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Hi guys! How are you doing? What about my profile? I'd like to know if I have any chance... I really appreciate any advice and suggestions. Type of Undergrad: Economics - LA University (well known university in my country; middle ranked econ depth in my country - 10~20) UGPA: 8.99/10 (2nd highest) (with honors) Type of Graduate: Master in Economics - same university GPA: 9.51/10 (1st highest) TOEFL: 103 GRE: Expecting score >=167 (Q) SoP: working on it. Some undergrad courses: Micro I,II,II (8.7, 8.3, 9.7), Macro I,II,III (10, 10, 10), Calc I,II (5.2, 9.5), Dynamic Econ[EDO] (8.5), Linear Algebra (8.5), Statistics I,II (9, 5.8) Econometrics I,II (9.5, 9.4), Topics in Econometrics (9), Sampling Techniques (10), Applied Comp Methods (8.5) Graduate courses: Math Economics[Real Analysis and Optimization] (9.3), Micro I,II (9.7, 9.8), Macro I,II (8.8, 9.7), Topics in Econometrics[Linear Algebra] (9.5), Econometrics I (9.8), Labor Economics (Expecting 9.5). Others courses: Introd to Real Analysis at dept of math (No grade) - summer course Teaching: 3.5 years as TA (Micro I, Econometrics II, Linear Algebra, Econometrics I) - all undergrad level. Research: 2 years as RA (1 year during the undergrad and 1 year during the master's) LoR: 3 good letters (2 econometric professors with PhD from USA and 1 math professor with PhD in Pure Math from USA) Others info: National Exam for entry in graduate programs[Macro, micro, statistics and math] (Top 7% overall, being top 3% in math and statistics) - It is same test for all students in my country. Fields: Applied microeconometrics, applied micro, labor, education, and economics of crime. Planning to apply to: UC3M, Michigan State U, Bonn GSE (PhD), U of Mannheim, Tinbergen, CEMFI (PhD), Rice U, U of Essex, and CU Boulder. Comments: I had 2 low scores in my undergraduate.

Hello, I am considering applying for PhD in the US this semester (for Fall 2019) but not really sure where I should be applying to and perhaps you would give me some advices. Undergraduate: Nanyang Technological University (Singapore-Second upper class honors) GPA: 4.28/5 Math courses: (In chronological order) Calculus I/II/III, Linear algebra I/II, Probability and intro to Stats ( all B+), Stats (Higher level) (A) Real analysis and numerical analysis ( both A-) regression analysis (A-) computational economics (A+) Basic optimization (A-) Times series (B+). I did pretty badly for the first year in Singapore as it took quite a while to adjust to the new environment and language barriers. Econs courses: Macro and Micro principles (both B), Intermediate Macro (A), Intermediate Micro (A-), international monetary economics (B), Principles of econometrics (A-) Mathematical Econs (A-) Intermediate Econometrics (A-) Quant Macro (A+) Industrial Org (A) Game theory (A-) Advanced Micro (B+) and Unfortunately I got B+ for the Final Year Project. Graduate: University of Maine Current GPA: 4.00/4 Econs courses: Macro, Micro, Econometrics, Adv topics in Economics: Time series (all A) Maths courses: Biological Modeling and Simulations (A) -- There are not many math courses that I could choose from as it is offered variedly. Expected Remaining courses: Functions of Real variables I, Adv graduate topics in Maths: Linear model, Adv topics in Economics: Econometrics, Independent Studies and either Functions of Real variables II, Topology or Stochastic Systems. All the mentioned degrees are funded by Singapore scholarship and Fulbright Program. I also earned other scholarships to study in Japan and Australia but declined the offers. Work experiences: None as it is restricted by the sponsors. Intended Schools: BU, Boston College, University of Maryland, UMinnesota, Carnegie Mellon, UCSD and a few of those very top tier: Stanford, Yale, Columbia, NYU Fields: Macro Economics, Income Disparity, Industrial organizations, Monetary Policies. LOR: Two letters from Prof. at UMaine (econs prof. graduted from Boston College and math prof. from Cornell and I assume these letters should be a very good one given their responses) and another one either from NTU or UMaine (uncertain but likely positive as I have only attended their classes) GRE scores: Verbal: 146, Quant: 167, AWA: 3.5. What I worry the most is that I did not have any work experiences as RA as well as no publications but rather papers from courses I have attended. The current degree is also non-thesis but as I am worried that I might not finish it on time (by May 2019) I would have to use my own fund until the thesis is done which is not feasible. I have relatively poor grades for undergrad math courses during the early years in undergrad and the verbal score is also way lower than what I have expected it to be. I will have to retake it but if this is what I have to submit, would there be any chance at all that I could get into those programs mentioned? and if there is any other programs that I would have higher chances. Thank you.

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