Jump to content
Urch Forums

happyecon

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    27

  • Joined

  • Days Won

    1

happyecon last won the day on October 2 2019

happyecon had the most liked content!

Converted

  • My Tests
    No

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

happyecon's Achievements

Rookie

Rookie (2/14)

  • First Post Rare
  • Collaborator Rare
  • Week One Done Rare
  • One Month Later Rare
  • One Year In Rare

Recent Badges

62

Reputation

  1. happyecon started following [Profile Evaluation] Help needed for a non-traditional applicant with weak coursework , Economics PhD Profile Evaluation , How and 5 others
  2. happyecon
    Any update?
  3. happyecon
    Seems like people prefer social media rather than forums nowadays. Only old guys like us are still here.
  4. happyecon
    Congratz on finishing your master degree! The only problem is that, the bar for master-degree holder is much higher than applicants with only a bachelor. You can basically competing with other masters with top RR or publication. I frequently see applicants with two top fields, two business tops, or a finance top 3 while applying. You have a very good profile, yet too common. The place you'll land depends on how well your recommenders are connected, and on if they are willing to use their network resources in your benefits. The up-side that you seem to know how to research and reach-out the profs. So if you match with someone early, then you'll be set!
  5. happyecon
    Congratz on finishing your master degree! The only problem is that, the bar for master-degree holder is much higher than applicants with only a bachelor. You can basically competing with other masters with top RR or publication. I frequently see applicants with two top fields, two business tops, or a finance top 3 while applying. You have a very good profile, yet too common. The place you'll land depends on how well your recommenders are connected, and on if they are willing to use their network resources in your benefits.
  6. happyecon
    I think he is a troll. If he is a matured master and he wants to get-in programs above BC, he'll need at least one top field R&R. The bar for applicants with a master is usually higher than applicants with only UG education. If he can get one top R&R in 2 years, then the best option for him is spend four years in BC and get two top R&R, and then apply for faculty jobs.
  7. happyecon
    The only problem is that you applied to too few school. If you applied to all 26 MRM and HRM, I think you might land your lottery somewhere. Best wishes to your journey!
  8. happyecon
    From past experience Penn sent out rejections in April.
  9. happyecon
    Forgot to update the results. I applied in the 2020 cycle to all HRM and most MRM. Only one UHRM and one MRM accepted me. All other HRM and MRM rejected my application. I won't disclose which school exactly because people can easily identify my true identity.
  10. happyecon
    GPA is an OK predictor of future GPA; it is negatively yet insignificantly correlated with future research ability. The Limitations of the GRE in Predicting Success in Biomedical Graduate School
  11. happyecon
    As a PhD applicant, I am working while taking a PhD level course part-time. I am getting a B and I don't have time to improve my grade due to working. The school I am applying to only requires me to include schools that I attended for more than a year, not every single course that I took from any university. The course is a hardcore course with B as average. If I am applying to top 5 programs, would this grade help me or hurt me? My whole profile is here: https://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/161313-profile-evaluation-help-needed-non-traditional-applicant-weak-coursework.html
  12. happyecon
    Thanks for you comments. I guess that you are either a faculty member or an advanced PhD researcher. Last year, one top 20 tenured faculty member told me almost the same thing you told me: if I got a top-field in early 20s, then it is almost guaranteed that I would get in 02138/9. Some other professors and advanced students also told me the same thing. However, his department rejected my application last year...
  13. happyecon
    Very help information! Highly appreciated.
  14. happyecon
    Assuming that the strength is the same, do “three econ letters” better than “two econ letters+one math/stats letter"?
  15. happyecon
    Math Course: about 20 undergraduate level math courses, including calculus series, analysis series, linear algebra, algebra series, ODE, PDE, geometry, probability, statistics, stochastic process, math-fin. Mostly A with few A- and one B, 3.9 subject GPA Econ Courses: Business school econ courses, not PhD level, mostly A, A-, one B. One micro-theory (business school level), five applied economics courses, and about 10 finance and management courses with application focus.
  16. happyecon
    Of course I asked they basically says something generic that I got chances and I need to apply to any programs that interests me. They got very tight schedule such that I don't think scheduling a 30-60 min meeting only for discussing my application is a good idea, provided that we need more time for finishing up the papers. They are happy to talk about research but I am not sure if they are willing to talk about application stuffs as when we started our research, I demonstrated a genuine research interests without mentioning that I want to do a PhD afterward. I am kind of afraid of that if I talk about the application too much, they might think that the only reason that I am doing research is to get a position.
×
×
  • Create New...