Hello everyone
Thank you for reading this. I plan to apply as much as possible(many letter writers) to both Ph.D. econ and Ph.D. finance. I know this is Econ forum but i will talk abit about my interest in phd finance just in case if any of you would kindly give my some advices
PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad: Top university in one of east asian countries
Undergrad major: major in Economics minor in math
Undergrad GPA: Overall 3.6/4.3 econ 3.95/4.3. math 3.3/4.3
Type of Grad: US Top 10, and Top 5(or 6) in my field
Grad major: financial mathematics
Grad GPA: N/A I just started this fall so I have not finished a semester (graduate in may2014)
GRE: 168Q, 152V, 3 Awa :(
Undergrad Math Courses: Cal1,2 Linear Algebra 1,2, Diff Equa, real Analysis1, discrete math and programming
Undergrad Econ Courses: Intermediate macro/micro, statistics for econ, intro to econometric, international trade, labor econ, econ and law, financial econ, financial management, investment
Grad Econ Courses: N/A plan to take some of them next semester
Grad Math Courses: stocastic calculus, time series, probability theory(phd level)
Letters of Recommendation: for each application, I plan to submit 1 from my RA supervisor(strong), 1 from my undergrad econ prof(strong) and 1 from my grad prof(normal)
Research Experience: Interned as a RA for two months in my country's best economic research institution. I did research in labor economics (unfortunately not my research interest), wrote a paper that will be published sometime later(it is a still working paper, i wrote some part of it)
Research Interests: econ : Macroeconomics, international trade/finance, financial econ
finance : asset pricing, market microstructure, behavioral finance
SOP: talk about my career plan(become a professor), my passion in research, academic background, my paper in undergrad (not relevant to my reseach interest but i got very good feedback about it) and abit about my interest research
Concerns: Low undergrade math GPA, low GRE in AWA, my previous work is not relevant with my intended field
Applying to:
econ: Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Yale, NYU, UCB, Umich, UNorth corolina, Wisconsin, UCL, Boston U, John Hop, Cornell
finance: MIT, Columbia, Yale, NYU, Umich, UNorth Corolina, Wisconsin, LSE, UToronto, McGill, British Columbia, UZH, imperial college, Cornell, UCLA
I am applying many high ranked universities because I want to increase my chance as much as possible.
But, I still want to get into one place. please give me some advices
Thank you in advance:drunk: