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People posting here have profiles that amaze me, I'm basically an average guy. My undergrad GPA in Econ was 3.3 (partly due to my depression because I was in America while my country was in civil unrest, so I was worried about my family and lost focus), and my Grad GPA from my MPP program is currently a 3.6 (could have better, because the unrest was still happening until until early this year). Both my undergrad and MPP are from MSU. My math background is weak. I failed calc 1 as a 16 year old freshman, I retook it again and got a 3.5, I got a 3.5 in calc 2. I take calc 3 in the fall, and differential equations/linear algebra in the spring. Maybe analysis is the summer, but that's the maximum I can do, because I intend to start in the fall of 2012. I got a 2.5 in business statistics in undergrad, a 3.5 in intro stats at the MPP level, 3.0 in intro econometrics 1, 2.0 in intro econometrics at the MPP level, but a 4.0 in intermediate econometrics. I'm clearly lacking in grades and in math, but by summer, I should be better off but not the ideal. I helped do research for the Michigan government and I have an independent project/thesis this spring. I don't plan to apply to a top 50 school because of that, but what are the implications of going to a 75-200 program. I ask this because my MSU econ profs came from top 25 schools, so it's clear that many professors move a notch lower to teach, so at rank 150, where would you teach then? Academia is not my main goal, but I can't say I have not thought about it.