from Latin America. I applied two years ago, so if anyone is curious, you can check my post in the Profile Results 2022 page. Type of Undergrad: US News Top 15. Lower for Econ (around 30) Undergrad GPA: 3.92 GRE: 170Q/163V/5.0AW - The GRE is noisy. I had a higher verbal score from previous years, but I decided to submit only this new version with 170Q. Btw, I had to take it a few times to get 170Q. Was it worth it? No idea, but once you are already going through all the effort of doing a predoc, you might as well cover all the bases. Math Courses: Calc I,II,III (As); Linear Algebra (A-); Intro to Math Reasoning (A); Real Analysis (A); Intro to Op. Research (A); Probability (A); Math Stats (A); Numerical Analysis (A); Intro to Math Research (A); Topology (A); Problem Solving in Math (A); Intro to Stoch. Processes (A); Math Meth. in Fin. Econ (A); Algebra (A) Econ Courses: Undergrad: Principles of Micro/Macro, Intermediate Micro/Macro, Stats for Econ, Econometrics, Monetary Theory, Game Theory, Advanced Macroeconomics. Senior Thesis (I/II). All As Graduate: Microeconomic Theory I (A-), Econometrics I (A); At top 5 Predoc: Financial Economics (A+); Macroeconomics (A - Didn't receive grad before submitting applications). Letters of Recommendation: Two well-known professors from predoc. One tenured professor from undergrad. All super positive (they all explicitly told me that). Definitely, the only important difference from my previous application. Research Experience: Two years working as a predoc for two Top 5 professors. RA as an undergrad for two years for undergrad professor. Senior Thesis. My thesis was not ready when I applied the first time, but now it was. Second most important difference from previous application, I would say. Teaching Experience: Math Grader + Tutor for two years Research Interests: Macro-Finance. For finance applications, I emphasized the finance part. Finance interviewers always asked me "why a PhD in Finance and not in Economics?", so this is a questions you must be prepared for. SOP: Looking back at it, my previous SoP was very bad. I believe that are two strategies you can follow: either you write a very detailed research project and portrait yourself as someone "who knows exactly what they want to do in the PhD", or you portrait yourself as someone "who wants to explore, but that have had a very good preparation so far". I chose the latter strategy, meaning that my SoP detailed the most important projects/topics I had encountered during my career, and briefly mentioned one or two topics I am eager to study during the PhD. RESULTS Economics: Acceptances: Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia, UPenn Waitlists: UChicago Rejections: Harvard, MIT, Princeton, LSE, Oxford. Finance: Acceptances: Chicago Booth, Northwestern, Yale SOM, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson. Rejected: HBS, Sloan, Stanford GSB. Comments: The only major thing that changed in my profile was the predoc. Nowadays, the proportion of students that get straight into an Economics PhD without a predoc/masters is super small. The good thing is that, although I tried to avoid it, I believe I am now much better prepared to start graduate school than I was two years ago. Try to find a predoc program where you will work closely with your advisors (who are somewhat important in their fields), and in which your advisors' interests are aligned to yours (aka. they want you to get into a good program to say so). I was super lucky to get into an amazing predoc program in March (after getting rejected from most PhD applications I had submitted). Nowadays, almost all spots are filled in December. What would you have done differently? I sold all my bitcoins back in 2016... Seriously, nothing. I enjoyed my time in undergrad a lot, and I don't think that, as an international student, I would be able to emulate the offers I received this year had I done anything differently back in undergrad. Good luck to all future applicants, and remember that the application is extremely noisy. As my final words here in this forum: Thanks a lot for all the posts, messages, and replies I have read over the past 5 years. Urch has helped me a lot since I first started to dream about getting into a PhD back in my freshman year, and I hope future applicants will continue to take advantage from this amazing resource for many years to come.

Hey guys, I would like to thank you all for participating in this thread. This has been the most successful Sweat Thread of the last few years, and I hope that this trend continues in the next years so that future applicants will have a reliable source of information during the applications. Also, congratulations for surviving the application season, everyone! Just submitting an application is already a huge milestone. For those who received some acceptances, it's time to finally reap the benefits of your efforts. For those who were unsuccessful, life goes on (trust me, two years ago, I applied the first time and also didn't receive any offers. It felt like the end of the world. It wasn't.). I hope you all the best.

PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Roughly top 20 econ European uni (top 20/30 of Europe, not world) Undergrad GPA: 8.5/10 Type of Grad: top 10 econ European uni (again, top 10 in to Europe) Grad GPA: 74/100 GRE: 167Q/160V/4A Math Courses: standard intro to math courses in undergrad and pre-sessional maths in masters, plus an advanced maths class later in undergrad (focused mainly on differential eq) Econ Courses: advanced courses in micro and metrics for both undergrad and masters, elective courses in urban, labour, health, economic growth, economics of information, ... Other Courses: Letters of Recommendation: 1 from predoc (finance prof), 1 from master dissertation supervisor, 1 from undergrad dissertation supervisor Research Experience: 1 year predoc (in finance), did some work as an RA during masters and undergrad Teaching Experience: 1 year teaching seminars to undergrads in macro, micro and linear algebra Research Interests: applied micro SOP: hard to judge my own SOP but I guess good? Other: RESULTS: Acceptances: UCL, CEMFI, Bocconi, UC3M, Mannheim, Bonn, Imperial, Toronto. All with funding except for the first year at UCL (nobody gets funding first year as far as I know). Waitlists: Toulouse. Offered interview at European University Institute Rejections: Warwick, Oxford (offered MPhil), LSE, Zurich, BGSE/UPF, Stockholm, British Columbia, Boston, Northwestern, KU Leuven Pending: Queen Mary Attending: cemfi Comments: Even though I think most know this I would like to say to anybody who is applying the next years/people who were not happy about this cycle's results: the application process is super noisy, apply to as many universities as you can to minimize the noise and don't take rejections personally. Edited to include: talk to as many grad students as you can! There's a lot of private information and often just having a look at a university's webpage is not good enough to have an idea of how good their programme is. Of course it's hard if you don't know anybody who's at that university, but IMO the environment with the professors and other students is really important and can make a huge difference between PhD programmes. Grad students and professors at your university will prob have some information about this and know if at some of the universities you're interested in the professors generally don't care about the PhD students (I've heard of a few with this problem). What would you have done differently? Not sure there is much I would have done differently as I had a lot of information before the application cycle started. I guess take masters degree more seriously.

Might delete this later but here we go... PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Top 50 US Undergrad GPA: 3.71 (3.9 Econ, 3.6 Math, 3.85 the last two years) Type of Grad: none Grad GPA: n/a GRE: 170Q/162V/6AW Math Courses: Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra, Intermediate Linear Algebra, ODE, Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, Statistical Data Analysis, Probability, Math Stats, independent project Econ Courses: Intermediate Micro/Macro, Intro Econometrics, Cross Section Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, Game Theory, some field courses, honors thesis Other Courses: A few CS classes, a handful of PoliSci classes Letters of Recommendation: Undergrad thesis advisor and two Fed economists I worked with. All three got their PhDs from top 10 schools. Research Experience: Summer RAship for a well-known public policy professor, semester-long internship at a think tank, honors thesis, two years of being a Fed RA Teaching Experience: I tutored pretty much every Econ class Research Interests: Broadly public and labor SOP: Felt decent about it I guess, tried to tailor each according to the department Other: I don’t check any diversity boxes, but I put a lot of effort into my personal statement anyway RESULTS: Acceptances: Minnesota, Maryland, Boston College, Rochester, UVA, Indiana, UCSB. All full funding. Waitlists: UCLA Rejections: Princeton, Chicago, Yale, Northwestern, Penn, NYU, Michigan, Wisconsin, Cornell, Brown, Duke, UCSD, BU, JH, USC, Penn State Pending: None Attending: Minnesota Comments: I feel pretty good about the way this cycle turned out. Getting the Minnesota offer early definitely helped blunt the impact of the later rejections. In terms of actionable advice, I guess I should mention that scrolling through past years’ profiles and the CVs of applicants I knew really made me feel like I wouldn’t get in anywhere, and it was only after I started talking with my writers that I got a (mostly accurate) idea of where I might land. So go talk to your professors. What would you have done differently? “Done better in undergrad” and “not gone to college during a global pandemic” are the easy answers, but I’ll spare you those and mention that I wish I had reached out for more RA opportunities earlier on in my college career, in order to immerse myself in research and start on the track towards grad school when beginning my coursework. I definitely think this would’ve opened up more opportunities down the road.

