国内在读弱背景研究生真诚求建议

iknownothing

加西那只小辉 发表于 2017-3-15 14:51
原来你的research需要matlab 那你就好好专注一个就好啦 有programming skill就行 他们就是希望不要白纸一 ...

谢谢，预祝读博愉快！

cheesechan

1. GRE sub is useful.
2. think twice before going to graduate level mathematics class........umum, maybe just take one class per semester is already quite enough.
3. Mathematics background is important, very important, for theoretical research. It will be a hard life for you to become competitive in this field as quite likely you will be fighting with those with a math+econ background.
4. Go with GRE instead of GMAT. It will open more doors for you, especially those econ department (Finance is just a subfield of economics academically...)
5. Consider research master too.

iknownothing

cheesechan 发表于 2017-3-15 21:57
1. GRE sub is useful.
2. think twice before going to graduate level mathematics class........umum, m ...

Thanks for your suggestions！
My undergraduate university teaches economics and finance in a traditional way that focuses less on quantitative methods. And this leads to my low grades during the first year in the master program. (Besides, my classmates are very competitive.)I've realised this and spent a lot of time on math since then.
I'm now studying in a top2 university and mathematic courses here are rigorus and tough for the math major.It can be a good signal if I can receive good grades on these courses, but the possibility is not high. I think I can receive decent  grades in the courses design for double major of math, but they are for undergraduates and I can't enroll in.
I think the only way to send hard information about my math status is to take GRE sub. Maybe a good working paper is also helpful, but I'm afraid the supervisors may lose interests when see my  transcripts.
A research master may provide me a better chance to get strong reference letters, but I wonder whether it will become a negative signal because I've got two research masters.

cathyluyuan

iknownothing 发表于 2017-3-15 15:47
Thanks for your suggestions！
My undergraduate university teaches economics and finance in a tradit ...

Two masters are fine if there's a clear progression - if you target the US, getting a master there provides you the chance to work with scholars there and adapt to the system which is different from China. The downside is you may not be able to do well enough in the RM, so there's risk involved.

shenfei44444444

对实证没兴趣。。。何苦在博士这个苦海里死磕。人生宽广，回头是岸～

redsa12

海外RA也是個好方法，但現實是海外RA遠比Econ master要難申請得多了。建議可以雙管齊下。