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  1. Well, I didn't get anything, so that's possibly a good sign. Have you received anything already? On the other hand, I have been keeping in touch with the department quite a lot recently, and it would have been comical if they asked about my interest in NYU after I had signaled to them a few times that they are my first option. So, if someone is in the same boat as me, everything might still be fine.
  2. @waiting have you emailed them? They rejected me from the WL a few weeks ago when I asked for updates. Good luck For the NYU WL folks, do you know anyone who have already received a decision from the WL? April 15th is right around the corner...
  3. My two cents: 1st: Move fast. Stanford, for example, already decided to reduce their waitlist based on a higher-than-expected projected yield rate (or at least they claim that's the reason). 2nd: Some departments rank the waitlist explicitly, and they might tell you that if you ask. Others, rank it by field, nationality, sex, etc, but do not explicitly say they rank it. However, movements on the waitlist are mostly out of your control. It depends more on who Harvard/MIT decided to accept that year and if you would be a reasonable replacement for them. 3rd: Yeah, go to the visit day if possible. Much better to talk for 30 min to different profs that show up in the conference, than to have a 15-minute meeting via Zoom with 2 profs. Good news to you: If your vaccine is recognized by the UN, you only need two doses of it, it does not matter if it is one of the ones distributed in the US. (For example, Brazilian students can come to the US with two doses of Coronavac. The Oxford vaccine would also work).
  4. They are not trolls, Yale has been calling up people this afternoon.
  5. This week has been surprisingly quiet so far. Either we will get a lot of results tomorrow, or many schools decided to delay releasing their decisions compared to last year.
  6. I also didn't get the email yesterday: waitlisted!! Such a delightful experience. Congratulations for all of you that were accepted!
  7. I applied to 12 out of the top 15 programs and a few business schools here and there. I went with the very risky approach and certainly do not recommend it to everyone, but that was what made more sense given my future goals. Also, if you are curious from my previous posts, I decided that the RA path is not for me, so I will spend the next few months trying to find a job at a bank in case the Ph.D. route does not work. What about you?
  8. Hey Guys! I just finished my last application and I am happy that I did everything I could and that it is now out of my control. Just here to wish you all good luck! Whatever happens next, everyone should already be proud of the effort put into this process over the years! 😄
  9. Also, does anyone know where the "golden rule of the 90%" comes from? From all I know, it appears to be coming from the NYU FAQ website. However, it is pretty clear to me what they mean from that. From https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/econ/graduate/phd/faqs.html:
  10. Sure, you are totally right - at some point it starts to get bad. My argument was completely directed to people in that grey area where a couple of questions separate them from their desired score. If you are really at that point that you need to take the GRE again, you will know (usually). Also, of course, if you are applying to a school that explicitly sets a minimum, PLEASE respect it.
  11. It is good that you are not feeling bad - you shouldn't. I understand @tutonic 's comment, but really, do not stress too much about this. Believe that the admission officers are sensible people and that they know the true importance of a high school math test (zero to none). They all say exactly that in their websites, and it does not seem productive to believe otherwise. Good luck in this cycle!
  12. If it is any consolation, I am in the same situation as you but I am quite relaxed right now. The GRE is extremely dull and it should almost not count. I took 3 practice tests (official/Princeton) and scored 169/170Q and below 160V in all of them. In the real test, I got 167Q and 168V. Why? Because the GRE does not measure anything useful. I am relaxed because: 1- the top of the top does not require the GRE (they realized that it is useless), so you can automatically save 30 bucks not sending your score to them (no possible score would actually help your application). 2- For the selective group of schools that require the GRE and you might think that they may automatically drop your application (Princeton, Columbia, Yale, etc.), they all say in their website that they evaluate applications without automatically discarding students because of the GRE. Of course, if you have a very low GRE (say, 162/163), that's not great. But the distance between 167 (which ranges from 89 to 92 percentile) and 168 is not big enough to change anything. 3- If my reasoning above is wrong and in fact there are schools ready to discard otherwise stellar profiles because of a high school math test, even if they got As on several advanced undergraduate math courses, that department has severe problems in their Grad Program Admission committee. Not only they have problematic measures of evaluating students - they are also lying when they say they do not discard applicants. Would it be good to go there? Go get stressed by your grades, letters of recommendations or Statement of Purpose. Those things can actually affect your outcome meaningfully.
  13. Well, I will be applying during this Fall, so take my advice with a grain of salt. I would say that more math is always good, but for sure there is a decreasing marginal return effect and (apparently) you are at the point where more classes and As shouldn't have any significant effect on your outcomes. However, if you enjoy math and have already fulfilled all the requirements to be a competitive candidate (great GRE, Toefl, 3 letters of recommendation, etc...), taking those classes should be a no-brainer. Go have fun and learn things you like!
  14. Thanks for the amazing inputs, everybody. They helped me a lot to direct my thoughts to some questions I wasn't considering very much.
  15. I am using "top 5" as a vague catchphrase to refer to the best schools in the US, not as a specific set of 5 schools. Also, if I am preparing for those schools, I presume I am also becoming a good candidate to awesome programs like Columbia, UPenn, etc, so I might as well do that.
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