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Thank you guys. I choose to attend NYU!! p.s for other TMers, I have already rejected my Minnesota offer. Hope some waitlisted TMers will get it!!

Big Thank you for all your inputs! Any comment on Minnesota?

Thanks @Spiderpig!! Anyone else has some inputs?

Thanks for the input, but How do you rank NYU, Wisc and UMN? I feel that unfunded Penn will be a pain for my first year.

Hi all, I have funded offer from UMN, Wisconsin and NYU, and waitlisted for first year funding at Upenn. My interest is Empirical I.O (or econometrics joint with applied areas). I have a hard time deciding between these offers, NYU and Penn are higher ranked, but my advisor today tells me that Wisconsin is maybe the best place for econometrics. What do you guys think? Any comment and help are much appreciated!! (p.s I am still waiting for U Cambridge PhD, anyone has received result from them?)

anyone could please share the info there?

The thing is that UCam is the only Europe program I applied for (I dont know programs in U.K at all, mainly applying for there by some personal issues and I applied in late Feb.) and now the only program I am waiting for, I am not sure if they are going to release any result before April 15th..(they have rolling process, no?)

Anyone applied and waiting for Cambridge Econ PhD result?

That's an interesting ranking and I never saw it before. It ranked U Toronto and U British Columbia before Wisconsin & Minnesota, so Canada's Big 3 are valid candidates for Top15 as well?

Based on the comment and reply, I modify the Top15 list First tier: Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley Second tier: Columbia, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, NYU, Upenn, UCLA, and Wisconsin Comment on this is also warmly welcomed. Yes, you are right. With less than 30 faculty, Wisconsin is still in top 30 in the ranking at IDEAS (which isheavily biased towards the number of faculty) , which shows the excellent quality of its faculty and I never believe that Wisconsin is outside top 15. IMO, if it is the same school but at other cities (say, NY), it could be at top10. One of my friend chooses cornell over Wisconsin last year simply due to the fact that Madison has a poorer weather than it is in NY. But the thing is that 120-150 offers for 20-25 target, almost 100 students reject Wisconsin? I mean if it is top 15, why 100?

Thank you for your reply!! Yes, NYU deserves the second tier. The paper is based on late 90s data I believe

Thank you very much for your comment!! Yes, I do believe Berkeley belongs to first tier, there is no significant different b/w yale & UCB in my mind.. For Brown, it is tricky, since their target size is only 10 each year, considering large pool of applicants, I do believe it's harder to get an offer from Brown, in terms of probability, than wisconsin where the applicants pool is 600 and gives 120-150 offers (that's what is written in their website) for a target 20-25. For cornell & Minnesota, I am not too sure how many offers they will give, for UMN, the waitlist is definitely longer than any second tier, so IMO, in terms of probability, it's still harder to get into cornell. p.s In terms of wisconsin, if they give 120-150 offers among 600 applicants, do they still considered as a "top" program? I mean almost 1/4 applicants will get offer, should be the largest ratio among the Top 15

Thank you very much for your comment!! I am not too sure about LSE, maybe close to Cornell? Third tier?

Based on a research on PhD program in Economics, the arthur argued that based on NRC ranking, First tier: Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale Second tier: Berkeley, Columbia, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn, Rochester, UCLA, and Wisconsin Do you guys agree with this ranking? (or grouping?) IMO, NYU replaces Rochester and the ranking is done, do you agree with me? One thing that I am very interested is Minnesota and Wisconsin. Both school are solid Top15, some argue Minnesota in Top10. But why these schools typically receive smaller number of applicants as compared with other Second tier + Cornell + (maybe) Brown + Duke? Because of their geographical location? Any comment is welcomed.