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It depends quite a bit where you are applying. For tier one programs, you will be competing with students with 97+ quant percentiles, great letters from well known people, near perfect GPA's, and tons of math and stat courses. So if you have all these except the letters from economists because you were not an econ undergrad, then of course you will be at a disadvantage. You can make up for it by doing research and ideally publishing somewhere, or get yourself a NSF grant, which is almost a golden ticket in of itself. Oh yeah, also most serious applicants to tier one schools probably already have a master or two under their belts, so there's that too, or they did their undergrad at a tier one school and already know the faculty there.

Are you familiar with the program?

haven't heard, also silent from MSU and Cornell, tho prob reject

continuation from this thread http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/118015-anyone-going-tufts-ms-econ-fall-2010-a.html Can anyone here share their experience with living in Medford/Boston? (costs,attractions,nightlife) Funding at Tufts? Their first year tuition is 43k -.- most people I see get 50% tuition and a TAship paying 5k-10k. Any other information that you care to share. Thank you~

Hello all, I was admitted to Tufts econ master's program starting fall of 2012, I was wondering if anyone else here was admitted to Tufts for their graduate studies with insight into the Medford/Boston area and would like to share their knowledge. Housing/employment/extracurricular activities/nightlife... Thanks for reading~ Ben

Hey all, does anyone know how much is the graduate assistant stipend at Tufts? Their tuition is 42k a year ;; and offers 21k in scholarships with an ambiguous graduate assistant stipend. Front office hasn't gotten back to me yet.

Where did you hear this?

MSU's deadlines are confusing.. on the grad apps it says Dec 30th but on the department site it says Dec 15th.. anyone know which is which?

I heard from some of my Qfin friends that Python is starting to get traction on the street, just rumors though.

fortran 95 is faster than everything, but you have to write everything. depends on what you do

Assuming that you are still in an undergraduate institution, there should be an intro to computing or numerical methods course offered by the math department. I think this is where a majority of people here learned their programming from.

Just do what is asked, transcripts will take a while since I'm sure they have an ocean of mail-in materials they have to sort through. I downloaded the math form (.doc) and filled it in via word, then saved as pdf. But these questions belong in the application sweat thread.

CMU also asks for a personal statement in addition to a statement about your academic goals.

I was not clear, I meant the aggregate number of applicants

you have till the 31st for the math prep form, writing sample, SOP and letters. (and I think some financial form for international students? not sure)