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Profile Undergrad: University of Wisconsin, 3.85 GPA, Math GPA 3.8, Econ GPA 4.0, Majored in International Business and Marketing GRE: 167 Verbal (98%), 163 Quant (88%), AWA 5.5 (96%) Econ: Honors intro Micro and Macro (A), Intermediate Micro (A), Intermediate Macro (A), Development Econ (A), Environmental Econ (A) Math: Finite Math (A), Stats (A), Calc 1 (AB), in progress Calc 2, will be taking Linear Algebra with Differential Equations, and Multivariable Calc in the upcoming semester LOR: 2 professors in the University of Wisc. Business school, 1 from a graduate class that I took with him, other recommendation from a well know professor in the ag. econ program at Wisconsin. concern: lack of math, and the fact that most of my math course work is still in progress -quality of recommendations? -low-ish quant score on the GRE Ideally I want to study development and environmental economics, and have been leaning towards an ag econ phd program. But, because of the many concerns I have I don't have the slightest idea of what my chances of getting into a competitive program are. I plan on applying to: UMN, UC-Davis, UC-Berkeley for ag econ phd Georgetown, Boston University, University of Colorado, and University of Santa Barbara for traditional Econ PhD Masters in Econ from UBC, UofT, UWO, and Queen's in Canada Any help, and the brutal truth would be greatly appreciated