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It's great to have a hands-off moderator. I mean, I've seen other forums where nanny moderators live pretty much die off after a while. In short, I strongly disagree any type of restrictions on the freedom of speech and of screwing around... :onthego:

I feel desperate when looking at your stats, and I feel excited to have a competition like you. Since you r from a top 10 underg, I would assume an ivy or somewhere like UCB or Virginia, you literally can go anywhere given your background. Good luck my friend! and please make sure apply for Caltech, UPenn and Columbia! :cyclops:

I don't care abt the incentive or attitude, I only care abt what info being offered through the responses to my post.

I would probably join Romney for 2016 campaign team if I see no hope.

It's true doing what you said can be very beneficial, but talking about 'restriction' may be too harsh, b/c it's also true that most people who just joined the forum would have no idea nor time to going through every single post in the past to filter out what info best fit them. Speaking of getting into some research places like the Fed for a year or two, I am also considering this option if I see no hope in grad application. Thx for the advices anyway!

good argument! thanks for reminding.

This is part of the dilemma. I visited both Columbia and UPenn in the Spring, where the graduate director of C suggested to include the proof being mentioned, and a dominant senior faculty at UPenn said it doesn't matter what kind of B it is, B is B.

It may sound ideological but since your ultimate goal is to go to a top PHD program, I guess I can say this... If I were you, I will definitely go to LSE unless I wanna go specifically after some professors at Tufts who will lead me to a top PHD program.

Dear all, I'm a senior from Rutgers University (NB). I dual major in Math and Econ, with a minor in Poli Sci. It seems I can also choose to minor in Operations Research due to size of overlapping classes with Math.. To be concise, here are my stats: GPA: 3.85 overall; 3.80 Math; 3. 85 Econ; 4.0 Poli Sci. Courses taken: Math - Calc 4 (Multiv&diff eqn), Intro to Lin Alg, Math Reasoning (intro to advanced Math); Econ - all intro/intermediate level classes and two higher level electives. Courses will take: Math - Calc 5&6 (equivalent to 'Intro to Analysis - 104,105' offered at UCB, I would assume its a prep level real analysis; it's unlikely I can take further analysis class before graduation), Linear Optimization, Probability Theory, Game Theory, and two other higher level electives; Econ - Advanced Econometrics, Game Theory, two honor research classes, and one more elective. Academic interest: decision-making study, game theory, industrial organization and relevant aspects in political economy. Research Exp: (1) data collection for department chair's research paper, nothing serious; (2) undergrad honor thesis research, ongoing until next May, supervised by a senior faculty member at Econ dept. LOR: this is tricky b/c I can literally attain LORs from almost all professors I know, but it seems that only my supervisor's one will be the truly valuable one... GRE: V150, Q167; it's unlikely I can increase the score, at least not within this year, considering my ongoing research (presentation and defense in Dec) and six higher level electives I'm taking this semester. Desirable schools: U Chicago, Columbia, MIT, Harvard, Yale, NYU, UPenn... (I can put down a long list here, but, well, you know...) ; OxCam and LSE... a, I ignorantly speak in a tone that assumes my readers are either from the U.S. or at least knowing how U.S. colleges operate. b, The grading policy of Rutgers is A-->B+-->B-->C+ where B+ is 3.50. c, The only non-A econ class I got is "Intel Econ" a few semesters back, and I received that due to mental distress caused by infestation in my apartment and it's relative lawsuit against my landlord right after the first exam. The whole event was documented and reported to the school, but the instructor refused to evaluate accordingly based on my 97-->72-->78 exam scores, even if the department chair and program director tried to persuade him. d, I don't know whether this is important, but the average higher level Math course grade at RU is C+/B (2.50~3.00) e, Currently, I'm working with some people on my application preparation, and the further I get into this application game, the more diffident I am. I realize very rarely an undergrad can directly enter a leading PHD program in Econ, except freaky genius, which I'm not. Most of these big name schools don't offer Master for transitory purpose, and as far as I know only NYU, Northwestern and some British schools do that. So I'm willing to either apply for Masters or go abroad. I'm far away from a competitive applicant, but this brings me here. Please chance me, and feel free to throw advices and criticisms at me.:cyclops: * I will add in more info once it come into my mind...