dragonslion

Yeah, the economics program at Yale is just awful...

I don't think there will be any advantage to doing it as far as admissions are concerned, but I wouldn't leave it out of your application. Would you be teaching for a year? If I were in your position I would stay on Wall St until 2-4 months before the program started and then take a nice holiday (depending on bonus cycle).

The economics GRE no longer exists.

Did you choose Yale? If so, see you there!

No, I already accepted my Yale offer and couldn't justify the expense/time of flying there from Australia. I'm glad you were impressed, what did you like about it?

Are you going to the Yale visit day today?

The consensus is that most of the value-added comes from interacting with other tenants, so the peer effects are dominant. In terms of maintenance, I actually found the Berkeley landlords put in more effort, but the buildings here are at a higher level. I can't speak to the quality of landlords elsewhere, but the dominance of the top realtors self perpetuates pretty easily. Because 2/3 of the top 6 realtors own property near Harvard and MIT, any potential landlord I end up with has personal relationships with the realtors anywhere I'll be living in the future. It's a comforting thought.

I don't know what a preposition is.

It's interesting that we have such different views on this. I've always been of the opinion that you sign an email with the moniker with which you wish to be referred. If a professor wishes to be addressed as Dr or Professor then they should always address you as Mr and sign as Dr/Professor. As an undergraduate I might have been a bit more conservative though.

I've always responded with what someone signs with, and I've noticed that others do the same once I sign with a shortened version of my first name.

Two hours ago.

UCSD offered me a very generous 4k in the first year, with the requirement of working 10 hours a week.

PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Top Australian, Honours Degree Undergrad GPA: 3.92 (3.99 last 4 years) GRE: 170Q 165V 4.5AWA Math Courses: Calculus II,III(A,A) Linear Algebra I,II(A,A) Real Analysis I,II(A-,A) Probability I-III(A,A,A) Statistics I,II(A,A) Stochastic Modelling(A) Complex Analysis(A) ODE(A) Linear Programming(A) Econ Courses: Microeconomics I-IV(A,A,A,A) Macroeconomics I-IV(B,A,A,A) Econometrics I,II(A,A) International Finance(A) Game Theory I,II(A,A) Financial Economics(A) Monetary Economics(A) Mechanism Design(A) Letters of Recommendation: Thesis advisor, Research supervisor, Professor Research Experience: Honours thesis in economics, RA at business school and summer research in math Teaching Experience: 3 semesters Research Interests: IO, Applied Micro, Micro Theory SOP: Standard RESULTS: Acceptances: Northwestern, Yale, NYU Stern, NYU, Chicago, Penn, Columbia, UCLA, Wisconsin, UCSD Waitlists: Michigan Rejections:HBS(after interview), MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley Attending: Yale Comments: What would you have done differently? Nothing much, I'm not sure if I could have done much better. I could probably have worked harder and more consistently, but I don't think it would have changed anything.

It strictly dominated for my interests, hence why I said "for me". You can work with the NYU profs, but I don't think I would say Stern strictly dominates NYU for people with different interests.

I'm facing a similar decision; Yale (35k) vs. Stern (35.5k) vs. Northwestern (negotiable) vs. Chicago (27k) vs. Columbia (38k) vs. Penn (25k). I'm also a little worried about the location of Yale, but I've heard that it has improved. I'm not used to cities where two blocks away from a nice street there is a dangerous street, so if I attend I will probably live on campus for the first year. Northwestern's placements seem to have been largely driven by empirical IO and the odd theory star, while Yale's seem a little more balanced. Stern is only good for Macro and IO, so I think it would be risky to go there if you didn't want to do either of those. It's strange that you got into Stern but not NYU. I've already turned down my NYU offer because for me the Stern offer strictly dominated it. I also don't know much about Columbia, and I'm not considering it that strongly. They gave me a lot of money, so it's at least made me look twice at them. Are you going to the fly outs?