sargeras23

This is fantastic for somebody preparing to start this Fall. Thank you. I may even go over it to fill in some gaps.

No problem, just sharing my beliefs. I would imagine that using any plagiarism checker would make the already lengthy and very time consuming process of admissions even more tedious. That is what I meant when I said that I believe they do not use Turnitin for it. :)

I doubt that they use Turnitin for that, but if they do, do not worry. When you get the report, it clearly states the name of the author and the paper with which you have matched content along with the percentage of overlap. If your name hasn't changed, it will be pretty obvious. If it has, you might want to state the previous name, as well.

Confirmed, working for rankings back to 2016. If you want older ones, I am not sure you can get them this way. The available lists are not significantly different from the current, as far as I can see.

PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Unknown school in the US. Best in my country and well known in the region. Undergrad GPA: 10/10 Type of Grad: 1st master: Econometrics - GPA: 10/10 2nd master: Quantitative finance - in progress - GPA: 9.50/10 Already started the first year of a PhD at my home institution. TOEFL: 116 GRE: 170Q/164V/4.5W Math Courses: Real analysis, Calculus, Multivariable calculus, Intro to Statistics, Theoretical Statistics, Econometrics, Time series analysis, Multivariate analysis, Operations research. A lot of them proof based. Econ Courses: Standard intermediate Micro and undergrad Macro courses, Financial economics. Graduate courses: Panel data analysis, Cross section Econometrics, Applied Time series analysis, Time series analysis, Statistics, Mathematics, Stochastic calculus, Research methods in Economics. Others courses: One summer school in econometrics and time series analysis, one in machine learning. Letters of Recommendation: Two from the best professors at my faculty (not that known outside of my country) and one from a famous professor. The first two should be really strong, and one of them is from my current PhD advisor. Research Experience: One year RA on two research projects in applied micro. Two papers on conferences, two awards for the best paper done by students (coauthor). Doing the second thesis at the moment. Teaching experience: 3.5 years as TA (Introduction to Econometrics, Econometrics, Time series analysis and Elements of Econometrics) Research Interests: Econometrics, potentially Macro SOP: Detailed and focused on my research in my first master thesis. Explaining the delay in finishing the second masters, since it was done in parallel and I had a huge teaching load Other: A lot of programing practice on my finance courses in undergrad and masters in Wolfram Mathematica. Awards on the national level for talented students on several occasions. Chosen for the best economics student by the University. Won an external stipend ($$) for the first two years. RESULTS: Acceptances: Northwestern ($$$), Wisconsin Madison ($$$), UCSD ($$), Brown (off the waitlist) ($$$), Oxford (MPhil) Waitlists: Brown Rejections: MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Duke, UPenn, WUSTL, LSE Attending: Northwestern Comments: Came into the game knowing nothing about what it takes to get a PhD admission in the US. Now I am very pleased with my outcomes, as I was suspicious whether I would get into even one school, let alone five. What would you have done differently? Started the preparation earlier. I began preparing everything in the beginning of October, so it was a huge rush to acquaint myself with the standardized tests, acquire the letters, read about the schools and get all of the necessary stuff for applications. I knew I would like to shoot at Top 20, but I had no idea which schools even are on the list. I don’t think earlier preparation would have changed much, but it sure would have relieved a great deal of stress!

Something is really fishy about this wait for Penn...

Also got in under the same conditions. I am a bit unsure whether the $24k and $21k after that is enough to live there. Given that econometrics is my current main field of interest, this offer made my day.

Thank you for the kind answer! Is attempting to contact PhD students from the contact list on the website via email regarded as acceptable or impertinent? I wouldn't want to bother the DGS with this, and I have already asked this question in the correspondence that I have had with the staff, but they have overlooked it several times while answering others. If it is inappropriate, I will definitely write to the DGS, as you have kindly suggested. Thank you again! I always seem to forget as NW sounds just a bit more natural. I will keep this in mind! :)

Received a mail from Wisconsin Madison last night. Accepted with full funding without interview. I guess they are still sending out acceptances. :)

Any guys from NW here willing to answer some technical questions? This is my top choice for now, so I would really be grateful for some help! :) Also, any comments on their program, atmosphere, advising are more than welcome.

Can I ask where did you find this info? I didn't receive a mail and they told me that my applyweb portal will be updated.

There is the long overdue Harvard rejection. :D

Also waitlisted at Brown.

I completely understand. Brown my first "not a straight rejection" and it really improved my mood in a sense that I had a signal that I didn't make a major blunder in my applications. Admissions committee. You should take a look at the EJMR (Economics Job Market Rumors - lol) forum! I needed at least an hour of googling before I could understand what is going on. :D By the way, almost forgot. Congratulations to all accepted to Stanford, must be an amazing feeling!

With you on that one. I think we may be waitlisted or getting prepared by the dept. to be offered the MA track to PhD that Brown has. On a tangential note, others accepted to NW, did you get the funding notification today? I received info from the ad com that I am admitted with full funding and I hope that includes the first year even though the mail did not explicitly say so.