doctoraldude

the 'signaling' effect of school choices is no doubt an important consideration, more so through applying to schools with strength in your super-specialty ... but a wider choice may actually signal a greater commitment to your research agenda (rather than the prestige of the school) ... so maybe the right application range is more of a grey area :hmm: (somewhere in between casting-the-net-far-and-wide and applying-to-only-top-10)

not all the programs at these univs are in english though - eg. st gallen has a few phd tracks that are taught only in german - so you might want to shoot off a template-ized mail to grad coordinators at the above schools asking for that kind of info

@ doriangray - maybe you can save on the two years by going for a masters straightaway (if not psych then there's soc / econ/ math /stat etc) Or maybe you can try landing an RA position in your undergrad univ. I think that might be a better use of those years preparing for a phd ...

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No more results? huh ? This entire privacy discussion seems to have shut everyone up! Sorry for initiating that :(

You might want to improve your gmat score, if you want to have a shot at some of the higher ranked schools in your list. The teaching exp and #2 in MBA should help imo ... About the list - you might want to add Pitt there - they've got a very supportive faculty group in strategy, and have had some good placements recently (but you probably still need higher scores) PS: ofcourse, take everything with a pich of salt - by the time you have collected scores of opinions, a lot of them will sound completely contradictory :P

Whoa :eek: thats a lot of pressure! I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. Seriously though, 'public figure' might be a bit excessive :p,

logistics. btw anyone else getting freaked out about privacy issues ? I think a lot of us have uniquely identified ourselves here :D

Program: Macro-OB/Economic Sociology/Organizational Sociology GRE Score: 800Q 710V 4.5AWA Undergrad: Honors + Accelerated Masters in Chemical Engg; Research experience: -Thesis/Dissertation -A couple of papers presented in conferences Professional experience: Organizational Strategy Consulting; Small business owner Attending: Stanford Admitted: Stanford Withdrawn before formal offer: Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Emory, Alberta, Pitt Rejected: MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Northwestern

I'm an incoming non-econ student, and I needed to take Micro & econometrics as part of my GPR. how're the Econ courses different from the MgtEcon courses at the GSB ?

yep - the phd rankings are absolutely terrible - it's like one of those statistics consultants cook up just because they have some data left over :D

congrats square :tup:

Congrats pauldc :tup:

top b-schools often recruit professors from disciplinary fields such as Sociology, Psychology, Economics - so you're not at a big disadvantage if you follow your interests to a univesity department rather than a b-school, imo ...

yup - mainly because (as far as i can remember) the Phd ranking is an aggregate of number of papers published (unadjusted for quality of journals!) and number of phd's graduated ( a volume metric that puts smaller programs at a disadvantage) However you could use it to draw up a laundry-list of b-schools :D - and then get on to the arduous task of selecting from them !