nstitution: Unknown School and South-America
Majors: Engineering Economics
GPA: Cumulative - 3.3.
Graduate Institutions: 1) Top of my country (Master in Economics: 3.88 GPA), 2) Top Latin-american (Master in Economics: 4.0 GPA)
GRE General Test:
Q: 170
V: 152
W: 3.0
Research Experience:
- A year and a half as a RA for one of my professors at my second master's program. We are co-authors in a paper (econometric theory).
- A year with a full-time professor and researcher as a RA (at my second master's program) (Macroeconomic topics).
- Half-year with a full-time professor and researcher as a RA (at my second master's program) (Macroeconomic topics).
Work Experience (after graduation):
Work at a Financial Regulator in my hometown for 3 years.
Courses (Chronologically): I will mention only graduate courses (my recommenders told me that my undergraduate courses does not matter at all in my case)
- Microeconomic Theory I: A+
- Microeconomic Theory II: A-
- Game Theory: A+
- Macroeconomic Theory I: A+
- Macroeconomic Theory II: A+
- Econometrics I, II and II: A+
- Real Analysis I, II and Measure Theory: A+
Letters of Recommendation:
Econometrics Professors with whom I worked for a year and a half and we are co-authors in a paper (well-known in the region). I have been also his TA.
- Macroeconomics Professors with whom I worked as a RA and TA. Both relatively known in the region.
Other Notes:
TA for International economics and econometric courses for a year.
Programs:
Princeton, Berkeley, Yale, Chicago, NYU, UPenn, Northwestern, Columbia, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin-Madison, JHU, BU, Rochester, UCLA and UCSD.
Concerns:
Low undergraduate GPA and low AW and Verbal scores (GRE). I am afraid to be eliminated just because my low scores in not-important sections of GRE.
