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Advice for those who want to apply next year: Apply to as many schools as you can afford. I applied to 22 and it was totally worth it. Most top candidates that I know apply to at least 12/15, so applying to less than 10 is a huge risk.

The funding was really good! 40k for five years and they only require 2 years of teaching.

I can confirm UPENN. I will decline, so good luck to everyone else!

I just declined Brown. Good luck to everyone in the waitlist!

The visit day is on April 4th, but not sure waitlisted students are invited. I was just told the date.

I don't think so. I applied only to Northwestern econ, was accepted, but also received the Kellogg email.

They sent an email asking for my phone number and at what times I was available for a call. I will reject my Columbia interview, so good luck to those waiting for that to drop!

I'm an international student and received a request from Columbia to interview. I can also confirm Princeton, they seem to have just started calling so there is still hope! I am very excited about Princeton, my best offer so far 🙂

I can confirm Harvard. I got an email for the waitlist one hour ago.

Do those 86 offers include people in the waitlist?

Do we know how many people Yale usually accepts and how many they put on the waitlist?

The most likely scenario is that, after not hearing back from almost any university for an entire month, we are going to receive a lot of news in the next two weeks.

It’s definitely not luck! For better or for worse, econ PhD admissions compensate those who realized they wanted to do academia early. These people took the right classes (Real Analysis, linear algebra, advanced micro,…), started talking with professors early, took care of their GPA and avoided super hard classes where is difficult to do well (phd micro). In other words, they knew how to play the "game". They picked up stata early and was easier for them to find a great predoc. That being said, conditional of having a good GPA, I think the consensus is that LORs are the most important factor. That is why predocs, for most people, are better than paying 30k to do a masters at LSE. But not all predocs are created equal, the professors need to be somewhat recognized in their field and, more importantly, need to have recommended students in the past. That being said, if you were rejected by Michigan, don’t lose hope! This is one of the first offers to come, and there is still plenty of programs that could offer you a spot! For example, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (prof at Yale SOM) recently tweeted that he was rejected by Michigan, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Booth,… and got accepted at Columbia, HBS, and Wisconsin.

I got an email with the acceptance today. Not sure if they have updated the portal yet!