MSibery

I was wondering if there were students in the PhD program in economics at the University of Rochester. Are there any first year students on these boards? I was interested in doing the economics program, but I decided to do the political science program. Not knowing anyone in Rochester, NY, I am just trying to reach out to other people at the school.

My concerns might be due to a sampling bias. However, I have felt that admissions to a Ph. D. in economics is one of the harder fields to get into. Maybe its because I went to LSE and my friends are economics majors. However, it seems like it is more competitive then getting into law or medical school at this point. Would you agree? Or do you think that there are fewer people trying to do it?

Survey sampling is probably not the correct term for it. It is through the statistics department. It's an entire class about sampling theory. I talked to Jeffrey Wooldridge about it once. He said that it is rarely taught in economics classes. However, most social statistics come from a survey. It teaches you about how to correct forecasts those statistics.

I know that many individuals are rather up nervous given their undergraduate careers and phasing the prospects of not getting into a graduate economcis school. I am with pretty much everyone there. I went to a top economics undergraduate program and did an honors program that was basically mathematical economics. The class gave me such quantitative classes as collective decision making and the political economy and quantitative models in political science. It also gave me a quantitative microeconomics class and a game theory course. However, the SAT average for the class was a 765 (this is from high school scores). This is the 98th-99th percentile I believe. Thus, my grades suffered from the competition. I had a decent gpa, just under a 3.7. However, my mathematical classes have been average at best, given that they were in honors. I still don't believe that is an excuse. I will take Real Analysis in the fall. I need differential equations still. However, I have taken survey sampling, which someone told me would be a good class to take in preparation for graduate school in economics. I will have two theses written and I will have taken some more quantitative courses at LSE. I was wondering if the following schools will be realistic. I am not looking at the top 5. Those are hard to get into. You almost have to have a Ph. D. in mathematics. However, I've narrowed the list down to the following: Michigan Wisconsin UIUC WUSTL Michigan State John Hopkins