MrSethward

Working where I am living now and visiting places a cheap plane ticket away with time off. I deferred for a year though. Will end up with a relaxing vacation the last three months before beginning next year.

Information on placements, faculty, and such is readily available on almost any programs website. Information on personal relations, new hires, and such is generally word of mouth. Some of us have first hand knowledge of certain programs, many of us get that info from questions we ask to programs, and a lot is also just rumors (such as stuff floating around EJMR). For my programs, I just read some threads on here for information on attrition, professors student relations, strongest fields, etc., and asked over Skype any extra questions I had, such as what offers they made this year or if they could share this year's placements that have been finalized. Just make sure you can somewhat accurately evaluate the quality of information and sources.

As a native, I love Texas, but College Station is a miserable place. It is incredibly cheap, however. Ignoring cost, location wise, UCSC dominates.

Keep in mind that the applied micro seminar series at CMU is joint with UPitt, which has a very strong applied micro group.

He's back.

Don't really contribute much here anymore, but just thought this might be an interesting topic for discussion. Just got through speaking to a DGS at a school I was admitted to and during my mention of research interests, the DGS told me that was one of the factors in my admission. In particular, that the field's research group had recommended me for admission. My coursework, research experience, and SoP made clear my interest in the field and that I chose the program for this reason. The result was admission to a program which strictly dominates other places I got into, and is especially strong in my interests. I bring this up because I'm seeing a lot of applicants looking for reviews of a profile that lacks any research interests or direction. If you are a top candidate, this may not matter as much, but at least in this specific anecdote, for someone in the lower range, it was a huge boon to have a detailed set of research topics I hope to pursue. What do you all think? Is this typical for adcoms to do? It would make sense for a school that specializes (like macro at Minnesota) to have the majority of admits pursue macro, but what about a more well rounded school? Do they consider a type of proportional system to generally ensure one of their fields isn't completely lacking students for that cohort? If so, how does that leave students who haven't decided and express that in their SoP? (this is somewhat in response to having heard that most students switch their choices after entering school, thus I would expect some discounting of research interests during admissions) Anyway, this was just something I was interested in and hope to hear any of y'alls opinions/experiences/information.

Past Opinions: http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/151280-uc-irvine.html http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/116785-uc-irvine.html http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/146788-uc-irvine-vs-u-iowa.html http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/140418-uc-irvine-vs-ucsb-vs-indiana-macroeconomics.html http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/151520-ut-austin-vs-uc-irvine-vs-u-pittsburgh-vs-wisconsin-vs-penn-state-university.html

Nothing here either! Congratulations!

Nothing yet here either, but do note that they finally closed the application portal. Don't stress too hard about it, we'll hear soon enough!

Institution: Queen's University Program: Economics Masters Decision: Rejected Funding: N/A Notification Date: 04/08/2013 Notified Through: Email to check website Posted on GC: No Comments:

Probably from Mexican huh? I'm just going to forget the PhD and open up a Fuzzy's in the NW. They need it.

My worst mistake this cycle was eating Mexican food in Oregon.

Goddammit. Hahaha, I was typing on my phone really fast before the plane took off, and today is my birthday, so out of habit must have put my actual birth date.

Institution: Bocconi Program: Masters of Economics and Social Sciences Decision: Accepted Funding: Assuming none, was not mentioned Notification Date: 04/04/2013 Notified Through: Website Posted on GC: No Comments: Great program, but not feasible without funding

Bocconi and AUB results out tomorrow, but I feel neither stressed nor concerned. Will be up at Oregon Friday, hope to see some of you there!