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The first-year macro sequence is composed of three quarters; the first focuses on math stats and is taught by Thomas Richardson of the stats department. I really liked Richardson although others in my cohort didn't enjoy his teaching. The second quarter focuses on regression and historically Startz taught this course; I'm not sure who will be replacing him (he has left effective this term). Hopefully the excellent TA, who ran a parallel and much harder version of the same course, will stay on for next year. The last quarter is being taught by Eric Zivot. We're focusing primarily on time series as Startz mopped up most of the regression coursework last quarter, and because it's a departmental strength. Zivot is a fantastic instructor. It's very likely that Turnovsky will be teaching part of the first-year macro sequence next year, although I'm not sure which part. It may not matter so much because I get the impression he teaches whatever he likes at any given moment in time!

You can view UW placement here. Colorado also has a placement page.

Hartman is retiring, but I understand that he'll still be teaching the first half of the core micro sequence next year. This is absolutely true -- the camaraderie within the first-year cohort is strong and more advanced students have been generally helpful and friendly.

I'm not sure how many students he is advising at the moment, but Halvorsen regularly gives a grad course in natural resource economics.

yes please! thank you so much ^^

Throw their offer back in their faces. Ask any scientician, the place you really want to go is Bovine University. YouTube - Meat and you - partners in freedom Two minus three equals negative fun!

brazenness Well, yes. :D More importantly I would do the following: i. Be polite when contacting professors; make it obvious in your letter that you're at least passing familiar with their work. ii. Have some skills that will be useful to the professor. If he uses GAUSS, know GAUSS; Stata, Stata; Matlab, Matlab; etc. iii. Taking a professor's course will probably help you do (i) and (ii) and if you do well and talk before/after class I imagine that won't hurt. Just make sure you also impress with your performance, if you pull a mediocre grade it's very unlikely you'd get hired yes?

Yes to echo wind up bird, practice the GRE quant section 'til you're sick. The problems are not hard and the trick to a high score is simply to not screw up while moving quickly.

I expect there's a lot of variability in the quality of the experience across positions within both institutions. Apply anywhere you might accept an offer, ask lots of questions in your interview, and go from there.

Also Coasters and Southerners are still wearing long sleeves when it's 50 F :) Yes why? :D The neighborhood around the St Paul campus is beautiful I suppose, and it would be a piece of cake to take the Connector to the West Bank (but how will you get home at 3am?). Ditto. Seattle is a great city, and.... well, most of my buddies from college went right to Amazon corporate after graduation.

IVT but close enough :)

How do you prove the existence of Spring in Minneapolis?

I've been led to believe that economics students have plenty of opportunities to interact with the statistics department. In particular, Eric Zivot at least has an adjunct statistics appointment and it sounds like he acts as a facilitator.

we can't have archaic and et it too

Native English speaker, spent a couple hours daily for a month practicing Q and flipping flash cards for V. Ended up with 800/800/5.0. Wish I'd spent a bit of effort practicing timed writing. You might find Anki useful for learning words. EDIT: I should say I took the GRE years before I had decided to go to graduate school... rather it was during a period when I took several standardized tests to help me decide likely outcomes for different career choices. SlowLearner38 and thesparky probably have it right for economics but it was not clear to me when I prepared for the exam that V and W would not matter much to me.