I’d echo this. The program I’m going to next year I almost didn’t apply for, and it was last on my list, but after learning about it I genuinely prefer it to others that I had ranked above it at the beginning. Your preferences can change, even within a few months.

Apply for top 30/40 also. Even if you don't want to go to those programs, having some fully funded acceptances will make you feel much better. And who knows, maybe you liked one of them at the end and accepted it.

An update: Thank you for your reply and suggestions. 🙂I guess what makes things worse is that I apply for 16 schools and I received 4 waitlists. (They are all Top 15/Top 20.) But when I apply for over 40 predocs, I didn't even get a data task yet. Definitely still want to apply, but the problem is that I might not even get the change to prep for next year.

You have the math. What is the ranking of your school? I think you will go great. Ensure you get a solid predoc.

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Type of Undergrad: International, SU which is top ~300 (US News), started undergrad architecture related, then switched to business (finance major) with econ too Undergrad GPA: ~3.6 Type of Grad: Econ MA (JHU), Certificate in Mathematics for Econ PhD (BAUM TENPERS Inst) Grad GPA: 3.98 GRE: 168q/158v/4.0awa Math Courses: Real Analysis, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Multivariate Calculus, Functional Analysis, Dynamic Programming, Stochastic Calculus, Measure Theory Probability etc, see list https://baumtenpers.com/course-curriculum/ Econ Courses: All from principles, intermediate, MA and up to PhD level Micro and Macro Theory as well as several other field level courses in economics. For the PhD econ sequence, see https://baumtenpers.com/course-curriculum/ Other Courses: Finance modules from corporate finance to financial markets, derivatives theory, etc etc. A handful. Architecture, building, science krapoli courses not so necessary. Letters of Recommendation: 1 prof from JHU whom I did some research with (hired me unpaid research assistant) and supervised me to produce 1 full research paper and contributed to another theory based research. 2 profs from BAUM TENPERS Inst who were coauthors for the theory based research. And another prof from JHU who taught micro Research Experience: From around January 2023 to the time I applied. Wrote a research paper under guidance from prof who hired me as unpaid RA and contributed his research with the other two profs. Less than the standard 2 years experience, but rich enough and goes well beyond data slamming and regressions. For one project, I was basically verifying computations in a proof to some macro-finance model to ensure the computations and solutions are correct. Did some regressions too, lol, basically perhaps ran 2000000000000000 regressions, lol Teaching Experience: None, so perhaps a big fat major weakness Research Interests: Financial economics, closely similar things SOP: Good enough, perhaps very good? Other: Did MA while simultaneously taking heavy math courses in the online program and also working to make ends meet, tough, which resulted in 2 bad math grades that eventually sank me, I think RESULTS: Acceptances: Rutgers, GSU, Fordham, forget now (turned down their requests to speak so didn't advance), Texas Waitlists: WUSL, a bunch of several others, perhaps Rejections: All US top 20 + UK top 5, one or more after doing interviews Pending: Attending: Texas Comments: Very hard year. I applied far, perhaps not wide, and target the very top places as some other good places I could attend. What would you have done differently? I would have done more serious/relevant math while at undergrad to give me time to focus on other things and save me the stress of having to take math as a master student. I would have not gotten 2 weak math grades when I did take the serious/relevant math that I took online (I was doing it while working and doing my MA), but I am glad I took those relevant math courses, up to 7 or so of them, and didn't have to pay an arm and a leg to take them as I was already paying 60K for my in person MA. Overall, I am ebullient with my outcome and think I took all the right steps and did all I could do, and I believe my outcomes are great given that it was impossible for me to get those fancy predocs anyway. If you are an international student who doesn't have serious math on your transcript, your application fees to a top 30 school are at risk of likely being a free donation to those schools. They will gladly take your money and ding you. There are easier ways to enroll for online math courses these days, and some of them are incredibly cheaper than you ones you all know of and are effective enough to do the job of making you competitive enough to get into a good program. Plus in my own case, the program didn't only provide online advanced math courses, I also took advantage of the mathy econ courses, PhD level, and the application support (essay, cv, reviews, advice etc) that the program provides. Also, I applied only finance, which takes just 4 out of 100000 applicants. I should have applied econ too Finally, the application period can be intensely rigorous, so please take care of your mental health while at it and it is better to not go it alone.

