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No offense taken. If you choose to be ignorant, that is your own choice.

They wouldn't allow you to test out of it because it was optional. Though it is a good idea to go, as you get to meet all your future classmates and make friends. In all honesty, everyone was about as good as me in mathematics, if not better. In the end it never really mattered though, as we never really used much of the material from math camp. Most of the stuff we used was taught to us later on. For the most part, the entire episode was really just to get us ready for the rigor ahead, and boy was it rigorous :D

We have this one guy who only cares about the money, so he asked all of our profs how much they can make in consulting during our field meetings. The I/O was like "Ohh a lot, 120K min, sometimes 200K-500K" The labor people said about the same thing but then added that consulting sucked and research ruled. Ohh lord:grad: I should mention that they never said this is the average, they just said they "can" make this or that.

Yup. I'd like to add that not everything was negative about OSU. The student body here is excellent, and has a very strong bond. We are a close group and we look out for each other, which is exceptionally nice. Also I don't know what is to come in the following years. It may actually get better for all I know. God I hope it does :tup: That's a good question. I have friends at other Universities, and we compare questions all the time. My friend at U of Chicago has by far the worst work. I mean his questions are borderline insane. My friend at UConn, odd as this may seem, was a close second. My friends at BYU, BU, Iowa, Illinois, and Penn State had it easier in Macro and slightly easier in Micro. My friend at Virginia had it the easiest. My friend at U of M wouldn't share, he said that would be a crime against humanity, so I took him at his word. Believe me, my friends and I have been trying. I honestly hope my friends and I can do so next year.

I got into IVY league schools too even though I am from a small time University. It's become famous people from those University's made sure my application was read. If they hadn't, it would have been in the trash, which is where it was before my contacts told them to take a look at me. What reason would I have to lie? It doesn't benefit me at all, and I have no campaign to destroy Cornell :rolleyes:. On a side note, STOP STALKING ME :p

Economic consultants in Labor and I/O can make 200-500k

I honestly don't know because I don't know what it would have been like at other institutions or in different employment situations. From what I hear, OSU is a lot harder than other schools, but most of what makes it hard doesn't add to our overall educational value. They just keep on tormenting us with unnecessary filler which gets in the way of our core classes. Additionally, this is only the first year, I don't know if the following years will be better. In summary, if I pass my qualifying exam tommorrow "No", else "Yes" :tup:

IVY league schools check where you are from. If you are not from a highly ranked school or other IVY league they toss your application. I got this straight from several director's mouths too

I always thought it was about learning stuff :whistle:

You're aiming way too high, but so is everyone else ;) Just send em out and pray for a lucky shot.

At OSU it is because 1) Well, first off they make you learn more material then is physically and mentally possible to learn in the period required. I've looked at other syllabi, and we learn the same amount University's running on a semester schedule do in our quarter system 2) We don't have vacations. Other than X-mas break, we have had no breaks beside our 2-day thanksgiving and 5 Winter/Spring session break. We had to spend our entire summer working. 3) The teaching style here is: you learn everything by yourself, good luck. Interpret that however you want. 4) The questions we are asked are harder than those of other universities. 5) We spend almost all of our time in class. This is terrible as classes are useless and going to them leaves us with absolutely no time to learn what we really need to learn. 6) On top of our normal classes, we are forced to take these other classes in order to make the department money. Basically, there is no time at all. Most of us basically stopped going to class period so we could just finish the hmwk.

OSU's Math Camp : Length : 2 weeks Each day consisted of 3 lectures, of which each was 2 hours long or more. After each lecture we were given a problem set and a quiz. When it was the weekend, the prof would give us several problem sets to work on. Material covered : We pretty much did all of De Fuente with the addition of several other topics. What I learned : Mathematically nothing. What I really learned was that I was in for the most unnecessarily painful ride of my life, and I was right.

Don't bother applying to Cornell, unless employment isn't important to you upon graduation.

Go find someone who will tell you what to do. I'm not joking either.

At OSU you might as well quit if you don't have real analysis.

Has nothing to do with Ehrenberg. He places his students well in the non-academic area, in fact, many profs in Cornell do as they are tied very closely with gov't officials. Sadly, this doesn't help a student get an academic placement.

Just practiced my test taking skills with the free software on the ETS webpage.

The faculty do not help their students get academic jobs. Also, they really just don't care about their students once they graduate. I think it is dismal for a graduate of Cornell to say "Hey whatcha do after graduation?" Reply : I don't know. Hopefully I'll have some sort of a job somewhere.

The Cornell faculty doesn't help their students get jobs, nor do they even care. I got that straight from the graduate director's own mouth.

You're fine :) You aren't going to be an english major after all

Won't hurt you

My director told me it was pretty harsh. Even when you become a prof you have to worry about being published, which can be hard because of tastes of preferences of the reviewers, the randomness of inspiration, the faculty you are with, and the quality of your competitors. Usually they end up with some other job though, so it isn't too bad. The government usually rounds up what is left and takes good care of them.

Diff eqs is useless..Seriously..Anyone with a meager grasp of calc I can get by.

Usually people in top departments get the better jobs, or jobs period because they work under a prof whom everyone knows and can trust. Basically, that prof will then be like "This kid = good. You hire now cuz I r famous" Sometimes top departments actually hurt a student because the prof might be like "Pfft, your meager existence is hardly worth my research time. Go find a job yourself." Lower departments can place well, but will have a harder time because a lot of it is connections. Although, they will work hard to get you employed. My undergrad inst worked real hard to get its grad students work, but didn't always succeed