kavakdibi Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Hi, I am an INTERNATIONAL student from a strong liberal arts college. I am a double major Economics and Mathematics with an Honor's degree in Economics. Personal statement is pretty good. I want to get in to a place and possibly get a first-year fellowship. Some statistics: Econ GPA: 3.91/4.00 Math GPA: 3.5/4.00 Cumulative GPA: 3.67/4.00 (but will increase this term to about 3.7) GRE: Quant: 169 (98th Percentile) Verbal: 156 (76th Percentile) A. Writing: 4.0 Research: Co-Author of a Labor Economics Paper with a Professor at my institution Honor's Thesis on Econometrics (abt 60pgs) Electoral Mathematical Model for the Presidential Elections in Finance and Mathematics Department Additional Facts: I have a strong computer science background and know programming pretty well. I studied at the London School of Economics & Political Science for my junior year and took graduate level courses. LORs: Chair of Economics Dept (who is also my thesis advisor) Another economics professor and a mathematics professor. Applied to: Reach: Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Oxford, Cambridge, Northwestern, Chicago Target: U Michigan-Ann Arbor, USC, Vanderbilt, Boston Uni, Carnegie Mellon Safety: USCB, Ohio State, Boston College, U of Maryland-College Park Any thoughts on ANY of these schools, applications? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usavinci Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I think it pretty strong profile. And school choices are also pretty reasonable. Good luck with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shivgan joshi Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Very good profile. Just curious to know more about your research publications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansdorff Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Strong research background. Any result now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansdorff Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 By the way, was your GRE taken in US? I got 156 in verbal but just 55 percent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kavakdibi Posted February 13, 2013 Author Share Posted February 13, 2013 I do not have research publications but just research experience :/ Not yet unfortunately. Do they interview for Econ PhD? And yes I took it in Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proofread Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Its pretty good but also you can make it more strong if someone professional create it for you. MollyB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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