Yes, not getting any offer is truly saddening and hurting. They take candidates based on the applications they receive and can't take every excellent student that applies. My student this year with a similar profile as another one I placed in top 5 last year (i.e. similar or even higher GPA, near perfect GRE, 10 papers, research experience, etc etc, though different in some perhaps very obvious other ways) couldn't even get into a top 20 this year and was waitlisted at several top 30. It's very tough all round and the schools must make a difficult decision. If he had not applied to a handful of top 100 schools, that would have been the end - zero offers. If you're still interested in this PhD thingy, the best line of action would be to prep for next year and shoot for the places you believe you deserve, yes, and maybe even much higher place, but also consider some lower places that would fight to have you join them. A student told me this year that a certain top ~100 program promised to increase their stipend by a whopping 20K/year if only the student would ignore a top 50 offer to attend their own program, lol. For an international student, that is some large temptation right there. Anyway, you have a right to feel sad about this painful application campaign this year. I wish you a more successful outcome next year - if you choose to still apply. If there are any comma in your profile, this is the time to start patching it against next year applications.

I’ve been told that if your recommendors know people on the adcoms and can reach out on your behalf that can sometimes get you some solid info, but yeah if you reach out most of the time you’ll hear “we had a lot of very good applications and could only accept so many”

To be honest I don't think you are going to get useful feedback. They will probably tell you they received over 500 applications many of which were excellent and that they had to make a difficult choice between similarly qualified applicants. I don't think they will disclose any actual selection mechanism such as GPA etc.

Fr. An individual feedback on the profile would have been so much more useful. That would have been at least some return for the thousands of dollars I paid them. I am now mailing them for feedback.

Got 4 waitlists and none of them become actual offer this year. I am so fed up with this shit. The ‘Please don’t feel discouraged…’ part of the rejection letter is possibly the most hypocritical thing. They know this is going to make you feel bad but they try to pretend this doesn’t hurt you. And they are not guilty for this.

Always go to the funded offer, unless you are super rich

Obviously yes, those are great courses and pretty much cover all you need to be competitive on the course side, provide B/C do not exist on your transcripts after your grades come out. What are your grades? Is the analysis 2 functional analysis (i.e. banach spaces, extension theorems, contraction maps, fixed points, etc etc)? Copy the link to the description let's see. The optimization you took, is this dynamic optimization (discrete, continuous time time, etc, bellman, Hamiltonian, HJB, etc)? Look at the simple model at the end of this paper What Do Deviations from Covered Interest Parity and Higher FX Hedging Costs Mean for Asia? | Open Economies Review (springer.com) the appendix. Can you formulate and solve it? Meanwhile, You could add the metrics if it's not going to be overload. Ultimately, I would focus on research at this point even before you get a chance for a predoc post undergrad. How good are you at research? This paper was written by a recent undergrad, my RA. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4385223. Can you produce something like this? If no, you should consider starting to build research skills. You have time. Feel free to DM.

I am alternate for funding at GWU and emailed the DGS yesterday but haven't heard anything yet. It seems like in past years alternates have gotten funding in the couple of days after the 15th. I have until the 17th to respond to my current offer, is there anything else I should try?

didn’t wvu recently abolish their entire math department? of course a phd is a phd but i’d be concerned starting there and hoping they won’t have more cuts for 6 years

I'm unsure about economics in particular, but I know WVU has had budgetary issues in the past few years that have made it incredibly difficult to function properly. Possible they are overwhelmed and understaffed

Is there any admission update from West Virginia University so far? I'm disturbed at the graduate coordinator refusal to response to mails. No acceptance, no rejection. I'm very worried. Anyone with update on this?

Please reject offers from Europe, if you have accepted US offer.