We've had some excellent responses to the question of how one should go about
choosing a grad school at which to study economics. Does the same advice
apply to selecting a college? Can anyone give me any "inside information" on
Chicago or Harvard that I might not be aware of, or recommend a s
It's much less important where you get your undergraduate education
than where you get your graduate education. Any "good" school will do
and this includes many smaller colleges. It is extremely unlikely that
the extra expenses of Harvard are worthwhile unless you are going into
business and
let me add another note: it's important to choose an undergraduate
college where you will do well and you like the atmosphere.
Once you have a publication or two, nobody will care that you
got a C in graduate econometrics at MIT, but your undergraduate
GPA is used for all sorts of things. So cho
Re: Studying Economics
It's much less important where you get your undergraduate education
than where you get your graduate education. Any "good" school will do
and this includes many smaller colleges. It is extremely unlikely that
the extra expenses of Harvard are worthwhile unles
Not as much as you think. Of course, if you go to a completely
unchallenging school your chance for a top grad school will drop.
But grad school committees have pretty good information on their
hands when it comes to econ: math grades, math GRE, econ subject GRE.
They also have letters of rec. Wi
"Gray, Lynn" wrote:
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> But in terms of getting into a high ranking grad school isn't going to the
> right undergraduate institution important?
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> Lynn
You can get into a top graduate school from any decent undergraduate
program in the country so long as your grades are superb and yo
