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Is it a downside if the professors you are most interested in working with at a program are young and recently hired? I feel like plus side is they're actively engaged in research, at the edge of the field, and probably interested in working together, which all seem like huge advantages. But, if they have little experience advising and no history placing advisees in good positions is that a big risk?
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I was admitted to a few programs somewhat similar in ranking and I need to start thinking about where I will go. I'm new to the academic environment, so I'm not sure what is ultimately most important in a PhD program. What should I ask professors and advanced students? Or what should I be hoping to learn? I have a few ideas, but I'd appreciate any advice. Thank you!
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Hi! I am writing an application form for the econ Ph.D. program this year (2021 Fall) However, I have some problems with LoR. As everybody knows, I need 3 LoRs and I've already got permissions from 3 econ professors who know me well. However, one of 3 professors also gave permission to another student whose application lists are pretty much same with mine. about 80%? I think it matters a lot. Should I find another professor for 4th recommendation ? (as long as the university allows 4 LoRs) Thanks
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Hi! I am writing an application form for the econ Ph.D. program this year (2021 Fall) However, I have some problems with LoR. As everybody knows, I need 3 LoRs and I've already got permissions from 3 econ professors who know me well. However, one of 3 professors also gave permission to another student whose application lists are pretty much same with mine. about 80%?) I think it matters a lot. Should I find another professor for 4th recommendation ? (as long as the university allows 4 LoRs) Thanks
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Hi Urch, long time lurker, first time poster.... I have been en route to finishing a MPP degree and am currently taking on summer RA positions for two economics professors at a top 15 econ program, unknown MPP program. While the RA positions are both with well know economists and will hopefully provide me two LoR writers, I can't help but find the RA work to be nothing more than data cleaning. I like helping and providing assistance to my professors, but I am largely scared that this position has no value to it other than a LoR that's void of any insight to my economic skills. Has anyone else done RA work? Are my worries totally overblown, is this normal? Should I say anything? Thanks for any advice, I largely appreciate it :).
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The table can be read column-wise and row-wise. For each of the top 25 U.S. agricultural economics departments, each column counts the number of enlisted faculty by doctoral alma mater corresponding to the department listed in a given row. Each row, inversely, counts where the doctoral alumni of each department are affiliated to as tenured/tenure-track faculty within the top 25 U.S. agricultural economics departments. [ATTACH=CONFIG]7264[/ATTACH] (Open in a new tab for a larger view) Notes: 1. The ranking is based on REPEC's agricultural economics department rankings, as of April 2020. 2. The figures are based on the faculty listing in the respective department's website, as of May 26, 2020. 3. The figures only count the number of tenured/tenure-track professors in each department, excluding non-tenure-track faculty (visiting professors, research professors, clinical professors, professors of practice, adjunct professors, lecturers, and instructors). In addition, emeritus professors are also counted. 4. "General Econ" counts faculty who have a (general/non agricultural) economics Ph.D. degree. Environmental (and natural resource) economics degrees, traditionally not lumped together with agricultural economics departments (Yale, Duke, U Mass) are provided their own rows. "Canadian Ag Econ" counts faculty who have a Ph.D. degree from a Canadian agricultural economics department. "Other U.S. Ag Econ" counts faculty whose Ph.D. alma mater is other than the 25 listed. "Non-Econ" counts faculty who have a Ph.D. degree in a discipline other than economics (most commonly, law, public policy, statistics, engineering, and environmental science, among others). 5. All tenured/tenure-track faculty are counted for Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management. Only agricultural economics faculty are counted for Iowa State's Department of Economics. Similarly, only agricultural economics faculty are counted for Penn State's Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education. 6. Washington State University graduates are counted under "Other U.S. Ag Econ". 7. A crucial limitation of the statistics is that they do not account for the temporal variation of the alumni graduation years. Some departments were at their peak in certain years in the past, and their figures are over-represented by their graduates from those specific years, despite their graduates not landing tenure-track faculty positions in recent years, and vice-versa. -
Hi all, I am torn between two departments. First is good with professors who are working in the same line of research I want to work on, but they are mostly old (60 to 65+). Not sure if they would be around for too long. I don't find the research profiles of the younger professors very interesting.... yet! Second is slightly lower-ranked department but I really LOVE the work of two people working there, and who are renowned in the field. They aren't young and aren't old either... say, around 40-year-old associate professors. However, they have the reputation of not giving a ton of time to their students and expecting way too much from them. Considering these two factors only, do you think the latter program would be worth it?
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Hello! I was kindly wondering how I should prepare for a Skype interview. I have generally been preparing by talking about my research interests/past projects and then try to relate my interests to the professors' interests or past publications. Would this be a good strategy or would you recommend that I do something else along with? Thanks!
