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Hi guys Thanks all for the input. Yeah, I am worried about having no research may hamper my PhD application. However, I didn't realise it was just as important for my master application. Btw, anonecon, what does LRM school mean? According to US News, my school falls within the top 30 in economics.

Hi yiisheng I am planning to apply to US PhD programs this year. I thought rejection from EME was a signal on some significant weakness on my profile with someone interested in doing theory. I have heard that EME picks student with profile background well suited in doing theory.I asked if the the EME successful applicants had graduate maths because I wondered whether my current maths studies is insufficient enough for a PhD applicant interested in doing theory for top schools. I posted this expecting someone to enlighten me on this matter.:) I really hope it was just an accident - if so I won't be worrying about it for this year's application. I would love some input from those who recently graduated from the EME.

Hi chateauheart Thanks for the reply.:) My LORs told they were impressed with my analytical thinking etc. and they offered to write the letters of recommendation.The downside was I had no research experience with them, before application, hence they told me they weren't able to write about my research ability but just on my class performance. I guess the LORs were decent. But I don't know what were actually written in those letters. I wrote a standard SOP: discussing my research interest, choosing EME as I love to analysis problems using maths etc. I don't think it was terrible because slight edit of it had got me an admit from Oxford MPhil. I appreciate your response. I had just kept seeing the view count rising without any actual replies.

Hi guys As the topic suggests, I was rejected from LSE EME in the last cycle. I took the usual set of upper division maths courses like analysis, measure theory, Topology, (abstract+linear) algebra, functional analysis, mathematical probability and stats etc. And I scored A and above in the them. Some of them I took in UC Berkeley (pretty decent maths school IMO). For Economics, I had As (game theory, intermediate micro/macro plus econometrics etc.) and won department's award every year. And my one of my LOR was ranked top 5% in IDEAS. However, I did not have any graduate economic courses under my belt during application. So I am wondering do successful LSE EME applicant usually have top grades in graduate maths and economics? And does a reject from EME tells me my profile is weak for an applicant interested to do research in theory?