Profile Evaluation

[feanor88]

Dear all,

 

I’m going to apply to some American/European universities next year, but I have doubts about my real level, I don’t know if it’s enough to get a place in some of the PhD Economics programs I’ve in mind.

I would appreciate your feedback.

 

PROFILE

Type of Undergrad: Bachelor in Economics, from a top university in a South America country.

Undergrad GPA: 4.0 Econ / 3.8 Math / 4.0 overall (first class honours)

Type of Grad: Master in Economics, from one of the best program in South America, with a good PhD record. In the last recent years they put people in the PhD program of Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Stanford, Berkeley, LSE, NYU, UCLA.

Grad GPA: 3.2 (graduated with academic excellence).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Internship in the Research Division of Central Bank.

Working Paper about fiscal policy (coauthored).

Working Paper about monetary and macroprudential policies (DSGE model with financial frictions).

My master thesis has two distinctions (the best qualification in the master program).

I’ve skills in Eviews, Oxmetrics, Stata, Matlab and R.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I’m a teacher of a top public university in my country. I teach Macroeconomic Theory II and Dynamic Macroeconomics (RBC and Neokeynesian Models).

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

Two of them from my teachers of the master program, both have PhD from MIT but are seniors (> 60 years old), one is a distinguished academics and the other one is more oriented to public policy. The last LOR is from one of the most reputed academics of my country, PhD from LSE.

All of them are macro oriented.

CONCERNS

I don’t take GRE and TOEFL yet, maybe in May of the next year (2017).

I'm macro oriented…maybe more than is necessary.

APPLYING TO

I have these universities in mind:

UCLA, NYU, LSE, UC Berkeley, Boston U, Northwestern, Columbia, Minessota, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Duke, Brown, Rochester, BGSE, CEMFI and UC3M,

 

Conditional to a good GRE and TOEFL scores, do you think is it a competitive profile for universities I plan to apply?

 

Thank you for the opinions.