brittanyandrea Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I'm torn between three schools, all of which are very quant-heavy. Does anyone have any tips on preparing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben414 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) Buy A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research by Will H. Moore and David A. Siegel. This is the intro book used by Duke's Political Science PhD program. If you want to feel confident in your quantitative skills, read through Chapter 5. If you want to feel extremely confident in your quantitative skills, read through Chapter 11. If you want to get your Economics PhD or study political science at NYU, read the entire book. Edited March 20, 2017 by Ben414 SoCalPolicyWonk, brittanyandrea and nuhanzi 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brittanyandrea Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Thank you so much!! Ordering it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturdyelm Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 It's been suggested by a few schools I applied to take a "refresher course" . These aren't courses that you can take if you need a graded course for final admission, but there are lots of options! Potential places: Principles of MicroEconomics, MIT opencourseware (archived course but includes exams & solutions) Principles of Economics, Stanford (archived course) Principles of Economics (MicroEconomics), George Mason University Professors via MRUniversity (video lessons) Statistical Reasoning, Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Lots of Quant courses at your own pace and own level on edX or Coursera (along with a bunch of other courses) Data Analysis/Statistics: https://www.edx.org/course/?availability=Self-Paced&language=English&subject=Data Analysis %26 Statistics https://www.coursera.org/browse/data-science/probability-and-statistics?languages=en Economics/Finance: https://www.edx.org/course/?availability=Self-Paced&language=English&subject=Economics %26 Finance https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en&query=economics Math Essentials: https://www.edx.org/course/?availability=Self-Paced&language=English&subject=Math https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en&query=math brittanyandrea, nahuja32, yoh_rrg and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nahuja32 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 On 22/03/2017 at 2:57 AM, sturdyelm said: It's been suggested by a few schools I applied to take a "refresher course" . These aren't courses that you can take if you need a graded course for final admission, but there are lots of options! Potential places: Principles of MicroEconomics, MIT opencourseware (archived course but includes exams & solutions) Principles of Economics, Stanford (archived course) Principles of Economics (MicroEconomics), George Mason University Professors via MRUniversity (video lessons) Statistical Reasoning, Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Lots of Quant courses at your own pace and own level on edX or Coursera (along with a bunch of other courses) Data Analysis/Statistics: https://www.edx.org/course/?availability=Self-Paced&language=English&subject=Data Analysis %26 Statistics https://www.coursera.org/browse/data-science/probability-and-statistics?languages=en Economics/Finance: https://www.edx.org/course/?availability=Self-Paced&language=English&subject=Economics %26 Finance https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en&query=economics Math Essentials: https://www.edx.org/course/?availability=Self-Paced&language=English&subject=Math https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en&query=math This is a fabulous list. Thanks a lot will surely be doing a few of these over the summer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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