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I worked on a project with two professors for more than a year. One of the professors recommends that she write a joint letter of recommendation with the other professor. What could be a reason why the professor would suggest that? How do admissions committee usually view such letters?
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Type of Undergrad: Rising Senior pursuing BA in Economics, BS in Math from Unranked Public University Undergrad GPA: 4.0 GRE:170Q/168V/6.0AWA Math Courses: Multivariable Calculus, Combinatorics, Linear Algebra (2 semesters, proof-based), Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Topology, Abstract Algebra I & II, Mathematical Statistics, Mathematical Probability (all As) Undergrad Econ Courses: Intermediate Micro, Intermediate Macro, Econometrics, Game Theory (all As) Grad Courses: Microeconomic Theory I & II (passed PhD qualifying exam), Econometrics I, Mathematics for Econ (all As) Letters of Recommendation: Recommenders are all from top-20. Two were my professors in my graduate courses, and I've been a RA for one of those professors for the past two years. The final recommender is my thesis advisor and one of my undergraduate professors. Research Experience: 2 years as an RA; thesis project for junior & senior year (extended- it'll be a two year project). Teaching Experience: Math tutor (1.5 years) & TA (one semester) I'm looking to get into a high-ranked school (hopefully top 20), with funding. I read the post about top admissions and the difficulties coming from an unranked school. Is there anything I can do to remedy that?
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Hi everyone, I have recently been accepted to the CUNY graduate center with tuition + stipend. Although the overall ranking and reputation of the program at CUNY is not the best, I applied there and am considering it because of its focus on finance and its availability of a huge group professors whose main focus is in financial economics. I couldn't find any program that had that many professors in financial economics. On the other hand, I also have a competitive offer from UC Irvine. Although UCI is not known for financial economics, there are professors who I can definitely work with, and their focus on data science is really attractive. I would have to say that I am happy with landing a good industry job as both places are not the optimal places to go to for academic positions anyway. With that being said, I think CUNY's advantage is its huge faculty (and courses) in financial economics and location. But I do not know interactive the faculty is with the grad students. UCI has slightly better reputation and offers a MS in Statistics and one of their labs focuses on deep learning which I can definitely take advantage of and utilize in so many fields including finance, tech, etc. In other words, I feel like I will learn more technical stuff there. Anyways, can any of you provide any insights/advises on which one I might be better off choosing? Thanks!
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Hi guys, I am finishing up my SOP for all my applications. Originally, my plan was to mention one professor at each program in my SOP. At some schools, there were actually at least one professor whose research is very aligning with my future interests. In that case, I obviously mentioned their names and their works. However, at other schools, there are professors who definitely seem to be capable of advising me but not researching the very specific topic that I plan on researching. Obviously, my research interest might change over time so I don't want to just cut out those schools that do not have professors who are researching in that very specific topic. But as I am writing, I realized that it doesn't really make sense to mention their names if their work is not specifically aligning with my future interests that I mention in SOP. What do you guys think? Should I just talk about my future interests and end it there? -
Top 20 US state school, B.A Math and Econ Fourth year UGPA: 3.45 Working on a Mechanism Design paper Advised by a senior professor in the same field. I am mostly concerned with my LORs since I spent the beginning of my undergrad in just math. Is ~ 3 months enough time to make better connections with 2 more professors? Or should I take one extra semester and take 2 courses: 1) grad Functional Analysis and 2)grad Analysis, while getting to know more economics professors and apply for fall 2020?
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Hi all, I am an applied math and econ major in an Ivy-League school and I am thinking of applying to phd programs in econ this fall. So far I have had three professors agreeing to write me recommendation letters (one I RAed for, one supervised my independent study and one I took seminar and wrote a term paper) and I had good relationships with all of them. The issue is, all of my three recommenders are young assistant professors. Should I try to have a more senior professor as my recommender? (If I do so, the letter from the senior professor may not be very strong, I only took his class and wrote a final paper). And in general, how is a strong letter from a young AP compared to a semi-strong letter from a tenured professor? Thanks.
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There's a class I would like to take, because the professor's research interests me a lot + he's pretty prestigious in his field, and I would love to form some working relationship with him. But I have reservations, because his research output seems to have dried up in recent years, and he's *really* old, indicating that he may retire soon. 1. Is there a way to get more certain information on this that I'm unaware of? 2. Is it common/possible for professors to write LORs after retirement?
