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Successful economists with endowed chairs from top programs only.

NRC data has a decent measure for attrition (completion rates w/in 6 or 8 years)

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Sarcasm meter broken?

Darth Maul gets cut in half, falls in a pit, and dies.

Call and ask, I'm sure it varies. Can't hurt to tell them. Although all I've seen is "conditional on graduation"

Analysis lover here. Take the modeling class.

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I doubt youll get much besides speculation unless you contact adcoms.

NC State or UCSB ?

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Most "top" programs have earlier deadlines, there are plenty right now with Jan 1 (ex: Missouri ~ 50th) and Jan 15 and later.

You might want to also throw in some non-"top" programs in the US.

My first year was horrendous and I made nearly straight B's. Over the course of the year, my S/O was hospitalized 4 times before finally given a diagnosis, two (very close) family members passed away suddenly, a life-long friend committed suicide, and a parent-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer. After the first incident, I didn't bother to mention any of this to faculty because I didn't want to make excuses. Of course, the impact was still signifcant, especially wrt class attendance (though I did get my work done and study hard). Either way, I know that I'm good enough, despite taking the beating. Tenacity is a good thing to have, and since I want to do this, I'm going to reapply. Perhaps you should weight whether or not your program has grade inflation. It could just be that a "B" is a standard grade, and that an "A" is special. Go by your understanding and research potential, not grades. It certainly beats an office job as a financial analyst ;).

Could just be that posters would rather some information be anonymous, for whatever reason. Personal websites are tightly controlled, people will branch out more in discussions given anonymity.

MSU has a strange funding situation I think. Purdue looks good. Check out Florida's FRED also.

Nah. Anywhere that has low attrition and does interesting work works for me. My understanding is that we're not to give away our location information on these boards (not smart anyway). I imagine there are plenty of places that are both warm and urban.

PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Unranked Undergrad GPA: 3.0 Type of Grad: Top 50 Grad GPA: 3.25 GRE: 740Q 600V Math Courses: Calc I-III (Bs), Linear Aglebra (B), ODE (B), Linear Programming (B), Control Theory (B), Proofs (B), Intro Real Analysis (A), Real Analysis (A), Theory of Matrices (A) Econ Courses (grad-level): PhD core, Econometrics and a few field courses (mostly Bs) (Note that my school has no grade inflation; this is the standard grade) Econ Courses (undergrad-level): All As Letters of Recommendation: Good ones. Research Experience: Yes (after failing) Teaching Experience: Yes Research Interests: Micro SOP: Solid Concerns: Failed a prelim. Dominated the other prelim. Other: Good thesis. Applying to: No Idea. I will only be applying to schools that are in or very near a city so my significant other will have job opportunities. I'm interested in micro, math, and metrics. My school has a pretty high attrition rate, so I don't necessarily think I'm not cut out for it (based on a lot of factors). The upper-division math courses were taken after exams. I also prefer warm places. I was a last-round admit, anyways, the first time. Truthfully, a lot of my first year was spent caring for a loved one who had a lot of sudden, acute health issues, and I think my absence may have upset one or more professors (I kept the situation to myself because I didn't want to make excuses). The issues have now stabilized. I did not retake the GRE because my problem is speed - I'm computationally slow and obsessively check my work. I'm generally very solid at math and one of the best in my cohort. Just slow.