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  1. I think others can give you advice in terms of placement as I'm still an undergraduate and haven't gone through the process yet. However, from reading your profile and looking at your interests (esp. public choice and political economy), I don't know how happy you'd be in a mainstream economics program. I'd look at programs that have an Austrian economics focus; those have a strong crossover with public policy and political theory. George Mason, West Virginia, Clemson Economics programs come to mind. I'm not really familiar with Public Policy programs so I'll leave that to another to answer.
  2. It would be helpful to other people on the forum for you to post your profile in the standard format so we can see the extent of the courses you've taken, your letter writers, etc.
  3. I went to where the links took me for your college course descriptions. Perhaps the course is just not offered this semester. Looking at all the courses, I found: MAT 341 (Advanced Calculus I) is an introductory real analysis course on the level of a text such as Abbott, Gaughan, etc. (i.e. a real analysis course covering the real line (R^1) but not metric spaces, etc). MAT 442 (Advanced Calculus II) is a second-semester real analysis course on the level of a text such as Rosenlicht, Baby Rudin, or Mardsen. "Among the topics discussed are limits, continuity, differentiability, the implicit and inverse functions theorems, multiple integrals, Green’s and Stokes’s theorems, infinite series, uniform convergence, improper integrals, and integral representation of functions." I would inquire when both are offered, and if possible, take both of them.
  4. Are there any top universities/academic programs (summer only) which take on undergraduate students who do not attend that institution as research assistants? Or are there any suggestions of how to make the best use of the summer before my senior year? (I've actually already taken my GRE, for those who are wondering). This is perhaps less pertinent for me, as I attend a Top 40 school and have a good deal of connections and opportunities at my institution. I do have a friend at an unranked public university who will significantly benefit from your advice.
  5. Confusedecon, I will say as someone who self-studied through Rudin without much background in analysis, that you utilize Stephen Abbott's Understanding Analysis as a supplement to your study. Where Abbott lacks advanced coverage of topics, Rudin provides. Where Rudin lacks mathematical motivation and guidance, Abbott provides. It could be said that the forced jumps of Rudin are beneficial to you grasping concepts, which is true, but for me personally, my comprehension of the material was significantly bolstered by Abbott, which is written in a very clear and gentle, yet rigorous manner.
  6. By "suppose not" mathematical arguments, are you referring to "proof by contrapositive"? Or something else?
  7. I'm an undergraduate who will be taking the PhD micro sequence at my school (top-30 US econ) beginning in the fall. My school uses MWG; I've purchased the book, as well as used copies of Sundaram and Simon and Blume for reference. Any advice you would have as I go through these difficult classes? For reference, some relevant classes I've taken include Intermediate Micro, Calculus I-III, Linear Algebra (Proof-based), Mathematical Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics, Analysis I, and Topology (all As).
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