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  1. I thought I might as well already start this type of thread this year, as all decisions are out and made now, I guess. PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: UK Top 3 Econ programme Undergrad GPA: First (Top 5 in the year) Type of Grad: UK Top 3 Econ programme Grad GPA: TBC (so far First level, Top 3 in the year) GRE: 170Q, 169V, 5.5AW Math Courses: none ... audited Real Analysis sequence and self-taught some prob and stats theory but nothing on transcripts Econ Courses: UG: Intro & Intermediate Micro, Macro, Metrics, Advanced Game Theory (all >70); Grad: Micro, Macro, Metrics sequence (all >70), advanced micrometrics, macro, micro, IO (tbc) Other Courses: politics and philosophy courses (~70 for most) Letters of Recommendation: one top 50 Repec who liked me (RA'ed for him), one top 750 Repec who seems to like me to (thesis advisor), one business school prof not on repec (ugrad tutor) Research Experience: master's thesis, one summer RA + paper project arising from this; could possibly call some of my industry internships vaguely research related Teaching Experience: none Research Interests: micro theory, behavioural, IO SOP: stayed down to the facts: explained course system and contents, and described contents of research projects Other: nothing RESULTS: Acceptances: MIT (funding waitlisted, declined before decision known), Stanford (attending), Princeton, Chicago, Chicago Booth, Northwestern, UC San Diego, NYU, Columbia Waitlists: Yale (declined before decision known) Rejections: Harvard, HBS, HKS, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley, Michigan Ann Arbor Pending: --- Attending: Stanford Comments: my results are almost perfectly correlated with two of my class-mates who have very similar profiles in terms of courses, grades, LoRs, ... I hence have updated my prior about the randomness of the process away from what seems the consensus on this forum: the randomness is not person fixed effects (some are luckier than others) but institution fixed effects (some institutions like some TYPES of candidates more than other institutions), for example, this seems to be consistent with none of us three getting into Harvard but all into MIT. What would you have done differently? Not spend ~$500 on applications to harvard schools. Maybe apply to fewer safeties.
  2. I withdrew from the waitlist already. Hope it helps someone else! :)
  3. While I have not yet received any acceptances (or rejections for that matter), I need to plan my time around easter already, and would like to not make any plans that would almost surely make it impossible to go to any open days for phd programmes. So, does anyone know when they were last year or usually are? If they vary (much) by department: I have applied to most of the US news top 20. Thanks a lot for your help!
  4. Has anyone else had an interview with HBS? Any one want to share their experience?
  5. Oxford should still be amongst the top 3 (with LSE and UCL) in Micro Theory in the UK and top 5 in Europe, even after their recent "losses". For undergraduate, they simply don't offer a pure econ programme. Economics and Management can be made 75% econ, but you are still taking the same courses as PPEists and History and Econ people, so don't expect too much maths. Hence, Cambridge probably prepares you more well. For grad level, Oxford MPhil is (trivially) the best two year course in the UK, and generally considered to be beaten by LSE's EME only in terms of rigour/preparation for a PhD - and placement to match this. Cambridge plays in a very different league. For DPhil the comparison to US places is a bit unfair - in the US you have another 6 years ahead of you, at Oxford it could be as short as 2. So, guess who has the better training, higher research output, and higher quality pipeline when going onto the job market? Comparing to the LSE PhD, placement is also quite a bit worse. Though, it should beat Cambridge, Warwick, etc. Not sure about UCL. Also, it of course depends what you want to do? For (in alphabetical order), auctions, behavioural game theory, discrete choice models, evolutionary game theory, to just name micro/metrics stuff, you'd have a hard time finding better supervisors in Europe and outside the top 10 in the US, if there. I hear Ox is also good for development stuff.
  6. Thank you gokirop. I had not realised they would care much about the fit between my dabblings into research and what I believe I would want to do research on. Given that my thesis will be on theoretical IO and my side project is pure theory, I guess I can make it sound as if I am interested in the entire span empirical IO - applied micro/ IO - pure theory.
  7. Hello everyone, I am going to apply to a wide set of schools this fall and am going over my CV to check if there are any obvious gaps and how to redress them over the summer. One of my concerns is a lack of "classical" RAships. I will be RAing over the summer but of course I do not yet know how positive the LoR from that will be and it will be my first standard RAship. What else counts as "research experience"? I am working on my Masters thesis this summer, and am also working on another side project with another Professor. But these are still in very early stages. Over the summers previously, I spent two months at an Economic Consultancy, doing lots of data work but also lit reviews and that kind of stuff. I guess this can be treated as research experience proper? The summer before that I spent three months at an investment bank - again, some "data work" but of less thorough and technical level, quite obviously. Should I even mention this in my apps? Thanks for your help!
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