Hi Guys....it is pretty cool to have somewhere to share the tension of waiting... Good luck to everyone!!
Undergrad: Top Brazilian University - GPA 8.9
One year of undergrad done at UCBerkeley - GPA 3.7, major 3.9
Grad: Same Brazilian University - GPA 8.7 - award for highest GPA at a class of 18 (the class has the top 1 percentile ranked students in the nation, top 15 out of 1500 on the natinal admission exam)
GRE: 800 Q/480 v/4.0 aw
Toefl: 117 out of 120
Math: T.A for undergrad calculus for 2 years, T.A for real analysis/linear algebra and optimization for first year grad students
Research: senior undergrad thesis published in pretty pretigious book in Brazil...all ather authors PHD from top US schools, master thesis plus being R.A since second year undergrad
Letter of rec: who knows...my advisor who I been working for 3 years ( Stanford Phd) other professors of my field of interest ( macro and international econ) who I was top student in the classes and presented my masters research to
Schools where I am applying: Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCBerkeley, Columbia, UCLA, ucsd, NYU, Chicago, Northwestern, Yale, UPENN,
Other: earned the fulbright scholarship for the Phd, so fulbright is applying for 5 of those schools for me and there I am free of charge...Fulbright will pay tuition and give me money for 4 years....
Concern::: what if I dont get in anywhere??????Only applying to top schools...no back up