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I got an interview from a Finance PhD 🙂

HEC Paris Finance interviews out (got it!)

@TheAM I know this is the current pay but I think there is a good chance it goes up substantially by the next academic year (hopefully admits would know by April 15) because many programs have been made to greatly raise funding in response to grad student/worker demands. Many BU students just a few years ago would only get a 9-month contract for less than $30K and were on their own for the summer; now all admitted PhD students (across all disciplines, not just Econ) are guaranteed a minimum base pay of $45K over 12 months for the current academic year. From a connection, I also know that another T30 with similarly low PhD pay is planning to greatly raise PhD student pay across the board for AY25-26 to avoid a strike.

Haas BPP interviews are out

If you're referring to the amount it's quite transparent on their website: https://www.econ.umd.edu/graduate/financial-support No info (on gradcafe, and as far as I know no one I know applied there) about whether anyone got funding decision as for now though

I got that too, as did some other people I know. No one has anything in the application interface either so I wouldn't worry.

Thank you very much for the pointer! That's a great figure.

As a public service I decided to share with you my stress related data analysis. I scraped decision timing from GradCafe for 2006-2023. Then I categorized the top 20-25 institutions and defined the decision date as the Mode of the rejection/acceptance date in a given year. Here are the main results: 1. Which day should we expect decisions? unsurprisingly, not on weekends. somewhat surprisingly, mostly on fridays: 2. When should we expect decisions? Apparently most top institutions have gotten better over the years and expeditated the timing of decisions by a bit. most results arrive by early march. Results in January are a rare recent phenomena. (each dot represents an institution decision date, the boxes represents IQR and the line is from a LOWESS reg) 3. Decision timing by institution *All mistakes should be attributed to an unnamed RA.