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usavinci

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  • Location
    Madison
  • Application Season
    2013 Fall
  • Program
    Finance, Economics

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  1. I think it pretty strong profile. And school choices are also pretty reasonable. Good luck with it.
  2. I recently talked to my professor about the cost and benefit of getting Economics Ph.D. To my surprise, the professor said going to graduate school for Ph.D is risky: the candidate has to work extremely hard but earned very little salary for 5 years. After that, hopefully he can become a assistant professor at a university. Then, work harder to teach students while do research and publish papers. After about 7-10 years, hopefully you can get tenured. After tenure, life basically becomes easy. While compared to work in industries where people can earn a decent salary in the beginning, tenure cannot come if any stages brake. (For example, if you don't get a good evaluation from college students, you might be kicked out. The research you did before that, say 3-year research, is completely useless. You have to start new researches in order to get tenured in another school) I am wondering what are your motivation of pursuing Ph.D. in economics. I mean, interest is definitely one of the motivations, but thinking about this, I am kind of scared. What else motivates you?
  3. Hey all, Here are my stats: GRE: 168Q + 152 V , given Im an international student with English not my first language Majors: Economics & Mathematics-- from a top public university GPA: 3.52 Major GPA: 3.65 How's my chance of getting into top 20 Finance/FE master program? PS: yeah, I know there are many more factors that can affect the application, but just assume other materials are about in the similar level of my GPA standard... All genuine opinions are greatly appreciated!
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