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Hey, does anybody have a good article / essay /set of lecture notes that explains the applications of metric spaces or topology to Economics? Thanks a lot

Hey, when I visited Georgetown, I did not have the feeling that the professors were particularly interested in working together with people from the Fund or the Bank - I applied there particularly in the hope of being at a university with a serious applied focus, but Georgetown had the exact opposite feel: That Georgetown, being in DC, was making even more of an effort than other places to brand themselves as an "academic" institution, not an "applied" one (if you can even make such a difference). Also, their sincere interest in moving up the rankings is hampered by placing people in the Bank or the Fund, and by professors doing lots of consulting rather than academic writing, so I had the feeling they were almost trying to discourage it! Just my experience...

Will be going too - cannot wait for the CA sunshine!

How about meeting at 7pm on Wednesday in the Lobby of the Cardinal to go and find somewhere to eat?

Hey, this seems to have been done for other Flyouts, so I will try for Stanford too: I arrive on the Wednesday (4th) already, and was wondering whether people were interested in getting dinner / some drinks on Wednesday evening. I am staying in the Cardinal Hotel in Palo Alto. Let's use this thread to discuss.

I have now heard things to that avail from my offers. Seems to make no sense to pay you less once you actually start contributing to the school....or is there an expectation for all students to receive additional funding for the time when they do their thesis, such as thesis stipends...?

Thanks a lot for the info - it's really helpful. Could you give me any indication (maybe from your MIT experience) as to the income/funding in later years as supposed to the first two years?

I guess it should also depend on whether one wants to use the PhD on the academic job market, or to get a place in an international organisation (the latter requiring, I would imagine, less time to complete). On a totally unrelated question: If funding claims $X for the first 2 years, subsequent TA/RA positions, does this mean that for a given amount of TA/RA work, we still get the same X funding?

Is this really the case with Stanford? On their website they claim that people complete their PhD in 4 years...does anyone have any info to enlighten this claim?

For about a week (actually, I first saw it Tuesday week ago), my LSE Status Report says: A decision has been made on this choice and is being processed. Most decisions will be finalised and appear here in one working day. Occasionally decisions have to be returned to departments for clarification in which your status will remain unchanged for longer. Anyone else getting similar/different messages - I applied for MSc Econ (Research)...

If they say they admit 2 - 4 people a year - roughly how many offers does that mean they are making - I guess judging from previous posts, some of the strongest candidates are likely to reject and PEG offer for something on a straight Econ PhD program... ...and we still have not figured out what the mysterious phone-call was about...

May I ask what the phone-call was about? Did they make you an offer? If so, well done!!!!