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Anybody going to the Cornell flyout next Friday?

I can confirm the UCSD rejection on gradcafe, received an email 30 minutes ago.

I still haven't heard back from Brown.... if you don't mind me asking, when you say unfunded, do you mean you have to pay tuition like their masters program? Or is it just no fellowship but a tuition waiver?

Institution: Berkeley ARE Program: ARE PHD Decision: Rejected Funding: n/a Notification date: 02/25/14 Notified through: E-mail Posted on GC: No Comments: A little sad, but expected

I just got a wait list from them. Also got a request for fall grades from BU within 5 minutes of the waitlist. Apparently the Boston schools do their notifying in clusters!

Institution: Boston College Program: PhD Economics Decision: Waitlist Funding: Full funding if I get off waitlist Notification date: 02/25/14 Notified through: Email Posted on GC: No Comments: Unsure how I feel about this

Institution: UVA Program: PhD Economics Decision: rejected Funding: NA Notification date: 02/23/2014 Notified through: website Posted on GC: No Comments:

I heard back on the 21st via email. I just declined the offer as well.

Institution: University Maryland Program: ARE PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: 24k Notification date: 02/21/14 Notified through: email Posted on GC: Yes Comments:

Hi mandcrut237, you should totally go to Cornell. (this advice isn't at all biased by the fact that I'm 95% sure I am going to accept their offer and think it would be cool if we had two urch people in the AEM program). Now for the real reasons why I'd support cornell. I've talked with a faculty member there just recently and I took away a couple of cool things: 1. You build your degree around your concentrations, but only one concentration has to be in the AEM department, so if there are any general econ topics you want to also do while in grad school you can have committee members from the econ department (or other departments for that matter) to supervise your thesis (I think you mentioned that you wanted to do development at some point, Cornell's econ department has a lot of great people in development for example). You can also make your own concentration that isn't one of the big ones listed on their website, so you could do some kind of specialized urban econ for example. 2. The department has had a lot of excellent placements recently, and while there are many rumors about cornell's econ department having trouble placing people (I have no idea whether these rumors are founded, so do not in any way take this as me supporting those rumors as true) it seems that the AEM faculty are really committed to placing their students well. As a more personal note, I just visited the campus recently to see what it would be like (and if I would be able to survive the cold.) They just renovated their building and it is REALLY nice, so that's a bonus too. Anyway, I'll be really interested to hear what you end up deciding to do!

Institution: UCSB Program: PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: Unknown Notification Date: 2/11/14 Posted on GradCafe: Yes Comments: Was a little concerned I hadn't heard anything, nice to hear back

Untrue I'm afraid, while I have a masters its not from Cornell. Edit: Sorry, didn't see your "a lot" there, although, my understanding is that most of the people who attend the program for their phd come from their masters program, so in that regard you are definitely correct

Institution: UC Davis Program:ARE Decision: Accepted Funding: Full Funding Notification date: 1/29/2014 Notified through: Email then phone call Posted on GC: Yes Comments: First admit, was very excited, the phone call was very nice too

Institution: Cornell AEM Program: Decision: Accepted Funding: Full Funding Notification date: 1/30/2014 Notified through: Email. Posted on GC: Yes Comments: Very excited, one of my top choices

Institution: UC Davis ARE Program: PHD Decision: Accepted Funding: full funding Notification date: 1/29/2014 Notified through: Phone call Posted on GC: No Comments: ​My first decision, yay!