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Preface: I only have a masters and am not a PhD student so perhaps you should take what I say with a grain of salt. You said that you are a junior. Does that mean that you will be a junior in the fall or you just finished your junior year (since most schools are done by now, I wasn't entirely sure what you meant)? In either case you have a third option of taking the next highest math course that you can take. I think this option is particularly good if you are a junior in the fall and could take grad micro the following year if you wanted to.

Hello all. I posted once before, but I can't seem to find it so I thought that I would just start a new thread. Thanks for your advice/opinions in advance. As a preface, like a fair number of people I did not consider an economics (or finance) PhD early in my undergrad so I did not take enough math. However, I have taken numerous post-bacc course in math, both at a large state school and an Ivy university. PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Top 5 liberal arts. Completed the honors program Undergrad GPA: 3.72 Type of Grad: Masters Oxford/Cambridge/LSE Grad GPA: Merit GRE: 165/165/5 (taken before all of my post-bacc math so I suspect that I can bump the quant up to a 167+) Math Courses: Calc I-III (AP, AP, A state school), linear algebra (B 2nd semester freshman year :upset:), differential equations (A state school), probability theory (A state school), statistical methods (A), math stat (A state school), optimization (A- Ivy), analysis I-II (A, A- Ivy), complex analysis (A+ Ivy), grad topology (A+ Ivy), grad linear algebra (A+ Ivy) Econ Courses: intermediate micro/marco/metrics (B+, A, A+), urban economics (B+) game theory (A-), behavioral (A), labor (A), financial economics (B+) grad micro (low merit), grad metrics (low merit), grad financial economics (high merit), other module (low merit), dissertation (distinction) Other Courses: Philosophy courses (was a double major). Other liberal arts courses. Intro computer science java (A ivy) Research Experience: Masters' dissertation, which involved actual data analysis and not just a survey paper. Undergrad survey papers Teaching Experience: None Research Interests: Financial economics and behavioral economics Other: My math has been a solid upward trend (my last three math courses were the three A+'s at an Ivy school---all after my masters). I wish I had started sooner, as I now really enjoy math. I also wish I had done a bit better in grad micro/metrics, but that's the way the ball bounces, I guess. My undergrad liberal arts econ background certainly lacked the quantitative rigor that many undergrad curriculum's outside the US do so it was a challenge competing against people who only did economics or math their entire undergrads. I suspect if I had the math training I do now I would have done better. But again, that's the way the ball bounces. Thanks again

Preface: I have a masters from LSE You should know that the two-year program is aimed primarily at students who have minimal economics experience. I am not sure how economics courses would be treated in an MBA program (if they are real or a joke), but if they are at least at the level of intermediate undergraduate economics courses in the states, then you have enough background for the one-year program. You could probably be accepted for the EME, but you should know that it is soul-crushingly brutal (even regular econ is reasonably brutal so be ready to work). You get to pick 1st and second choice when applying so if you get rejected from EME, you could still get in the normal. I am not a PhD student so take my opinion here with a grain of salt, but it looks like more math and an RA stint may even serve you better. You have an acceptable but not fancy amount of math (no analysis II, no complex analysis, no topology, no optimization, no measure-theoretic probability----not that you really need them but they would help you stand out). And a RA stint would give you the letters you need (hopefully) Best of Luck