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PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Top 50 LAC Undergrad GPA: 3.83/4.0 Major: Mathematics, Economics Minor: Computer Science (but does not show on my transcript) GRE: Q: 168, V:155 Math Courses: Multivariable Calculus (A) Discrete Mathematics (A) Linear Algebra (A, but taken during a summer at a CC) Probability and Statistics 1 (A) Real Analysis (A) Econ Courses: Intro Micro (A-) Intro Macro (A) Intermediate Micro (A) Intermediate Macro (W, but will take it again this fall with my advisor) Econometrics (A-) Independent Study (A) Computer Science Courses: Intro to Comp Sci 1,2 (A) (A-) Data Structures and Problem Solving (A-) Computer Organization and Architecutre (A-) Theoretical Foundation of Computer Science (A-) Other Courses: General Chemistry w/ Lab (A) Intro to Physics (A-) Letters of Recommendation: 2 from professors that I will be doing research with this summer (expect to be strong) 1 from professor from Comp Sci department (expect to be semi-strong) Research Experience: -Spending this semester doing Independent Study which is basically like a RA -Going to do Student-Faculty Collaborative Research in the summer with two of my professors mentioned above, and it will most likely going to be under review at journals by the time of application deadlines but is feasible to be published (top 50 Journals) and, if published, I will be listed as co-author Teaching Experience: Tutor at the "Quantitative" center at my school (Fall 2017 to present) Research Interests: N/A Applying: First Choice: BU, BC, Columbia(although this one is probably a very long shot) Others: University of Washington ,UVA, USC, Georgetown Safety: Don't know yet (recommendations will be appreciated ) Worries: Even though my letters from two of my professors are expected to be strong, but they are relatively unknown and both assistant professors at a small liberal arts school. Is it better to get an okay letter from a relatively well-known professor than a strong letter from a relatively unknown professor? I always thought the former would be better but please share your opinions! Any evaluations/input would be appreciated!
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PROFILE: Type of Undergrad: Small LAC Undergrad GPA: 3.84/4.0 Major: Mathematics, Economics Minor: Computer Science (but does not show on my transcript) GRE: Q: 168, V:155 Math Courses: Multivariable Calculus (A) Discrete Mathematics (A) Linear Algebra (A, but taking during a summer at a CC) Probability and Statistics 1 (A) Real Analysis (A) Econ Courses: Intro Micro (A-) Intro Macro (A) Intermediate Micro (A) Intermediate Macro (A-) Econometrics (A) Computer Science Courses: Intro to Comp Sci 1,2 (A) (A-) Data Structures and Problem Solving (A-) Computer Organization and Architecutre (A-) Theoretical Foundation of Computer Science (A-) Other Courses: General Chemistry w/ Lab (A) Intro to Physics (A-) Letters of Recommendation: 2 from professors that I will be doing research with this summer (expect to be strong) 1 from professor from Comp Sci department (expect to be semi-strong) Research Experience: Spending this semester doing Independent Study which is basically like a RA Going to do Student-Faculty Collaborative Research in the summer with two of my professors mentioned above, and it is feasible to be published (top 50 Journals) and, if published, I will be listed as co-author Teaching Experience: Tutor at the "Quantitative" center at my school (Fall 2017 to present) Research Interests: N/A Applying: Reach: Columbia, NYU, Duke, Brown, UCLA Range: Boston College/Univ, Penn State, UVA, University of Washington, USC, Georgetown Safety: Don't know yet (recommendations will be appreciated :)) Worries: Even though my letters from two of my professors are expected to be strong and in favor, but they are relatively unknown and both assistant professors at a small liberal arts school. Is it better to get an okay letter from a relatively well-known professor than a strong letter from a relatively unknown professor? I always thought the former would be better but please share your opinions! Any evaluations/input would be appreciated!:)
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Hi everyone! I'm an aspiring Ph.D. applicant and this is my first time posting here. I wanted to ask you guys about your experiences approaching professors for an RA position. I've seen a lot of tips about how to ask for an RA job, but almost all of them are for science/engineering majors where professors regularly recruit students for their labs. I was just wondering what would be the best way to ask a business school professor whether he/she needs an RA. Any advice can help! Thank you guys so much!
