Application Information

Details and information about the application.

Institution
All
Program
Economics
Degree Type
PhD
Degree's Country of Origin
American
Decision
Wait listed
Notification
on 02/04/2021 via Other
Undergrad GPA
3.74
  • GRE General: 170
  • GRE Verbal: 154
  • Analytical Writing: 4.50
Notes
To the posts that are demeaning to others about what school they hopefully get acceptance too. You are the reason I am no longer considering a Ph.D. in Economics, through my experience I found that many committee members have a horrible mechanism on selecting candidates. They use this utterly meaningless measure (General GRE) to determine if you are fit. I got accepted into Columbia's Math program, yet I was denied from practically every Econ program because my letters were "...only good, not great" or my undergrad institution was not a top tier one lol what does that even mean. Is there a hidden version of Rudin that I do not know about at Princeton then at WashU? This is the issue with economics. The committee member who said this to me is from UChicago. It is disgusting and a shame that the process for deciding who is fit for a "top program" is so arbitrary and based on a meaningless measure. Anyone can get perfect on the quant section of GRE, it is a complete joke. They should decide mainly on student's research interests and whether they've taken some legitimate math courses like analysis or topology (differential, algebraic, point set) and have research interests similar to faculty members at that institution. However, that is probably asking to much of the committee members to actually read through applications because they just discovered R - squared and they cannot make reviewing applications a function of their time/pay. To me, it seems most of these committee members don't even know what a clopen is or let alone how to differentiate in R^n. It is sad to see the path economics takes, I wish I did not triple major in Math, Econ, and CS, rather I should've majored in Math, Physics, and CS. Good luck to all you on the waitlist. I hope when you decide who gets accepted into the Ph.D. program at your institution, you will read through the applications sent to you.

Timeline

  • Received notification of Waitlist