Dommull

Bump. This seems useful and very relevant now!

You could email to ask about your position on the waitlist. They might not be able to tell you, but it doesn't hurt to ask. I asked for one of my waitlists and I got a vague but somewhat helpful response.

One data point: I had a "pre-offer" email from a program and I expressed an interest in the program. I didn't receive an offer in the first round of offers from that program.

I would start by looking at their placements. They list all placements by year on their website iirc.

No, I'm afraid. My comment about the northwestern wait list is just based on recent years on grad cafe.

I didn't apply to Berkeley or NYU, so haven't followed these super closely. Iirc, Berkeley has sent out lots of rejections and some acceptances, so no news could be implicit wait list, and maybe more news will follow soon. Based on previous years, no news from Northwestern likely means a rejection or wait list is coming soon (maybe implicit wait list at this point). But the wait list is typically long, so I wouldn't hold much hope of getting off it. We haven't heard much from Columbia for PhDs (just a couple of interviews), so I'm not really sure what to expect there. No news isn't a good signal, but I imagine we'll hear more from them soon and wouldn't put it in the IR bucket yet.

Princeton rejections and wait lists are out!

Based on GC for previous years, it looks like most but not all acceptances come in an initial wave, and then a few more follow. This year might be a bit different though, as they had a big wave of rejections first.

Yes, exactly

I think that's only for master's. The PhD admissions decisions have all already been made (according to an insider), it just takes a while to send them out

I did not

No email and no portal update for me from Northwestern

Implicit rejection / implicitly rejected

They're for the master's. No need to worry about PhD decisions just yet! Edit: oh I didn't read the next page of posts lol

There haven't been that many posts on gradcafe but it seems a bit less active this year than in recent years, so it's hard to say. I'm inclined to think that no news is probably an IR, but I wouldn't be that surprised if they gave out a few more admits/waitlists in the coming days

You're right! There are some LSE results on gradcafe

Yeah, they seem to send results in strange waves. I didn't apply, but good luck!

Maybe Princeton

Hey, hang in there! You only need one acceptance and you've still got plenty of decisions pending!

I applied last year and I don't think they released results sporadically, and they released decisions quite late (like April I think?). It sounds like they're doing it differently this year though, so that's probably not much use for you. You might have more luck finding Cambridge applicants on the student room

I agree. That's exactly what I meant 🙂

Looks like there were ~13 first round acceptances from Northwestern on grad cafe last year. I wouldn't read much into the acceptances so far this year

I don't see why the rejections wouldn't be legit. I expect Northwestern sent a few rejections but that many decisions haven't been made yet

I answered in the other thread but will put my answer here too, for completeness 🙂 I'm not super familiar with EU master's but can give you my impression about UK master's admissions, which I imagine are more similar to EU than US admissions. It's not completely unheard of for people with strong maths backgrounds to get into Econ master's programmes with little econ experience, but it does seem to be quite rare. Personally, I did a graduate diploma in economics as a stepping stone to a master's. I mainly applied to master's in the UK but this got me offers from a couple of EU programmes too. It's a frustratingly long route to an econ PhD but it seems to be a reliable way of transferring into econ and it's a good way to try econ without committing to a master's or PhD. This is the programme I did, but there are others: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2022/postgraduate/programmes/GDGECNMC_C/0/economics-graduate-diploma

I'm not super familiar with EU master's but can give you my impression about UK master's admissions, which I imagine are more similar to EU than US admissions. It's not completely unheard of for people with strong maths backgrounds to get into Econ master's programmes with little econ experience, but it does seem to be quite rare. Personally, I did a graduate diploma in economics as a stepping stone to a master's. I mainly applied to master's in the UK but this got me offers from a couple of EU programmes too. It's a frustratingly long route to an econ PhD but it seems to be a reliable way of transferring into econ and it's a good way to try econ without committing to a master's or PhD. This is the programme I did, but there are others: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2022/postgraduate/programmes/GDGECNMC_C/0/economics-graduate-diploma