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  1. don quijote
    Is there a possibility to extend your current funding for another year? And is the offer for Track 1 or Track 2?
  2. don quijote
    I think you have a good shot at top20s, but you might want to drop some applications to some top10s just to see how it goes. That grade in calculus might hurt though.
  3. don quijote
    I would suggest you to be more specific, to indicate some of your (likely) research interests and to explain better why you think you are prepared for a PhD.
  4. don quijote
    I don't see time not focused on school wasted at all, since I already spend a lot of time studying. Maybe the people you talked to just have different priorities. For example, I want to get in the best school I can given that I'm not willing to spend 100% of my time for this purpose, since I have other goals/interests that I consider equally or more important (travelling, music, friends, sport,...).
  5. don quijote
    Never had one :). But good suggestion!
  6. don quijote
    Don't be! It's good to have different perspectives. My suggestion is, don't give up all the beautiful things that life offers! It's very cool that you're so passionate about your future work, but you'll have plenty of time to dedicate to economics in your life, while there are certain opportunities that won't come up again.
  7. don quijote
    Well, I am absolutely not intentioned to do that, and I am sure there are less extreme ways to improve one's concentration skills. And actually my goal is not removing things from my life, but adding more through a more efficient use of the time I dedicate to studying/research.
  8. don quijote
    I am curious to hear some thoughts on this, since this board is a place full of motivated and exceptional students. Sometimes (or many times) it happens that, even though I am very interested in what I'm supposed to study or do research on, I end up wasting my time on unuseful stuff. At the end of the day I am worse off since both I didn't do what I wanted to and I have less time for other stuff like sport, friends, travelling.. Do you have any "self-commitment device" you want to share?:idea:
  9. don quijote
    You have to estimate the confidence intervals. There are many ways of doing that, depending also on the sample size and on the characteristics of the data (normality, homoskedasticity, etc).
  10. don quijote
    What do you mean by flexible admission process? There are certainly some European programs which still are open to application
  11. don quijote
    "Should be stellar"? :)
  12. don quijote
    I don't understand how people can be interested in studying economics without taking economics classes (and disliking the few econ classes they take)
  13. don quijote
    First, I would retake the GRE if you have the possibility. With your quantitative score you risk to be automatically rejected by most universities; besides, it's something you can easily improve if you put some effort in it. Some decent European programs still open to applications that come to my mind are the ECARES program at ULB (Bruxelles), the University of Bologna and LUISS in Italy. You might also want to consider the possibility to boost your profile through another master, but i reckon that it can be rather costly.
  14. don quijote
    Actually 3 years is the standard duration for any European BA, not just for ex-English colonies
  15. don quijote
    This is true. But still the MRes/PhD at LSE is supposed to take 4 years in total rather than 5, why do you think there is this difference? I'm asking you since you seem to be much more expert than me on the UK system, even though I am European!
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