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Hi urch, Would getting a letter from a Professor of Practice, who nonetheless has a PhD from a T7 and with whom you've done a research project, be a bad idea? For those unfamiliar, Professors of Practice are appointed to primarily teach (because they're good at teaching and the students love them) rather than do research (and hence their productivity is usually not so high). My other two letters will be stronger and from: 1. A tenured associate professor, productive, up and rising in his field. 2. A well-known full professor (top 5% IDEAS). For obvious reasons, I can't divulge too many details about my profile. I go to a well-known undergrad in the US, if that makes a difference regarding the professors' reputation. My other option is either 1) get a LOR from a professor I took a grad econ class with (though I didn't get to know them very well besides getting a good grade) or 2) do a one-year NBER/non-NBER RA stint to secure a good 3rd recommendation letter from an active researcher. The drawback of 2) is the opportunity cost of delaying the PhD by a year while my profile is probably already strong enough to not need to (?). Does anyone have any experience with using letters from professors who are not active in research? Thank you in advance for your thoughts and advice. nervousapp -
Hello everyone! I am an upcoming senior trying to apply Econ PhD programs this fall. I have some doubt regarding contacting professors prior to application: 1) I know from old threads that it's frowned upon especially in the US, not so much in UK/Europe; 2) Would only write to professors whose research interests are really linked to mine (eg: professor whose work I replicated in assignment paper/ whose work I know really well) 3) Have noticed that certain US universities really stress the importance of the "fit" and indirectly encourage contact: UMinnesota states "Current students and alumni can be great sources of information, and staff or faculty are sometimes available to answer your questions." So: should I do it? Is it too risky? Thanks in advance!
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Accounting hopeful here, I'm trying to finish up my personalized portion of my SOPs for a few schools that I really want to go to, like these are my dream schools. Upon reviewing the department websites there are a few professors whose research really interests me but I have no way of knowing if they are involved with the Phd program. Should I mention my interest in their research specifically or will that hurt me if they aren't working with the program? Also there are multiple professors at one program that in interested in so could I mention maybe 2 of them in hopes that at least one is working with PhD students? I have no research experience so I want my SOP to drive home that I at least kinda know what research is and what I'm interested in without being too specific and I figure showing I read a few articles from current professors may help but I could be wrong.
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When i started finding professor it was really a toilsome work . Now me with one of my friend made a video out of all our ways those we found easy . Now i am sharing it with u guys purely on academic purpose . :)
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Hello, I'm in a bit of a trouble as of now because I haven't gotten any answer from one of my letter writers. Long story made short; I did an MSc in Econ at a top European department, I didn't excel in everything, but I managed to get some really good grades in a few classes. Because of this, three professors agreed to write LoRs for me for the PhD application process. I talked to them in April, and then tried re-confirm and set up the details in August. Two of them already said yes, however one of them hasn't answered any of my e-mails (I'm not in Europe anymore, which obviously complicates things). Now, this last professor is fairly famous and therefore really busy, so it might very well be that he hasn't had time to read any of my e-mails. However, since I didn't get any answer back, I contacted his assistant, who in turn forwarded my e-mail to him. So I can almost be 100% certain that he read it and actively decided to ignore it. His assistant also told me to call him at one particular time, because he would be at his office, but I couldn't reach him via phone either. Now naturally, given that he is the most famous one of my recommenders, I really need his letter. What baffles me is that he was super nice when we spoke in April and said he'd gladly write the letter. And, while I understand that he is insanely busy, an answer of the type: "I've read your e-mail, I'm pretty busy atm, we'll arrange the details later" would be enough. I would like to know if anybody has been in a similiar situation or if anybody has some suggestions about what course of action to follow. I don't want to pester him with e-mails and calls, in case that makes him say he won't write the letter anymore. But I also don't want a lot of time to pass and then two weeks before deadlines, have him say he doesn't have time to do it, or he'll simply won't do it. Any advice/comment is welcome. Thanks a lot! Cheers!
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Hello all, Letters of recommendation is a very important part of your application. I already know that you must choose someone who knows you very well and can write a good letter of recommendation for you. I already decided one of the professors who will recommend me, he is very well known in the area (strategy), has a good CV, and I had a good performance on his class. I am positive that he is willing to write the recommendation letters for me. I was very sure about which other professors I should choose to get a recommendation letter, however I am scared that I might be choosing the wrong professors. Can you please give me an advice if I should pick them? There are the profiles: The second professor: I attended two classes with her during the second semester (I had a personal hardship during that period) and wasn't able to perform well. I got a B and B- in her classes, however in the fourth semester after talking with her she picked me to work as a research assistant. I worked with her the entire semester, and she said I had a good performance. I spoke with her, explained my situation in the second semester and I told her about my plans of getting a PhD in 2013. She was very keen while giving me advices and she said I could always contact her if I needed something. I am sure she will be willing to write me a recommendation letter however I am concerned with the grades I had with her. The third professor: She is more connected with marketing rather than strategy (the area where I pretend to specialize). I had an average grade with her (B) since I missed three of her classes (I missed my flight and had to wait, she said she understood but she was still going to deduct from my grade). I had an excellent performance in her class, was always active and had very good grades on my written assignments. I believe she has a good impression over me, but I am not sure she will be willing to write me a recommendation letter. I have other options, however they are not connected with the field (one is a psychologist studying family business, I got a very good grade with him and he has a good impression over me, however I didn't have too much face-to-face interaction) and I am not sure if this will have an impact over my applications? What should I do? Thank you
