Eggbeater

Hey all, thanks for your replies. To be honest, I am not completely sure of my ultimate goal. I am debating between the public and private sectors - but will probably not pursue a career in academia (or if I do, it would be much later). The main reason why I want to pursue a masters at LSE? For fun; I really enjoy economics and would like to study economics at a graduate level regardless of what career I end up at. Perhaps I'm I'm a bit young and naive, we'll see if this changes in the next 2 years. I am also not sure that I am dedicated enough to spend half a decade for a phd.

Tsyvinski is great... he's a really funny guy and I can tell he looks up to a lot of the older guys in the department (ie glaeser and mankiw). In Belarusian accent: "The great poosh"

Thanks for the advice. Yeah, the competition seems to be getting more intense by the year - which I guess is a good thing for the economics field. I know of two freshman who took graduate economics courses. This pareto-optimal figure sounds like a really cool guy, especially since I'm originally from California as well. I would love to talk to him about his experiences some time.

That would be nice, but I don't think I can for two reasons: 1) I don't feel that I am competitive enough to make it -- I have plenty of peers who have already taken grad courses and probably have a higher GPA than me 2) I'm not 100% positive I want to spend 4-6 years of my life earning a phd. So I figure a 1 or 2 year masters would be a good way to find out. Is the masters program at LSE competitive? I hear a few of you have gotten in already, congrats!

Hey all, This is my first post on the forum. I'm a sophomore economics/math concentrator at Harvard College and would like to get a Masters in ec at LSE eventually. I've been checking out this forum for the past few days now, and I really like it. I'm always excited to chat with other economics enthusiasts - do you all know of any other forums out there? Anyhow, good to be here!