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Any idea how big the cohort is? Also, I will be there August 1st as well...but with little intent to study for the math camp before it starts

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison Program: Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: fellowship with $30K a year Notification date: sometime early feb Notified through: Email Comments: 1 of top 2 choices Institution: University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Program: Economics & Public Policy PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: fellowship with $30K a year (years 2-5); year 1 $24k Notification date: Feb 29 Notified through: Email Comments: Very happy, 1 of top 2 choices; cannot believe I got in. Institution: UT - Austin Program: Economics PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: fellowship with $15K a year and TA Notification date: mid Feb Notified through: Email Comments: pleased, but will reject Institution: University of Washington, Seattle Program: Economics PhD Decision: other Funding: Notification date: early march Notified through: Email Comments: 'are you still interested, do you have better offers' Institution: University of Chicago Program: Public Policy PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: Notification date: early Feb Notified through: Email Comments: dissapointed but Michigan makes up for everything Institution: Berkeley Program: Economics PhD Decision: Rejected Funding: Notification date: March 4 Notified through: Email Comments: mehhh, it's cool

Type of Undergrad: top 3 University of California (UC) with top 15 economics program Undergrad GPA: 3.67 overall, 3.75 econ; Economics w/ highest distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude Type of Grad: Master's in Math & Stats unranked program but well-known east-coast institution Grad GPA: 3.85 GRE: 165 Q, 163 V Math Courses: gradudate: Real Analysis A, Mathematical Statistics A, Probability Theory A, Stochastic Simulation A, Generalized Linear Models A, Intro to Operations Research A-; undergrad: Linear Algebra B, Calc 3 B, BC Calc AP Exam 5 Econ Courses (grad-level): NA Econ Courses (undergrad-level): Micro ABC-A, Econometrics ABC A-, B-, A-, Financial Markets, Corporate Finance A+, Senior economics thesis (2 quarters) A+, Linear Optimization A, Macro (ap exam score of 5); Environmental Economics A- Other Courses: 3 years of Mandarin Chinese; Minor in Accounting Letters of Recommendation: UC Econ Prof who has Ph.D in econ from MIT and was my thesis advisor; graduate Math prof with a Ph.D in math from Princeton who was my Probabilty professor and I T.A.ed the course for him; Economist who is my research supervisor at a federal agency, my co-author on a working paper, and who has a Ph.D. in Econ from UCI Research Experience: Undegraduate econ thesis; qualitative research asssitant 6 months, quantiative R.A. at federal agency 6 months. Proficient with R, Matlab, SAS, Stata Teaching Experience: 2 year teaching fellowship with Teach for China; Graduate Probabiltiy Theory T.A. Research Interests: education policy, teacher labor markets, teacher training. SOP: I think it is pretty strong and shows a clear path of the developemnt of my research interests and record of research. May be more of a public-policy SOP than economics SOP. Concerns: lack of math courses in undergrad and freshman year Bs in math courses, B- in Econometrics B. I hope my Master's in Math & Stat will make up for these low grades. Because I taught abroad for 2 years my time spent as an RA is less than that of typical applicants. Other: have a working paper (replication and extension of published JBES article) with two economists from two federal agencies which I presented at an econ conference. Applying to fellowship for interdisciplinary quantitative education research that is funded by Education Department and granted to a few economics departments Applying to: U Mich-Ann Arbor (joint Public Policy & Econ), University of Chicago and Duke (Public Policy), U Wisconsin-Madison, NYU, Boston University, UT Austin, University of Washington, UCSD, Berkeley (Economics); Stanford (Economics & Education) I think I'm competitive for public policy but some of the Econ programs are likely a long shot.