santragos2703

Their waitlist e-mail this year came on Sunday at 11 o'clock at night. Weird!

I now several people in the BU Masters program who originally applied for a PhD, so I believe you will be considered.

I was wondering if you could help enlighten me on whether an MA at BU or an MSc at LSE, UPF or UCL is the better road towards a PhD. I've heard from some people that MSc's at European schools are more rigorous and could be a better starting point for a PhD. They said that taking an MA at BU would send a negative signal to PhD adcoms, taking into account that they offered me to be considered once they rejected me from the PhD program. Moreover, they said that the MA at BU was rather directed at those people that did not take Economics as an undergrad. What is your collective wisdom????

Why UPF >LSE?

Any ideas?

I was wondering if you could help enlighten me on whether an MA at BU or an MSc at LSE, UPF or UCL is the better road towards a PhD. I've heard from some people that MSc's at European schools are more rigorous and could be a better starting point for a PhD. They said that taking an MA at BU would send a negative signal to PhD adcoms, taking into account that they offered me to be considered once they rejected me from the PhD program. Moreover, they said that the MA at BU was rather directed at those people that did not take Economics as an undergrad. What is your collective wisdom????

Was your rejection personalized or mass?

I'm worried too, but I think it's quite possible for them to be sending out decisions today!

I'm bored!

Is anything going to come out today or is it going to be a day off?

I just got the e-mail directing me to the website to be rejected :(

Getting married, honeymoon, working... and moving...

Princeton and Stanford not bad either

Ditto

Which school are we waiting to hear from now?

PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: BSc Econ (Top Mexican Uni) Undergrad GPA: 8.2/10 GRE: 800Q, 670V, 4.5AWA Math Courses: Enough calc and algebra to meet requirements, diff eq, plus more mostly irelevant stats and probability stuff Econ Courses: Micro, Macro, Econometrics, Public Econ, Trade, Labor Economics, Growth and Development, Political Economy etc Letters of Recommendation: they will be strong but from unknown profs, and some professionial Research Experience: BA thesis Teaching Experience: Nil Research Interests: Public Finance SOP: standard Applying to: Econ:Yale, Brown, UCB, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, MIT, BU; Public Policy: Harvard, Princeton, Chicago Comment: Weak GPA due to extenuating circumstances

I also got the message from Berkeley