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  1. You certainly have some chance, and your profile looks good. But all applicants have good looking profiles. You probably should expand that list with a lot of schools in the top 20-40 range. Also look at other good programs in the UK (UCL, Oxford, Cambridge) and continental Europe (Pompue Fabra, Bonn, Mannheim, PSE, TSE, EUI, Tilburg). Don't retake the GRE. PS. Don't put 'Talented in STATA' on your application.
  2. No need to retake the GRE. I think you've checked all the boxes to be admitted to a good program. Just apply to as much of the top 20 as you can afford, including some reaches and safeties.
  3. Yep with OP, sorry for misquote
  4. Are you still holding a funded offer to both? In that case know that you are holding someone's spot...
  5. You need econometrics in order to cover some basics of linear regression, ways of calculating properties of estimators (variance, assymptotic distribution etc). I presume you statistics courses cover this sort of thing (the applied linear course and time series, that is). Might want to clarify that it does in your application, just to avoid confusion.
  6. If you submit papers they need to be in certain formats; very easy to manage in Latex. That's the main benefit, especially for the bibliography.
  7. Please do check some courses taught at econ PhDs. They are about as distant from your interests as can be.
  8. May I ask why you would want a PhD in Economics, given your interest?
  9. Whats with everyone reposting earlier questions in new threats?? http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/155025-questions-about-master-economics.html#post992868
  10. You asked the same question a month ago in a different topic.. http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/155063-gpa-floor-phd-econ-admissions.html
  11. It also depends on how you define target and average. Is it 'nominal' to graduate in 5 years, or is the nominal time shorter and do people simply take longer on average? In both cases you being faster would not matter much, other than that it would look bad if you were slower than the nominal time.
  12. For UK programs, I would strongly recommend Cambridge. You would need to end up in the top 30-20% in your cohort though, which is less easy then it sounds. No clue on Duke vs Cambridge for US T20; agree with ZYX that it probably also depends on your background .
  13. I think your summary is correct. In terms of placements, I would add that Cambridge places well at policy institutes and that PhD funding might be more generous (in real terms) than the others you mention. The MPhil Res here seems more rigorous than UCL's MSc (yet less than its MRes) from program descriptions. I faced the same choice (minus UCL) last year, and would not have done it different if I were to choose again. Agree with your comments about cohorts; students from other UG places were usually (near) top of their class. Specific questions about Cambridge welcome through PM.
  14. Besides the comments above questioning whether you should apply to grad school (with which I would agree), I would say that in case you still want to go, not telling them is (clearly) better then telling them. Would you hire someone unable to deal with stress for a stressful job?
  15. For many programs at these institutes you do not stand a chance of being hired without having a PhD, even if this is not the formal requirement. My source is an IMF staff member involved in the hiring process. Regarding the SOP comment: there is absolutely no reason you have to be honost about these kind of ambitions in an SOP. Just put in there that you would love to be a professor.
  16. In that case, he should be very worried.
  17. Dont believe the horror stories; they are usually from people from dev. countries. You say you are from Europe (so am I; my interview for UG was a joke), which is a very different story. 1) No 2) Me, like a billion other people 3) Sort out finances well, document everything they dak for on their website, don't make bomb jokes 4) Get ready for a boring day at the consulate 5) Have fun in murica
  18. Lol, my PANY nomination got more upvotes than I ever had. But to be more serious; I think chateauheart deverses a spot on the list too.
  19. Disclaimer: I only visited Seattle a couple of times, so by no means an insider. To me it seems that: 1) UC Davis has a much more serious placement record than UW. Frankly, if I look at the UW placement record, I wonder why one would invest 5 years into a PhD at all. Sure, there are some weak academic placements (West Virgina University?) but a large number of industry jobs too ( including UW Investment management??). The more decent academic placements from UW do not note whether they are postdoc, AP, tt... that worries me. 2) Attrition rates: not a clue, try getting in contact with a current graduate students if you want to be sure. 3) Seattle has rain though, lots of rain :)
  20. Frankly, I would not count on admissions to the RM at TI/Tilburg. Those are competitive programs where students from good departments at the higher end of their class' grade distribution (say top 5-20%, depending on reputation of department) apply to, usually with an Econ or Math/Engineering degree. Your background seems scarce and grades subpar. Leaving academia itself should not hurt too much. Note that with your math background, even if you get admitted, you will have considerable difficulty with some of the courses (in metrics/micro, macro should be ok). Bonn and Mannheim would be same story; I believe Bonn has an (unofficial) cutoff at top 7% for Master's students. Whether you would get into the regular MSc depends on the coursework in your micro/macro papers, which should cover intermediate micro and macro (incl growth theory, f.i. Weil's book). You also seem to miss an introductory course in econometrics (eg at least Wooldridge's level), which is an admissions requirement for most programs.
  21. You are making two very strong assumptions here. First, that he will get in to LSE (which is very competitive and difficult; based on his current admits that does not seem guaranteed at all) and second, that he will be amongst the best of his class at LSE (which, given the competitiveness of admissions, is hard to say the least).
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