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  1. greg3
    Account created yesterday.
  2. greg3
    UChicago posts are likely to be fake. My friend called Chicago, and the automatic response said the office is closed till 11th of February. Professor Akcigit and his assistants don't pick up either. Both people claiming on this forum they got an offer, created their accounts yesterday. All posts on GC seem to be written by one person who's trying to make them look slightly different. I might be wrong but that's how it looks like.
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    I can't say where you should apply because I don't have enough experience, but I think you could potentially retake your GRE to improve the quantitative section. 164 might be enough, but that's the only thing that you can improve right now, so maybe you should at least try. Can you give your grades for maths courses?
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    I think it's quite pointless to expect it to come in the next couple of days. Chicago usually replies mid/late February - well, last year was exceptional, but perhaps that was an isolated case.
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    Well said, I'd stick to that piece of advice. Though statistical inference (at least at my uni) was quite a poweful course, without which advanced econometrics would not be managable.
  6. greg3
    You're very wrong in discrediting stochastic OR. Depending on syllabus, it might include Markov chains and processes, Poisson processes etc, which are quite crucial and often very proof-based (again, depends on syllabus).
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    None of the courses you've mentioned are maths, unless your probability classes are measure theoretic. Any of these classes should be fine, and perhaps none of them are really fundamental apart from inference.
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    Folks, last night I received an e-mail from OSU with the acceptance (which appeared on the webste a couple of days earlier). However, it doesn't mention anything about funding apart from the info that I need to have sufficient amount of money for the duration of the course. Is it a standard thing that information about funding comes later?
  9. greg3
    Best of luck with that!
  10. greg3
    Hi, I posted that :) I haven't received any e-mails, but the status on the applicant's portal changed from "Pending" to "Decision". Then under the "Application Status" it says "Congratulations - you have been offered admission! Use the link on the main page of the Applicant Center to accept or decline.". Probably they have just started updating the system, so don't worry, your status might change very soon!
  11. greg3
    Haha that's a whole new level of applications anxiety :)
  12. greg3
    Fingers crossed and good luck, buddy
  13. greg3
    Folks, shall we expect OSU to reply today/tomorrow?
  14. greg3
    Wow, that's so early! Congrats!
  15. greg3
    Reference process is usually done online, but can vary, and maybe they deal with it differently. Funding is usually provided, but it also varies. Usually in the UK you choose your supervisor before, but different schools may have different rules. Your questions are very specific and can only be answered by somebody at Manchester. You should rather email the university directly.
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    I can't advise you whether to apply of not because neither I'm at your age nor I've been through graduate studies. However, if you decide to apply, make sure you give yourself enough time for studying English intensively (I'd recommend about 4-6 hours a day for a year if you want to get to a sufficient level). Otherwise, unfortunately, you don't qualify because US schools pay a lot of attention to good English skills - at the of the day you are supposed to teach and write papers. Furthermore, you'll need to pass GRE and TOEFL very well, so give yourself enough time for a couple of attempts to both exams, after you learn English well. This means that the earliest you can apply is for Fall of 2019. Listen to advice of other people, but most importantly listen to your heart! All the best!
  17. greg3
    Have you decided in the end where to apply? :)
  18. greg3
    How many schools did you guys apply to? Still have a couple of applications to send! :crushed:
  19. greg3
    How you doing, folks? Have you already sent all your applications?
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    When are you planning to take your test? The deadlines are approaching quite fast and you will not be able to apply to top schools purely because of that.
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    Ah, I understand. That might be a potential problem. You might want to explain in your personal statement why you are unable to provide a sample of a sufficient lenght. However, I do not want to upset you, but it might not necessarily work for universities like Harvard. It is already extremely competitive, so they may not tolerate any shortcomings. You should try anyway. Have you done any research projects or something similar?
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    Why can't you include your thesis or your current progress in it?
  23. greg3
    Is your GRE valid? Are you applying for this year?
  24. greg3
    Check the faculty's interests and recent dissertations of students and see whether this is what you'd like to do.
  25. greg3
    I know very well what heterodox thought is and it's my personal opinion that I presented. I don't think that a person passionate about economics should consider a heterodox program without knowing what it actually is, and it's important to make people aware that the difference is substantial. Let's say if the OP is passionate about maths and formal theory, they will be very miserable attending such a school. That's why I tried to draw a clear line so that they don't think that schools like that can provide training that one might expect.
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