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yea but those classes really suck ***. i'm thinking of testing out / taking actual MATH and stat courses instead .e.g. taking measure and prob instead of math for econ (which i already have)

they said they would extend mine to the week of the 18th (which is what i requested). i don't know why it wouldn't work for you too

i do, seriously

actually econ is competitive cause all the top ranked econ programs are in the US ... like engin and science etc have top schools all around the world - and there are many speciality areas in engin and science ... not so with econ

Didn't Canada have a seccession thing a while back? You could have joined us - not that anyone would want to considering how much of an ******* W is.

Hi. I'll be attending a decent PhD program in economics this Fall 2006 (Wisconsin, Madison). I'm just wondering what it takes to ensure great placement into tenure track positions? That is - starting next year - what should I be doing to maximize the probability of getting a top placement such as Chicago. What do you personally look for when you hire Assistant Professors?

i'd say NWU is a tier above NYU. NYU is 10-20. and NWU is def top 10.

proof by contradiction? there are a LOT of foreigners who do obtain fellowships during the "first" round - e.g. I guess check like minnesota or penn or something - who clearly are not from top 20 schools... and by top 20 schools do you mean ECON or overall UG reputation? i'm from a top 20 school in econ and around top 20 for overall UG - but my school has historically almost never sent econ phds anywhere ... so i doubt it helps. also i'm sure being from a top econ dept does help - but i don't think being from an unknown dept hurts you enough to rule you out of a fellowshp. no foreign schools except maybe LSE, UCL are in the top 20 ... and i know people from foreign schools with funding at top us schools .. so\ i find it hard to believe ... also remember ivy doesn't mean good at econ ... or good at academics in general ... chicago, stanford, berkeley, nw, are all non ivy schools - yet are top schools overall ... i mean where is dartmouth or brown or even cornell compared to schools like the above listed? def. not in the same tier ... as for the top 5 schools .. i bet profs at harvard like to help UGs at harvard, yale, princeton, etc .. but phds at harvard are not just from top schools ... i'm sure people associate less risk with the top sstudents at top programs - e.g. top 5% of harvard - as opposed to top 1% of unknown college A.. that's prolly what the prof meant ...

no math. no stats? then this means no econ books either. ouch. phd comics . has very little math.

northwestern. well at least for micro theory.

hi. i emailed wisc asking for an extention till next week. i'm sure you (midori or anyone else) can do the same. i doubt i got into penn, but i want to wait for the official rejection letter.

oh sorry. i meant what economists strive to acheive. i'm pretty sure a good number of phds and profs do econ out of sheer geekiness. it's not like they think their work will ever help anyone. if you seriously think economists want to imrpvoe the quality of life or something like that - you're in the wrong field. you'll prolly end up in grad school thinking ... this is NOT what i expected ...

the ultimate goal in economics is proving shit (under certain assumptions).

lol. that's hilarious.

Is this really Professor John List of University of Chicago? Do profs really look at these grad forums?

yea NW finally got around \to rejecting me too. what took them so long!?

i haven't accepted yet. i'm 99% wisc tho. maybe i should email them.

well you can accept Wisc. And tell them in the same letter than you are waitlisted for Penn. I don't think that's a big deal. If Penn does accept you - you can decline Wisc

lol don't fail out of duke. hahah

anyone gonna post this? i'd like to see also

what's your AWA?

try emailing / calling the graduate secretary. and you might want to get your profs to call and put in a good word for you. it might help.

actually i think UM is better than cornell in micro and macro. UM has good applied micro in labor and public finance. the macro at umich is prolly applied, but is still decently ranked. but umich is NOT tghe place for theory IMO.

most UG stats are quite easy. the grad level stats are very useful for econometricians. take a grad level linear models, or probability (measure based)

lol. you guys are funny. i don't know shit about industry - so those bastards can look at schools and be amazed - but not so in academia. your worth is determined by the RESEARCH you do (publish). i don't care WHERE you come out of - but once you publish regularly in a top tier journal (econometrica, AER, JET, etc) you're going to get offers from all the top schools. i rather have an econometrica publication than a Harvard econ phd.