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Hard to say. In general, my gut is probably yes. But you should never decide a PhD based on what is 'hot' now... when you graduate things can easily have changed (or not)!

Interviews not going out yet. Everyone is still coming off the winter break. Some fields in business have conference deadlines early Jan as well. It's hard, but patient is a virtue right now!

Hard to say. Math helps with understanding the logic behind the stats. Is super advance math necessary? probably not. Does it Hurt? definitely not. may also be based on what type of research methods you want to use. Math might help to open the door to some alternative and more advance quant methods.

Not sure if this is a new PhD program or not. Might be relatively new, which means less of a track record, but the university brand is (obviously) recognised.

Hi Nala, OB is sort of weird. I feel like it's too broad to characterise 'classic foundational' papers. It really depends on which research topics that you are interested in. If can be more specific about which research areas interest you, then that might help people to help you as well.

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Send whichever ones provides the best representation of yourself, percentile wise.

Interesting question. PhD is do-able with a family, though definitely more difficult with multi things to balance. Funding varies by school, so probably consider the location and the COLA for each of the locations appropriately so you can get a sense of how it will impact your budgets. Can you afford a small house or condo? Sure? It completely depends on where you are doing your PhD. I think most of your concerns are very university dependent, so probably some research (or inquiries directed towards the program directors) is necessary. Advice for handling a PhD program with family? From my observations of other students with families, it's perhaps having strict boundaries between the work/study side of things and what is 'family' side of things. If you make your boundaries 'permeable', you gain some flexibility when workloads are higher (in work or on the family side) .... but the downside is in phd studies... there is always more that you can be doing, either for your own learning or setting up for your career upon graduating. With more strict boundaries, you will have to learn to be far more efficient with the time you have than other students who may not encounter the same issues. For the first year or two, for example, one of the important skills to pick up quickly is how to read and assess large amounts of academic literature and extract the information that you need to. When you advance in the program, the strict boundaries will be helpful in that it takes time to 'get into the flow' of writing and thinking, so distractions that come up will eat away at your time, since getting back into the flow of thinking will take some time with each distraction. Finally, work with your partner to really understand what will be happening during this time and some general ideas on how the two of you will be approaching this tough period of your lives. Connect with others that have family too, either in your program or seek them out around the business school when you get there, so that you can get a sense of some of the strategies that may have worked for others. Best of luck! Hope my perspectives are helpful for you to think through!

No guarantees, but it seems like you should expand your list of potential schools that you are considering. Every adcom may view applications differently, and as you summarized, your UG GPA may be significant barrier and there may be situations when your application is simply 'screened out'. People who have connections to these schools that you know (in academics) may be able to get your application in front of people to be given a deeper look. It's hard to say whether you have a reasonable shot or not, but definitely expand your list of potential schools.

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Just my 2 cents here.... economics and computer science don't really have a clear link into marketing .... the degrees might be helpful in signaling your comfort with more technical stuff, for example if you want to do quant marketing, or marketing with big data.... it might be better to spend the year or two getting close to and working with a marketing faculty on actual research so that s/he can speak to you interest in marketing topics as well as your actual ability in doing research.... An economics won't hurt, but i don't know if it will help that much either. It may have the indirect benefit of making you more comfortable with graduate level statistic, which because its econ may give you more confidence for quant/big data type research. Best of luck!

Might be helpful to tell a story or give an example about what led to you having this intellectual curiousity. If you have good letter writers, they may be able to address this in their letter if they believe these are not indicative of your actual ability. At the end of the day, if you are not going to take the GMAT again, then the GMAT and GPA are whatever they are and you'll have to roll with the punches on this one. Maybe a bit... I mean at the end of the day it's a writing game. But given your english lit background and higher verbal, I would not be worried about your writing skills as much... but I would be worried about how difficult it will be for you to pick up statistics. It's not that the stats will be super difficult (compared to other areas), but it's better to be able to have a broader range of stats skills, oppose to perhaps only learning rather simplistic quant skills .... the exception might be if you want to be a pure experimental researcher, which Mich and Nwestern could help you do... in this case, it's more about rigorous research design. Again, you have whatever you have at this point. It is better to have a letter writer that knows you well and has a lot to say beyond "this student did well in my class, yada yada yada.... " but can also speak to things they have observed, talked to you about, or what capabilities they believe you have.... etc... basically the closer you are, the more they have to write, which is helpful if you are neck and neck with another applicant. Hope it helps! Best of luck!

See if you can find a professor during your undergrad studies in the field to work with them and get a sense of the literature. you might end up doing something like literature search/review, which would be helpful for you to get a sense of the academic literature. As mentioned previously, the academic literature is quite dense, so it may take you a while to start to wrap your head around it and how to read it appropriately. This is what most students do the 1st year of their PhD programs.

If its the same department, then its likely all the offers went out around the same time. If they operationally are in separate departments, then it depends on whether each department's committee have met yet.

Maybe wait a few weeks and check in and ask if anything has changed on their end. Question of whether or not the other opportunities are close enough in your mind with the one you are waiting on... i.e., if the significant factor, is for example, the geographic location, but you believe you would get solid training from both. If there is a significant discrepancy in what you would expect from the training itself, then perhaps you should make a decision closer to the deadline.