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I'm German and just started my first year. The problem with only stating your Diplom results is that you may have to state them as your undergrad degree - but then you can't fill out anything for graduate degree. Also, it is definitley true that most schools know about the German Vordiplom and may ask you to submit it. So I don't think it is really feasible to not submit them with you application. Instead I think you should focus on your strenght. If the admission committee sees that you did a lot better afterwards, they may forgive your undergrad score. One important thing to do is definitely to get a ranking for your Diplom, i.e. an official note saying that you finished number x in your class (hopefully x is good - otherwise leave it). Apart from that: your recommendations are really important. Try to get them from people that are known in the US and at the schools you apply to. Even if you didn't take too many courses with them, try to explain your situation and ask them for support. Also make sure they know how to write "US style" recommendations (German style may sound really bad to americans). Good luck!

Me too :)

I was told by one professor that this year was really strong and in a normal year I would certainly have been admitted instead of just put on the waitlist. I don't know whether it' s that they just always say that. But I talked to him for nearly an hour and there seemed no necessity for him to tell me this. Also one of my recommenders told me the same. Saying he was surprised by a couple of very strong people not being admitted. I'll just believe it - makes me feel even better about the schools I got in :)

sounds fine to me :)

I'll be there on Wednesday, too. I won't stay at the Cardinal (still hoping for some grad student accomodation, otherwise the Terrace Inn), but I could come over and meet you there.

I am European. But I don't really understand why this should make a difference in funding for living costs. A friend of mine currently goes to LSE and said that there are still a lot of people (including Europeans) that are not funded. As far as I know they just don't have to pay the high overseas tuition fees. So you should probably double check whether their certainly getting funding refers to living support as well. Best luck anyway!

it is pounds

I would definitely go to Tinbergen. It is one of the best departments in Europe with international faculty. I still think the top15 US schools are better. But I would have clearly preferred Tinbergen if I wouldn't have been accepted in any of these programs. A friend of mine is an assistant prof there and he really likes it (and also preferred it to some really decent US schools). I think you can also get good fellow students that stay in Europe because they like life here better than in the US, even if they would have gotten into good programs. And finally, to me the quality of life seems much higher in Amsterdam than in Boulder! But that's just my opinion. So good luck on your decision!

Hi everyone, for those of you going to visit Stanford on the flyout: I just booked my room yesterday and found it quite espensive. As it is a double queen, I wondered if anyone would be interested in sharing it, so we could both save a little. PM me if you are interested. :)

I have an offer from LSE with what I would consider full funding: it says I won't have to pay tuition and will get 14k for living, if I can't not get outside finance

Same decision here. But CA still sounds a little better ...

I absolutely agree!

Hi everyone, I have been admitted to the Stanford PhD in Econ (my alternatives being Yale and Northwestern Kellogg). One of my advisors mentioned that Stanford is a great program, but apperently quite a few of their PhD students seem to be unhappy there. So I wondered why this may be and whether it's true at all. Anyone, probably currently attending Stanford, has some info on this? Would really appreciate your opinions!

Just my personal experience: I am an international student with a degree in Business Econ (comparable to masters) and hence only two math and one statistics course in the first semester of my undergrad. I spent a year as visiting student at a top 10 Econ PhD programm, doing the whole Metrics sequence and additional 1st and 2nd year courses. I applied for PhD this year and got into Stanford, Yale, Northwestern and LSE. Surely, you could do better, but apperently the Econ PhD course helped and the lack of math wasn't to tragic.

I am deciding between Yale and Stanford (and Northwestern), as well, and I am mostly interested in Behavioral Econ (combined with IO and corporate finance). Any advice on which is better?