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Don't have much information here, but wish you best of luck. If Northwestern gives you tuition waiver, but not first year funding, would you be able to attend? I would be surprised if it would not be possible to negotiate at least a tuition waiver given your results, and I know it reduces stress a lot to have a solid lower bound. Also, hijacking this thread about waitlists, does anyone have updates from the Yale waitlist?

Thanks! That's very useful information. So, the question is: if I want to do some empirical work at NU, how would it go? Would I have to go to Kellogg/find people at Chicago?

Ah, good point JR, forgot to mention. Interests after PhD: Conditional on research going well, I definitely want to go into academia. I don't have a strong preference over econ department or business school. My Plan B would be private sector, but probably not economic consultancy or something directly related to the PhD.

Hi all, So, with Berkeley out, my application season is pretty much over, and now I have to choose from my options. I thought I would ask your advice. My offers are Stern, Northwestern, and a Yale waitlist. I have to make a ranking between Stern, NU and Yale, and if Yale comes on top another ranking between Stern and NU. Funding wise, Stern is a bit, but not much more than NU in real terms, whereas Yale dominates both. Stern has 3.5-4.5 years of fellowship, NU has 2 years, Yale has 3 years. The rest is TA/RA. (The extra fellowship seems like a big deal, though NU mentioned financial terms were negotiable. Does anyone know if negotiating is ever successful at NU?) Regarding my research interests: mainly microeconomics, applied theory and empirical. My research interests are diffuse, so I place value on well-roundedness of the program. With this information, how would you rank my options? Very interested in your responses!

On the plus side, we don't have to worry about the visit days!

I feel this should be avoided, not even because of problems it causes for admits, but because it's kinda embarrassing to the profession. Economists: masters at matching, solving coordination problems, reaching equilibrium in repeated games with easy communication...

I'm going to guess Berkeley will be Monday. That's going to be a horrid weekend!

I think it's not so nice for those who do not get cut early, but end up getting rejected anyway. I think the best thing to do is to send out an email to all applicants at the same time. Also, the refresh button on my email is giving me repetitive strain. Has anyone tried calling Berkeley to see if they're still planning to send out results today?

I still haven't heard anything from Columbia. It seems they might actually be drawing their rejections out over the weekend.

For those who are interested: I called Stanford GSB about the Research Fellows program, and they told me decisions had been made and would likely be released sometime next week.

Waiting too. To be perfectly honest, I think they're just being really slow.

I hope Berkeley do it at a reasonable time, and not, say, 9 pm. Or if they don't do it at all and do it on Monday, I hope they announce that, or I will have a fairly sleepless night!

Interesting. Wonder if that's with a safety margin built in, like Stanford? Did they mention anything about the results that are seemingly already out?

Welcome to the agony of the waitlist!

Are you happy with the cycle given your current offers, Catrina? Regarding Berkeley, I'm leaning towards troll. Two rejections over the span of several hours seems a bit slow.