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PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: BS Financial Economics, BA Mathematics mid ranked US state school(ranking 150-200) Undergrad GPA: 3.9 Type of Grad:taken graduate level courses in math and econ as an undergrad GRE: Q163 V160 AWA 5. Worried about quant gre score Math Courses:Graduate level Real Analysis (A), Graduate level matrix analysis(A) Undergraduate: Calc 1 to 3 (all As), Differential equations (B), linear algebra (A), proof-based upper level Linear algebra(A), real analysis (A), probability theory(A), mathematical statistics (A) Econ courses: MA grad level : econometrics I(A), econometrics II (A), Micro(A), Macro(A), Undergraduate:intermediate micro/macro Both As, Public finance, international finance, international trade theory, econometrics, Monetary theory among others, all A's Letters of Recommendation: All three are phd professors, two at my school(one is chair of department), thd third one of my graduate econ professors. Served as an RA under one of them, research experience with one through the graduate course, and the third I am currently starting a research project with(hope to submit co authored paper in November). I expect all three to be strong recommendations. Research experience: one semester as a research assistant, leading to an independent research project the next semester which I presented at our school's research fair. Conducted a term paper over two semeters in graduate econ courses, and am currently starting a research project to hopefully submit aa a co authored paper in Novemeber(shortly before applying) Teaching Experience: none Research Interests: labor/consumer economics, public economics\public choice SOP: pretty well written paper in draft, highlighting my first experience with research in economics and my growth as a researcher Concerns: poor GRE and low ranked school Applying to: Would like to send a few applications to the top 10s, other than that top 20-30s and strong state schools(Maryland, texas, virginia, ucsd,uc davis) I feel like I am an overall strong applicant, but wonder if gre/coming from a relatively low ranked school hurt my chances

Dear Friends, please help me choose GRE score. I am an Asian student applying for MS in Agricultural Economics in US. My scores are bad in verbal&writing sections but I have no time to retake, so I have to go with it. 1st attempt: V151, Q162, AWA3.0 2nd attempt: V149, Q167, AWA2.5 (Just a complaint: After 1st try I have built up more than 500 vocabs and have done a lot of exercises. I also practiced writing and studied high score vs low score essays. I did nothing for Quan part. I was very surprised to see my 2nd try appear like this.)

Biggest Question: SHOULD I RETAKE THE GRE ?????? I dont have much time, bc im applying for fall 2011. I feel like 750 is absolute minimum for the masters programs im looking at. Any opinions or recs???? PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Flagship state school Undergrad GPA: 4.0/4.3 (Econ 4.2/4.3 Math 4.0/4.3) Type of Grad:NA Grad GPA:NA GRE: 750Q/530V still waiting on AWA probably a 5 Math Courses: Calc I (A) Calc II (A) Statistics (A+) Mathematical Econ. (A) Linear Algebra (B) Econ Courses (grad-level): Micro (B) Mathematical Econ. (A) Econ Courses (undergrad-level): Lots. All A's and A+'s Other Courses: Physics (A-) Quant Anthro (A+) lots of Philosophy (all As and A+s) Letters of Recommendation: 1 very strong (thesis advisor), Phd from UT-Austin 2 other relatively strong (grad math/micro profs neither have Phds from famous schools) Research Experience: RA for 1 year cleaning data using Stata. 6 months working at Econ. Research Institute at my University. Teaching Experience: NA Research Interests: Behavioral, Development.... but havent pinned myself down. SOP: Decent. talked about travelling to latin america which made me want to study development and my research experiences. Concerns: low GRE, lack of math, two B's Other: Applying to: All masters: UBC, TSE (M2), Tufts, Queens, Oxford, Davis ARE Maybe's: LSE (local econ. development) Tinbergen Inst., Vanderbilt GPED, Boston U, USF, Toronto