Tufnut56

Undergrad and Grad form T10 institutes in non- US institutes Undergrad GPA: 81/100 (Non-Econ) Grad1 : 6.6/10 (Economics, poor grades due to some personal problems but improved grades from C's in first term to A's in last term) Grad2: 84/100 (Distinction, statistics) Because of my bad grades in Econ masters and lack of math courses in my transcripts, I took bunch of math and econ courses from a Top institute from my home country. GRE: Quant: 167, verbal: low. Planning to take again Econ Classes: PhD level Macroeconomics-1,2 (C,B), PhD Microeconomics-1,2 (C,B), PhD Econometrics-1,2 (C, B), Labor Economics (A), Time series(A), Experimental Economics (A) - all from Grad 1. Masters level Macroeconomics (A), Masters Microeconomics (A) -- independent courses taken Math Classes: Probability Theory(A), Descriptive statistics (A), Statistical interference(A), Statistical techniques(A), Industrial statistics-1 (Decision and game theory, A), Industrial Industrial statistics -2 (Linear Programming and Regression modelling, A) -- all from grad 2 Single Variable calculus (A), Multivariable calculus (A), Linear Algebra (A), Real Analysis (pursuing), Differential equations (Pursuing) -- independent courses for credit. Results for pursuing courses will be in time for applications Research Experience: 0.6 Years with Prof. (Retired) in labor economics and 1.5 years as RA at ThinkTank (on competition economics) Letters of Recommendation: 1 from Grad 1 professor, 1 from mentor (Asst. Prof) from Thinktank and need to ask another professor from Grad-1 for LoR Research Interests: Open for all options. Currently leaning towards IO and macroeconomics Thank you to anyone reading this and I appreciate any guidance I get. I am more interested in UN bodies like WB, IMF and private career than academia, I'm unsure which ones to apply for. I have thought of few but they have lot of variance and could be out of my reach too (as my Grad 1 grades are low and doing courses for non-us college may not give strong signal to admissions committee). Some universities I thought are UVa, GerogeTown, Madison, Vanderbilt,Maryland, John Hopkins, BC. I would like to hear some suggestions to places where I can apply to or I'm competitive for. Thanks all

I did 1st term of advanced track at BGSE, which is equivalent to 1st year of PhD. I would like to say tgt your math background isn't enough for advanced track. As you need real analysis and some stats background. The same with uc3m or any PhD econ courses. And coming to standard track is good preparation to PhD programs but if you wanted to progress to top PhD standard track can be quite tricky(as most people go to top PhD programs after mres phase). Tbh I would recommend you take some math courses or RA ship at places like Isb, ashoka university etc to improve your profile