TheScientist

Thanks for the suggestions. I was totally overwhelmed when I was notified and I did something very stupid -- I scheduled to fly in on the morning of the interview. I should have asked to fly in the night earlier, but oh well.. it's only an hour and a half flight. I agree with Jhai and Epictetus but it's not Stanford (or Berkeley). I now reached the conclusion that a suit is probably the proper dress code for this school.

Yea, I'm not cool enough to wear a grill on my teeth :hmm: I decided to wear a full suit (all the profs who recommended me to wear a business casual had relaxed, easy going personalities themselves). At the moment, I would rather not reveal which school it is. I just don't want to start a wave of speculations and the anxiety it brings because I myself don't have much information about this event. Good luck, everyone.

Hello, I was just invited to an on-campus interview and, of course, I'm simply ecstatic. One little dilemma though -- what would be an appropriate dress code for such an interview? I could either go with smart casual (with a jacket but no tie) or a suit and a tie. I'm leaning towards smart, classy casual but technically speaking, this program is within a business school and we all know how the MBA-hopefuls place so much emphasis on looking "sharp" for their admission interviews. I know it's probably better to be overdressed rather than underdressed, but I would like to be natural and confident without looking as if I'm trying toooo hard to make an impression. Any comments, suggestions? Thanks a lot. Cheers,

Hello, I sent several emails to ask MIT Economics whether I may submit a 4th letter of recommendation and I still haven't heard from them. I'm a math major and I believe a letter from an economics professor who recently taught me a in a grad macro class could provide a more complete information for my application. Has anyone asked MIT if we are allowed to submit an extra recommendation?

Hello, In the Princeton application, they have a section where they ask for your previous coursework in economics and math. They give a very limited space for the textbook used, certainly not enough to write down both the title and the authors. For example, if you wanted to put "Microeconomic Theory: Mas-Colell, et al." or "Recursive Macroeconomic Theory: Ljungqvist and Sargent", would you try to abbreviate the title of the textbook and perhaps mention only one of the authors? Or would you simply put down the names of the authors? Thanks very much for your help.

Hello, I'm a math major with just one more year to go. Recently I discovered my interests in economics and I am seriously considering graduate studies in econ. I have been asking a lot of people on what I should do to improve my chances of admission, but people seem to have different opinions on whether or not it is CRUCIAL that the letters come from econ profs. I'm doing a research project in economics this summer, so I suppose that takes care of one, but I don't have any other contacts with econ profs. All my other potential letter writers are math profs who have supervised me in research projects or independent studies in the past. Some people suggested that I get at least two of the letters from econ profs and maybe another 2 from math profs. Do you think having at least 2 of the letters come from economists sends much more positive signal to the adcoms? Thanks a lot for your help.