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  1. I got a 167Q 170V, international student. Should I retake?
  2. I have learnt that profile evaluation for Indian master's students is very tough on online forums. I suggest you ask your professors (at what I think is DSE) where you would be competitive.
  3. I believe the MSQE program at ISI Delhi places extremely well into the top 20. You may consider a second masters from there.
  4. Even if DJT wins, have his policies been actually anti skilled immigration pre-COVID? Considering what I'd expect to be strong lobbies and bipartisan support for skilled labour (mostly for tech etc.), is skilled labour actually going to be a long term issue? I'm not sure, hence I ask.
  5. Expected trends in next 5-10 years? Is this anti legal/skilled immigration policy temporary?
  6. Let there be n colors in her palette. The no. of ways to make a mixture of 2 or more colors is nC2 + nC3 ... nCn Now, add nC0 + nC1 = n+1 to both sides. This gives 2^n To check, see that 2^9 does not satisfy the inequality.
  7. What about the EB1? As an Indian, the person I'm asking for will not be able to get an EB2 because of the quota.
  8. Is the JM in anyway discriminatory against international students from India/China because of the green card issues? Also, how tough is it to get an EB1 visa for a new professor?
  9. Thanks tutonic and lemonpee for your help and guidance.
  10. This is a course I have been looking at as well. I am aware that admission into MSQE is tough. Suppose I do get in, would it be better than an unfunded European Master's? This is keeping in mind that 40K-50K USD can be spent by me for all my studies.
  11. Thank you very much for your response. Given what else I've read here and what you say, I think I should take all the mathematics electives I can – it has the aforementioned topics. I do have another question: assuming that I do think graduate level economics is for me, are there any rough parameters for admitting students in Master's courses? More specifically, are GRE and UG grades much more significant than internships, LORs etc.? In that case my centre of attention would be on those particular things. Are these criteria the same for the rare funding opportunities in MSc/M.Phil? Lastly, I have been unable to get a clear picture of PhD funding in the US. In a T20, is it the case that I shall incur a net cost in the first few years of my PhD?
  12. Thank you for your reply! I was not aware that a direct transition to PhDs was possible after a three-year undergraduate degree. However, I feel that the decision to commit myself to a 6-7 year programme cannot be taken without venturing beyond the three year curriculum. I am not sure how comprehensive my mathematical and econometric preparation in these three years will be. If I send you the particular syllabi privately, would you be kind enough to tell me what areas the course does not adequately contain, so that I could work on them?
  13. Thanks for your reply! You say that it is difficult to ascertain that I'll like graduate economics, even if I enjoy my undergraduate levels economics. Given this, how do you suggest I actually make the decision to go to graduate school? Also, just to be clear. Will a non-research position be a negative signal even if I do my Master's (before applying for PhDs) after that? Is this signal significant enough for me to forgo the opportunity to save up money and secure my further studies without it being dependent on scholarships? I do not want to be stuck in a situation where I have to go to a worse school because of funding issues. As a side question, how easy it to get partial funding for MSc/M.Phil in the UK and Europe as of now? A problem I was facing when doing my own research on this forum is that most threads about European masters, their PhD placements etc. is 7-8 years old. More generally, I would like to know if those threads are equally relevant still. For e.g. I have read here that Bocconi has an excellent record of PhD placements. But those posts were in 2010-14. Are most such posts still relevant? I have learnt Python already and know its core concepts fairly well. Since I am not going to study CS, I was afraid of venturing further and wasting my time. It would be kind of you to tell me (1) how in-depth my knowledge should be (2) whether I should switch to R.
  14. I am an Indian student who is about to start his undergraduate degree in Economics (B.A. Hons.) from one of the top universities in India. While my academic experience of economics is still inadequate, my interest in the social sciences and mathematics is quite deep, based on my reading outside the curriculum and experience with some college textbooks. Additionally, I feel my talents have always been academic. Even though I have yet to decide for sure, I am most probably going to do research in Economics. At the very least, I plan to do a master's in the subject. My question is a general one: given that I am going to do a three-year undergraduate degree (with no double major option, so direct admission to a PhD is anyway impossible), how should I proceed to eventually end up in a T20 PhD? More specifically, (1) which master's degree will prepare me the best for a T20? (2) which master's degree is reasonably priced and/or funded? (a maximum, say, of 50,000 USD) (3) are UK M.Phil/MSc courses worth the high fees given that paying 50,000 USD in a single year, while possible, will be tough for my family (4) if possible, should I get 2-3 years work experience after my B.A. to fund further studies (will it hurt future applications?) and (5) what are the particular things I should try to add to my CV from now onwards? Obviously, my academic track record is yet to be proven. But I was a 99 percentile SAT student and my high school marks are among the best in my school (top 5 in a batch of 1000). So for the sake of this discussion, I am assuming that I shall perform at a similar level in my GRE and undergraduate courses. Thank you!
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