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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.

Same. Just when I had some hope of sleeping -_-

Anyone else rejected from Berkeley? That would be an odd way to troll. Am I checking in the right place by going back to my original application?

I am very confused, rejections appear to come in by email piecemeal. Are they really sending out these things manually? Economics departments seem reluctant to let go of the 20th century :P

FromTheHip and SubEffect, Thanks very much for this information! Yale is my top choice, and I told them I would accept if admitted. Now I guess there's nothing to do but wait. I hope to see both of you at the visit day/next year!

Piling on coffeehouse's question, if you're waiting for a waitlist, what do you do with your current first choice department? Will they understand if you wait until like 2 hours before the deadline to inform them you are accepting the offer? I imagine it's pretty horrible if your internet accidentally breaks down or something and you lose out on both. Is there such a thing as 'I accept if you don't hear anything from me'?

Ah, didn't see that, sorry

Hey FromTheHip, Thanks for the info! Do you mean you were on the waitlist and didn't come off, or that you received admission without waitlist? So, it seems their policy on waitlist rank has changed - I explicitly asked for my rank on the waitlist and was not told. That's why I was wondering if anyone was told their rank on the waitlist. Nr 2 was explicitly confirmed by the department, so that's definitely the case.

Berkeley on GC. Seems things are happening today.

poinsettia: see PM. Having a lot of trouble deciding! Icculus: I have been in contact with Yale and expressed my interest, but they didn't tell me anything beyond what I mentioned above (reasonably enough). That's why I'm interested to hear whether other people received more information or have been in the situation previously.

Hi all, So as you may have seen, I am on the waitlist for Yale. Like another member of the forum I can't remember, I received information that Yale favoured those who were eager to come to Yale and were easy contact, but did not receive any information about my position on the waiting list. I'm sure they maintain an internal ranking of some kind, but I am curious whether they told anyone they were high on the waiting list. (I'm trying to guesstimate the conditional probability of getting in off the waitlist, and if they have a two-tier waitlist I can start looking for apartments in Chicago or NYC). Anyone else on the waitlist for Yale, or has been on the waitlist for Yale in the past?