2015 Econ PhD 求定位

liangfan0911

LZ现在大四，在美国一所一般大学念书，预计2015毕业，打算本科直接申博，听教授说这样比较有优势
Double Major: Econ&Finance (advanced level econ classes taken: advanced-micro, econometrics)
Minor: Pure Math (single&multi variable calc, linear algebra)  
GPA: 3.80/4.00
GRE: 还在准备中
T: 这个貌似我不需要了没有research experience.
打算念industrial organization 或者development economics 方面。想申请IOWA, UIUC, 明尼苏达之类的学校。。
想请问各位大神，我除了GRE还有什么要准备的？另外，GRE要考到大概多少分才有希望呢？
谢谢！！！

iiyaya_sun

去寄托问问。这里主要是商学院PhD。
目前看来，还有一年时间，除了考个高GRE，争取做点research，看不出来有什么其他可以提高的地方了。

liangfan0911

iiyaya_sun 发表于 2014-7-1 14:41
去寄托问问。这里主要是商学院PhD。
目前看来，还有一年时间，除了考个高GRE，争取做点research，看不出来 ...

寄托是神马？我比较菜。。听教授说，本科生申博貌似不要求什么research experience。。不知道是不是他们为了打发我。。。

double911031

你好，我也是美本在读，我们学校的教授专门发了一篇申econ phd的文章，给你看看
To get admitted to a top-ranked Econ PhD program (Harvard, Stanford, etc.), you should have all of the following, ranked roughly in order of importance:

Some research experience as an undergraduate with an Econ faculty member who knows your research well enough to write a letter of recommendation. This should be in the form of a completed research paper that can be included in your application packet.
A strong letter of recommendation from at least one research-active Econ faculty member (someone who has published research in good journals within the past few years). Getting a good grade in their class is not enough; they need to be able to talk about your potential as a researcher, not just as a student.
Math courses at least up to Real Analysis I. Focus on taking proof-based courses like number theory as much as possible.
A near-perfect score on the GRE Quantitative section and a strong score on the GRE Verbal section.
A strong GPA. There’s no set cutoff, but top schools are going to want near-perfect grades, especially in your Econ and Math courses. But taking easy courses just to bolster your GPA is a bad idea. Grad schools really appreciate students who are taking challenging courses, even if their grades aren’t perfect.

double911031

你好，我也是美本在读，我们学校的教授专门发了一篇申econ phd的文章，给你看看
To get admitted to a top-ranked Econ PhD program (Harvard, Stanford, etc.), you should have all of the following, ranked roughly in order of importance:

Some research experience as an undergraduate with an Econ faculty member who knows your research well enough to write a letter of recommendation. This should be in the form of a completed research paper that can be included in your application packet.
A strong letter of recommendation from at least one research-active Econ faculty member (someone who has published research in good journals within the past few years). Getting a good grade in their class is not enough; they need to be able to talk about your potential as a researcher, not just as a student.
Math courses at least up to Real Analysis I. Focus on taking proof-based courses like number theory as much as possible.
A near-perfect score on the GRE Quantitative section and a strong score on the GRE Verbal section.
A strong GPA. There’s no set cutoff, but top schools are going to want near-perfect grades, especially in your Econ and Math courses. But taking easy courses just to bolster your GPA is a bad idea. Grad schools really appreciate students who are taking challenging courses, even if their grades aren’t perfect.

cheesechan

- GRE, Q near 170, V at least 150(??)
- not enough maths course, need more advanced maths course, some applied maths stuff will be fine (differential eqn, optimization, stochastic process), some pure maths will be excellent (but difficulet, e.g. real analysis, topology.....).
- some statistics will be good as preparation for econometrics at graduate level. Here I don't mean econometrics class by the economics school, but those proof and matrix based one from math/stat department. Stuffs like statistical inference are good one.
- most importantly research experience with strong reference. the strongest reference comes from professors that one have some kind of research experience with, and so that the professor can comment on the student's research potential. One good source for it, from the one who guide you thesis/graduation project/etc, while RA expereince is also extremely in this sense.

P.S. 以下是廢話.
Double Major Finance對graduation school的幫助非常marginal, 非常有限.
時光可以倒流的話, 應該果斷把其換成一個math/stat的第二主修/雙副修.
Strong grade in mathematics course are somehow even more important than that in economics course..

liangfan0911

cheesechan 发表于 2014-7-2 05:14
- GRE, Q near 170, V at least 150(??)
- not enough maths course, need more advanced maths course, so ...

谢谢！现在非常后悔修了finance，应该修数学专业，但是时间有限，已经不能重来了

liangfan0911

double911031 发表于 2014-7-2 03:48
你好，我也是美本在读，我们学校的教授专门发了一篇申econ phd的文章，给你看看
To get admitted to a top- ...

我上econ专业课一般都是挑advanced level，应该不会给人很low的感觉吧。请问大神，对GRE的要求是怎样，如果不是去top school的话。谢谢！！！

cheesechan

liangfan0911 发表于 2014-7-2 05:23
谢谢！现在非常后悔修了finance，应该修数学专业，但是时间有限，已经不能重来了 ...

很理解, 所以我也說是廢話, 能時倒流就甚麼都行了........

If I were you, have one year time left, I will assume can take something like 4-6 more math/stat course:
I will suggest:
夠膽夠時間的take mathematical analysis, real analysis series (super difficult and time consuming)
把統院的mathematical statistics (aka statistical inference)修了.
Optimization, Differential equation, 和Stochastic Process are also good choice.

至於Time Series, Panel Data, 我會假設你主修已經包括了, 不贅.

另, research experience就很難comment了, 每間學校的情況不同.....但總之很重要就是了......

double911031

liangfan0911 发表于 2014-7-2 05:25
我上econ专业课一般都是挑advanced level，应该不会给人很low的感觉吧。请问大神，对GRE的要求是怎样，如 ...

我所在学校的econ项目在美国20名左右，感觉比top 10的录取的确低一个档次。如果你GRE能达到325+，然后数学课和经济课都很好的话我相信20名之后的不会有问题，毕竟你是美本，认可度应该更高点。