FierceEconDR

Thanks! Hopefully I can reapply next year :D

Honorable mention for me! 4 Excellents 2 very good (Thanks for nothing number one!!!)

Ditto. Why would you want to play in the minor leagues, when they want to train you in the major leagues? You would not get even the "sheepskin" effect out of Oxford. I think economics has an ok point, but she is postponing it because she wants to try next year for a better admit, if I remember correctly... This is when Microeconomics comes into play.... My 2 cents

Also as Zmoney says: Research could make up for a lot, see if you can do some research this summer :D

Concur on the non existent issue. Check on PoliSci (some have some good quant people, even if they don't like to say they do :D) and Policy programs.

Don't that this in a bad way... I think the top 50 will be difficult to crack but you should definitely apply to some 30-50 that are good in monetary macro. Ace the GRE, it just takes a little discipline (see GRE prep thread). I would say go with 2 econ 1 math (and extra math if allowed), you should take the time to talk to them about the research you have done (specially the econ) so maybe they can mention it in the LOR's. You will need an apologetic stance (in the defense meaning) both the the LOR and a paragraph in the SOP. Getting an A in both Math Stats and Real Analysis would help your case for the weak math grades. I took both and I think they were the hardest courses I ever took, they take an 'extreme' amount of work outside of class, just to say beware and try really hard :D I think you are looking for a nice +'excited' letter as opposed to a gleaming one. Talk to the LOR and show that you are excited about going to grad school, and depending on how they react (you need to give them grade info before hand) you can see if you could ask for a letter. I don't know much about macro outside of the top 30 but as usual econphd (even if it has its problems) can give you an idea of what schools you should check out. Hopefully some macro people around here can give you more advice on schools. Best of luck!

SSE I have no idea how it works :(

I also think that you should do the power prep test towards the end of the training, after having done all the exercises from Barron's Good luck!

Ditto!

You should take the GRE again if you want to have a decent chance at the graduate institute in geneva. They tend to be selective and the 7 will hurt you. For barcelona make a nice motivation letter and with the better gre you'll have a better chance.

what the hell is calc IV?

Wouldn't it be better to try to fix the 'bad' schools? Why are they bad? If parents are able to make a choice about what school is good or bad why don't they decide to make the choice of making their bad school a good school? Introducing the amount of competition that Milton wants would create a system with 2 velocities, one where the good parents flock the good schools, and the 'bad' parents flock the bad school, and in the end this decision to which school to go will not depend on a quality choice, but on a resource constraint choice. The benevolent government that we assumed at the begining, that gave the free choice to the parents, is not being benevolent since we have people that have the choice in theory, but it is not a choice they can make. In the end we end up with a society with the good parents kids having the opportunities to make a difference (that in the end they would not want to make, since everyone is out for their own interest) and the bad parents children are the dumb and unprotected, the criminals by necessity and not necessarily by choice, the mass, la foule, the mob that does not think and just follows. I think is in the best interest of all to provide public education for all, where there is an attempt to make good schools out of the bad one, since i like to think that no rational individual with an instict to survive wants to be put in the category of 'bad'. The choice to sent you kids to private school remains in the hand of the parents (with the resources), however, I see no reason why private schools have to be better than public schools. Investing (money, necessary but not sufficient) in our education system will provide society with the scarce politcal good that is and informed citizen. Another advantage down the line will be that the new generations will be less indoctrinated in the fanatical stupidities, since I would not put up with my being told non sense about biology, he/she would not put up with it neither, and we will hopefully arrived to a place where this rational individual has the tools and the information to make those rational decisions that we as economist love to assume! No one should be let go through the cracks! which is different from 'No child left behind' End of rant! P.S. I went to both private and public schools

I am reading/listening The worldly philosophers and reading capitalism and freedom by Milton so I can disagree with him after reading the whole book (opposed to disagreeing after reading two chapters :D)

I think if you been working in the US and member of the AEA you qualify. American Economist==Economist in America

Oh! The good times :D