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Admitted: Johns Hopkins Penn State Rochester Stockholm Waitlisted: Yale Pending: Northwestern Wisconsin Madrid Here's a weird thing. I'm offered at both JHU and PSU the most attractive aid they can give. For JHU that is a fellowship of $14,500, for PSU it's a fellowship with $18,000 (a lot for that PSU is in the middle of nowhere). I always thought that that private universities are the rich ones. :hmm: Are the Northwestern admits all out already? Did anybody call and ask?

That's great news, Econ! Hope you get decent financial aid from them, too. Good luck for MIT and Harvard :)

I don't know the details for Rochester. But here is a good guess: It all starts with one group fighting against another group because there are different opinions about how things should be done. In the end the atmosphere is so bad and there are so many broken fences that either nobody or at least nobody in the losing group wants to stay and try to mend them. Hence, many people leave. Naturally, I don't know who will fill the positions. But consider that the info I posted is speading quickly through the economic community and personally I doubt that any respectable professor is about to gladly go to a recent "battlefield". Keep us updated what your friends say.

First of all, Congrats. One more confirmation that you are great :) . I also found their email offering admission this morning. I'll reply asap and say that I'm not interested. Personally, I would strongly recommend you do the same. Rochester is a department with severe internal problems, and many people there are extremely frustrated with the decision-making process. Quite a number of good people will leave Rochester this year: Jeremy Greenwood, Steve Landsburg, Shakib Khan, Mark Bils, and Gordon Dahl and possibly others. Unfortunatly, I didn't know this yet when I applied and wasted some money :mad:

Have you seen this recent post from "gambitgirl", the Duke secretary: (the adcom) "saw who else you applied to and thought you were so good why should they bother offering you admission when they know you're going to get an admit to MIT and they can't compete. so they move along to the next applicant who is also good but who they think they have a better shot at recruiting. i have heard this conversation many times from my adcom." So if you answered the question "Which other school did you apply to?" truthfully, this might have killed your application.

First of all, congratulations to all your great admits. Some people in this forum are simply amazing. I’ve been very busy lately and didn’t have time to tell everybody personally. But when I read today the posts of the last couple of days, I was very happy for each of you. :) I'm also thinking of those who got rejected. Don't let this discourage you! I keep my fingers crossed and hope that you will get some good news soon. Finally, here are my results so far: Accepted for PhD in economics: Stockholm School of Economics: Fellowship (no duties in first year, then TA) $20,000 Pennsylvania State University: Fellowship (no duties in first year, then TA) $18,000 Wait-listed: Yale: Fellowship if accepted

Thank you all! Hope that we all get some (more) good news soon! Yes, the "blond with blue eyes" factor is definitely worth considering. ;)

[clap] Congratulations [clap] That's great news! UCL is a fine university and living in London must be a great experience. I'm sure you will get some big admits soon! By the way, what's your dream school/ top choice?

Many universities want a diverse entering class not because they have some target quota but because this makes class discussion much more interesting. If you have a group of students from various different cultural backgrounds you often get diverse opinions and different approaches to the same question. And this is somethings all students (not just the minority applicants) in the program benefit from. I mentioned in my SOP my personal background (I lived in four different countries, can speak five languages, and grew up in a family of academics) because it has strongly shaped me and my view on the world. The experience I made in my life so far prepared me for grad school just as the math classes I took in college.

Thank you Commentor! You really make my day! I couldn't have solved it alone. TM is such a great place because of people like you!!!

1) sorry, it should be two 2) yes, each person has an even number of acquaintances

No big surprise here. :) Wasn't expecting anything else from you. The big question that remains is whether you get into Harvard or not. For your other schools, I have no doubt that you are in, unless one of your lower ranked school realizes that you a much too strong candidate and wouldn't accept their offer anyway (well, UCSD didn't realize that).

Contratulations, that's great news. The first offer is always great even if it is not from a dream school. It's not just because you know that your won't end up without any admit but especially because you get confirmation that your stats are good. Good luck for your other applications!

Stockholm School of Economics (joint econ PhD program with Stockholm University) sent out admits by email yestersday. I'm admitted with fellowship SEK 11.700 per month. That's about US$ 20.000 per year. While SSE is not my dream school it is very nice to have a first offer. SSE is for me more in the category "school at a great place to live, charging no application fee". (I won't call it safety school because they have an acceptance rate of only about 5%) So and now back to waiting for other notifications :)

vinnythepooh, thanks for your detailed account of your experiences. was very interesting to read! Good luck for your admissions!