No. of applications

[CrudeS]

Hello friends,

 

I am applying for a Ph. D. in Finance for Fall 2014.

 

Any advice regarding the no. of applications that I should go for and which colleges to apply are welcome.

[unbrokenthread]

The number of applications will be limited by a few things:

-How much money you have to spend

-How many hours you can put in before the application deadlines (these apps can take a long time...)

-Your perception about the cost/benefit of applying to each

-Your grades, test scores, etc.

 

I applied to 7 departments across 6 schools, which is fairly conservative, but it's also all I could reasonably devote time to, as I have a lot of other stuff going on right now. I'm also in a fairly niche field and I have a lot of research experience, so that altered the way I approached my applications too.

 

Application season is well underway, so it's important to look at deadlines when you pick schools; for instance, a couple of my schools' application periods end tomorrow, 1 December 2013. My latest application deadline is 5 January 2014. I'm not sure if finance schools are different, but I imagine that they're in the same general range.

 

I'm not in your field so I can't speak to specifics about picking professors or institutions. Good luck!

Edited November 30, 2013 by unbrokenthread