Political Economy and Comparative

[Anna87]

Does anyone have any advice for good programs in political economy, specifically comparative? I have a list of a few schools, but I am trying to expand it a bit.

UC Berkeley, Yale, Duke, and University of Michigan.

These are all top ten schools, maybe someone can recommend a few others that I should take a closer look at (they do not have to be top 10!)

[TicToc.]

For PE and Comparative, and quant more generally: UCSD, UCLA.

[saltlakecity2012]

NYU. Also, there's a "political economy" thread somewhere on this forum - I think we went through this exercise. See if you can find it.

[Anna87]

Thanks! I will look though the older threads

[TicToc.]

  On 3/23/2012 at 8:17 PM, saltlakecity2012 said:

Also, UCSD is a good option if you're nervous about applying to mostly top 10 schools - they are a top 10 program in IR/CP/IPE, but they have a really low yield bc the better branded schools steal all the best students. So they accept a pretty large percentage of applicants (comparatively) - ~20%. Obviously not an assurance by any means, but if you've got a good fit and decent stats it's a good option.

Anna87, be sure to consider the fact that this 20% all have top percentile GRE quant scores and a strong undergrad/MA quant background, with coursework in PE, Math, Econ, etc.

[saltlakecity2012]

  On 3/25/2012 at 11:42 PM, JeSuisPapillon said:

Anna87, be sure to consider the fact that this 20% all have top percentile GRE quant scores and a strong undergrad/MA quant background, with coursework in PE, Math, Econ, etc.

Of course, but this is true pretty much anywhere in the top 30 nowadays.

[Anna87]

  On 3/26/2012 at 8:10 AM, saltlakecity2012 said:

Of course, but this is true pretty much anywhere in the top 30 nowadays.

How much quantitative work would you suggest?

I have pretty good Quant GRE scores. In my MA I haven’t taken math courses but I have taken PE and I tend to gear individual work (I.e. research papers/projects) in other courses towards Econ. However, I will only have maybe 1 or 2 courses on my transcript that are easily classified as quant courses. Any suggestions for my remaining two semesters of my MA? Or anything else I could do to show that I can in fact do quantitative work?

I also use to tutor econ in undergrad. Not sure how much that would count.

[3221]

  On 3/26/2012 at 1:35 PM, Anna87 said:

How much quantitative work would you suggest?

I have pretty good Quant GRE scores. In my MA I haven’t taken math courses but I have taken PE and I tend to gear individual work (I.e. research papers/projects) in other courses towards Econ. However, I will only have maybe 1 or 2 courses on my transcript that are easily classified as quant courses. Any suggestions for my remaining two semesters of my MA? Or anything else I could do to show that I can in fact do quantitative work?

I also use to tutor econ in undergrad. Not sure how much that would count.

I talked to a quant oriented prof. at ucsd a couple years ago and he recommended that any top student applying to top programs should try and take courses in probability and statistics, calculus, and perhaps linear algebra. A course in econometrics can be a poor substitute for the stats/calc. I am sure other things like GRE scores, econ classes, etc. can also be great indicators of quant ability.

[Anna87]

  On 3/26/2012 at 5:20 PM, 3221 said:

I talked to a quant oriented prof. at ucsd a couple years ago and he recommended that any top student applying to top programs should try and take courses in probability and statistics, calculus, and perhaps linear algebra. A course in econometrics can be a poor substitute for the stats/calc. I am sure other things like GRE scores, econ classes, etc. can also be great indicators of quant ability.

Thanks, I will see if there are any summer classes I could take

[3221]

  On 3/26/2012 at 5:28 PM, Anna87 said:

Thanks, I will see if there are any summer classes I could take

That is exactly what I did and it payed off. good luck!

[Anna87]

  On 3/26/2012 at 5:45 PM, 3221 said:

That is exactly what I did and it payed off. good luck!

Can i ask what classes you took? Im looking at a calc course now.

[3221]

  On 3/26/2012 at 5:53 PM, Anna87 said:

Can i ask what classes you took? Im looking at a calc course now.

You have a PM.