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After reading this post I concluded that I'm going to meet a bunch of freaks in graduate school. Come on people, have some faith. If it's meant to be it will happen and I guess it is meant to be for you who has got accepted in a great school. Second to this I believe thinking about getting sick most definately determines whether or not you are going to get sick. SO leave this unhealthy thread and live healthy.

Institution: University Of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) Program: PhD Economics Decision: Admit Notification date: 3/26 Notified through: Email Funding: 17000 TA Posted on GF: yes Comments: So Excited, Finally!

Wish someone who'd actually tried it could respond here. Given what Walt had already consulted, still I think that a 90% GRE math means that you can do anything in mathematics. Regardless of where your strength and weakness is, mathematics is not something you memorize, it is rather an ability. If somebody is good at some part, it's not going to be hard at all to master the rest. I guess that the adcoms are not that smart themselves if they don't understand this!

This one is really great. I should have done it at the same time with applying for Econ PhD this year. I think again the grades will come out so late that I can not apply next year!!! :(

Thanks for the so complete and informative answer. After your kind comments I'm actually planing to do another masters in a school with good placements say queens or UBC. The RA thing will not be available in my country. I'm also considering a mathematics or financial mathematics masters. Which will suit better you think? I should take into account that I will most probably do better in an econ masters.

People, You are being really kind stressing how hard the GRE math is. Suppose b is a real number and f x 3x2 bx12 defines a function on the real line, part of which is graphed above. Then f 5 What is the greatest possible area of a triangular region with one vertex at the center of a circle of radius 1 and the other two vertices on the circle? Let A be a 2* 2 matrix for which there is a constant k such that the sum of the entries in each row and each column is k. Which of the following must be an eigenvector of A Some sample questions. My it is nice to here that. Also it is really good to here that first year PHD is really hard. But my question is rather whether it is worth it?

And How do you know that? I mean you are just saying it as if you were some adcom some time before. I will be happy to here why it won't help me. Because I don't want to do all the hard work and again apply for an econ PhD and get disappointed as the adcoms are simply silly. (if what you are saying is true that GRE math will not prove to them that I'm more than capable of doing Econ PHD math they are really silly). in that case I will take the Math GRE and go for a Mathematics masters.

Walt26, My only concern is where the GRE math high score will take me. Leave scoring high to me. I'm not a genius or something. It's just that we take much more math in high school than you do in US. Specially when you go to a school called National Organization for Development of Exceptional talents and there everybody studies for Olympiads. However I know that GRE math is much harder than all that as I know how a friend of mine who's applying for Math PhD did in that. Anybody with some real experience who's done this before. Do you think that consulting current professors will help?

My I had TOEFL 105, GRE Q 800, V 320 A 4.0 and incredible LORs as my letter writers didn't keep what they were going to submit to themselves . Under Grad GPA 3.28, Masters GPA 3.77 (Micro and Macro 92%, Metrics 95%) However all the math that I took was Calculus I and II then Stat I and II. I didn't do good in my undergarduate for two reasons, 1. I didn't care about the grades and I used to study whatever good books I found in economics (Which didn't necessarily match with what the professor used to teach at that level and however much more beautiful) 2. I had to take an emergency leave of absence for 3 semesters as I had to make money when my family had gone broke.

Thanks all. I'm preparing to have published a paper by September, and Apply for Masters next year. If GRE subject is going to be a substitute for the Masters I will certainly go for it. I really know enough math to crack the GRE math after 3 to 4 month of preperation(which is what I've got).

I got so many rejections this year (Of Course the game is not over for me yet) but if I were to note why I was rejected, I would have said few math courses and not having done well in StatII. The case is that I'm actually really good in mathematics and I have studied Thomas Calculus during high school when preparing for physiques Olympiads, However there were no available math courses to take and if there were I didn't feel any need to take those ( I didn't know that economics adcoms will be so obsessed with ones math courses back then). SO the bottom line is do you think I can get in top schools by turning in an incredible GRE subject Math, next year? Can I finally prove to my abilities through a standardized test?

Institution: Stanford Program: PhD Economics Decision: Rejected Funding: NA Notification date: 3/11/2010 Notified through: E-mail Posted on GC: No Comments: Not expected at all before applying, totally expected recently Institution: Penn State U Program: PhD Economics Decision: Rejected Funding: NA Notification date: 3/11/2010 Notified through: E-mail Posted on GC: No Comments: Disappointed. I'm really sorry that I grew up in a country where there aren't any schools ranking lower than 1000. Not my fault, I will do another masters in math or econ, make a paper out of my great thesis, build my profile and reach the places that I truely deserve. However at the moment I hate it that there are not standardized tests to show what I'm really capable of and that they have to ignore my GRE 800 and TOEFL 105 and fabulous LORs.