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I found an interesting link where you can view the past PhD theses of people at MIT: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7659 The search feature works a little weird at times, but it's still pretty cool to see how "genius" some of these people really were (or weren't).

Sorry, my error there. Yes, Fernando Alvarez is a Minnesotan, and apparently Kocherlakota is Chicago. So, what we have here is: Acemoglu - LSE (Acemoglu is so good though he should almost count for multiple people) Alvarez, Golosov, Tsyvinski, Krusell, Greenwood, Randall Wright, Victor Rios-Rull, etc. - Minnesota Werning, Kochelakota, and I'm sure many others - Chicago MIT - Farsi Harvard - ? Is Ricardo Reis likely to be a star? His approach does seem very different than Minnesota style, so I don't know if that will help or hurt him? Back to Krusell and Greenwood. I don't think Krusell is cited as much, and his papers seem good, but nothing that would separate him from the pack. On the other hand, maybe he has really good students. Could you list any of his up-and-coming students?

is there any pattern to where these top guys got their PhD's? Acemoglu got his at LSE, Golosov, Tsysivinsky (spelling?), Krusell/Greenwood, etc. are all Minnesota people, Angeletos is Harvard, Farsi and Alvarez are MIT, and Werning is Chicago. It seems that the Minnesota crowd dominates. are there other schools that are likely to be producing the next wave of top macro people?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the AEA going to award the next John Bates Clark medal this year? Are there any predictions for who will win it? Any predictions for which institution houses the person that will win it?

I can't seem to find Princeton placement info. Any help?

Sure, US News has its own rankings, but do any other sources have different rankings for macro? How do you think all the US departments compared for macro? For reference, the US news macro rankings are... 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. University of Chicago 3. Harvard University (MA) 4. Stanford University (CA) 5. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities 6. Princeton University (NJ) 7. University of Pennsylvania 8. Northwestern University (IL) University of California–Berkeley 10. New York University 11. University of California–Los Angeles Yale University (CT) 13. Columbia University (NY) 14. University of Rochester (NY) 15. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 16. University of California–San Diego

Thoughts?

Any thoughts?

Is there a place (or places) where I can find placement data for top schools, and in particular, where I can find placement data for... Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, Penn?

Which schools would be considered to be in each category? Which schools would be considered hybrid? Also, is there any reason to think that one school of thought is more microeconomically sound (both in the sense of being rigorous and also in the sense of incorporating the *frontier* of microeconomics with macro) than the other? Any comments/input are welcome.

If you were accepted, or even notified that you were waitlisted, then answer this: what is your nationality, and if you are American, did you apply for the NSF?

what I want to know is this: is Penn even good, really at all, when it comes to macro? or is everybody here holding out for Penn wanting to do micro?

Just to make sure people know, when Harvard says mid-March, they mean next week (they said so). Also, for admits, how many of you are American, and how many applied for the NSF?

That brings up an interesting question. Who here has been admitted to Harvard and/or MIT AND is an American? Out of you admitted American applicants, how many of you have applied for the NSF?

harvard is staying very tight lipped about whether or not all admits have heard. all they are saying is that decisions will be mailed next week. what do you think that means?