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  1. Still the same answer: OSU seems to dominate in overall.
  2. I don't know much about these departments, so take my advice with a grain of salt. My advice is to look for faculties in your field of interest: ENV and DEV. You can try checking the following links to get a rough idea. Economics Field Rankings: Environmental Economics | IDEAS/RePEc https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.dev.html#authors I skim through authors name and it seems UIUC would be the best fit (more precisely look at Don Fullerton). And congrats on your offers!
  3. LSE MSc Econ alumni here. Take Rochester's offer. The risk is too high for a couple reasons. 1) LSE accepts MSc Econ students into their PhD if and only if they get "distinction" which is incredibly hard. 2) Getting in through this channel does not guarantee that you will get funding. LSE PhD Econ usually funds just over half of their incoming cohort. Hope this helps and congratulations.
  4. That's more than enough. No need to retake. (I'm from SEA country.)
  5. I'm LSE MSc Econ alumni. Short answer: NO for top schools (probably top 20), MAYBE for lower-ranked schools. Long answer: From my experience, I feel that top US econ departments do not really give value to master's programmes from UK. Few exceptions are "distinction" from Oxbridge's MRes/MPhil and LSE's Econ/EME. But the condition that you get distinction means you must apply for PhD after you graduated from these programmes, so they won't help you for the next year. Lower-ranked schools might still give some value if you are already in these programmes AND you can get some strong LOR(s) from faculties there. Myself fall in the latter case. Hope this helps.
  6. I believe the department will notify you about RA positions during the program. I don't know which school you're attending, so I will just say it from my LSE experience. About half-way through Lent Term, there will be news about RA positions, including in the US, circulating through email. If I remember correctly, there were positions at J-PAL (MIT) and Stanford mentioned. There were also positions in European organizations like ECB and IMF.
  7. Thanks to all the comments! Living a bit further with bus line to the campus seems a good way to save money :D
  8. Many thank! That's really helpful!
  9. Thanks for the reply! How much do you think is sufficient then? My parents can support me, although I don't wanna bother them if I can. And is it possible to ask the department if they could raise it a bit more? Thanks again.
  10. Hi Urchers, As said on the topic, I got an offer of University of Florida with $22k financial support (but there will be around $2k of other fees I have to pay). Is this amount sufficient to live there? I'm not a big spender by the way. Thanks you all in advance.
  11. Institution: University of Minnesota Program: PhD in Economics Decision: rejected Funding: - Date: Feb 8th Notified through: website Comments: expected
  12. My UMN application status says "Decision Made" but not yet see anything else.
  13. There are not many I can think of. Off the top of my head are LSE's Econ/EME and CEMFI, all 1 year. I would also consider SSE if you come directly from undergrad and want research experience, it's 2 years with full thesis. I heard some good things about UCL's and UBC's too, also 1 year. May be other members can help adding.
  14. If you are serious that you must get into top 10 programs then, upon graduation, you should be looking for full-time RA position for some famous professor for a couple years before applying to PhD programs. They will be the one evaluating you and write you a strong LOR if you performed well.
  15. R&R stands for "Revise & Resubmit". It is a stage where the journal editor have looked through your paper and think it is worth publishing but there are some points still need to be fixed. This is a clear signal that your work is valuable for publication.
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