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Sounds like a lot of fun to me.

for how many of these did you use wooldridge ;)

econ only: ba: 14 ma: 10

Can anyone spot the irony in this thread?

#2 - I had a professor in undergrad who regularly held office hours on the patio of a local margarita bar.

First hit on Google for this precise question: Economists

Count me in for a unit-root-based forecast.

Two issues: NBER dates the recession from December 2007. Do PhD applications lead, coincide, or lag economic conditions? I do not think this has been well established.

first hit on google for Dutch grade conversion... WES Grade Conversion Guide: The Netherlands

hahaha

sounds like me, minus the MBA - I am in at UNC of course additional math will help, but you have already repaired much of the damage - or enough for top 50

i like that your safety is caltech if it isn't beneath you, why not add nyu, look at this poster: http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/111901-profiles-results-2009-a.html#post730450

GRE is a metric used to predict chance of success in grad school... succeed in grad school and I believe this becomes a non issue.

I hadn't heard that about applying twice... I did this, although I used different rec providers and applied to (mostly) different schools. There are other threads on TM about applying twice that come to very different conclusions: if you are rejected from a school, you have the right to ask them to discuss ways you could improve for a second go at it, both there and elsewhere. More on my situation... On the first go, I was rejected by: U Washington, U Oregon, UC-Irvine, UCo-Boulder, and Oregon State. Washington State U let me in to their PhD program w/o funding, and I turned this down to attend a U.S. MA that offered funding and tried again, with much better results (chiefly, UNC). UW has the distinction of being the only program that has rejected me twice (although they did waitlist me the second go around.)

I've seen this before - it is a good text, but many intro econ courses do not include calculus as a prereq. I support finding a free text for your students... if not, I think the Krugman/Wells text that I used in undergrad was okay. Mankiw is also very good. Can anyone out there find a free, good intro micro text?