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  1. post the course description I will tell you if it is actually graduate level course or not If it is you can not take it - you will definitely fail it.
  2. I never told him what maths he should take. It is a fact however that 1 quarter of real analysis and 1 quarter of modern algebra (in progress too) is not going to make anyone think "yeah this person is excellent at math". I'm sorry - it's just the truth, this isn't much math. The other classes including that intro number theory course aren't part of the core pure math curriculum (an upper level number theory series, like combinatorics would be a different story). Again I never told him any advice about his Econ except that a 161Q would be very bad to send over 167Q which doesn't require any expertise to know. I also urged him to take advice from others in the forum and not take my word for anything, and even told him that I'm only an undergraduate. Seriously, how about you read the posts of the people you berate? If you think he has taken a lot of math then you need to stop giving out math advice because you have no clue what you're talking about.
  3. I wish I could give you a good opinion on that :) Sadly I am an undergraduate student who is applying next year. Hm.. yes I really am not comfortable telling you which math classes you should take to maximize your chances, this is your life and I am just not informed on this topic. Sorry, hopefully someone else will be! I wish I had asked this myself before - in fact
  4. Okay well in my opinion you do not have enough math to post a 161Q score. Maybe others will disagree but you didn't dive very deep into the math department, so I don't think adcoms would write it off as a fluke. Don't get me wrong you have enough math to go to PhD if the other posters on this site are any indication. But I would need to see a year of intro to real, a year of upper level real analysis, a year of modern algebra, maybe some geometry/topology and optimization or complex analysis before I would say "yeah you are clearly extremely well prepared for math, theres no way you got a 161Q from anything other than a crazy fluke". Of course.... lol I still would probably recommend posting the 167Q score. Good luck that's all I got! Also note if you come from an unknown school then the 161Q is even worse since adcoms won't know the rigor of your coursework!
  5. Could you list the math classes you took? This could be important.. I mean I think it's 99% you go with the higher Q score but maybe the rigor of your math classes COULD influence this decision. It's the last thing to check (other than the list of schools you're applying to).
  6. Math major with Q161? I think that turning in a Q161 would be a death sentence - I'd do the 167/155. I'm just an undergrad though that's what everyone else is going to say. Sucks you got a 3.5, don't know how important it is for the schools you're applying to!
  7. I made two posts today, neither of them exist annymore! what happened to them?
  8. Okay so I'm rewriting this to make it more applicable to the thread title. The OP was too much about me. How much do you guys think schedule rigor matters? In particular, it seems to me that's lots of people on this forum don't have very difficult undergraduate records. They have econ classes, and maybe math up through intro to analysis and a couple econometrics classes. Is this what the people applying to MIT/Princeton have?
  9. Hey, I don't think this would necessarily be a good idea, but most universities have archives of the big journals that you can actually check out like a book. I think that just from looking at them you'll get a feel for the math involved, but thats food for thought. I also sent you an email with baby Rudin.
  10. note: I'm an undergraduate who is still learning this process like you are. It sounds like you might be interested in getting an econ phd with a focus on economic history? My understanding is that many econ departments try to have phd candidates from every one of their main fields. Most econ phd hopefuls are not interested in economic history as a focus of their phd (though we all recognize its importance). This could better your chances, I think, if you find an institution with good economic history faculty. For instance Duke seems to have a History of Political Economy concentration (Fields | Duke Economics Department), but I know nothing about it. The problem of your math, however, does not go away. Even economic history-focused econ phds have to take the first year qualifying exams and micro/macro/econometric theory classes. This will require strong math skills, if what I've read is accurate. 162Q and only calc1/2 (and discrete math, but with only calc1/2 I don't know exactly what this entails) says to me that you don't have strong math skills. The Math subject test for GRE (which in some cases could signal that you know more than your courses state) is way too advanced for you (though it is too advanced for almost every poster I've seen on this forum). If you want, I can send you a pdf of baby Rudin (the intro to real analysis textbook that all top math depts use). This will give you a feel for what proof-based courses are like, and you will find out how much mathematics intuition you currently have. I have no other advice, as I'm an undergrad too, but I have taken a lot of math.
  11. Thank you for the updated response. What are the top RA "gigs"? I only know English.
  12. Thank you for the posts.. but I want to follow up because I've been reading this forum and I have not seen a single negative comment. I'm not sure how honest you guys are being with me, or if you just want me to feel good. I would rather know what you really think than feel good, so that I can plan for the future more effectively.
  13. Are you sure about that saranya? The MATH GRE subject practice test I saw had lots of Analysis, group/ring/category theory, discrete structures, and possibly more (like Linear Algebra for sure). I think you should brush up on your high school in preparation for all the math courses that you need to take to get a high score on this test. Daimon: I would recommend, as an undergraduate who hasn't taken the MATH GRE and isn't sure if they will, you make a list of the topics that will be on the exam that you need to brush up on. Then use textbooks from your local school library to get practice problems for each.
  14. Degree: B.S. Economics, B.S. Mathematics from large research university (in progress) GPA: 3.5 overall, 4.0econ, 3.9math GRE: 170Q/161V Math courses: Standard calc series (through multivariate), additional calculus course (ch 15/16 in early transcendentals), proofs class, linear algebra, ODE, into to real analysis 1 and 2, intro to modern algebra 1 2 3, linear optimization, nonlinear optimization, fundamentals of real analysis 1,2,3, topology I Econ courses: intermediate macro/micro, advanced macro/micro, international macroeconomics, econometrics theory I (basically learning lots of different regressions, both econometrics classes use R), econometrics theory II (structural modeling, regression trees, machine learning, more regressions), financial economics, labor market economics LOR: 2 economics professors, and my math professor for most of my analysis courses I'm interested in development economics (and want to do my research either in development, or microeconomic theory), however I want to get as broad of an education as possible - I don't want to leave the Phd program as an expert in one field but not prepared to engage with everything else. My long-term interests are in microeconomic/macroeconomic theory first (I think that they are the most important to change, and my theoretical interests in development are philosophical right now. But I agree with Sen that development is and always has been the goal of the economics enterprise, and so I see myself as helping to create the theoretic groundwork for better modeling schema, and then to accompany that with a more Baconian policymaking schema, and then coming back into development economics proper by assisting in the institutions thereof). I have a boring and average (other than being good at math) application, but any ideas on where I should apply to, given my interests and the constraints of my application? I won't apply till next year, so I don't actually have these LOR yet, but I don't see why i wouldn't be able to get them.
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