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Institution: Yale University

Program: PhD Economics

Decision: Rejected

Funding: NA

Date: 02/17/2020

Notified through: Website

Comments: Expected but still feel bad. However I really hope implicit rejections from other schools are directly posted results like at Yale, so at least I could move on. Congrats to people who got in!

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Institution: Stanford University

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Rejected

Funding: N/A

Date: 1/22/2020

Notified through: Email to check portal

Comments: N/A

 

Institution: University of Chicago

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Tuition waver + $42k stipend, TA for 5 courses

Date: 2/10/2020

Notified through: Phone call from MG, then email

Comments: : )

 

Institution: Columbia University

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Tuition waver + $41k stipend (5 years), no responsibilities 1st year

Date: 2/18/2020

Notified through: Email to check portal

Comments: : )

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Institution: U Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Program: PhD in Political Economics

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Tuition waiver plus living stipend for 5 years (33k)

Date: 02/17/2020

Notified through: Call from a faculty member

Comments: Probably decline

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Institution: University of Minnesota

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Five years $$ with TA duties

Date: 2/7/2020

Notified through: Email

Comment: Declined their offer

 

Institution: Columbia University

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Waitlisted

Funding:

Date: 2/19/2020

Notified through: Email

Comments: Asked to be taken off the waitlist

 

Institution: LSE

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Rejected

Funding:

Date: 2/19/2020

Notified through: Website

 

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Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Program: PhD in Economics

Decision: Accepted

Funding: tuition wavier plus living stipend for 5 years (around 26k per year)

Date: 02/19/2020

Notified through: Email

Comments: will decline :)

 

Institution: Brown University

Program: PhD in Economics

Decision: Accepted

Funding: tuition wavier plus living stipend for 5 years (around 33k per year)

Date: 02/24/2020

Notified through: Email to check portal

Comments: will decline :)

 

Rejects: so many -- Harvard, MIT, Stanford GSB, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Berkeley ARE.

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Institution: Princeton

Program: Economics (PhD)

Decision: Rejected

Funding: N/A

Date: 02/21/2020

Notified through: E-Mail from Grad Dean

Comments: Congrats to those who got in! =)

 

Institution: Northwestern

Program: Economics (PhD)

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Funding info will come in a later e-mail

Date: 02/21/2020

Notified through: E-Mail from two professors

Comments: :D :D :D

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Institution: University of Virginia

Program: Econ

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Tuition waiver + 5 years stipend ($$) with summer support & health insurance. No duties during first year.

Date: 22 Feb

Notified through: Email from DGS then followed up with official offer letter

Comments: First acceptance! It's not even my safety school. Close to 5 years incrementally improving my profile since my undergrad days finally paid off..

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Institution: NYU

Program: Economics (PhD)

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Fully funded offer for five years, amount not specified.

Date: 02/22/2020

Notified through: E-Mail from professor asking if still interested.

Comments: Have declined my offer, good luck to everyone still waiting! :)

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Institution: Princeton University

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Rejected

Funding: N/A

Date: 2/21/2020

Notified through: Email

Comments: N/A

 

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Accepted

Funding: Tuition waver + $25k (2 years + 3 years TA/RA) + health

Date: 2/21/2020

Notified through: Phone, then email (2/24)

Comments: : ) (likely decline)

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Institution: MIT

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Rejected

Funding: N/A

Date: 2/25/2020

Notified through: Email

 

Institution: Harvard University

Program: Economics PhD

Decision: Rejected

Funding: N/A

Date: 2/25/2020

Notified through: Email to check portal

 

Comments: was expecting both rejections. Congrats to all those admited!

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