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This will not work for Stata 10. All the torrent version will bug your regression output. Here is another suggestion - Stata is probably installed on every computer on campus so... copy and paste.

I heard U Wash is quite good in econ. Never heard about the other 2.

In my view, Econ student can always get finance position if they want to (they can always take the finance sequence in business school). In terms of overall education Harvard is definitely superior. If your friend is 100% sure that he will do finance, then it doesn't hurt to go to Booth, but Harvard Econ will leave his doors open. I understand that at Booth you will still have option do some joint program with Econ department, but I don't think its all that common. The relationship between HBS and Harvard Econ seems to be stronger. Also, in the end, you can do great work at both places, so the difference is reputation and selectivity. While Chicago/Booth is good here, Harvard is simply the best.

The admit list has been posted. Congrats to everyone admitted and I hope that you all will choose to matriculate.

I think they sent it out one by one. Last year the email I got was personalized. But again, they could have somehow automated the personalization.

My bad for making you guys anxious. Between I used the word 'should' though, so it was not a sure thing. But by now I am sure that it is out - someone has already posted an admit in the other thread.

A case where more information brings disutility. Sorry guys

MIT! The thing is that not only do we have big names in Development, we have many of them. Duflo, Banerjee, Townsend to name a few. But of course Harvard and Yale are also excellent choices. However, if you are sure you want to do Development, you simply need to come here.

Just a heads up for those of you waiting.

I believe last year was 29, or was it 31. Can't believe it has been a year already. Everyone who made it past the wait list gets funding. I recall that not everyone receive the same offer though.

Find a job and reapply next year. I am not aware of any decent program that will take you in during winter/spring.

my bad, please disregard my post then. I was talking from personal experience which does not apply here.

I think that it ranges from 25-30k. Also some university have different levels of fellowship. The highest level are usually around 30k (for 9 months). You can earn more by doing TA during the term or RA during the break. I recall that Yale is more generous than the other top schools.

I would not worry too much about this. These offers represent a very small fraction of the total number of offers they will eventually make. Also , I understand that they do not necessarily give this the strongest applicants, but instead to those who have high likelihood of matriculating (if applicant reject fellowship, department might not be able to relocated it).

I am contemplating clicking it long enough to bring MIT over Harvard to #1; or I can just write a script. Does every click get equal weight?

The usual time is last week of feb and first week of march. You should be getting at least one per day during that period. Minnesota has two rounds. A few people get this special fellowship and get notified a month earlier than everyone else. Last year MIT was really slow, almost 2 weeks after Harvard as I recall.

If they think you are overqualified, they might not give you fully funded admission right away (they are being strategic as you mentioned). But I doubt they will reject you though. From my experience, they will either wait list or admit you without funding. Most of the time they will at least hint that this is because they do not expect you to matriculate. At this point you can write to them honestly that they are one of your top choices for whatever reasons. Of course this should not be a blatant lie just to get funded offer (e.g. "your university is top choice and I will not hesitate to take your offer"). Should be more along the line of: 1) I have admission from (COMPARABLE SCHOOLS). 2) Name reasons why you think this school is better the comparable schools. 3) Then be honest and say that you are still waiting for reply from Harvard and MIT. This should at least give you a flyout to the school, where you can further make your case.

You could start off doing some RA work. This is more structured and should help with the transition from coursework to research. Between I am just first year so take this with grain of salt.

Similar thing happened to me. I ended up retrieving it from my college thesis advisor. For what it's worth, none of the faculty I talked to when I visited Chicago even mentioned my writing sample. Logically, they should be more interested in your current and future research. In any case, I feel that undergrad work is so mediocre compared to grad work that there is no point submitting it.

I think they only use it for borderline applicants. All the other top 5 schools do not require/accept writing samples.

My general understanding about the rules written on the websites is that it is very easy to circumvent them if you have good reasons. This is especially true if you believe you are well qualified for the program. If they want to admit you, they will do so regardless of all the technicalities listed on the website. If you believe you are qualified, just go ahead and apply. At the very least, write to them explaining your situation, and if you give a good reason, they will likely respond well.

From what I have read from the admission websites, generally I feel that departments will try to accept minorities, especially if they are American citizen. I do not think that this applies to Asian though (both domestic/international). I heard specifically that Chinese applicants have an especially hard time gaining admission. This sort of make sense though. I recall from my flyouts that the prospective/current students were mostly Caucasian/Asian. There are also a handful of students from South America. I can only recall one instance where I met an African American student (it was at Chicago).

I would take it as a good sign that your application has arrived at the hand of a professor. Most get thrown away.

The material is PhD level. But the course might not be so rigorous if it takes an entire semester to complete.

The work on development of Professor here at MIT seems quite rigorous to me. Try looking at the work of Ester Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Robert Townsend.