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Thanks for the info. I heard from a friend that MIT might give out offers at a similar time to Harvard and try to coordinate visit days -- do you know if there is any truth to this rumor (and should we start to sweat about MIT now)?

Do you guys think the CPC Central Committee post on GC is real? That's one of my top choices, so I'm very nervous.

Can anybody confirm this? I'm a little skeptical since he/she hasn't posted anything for three years, and this post occurred within a few minutes of the GC one.

Oh that's a fun project -- if you look at regional interest in the US by city, every single city listed has a school with a strong econ program. Google's order of interest: Ithaca (Cornell), New Haven (Yale), Cambridge (Harvard/MIT), Berkeley (Cal), Champaign (UIUC), Ann Arbor (Michigan), Durham (Duke), Providence (Brown), Madison (Wisconsin), Pittsburgh (Pitt/CMU).

Hey common, stanford's one of my top choices -- do you mind PMing me too?

Institution: Caltech Program: PhD Social Science Decision: Accepted Funding: TBA Notification date: 2/7/14 Notified through: Email Posted on GC: Yes Comments: I'm (cautiously) optimistic about the upcoming month.

I don't know if they have already admitted their class, but I received an admissions email Friday night so the gc posts are probably real.

Is there empirical evidence for this? I've heard a professor discuss affirmative action, hypothesizing that racial quotas cause more minorities to be hired for low-ranked positions and not given raises. Of course this isn't equivalent to discrimination, but there have been some psychological studies showing that employers prefer people that "seem white" to those that "seem black" (e.g. Chicago GSB | Capital Ideas). I would conjecture that this result would extend to job security and advancements, and I doubt that the reason that "applicants with white-sounding names are 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with African-American-sounding names" is entirely due to a comparatively small number of discrimination lawsuits.

Institution: Ohio State Program: Econ PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: TBA Notification date: 1/13/2014 Notified through: Website Posted on GC: Yes Comments: ​One down, hopefully many more to go!

Please use the format below, and don't post any comments besides admissions and rejections. Good luck everyone! Institution: Program: Decision: Funding: Notification date: Notified through: Posted on GC (thegradcafe.com): Comments:

I got into Ohio State! They didn't send me an email, but their site says: "Congratulations - you have been offered admission!"

I'm having a similar problem, since I'm hoping I receive a grade tomorrow. Do you know what time the apps for Rochester, UCSD Rady, or Boston U are due?

I'm applying to NW Kellogg (deadline is tomorrow), and I expect to receive my last grade tomorrow -- do you know what time the deadline is? I'm anticipating getting an A, so I'd prefer to submit after I receive the grade.

Okay, I won't mention this. Thanks for the help!

Thanks Fisher -- I'm definitely concerned about metrics, although the rest of my econ grades are good. But do you think I should remark on the grade improvement after freshman year in my application?

Freshman year I took one econ class (intro to econometrics: B) and three math classes (abstract algebra: C :( ; probability theory: A; number theory: A).

So my grades for this semester are trickling in, and it looks like I will probably get all A's. If so, this will bring my GPA since sophomore year to 3.83 (math: 3.75, econ: 3.88) and my overall GPA to 3.68 (math: 3.57, econ: 3.78). I believe that the rest of my profile is good, and I have applied / am applying to a bunch of schools from top-10 to top-40. Should I remark on this discrepancy in grades somewhere in my application, or just hope that ad-coms chalk it up to me being an immature freshman? Thank you for any advice you can give.

Since I'm also applying to graduate programs, I don't usually like to comment on profiles. But if you're a senior and applying now, please don't take sulebrahim's advice. With a 3.43 average in math and econ (and some Ws), no linear algebra, average LORs, top-30 schools will not be safeties. I think you should look into top 40-50 schools.

jayalthouse, I suppose that you are upset due to your own situation, but it is not necessary to take it out on OP. (S)he clearly has a desire to study economics at the doctorate level and the motivation to put in the extra effort to learn the rigor. Just because you struggled in your program does not mean that someone else will. And even if you dislike Freakonomics, Levitt must have gotten into MIT and won a JBC somehow. Don't put down people who you don't know because of personal frustration.

Right, their office, of course -- this is why I shouldn't be filling out applications so late at night.

I was looking through applications and noticed that many ask for phone numbers and addresses for my rec letter writers. Is this necessary information? (I feel slightly awkward about asking professors where they live...)

Why do you say NYU has fallen from grace? Two professors at my school told me that NYU was considered top ten in reputation and placements, a ranking comparable to Yale/Princeton.

Nah, because the conditional probability of getting into A given a rejection from B should be positive. And Catrina, I'm in the same position; after talking to professors, my list expanded to 27 schools (and will definitely remain over 20). This is a tough semester...

Do you guys know if there will be a 2013 update to the tmanalysis site?

So I talked to one of my econ letter-writers, and he mentioned that I should be applying to top-5 programs. This is very optimistic, but I may have underestimated the positivity of his letter. I have recently spoken to my other two writers as well and have become more bullish about what they think of me. Do you think there's a chance I could crack the top 10-15 (specifically, Kellogg, NYU, Caltech, Duke/Fuqua)?