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Well I am currently attending a Masters program in europe and we have many visiting profs since we do have a lot of money available I guess. This helps us since we get in touch with those profs and we also have the opportunity to have them as lecturers. Having excellent grades in courses given by DGS' of certain schools in my targeting range definitely helps for the application... (I'm not attending tilburg) But we do have very tight connections with Tilburg and I would get a lot of courses waved there (the whole first year and part of the second or so) but I don't want to live in this tiny town... although the program is definitely great (asianeconomist).

I haven't received any fellowships only TA-ships and I rejected all my offers already. $ is a smaller amount than $$ :D

Well good point... I just think I underestimated myself. I met some more visiting profs (mainly americans) from top 20 places and they insured me that I would have a good shot at better places and that they will assist me in the next round. I just met them too late I guess.... :(

WOW!! Congrats buddy! I thought that you wanted to go to WUSTL? The agony of choice hm? :) Well anyways Minnesota is of course even better! Good luck for your graduate studies!

As far as I know yes. But IUB is not worth attending if you don't even get funding... my :2cents: (with funding I would reconsider this)

Hi, I haven't visited the forum for a while since I had to make up my mind and I also had to take some non-trivial exams. My summary for this year is the following: (I couldn't update my profile... don't know why)acceptances: UPenn (no money) UCSD (no money) UIUC ($$) IUB ($$) U AZ ($$) Tilburg ($) UC Davis ($$) Boston College ($$) Purdue (teleph. talk with one prof of the dep.) Rejections NW and JHU... seems to be kind of random but it's not... it's all about pedigree Conclusion: I can't and don't want to go anywhere without funding! The other offers are more or less mediocre and I even met some new profs in the last few months who would assist me during my application next year as well (and who are well known and better connected than my previous ones). I increased my grad GPA to 3.9 and given that I had a shot at one good school I will try again next year. I will only target top 20 schools next year (maybe 10-15 of them). I will use the year off and make a voluntary year in our army and participate one of our (supposedly safe) peace-securing foreign deployments (they are extremely well paid in my country). All the best!bye

Don't you use optimal control theory in continuous-time macro?

If you're interested in metrics you should be heading to San Diego I think

Well I agree with econostudent but you should also consider that UIUC hired three new faculty members (all macro guys) this year and the will hire more in the coming years. Further it seems as if they restructured somehow the PhD program and this might effect the performance on the job market in the coming years. I just compiled some of the recent placements of UIUC (although of course not extremely excellent I think it's not that bad): Cal State Univ Univer. De San Andres, Buenos Aires LaSalle Univ Univ. Carlos III De Madrid The WEFA Group - Wharton Econometrics Univ of Montana Tufts Univ Illinois State Univ Surugadai Univ (Japan) Asian Development Bank (Philipines) Univ of Missouri Ithaca College The World Bank - DC Cornell College Korea Inst of Education and Technology Ministry of Planning - Bangladesh Lincoln Univ (New Zealand) Peat Marwick Consumer Product Safety Commission Baker & McKenzie Law Firm International Monetary Fund - DC Pusat Informatika, Indonesia Federal Reserve Bank - Cleveland Central Bank - Colombia all the best but I think I would choose a funded offer from UIUC over an unfunded offer from Boston. Just my :2cents:

Which school do you attend right now if I may ask? Thanks

That's really interesting. Thanks Valfierno!

Is it U Iowa or Iowa State?

I am sorry I know that I shouldn't take a hand in this discussion but why is it so important for you to debase the PhD program in economics at Cornell? I mean why the *** do you care and spend so much time on this issue? Isn't it completely irrelevant for you? I understand why people who attend the program defend it (that's natural I'd say) but I don't understand why you attack the academic quality of the program continuously?

Go with the younger one! That's my opinion. Younger profs (especially someone who got hsi PhD from Harvard and tought there) know how lor's have to look like these days and how they use their connections. Older profs are sometimes more critical and not as bloomy and enthusiastic as they should be in terms of pushing you in certain departments as they still remember how the admission process was like when they applied (like 30 years ago). Things have changed dramatically as far as I've heard and without good (!) connections you have it much harder...

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