econger

Indeed very worth watching, a lot of interesting thoughts. Still, to get a balanced picture of the DSGE-profession one ought also watch Chris Sims playing devils advocate:

I am quite optimistic - the macro faculty seems motivated (people told typically 4-5 professors at the macro lunch), there are a lot of courses (2nd year sequences in macro and in international monetary economics) and at the flyout the amount of people who want to do sth. related to macro was astonishing - I guess (hope) they want a year now with a large group of macro-phds which can be advised by the enourmous amount of senior and junior macro faculty (and e.g. brunnermeier can also be seen as macro finance I'd say)

Institution: Princeton University. Program: Economics PhD. Decision: Admitted. Funding: 30k Notification Date: March 8. Notified Through: E-mail. Posted on GC: No. Comments: Nice :)

Institution: MIT Program: PhD in Economics Decision: Rejected Funding: - Notification Date: 02/29/12 Notified Through: Email to check website Posted on GC: No Comments: at least I was able to open it with no hope

Berkeley is surely a better fit than Yale. I am unsure about Stanfords strengths though... but maybe you should wait for their decision anyway before thinking too much about that ;)

Institution: UC Berkeley Program: Economics PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: - Notification: 2/24/12 Notified through: Such a humorous double E-mail as well Posted on GC: No Comments: Sad - and it destroys my hopes for the other ones. :(

Is there anyone who got a confirmation from Princeton concerning Fall Grades Report?

Oh, I have never heart of this adress - thanks a lot!

Okay, that's weird... Did you send it to[TABLE=class: ajC] [TR=class: ajv] [TD=class: gL, colspan: 2] econ-admit@mit.edu as well?[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

Did anyone get an answer from MIT concerning sent fall grades? I sent an unofficial (selfwritten) "Fall Grade Report" to MIT in December and have not gotten any response yet.

Just to understand it correctly: You think I should send them kind of an "unofficial fall grade report" with my grades just written by me in an Email right now? And to maybe send the transcript in addition later? Probably you are right - I have three A's in advanced courses this fall, so they should know as early as possible.

I cannot see any problem with this. I mean: What they want is information to decide and you give it to them. Moreover, it would be a bad feeling, if in case of a rejection you never knew whether it was because you did not write "(grad)"...

I think that's a great idea. My knowledge: Harvard: one can send them (though it has to be a hard copy) - but they can not guarantee that they will actually take them into account MIT: One can send them via Email and they will be added to the profile. Princeton: One shall send them - via Email, I believe. Generally, I wonder if it is sufficient if I send them in 3rd week of January in which I get an official transscript - or whether I should already send them an "inofficial Email" the moment I get to know the grades (which is probably much earlier - already now I know 2 of 3 grades...). Edit: Now I have all 3 grades... seems strange to me to wait until the 3rd week of January now to send my fall grades... but will they accept an unofficial Email like "Hey, I don't have a transscript yet but my fall grades are: ..."?

Dear John, my main concern about Chicago is the "Freshwater-Macro-Approach". I know it is not your speciality, but maybe you can comment on how "special" the Macro is which is teached at Chicago. Sometimes people tell that Chicago-educated Macroeconomists can hardly talk to "Coast-Macroeconomists", because they are not really acquainted with all the models with non-perfect markets. I am sure that this is a bit exaggerated - still, there might be some truth to it? Best, econger

Great, thanks for the hint! Once again unbelievable, what fantastic google tools are freely available, that I have never heart about before!