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Penn has other great micro theorists, look up Andy Postlewaite, Steve Matthews, Ken Burdett and a recent hire but great guy, Yuichi Yamamoto.

maybe you can download it as or convert it to csv (comma separated values), which every program reads. if you can figure out a way to interpret the above as columns and end of row it's easy to write a program to convert it to csv.

Groundhog Day or a good Woody Allen flick.

This sounds like it will be very complicated. I also know that if you're international some countries have tax treaties with the US that exempt you (but may be due in your home country, who knows). Basically do not expect to receive 100% of your fellowship in most cases.

If you're on linux, use emacs and split the screen using Ctrl-x and then 2 for horizontal and 3 for vertical. If you're on windows, get linux and do the previous step. And AREStudentHopeful has it. Why pay for supercomputing when your school has some computing servers at your disposal? A little knowledge of linux goes a long way.

This is what I have and does the job perfectly + the best user interface + low amount of annoying crashes (relative to Vista, last windows version I have used a bit). Anyways, for any calculations that your computer can't handle quickly enough you could easily do them on one of NYU's (probably cims) servers through ssh, since OS X has a linux-like command line, which windows does not.

Penn math camp: Math Camp | UPenn Economics Department $2000 tuition is rather expensive

number of macro faculty != quiality macro grad students. I heard from a friend that the CBS flyout was horrible, which probably doesn't speak about Columbia's Econ program, but serves as a good indicator. Can you talk to anybody who attended? I would personally choose NYU based on faculty for macro, good diversity of fields, low attrition and overall satisfied vibe I got from the grad students. Minnesota is also a great option, if you are sure you want to do macro theory it is the obvious choice IMO, otherwise NYU.

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I transferred from a school that wasn't going to get me into a top Ph.D. to one that did (eg. no Econ Ph.D. program school to a good Ph.D. program school). If you're financially able to do that (as aid is scarcer for transfer students), that's what I would do.

Some schools have two waitlists, one of their top options, which they're pretty sure they will be able to make offers, and a secondary one which is basically for contingencies. Sometimes they have to dip a lot into the second one, but short waitlist had priority. They certainly don't appreciate it, but you gotta do what you gotta do IMO...

Thanks for the info riskaverse, those numbers are great to have. I forgot to ask about retaking the prelims, that rate is horrible! Where do you think you'll attend?

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You're welcome guys. I don't have any official numbers, but a second year told me that the most that have failed in his memory were 5 out of 24. I think something horrendous like that happened a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure that's not average.

If I were you I would forget about Cornell, visit both and decide from there. If you can't visit, then look for which department has faculty whose research interes align with your current insterests, and then consider which department has broader scope of research (in case you switch). For me, I like macro so I think UCLA would be the one for me.