Undergraduate GPA: 82/ 100 (one year of exchange at the university of hong kong), graduate GPA:WISE, 88/100; SMU，4.0/4.3
The cow pushes three letters. A paper, attending an international conference.
G 1550 (computer test), T 109 (computer test).
The fatal injury in the background is the background of my undergraduate GPA and lack of math training.
The most important thing in the application process is whether you are interested in doing research. If not, I advise you to give up. Because if you apply for a Ph.D. in North America, it means that you will embark on a road of no return. After five years (even longer) of Ph.D., you will strive for tenure for 65,438+00 years. After getting tenure, you will find that you can't stop researching, so you need to know if this is the life you want.
The second important thing is to give up the application of TopB-school Finance. I applied to five B schools this year, and all of them were rejected. At present, B-school basically does not recruit students from Chinese mainland. The reason is very simple, how can it be China's turn to study the major that Americans want to study! One of my classmates in SMU received admission notices from Duke University and other business schools. His background is Singapore, undergraduate Cornell, CS. Trying to compete with such people is hopeless. So why give money to American universities? (The application fee is not low. )
Let's go back to the topic and talk about the application of doctor of economics. First of all, WISE has a unique advantage and has connections with overseas universities. WISE is gradually expanding its influence overseas by holding conferences and inviting scholars to participate in seminars. Obviously, it is embodied in ceramics. In my ceramic letter, all the professors who have been to WISE have written back, and none of them have written back. After all, application is a process of asymmetric information, and it is very useful for professors in American universities to have someone to speak for you. Secondly, WISE's training in basic economics will also be obvious on your resume. WISE's macro and micro econometrics training is close to the requirements of North America, and the textbooks you use in the United States will be impressed. Finally, the most direct and important thing is the recommendation and wisdom of these returnees. At present, the recommendations of domestic professors are basically not read by Americans. Professor Haigui has received considerable attention. WISE students should make good use of this favorable resource!
In the past two years, Cornell, UIUC, UCR and UNCC seem to be schools that recognize WISE. Not to mention Cornell and UNCC, UIUC and UCR have been offering WISE for two years in a row, which is quite respectable. Besides, Pittsburgh and Vanderbilt also like us. Rochester can be considered for next year's application, because a student of Lao Hong has been there, and he graduated from Xiamen University, so it may be helpful. In fact, to tell the truth, with the influence of WISE and the quality of letters of recommendation, we have the capital to challenge top universities such as Tsinghua Peking University, and the level of our students is definitely not worse than theirs!
In terms of application materials, the familiar relationships are basically: connection >; Recommend & gt paper & gt GPA>. Contact and recommendation depend on personal nature, and whether you can have a decent paper depends on the number of times and the effect of your participation in the seminar. The production of many papers depends on the discussion in the seminar (in fact, the lunch seminar held by WISE is an activity that is very conducive to the production of idea). The most important thing about GPA is the background of mathematics and programming languages. Learning foreign economics is basically equivalent to applied mathematics, so the mathematical background is still relatively advantageous (it is said that a brilliant person swept North American universities in Tsinghua last year, relying on the capital of NTU MathematicsNo. 1). Programming is an important bargaining chip for you to get a teaching assistant scholarship, because it means that you can work, and students with strong programming skills often have high research and execution abilities. After all, from the idea to the result, both theoretically and empirically, we need the help of computers. Therefore, it is recommended that students who have the ability and time minor in these courses (after all, it is always easy to have a credit). GT is chicken ribs. Of course, high is better than low, but it is definitely not the most important part. To be precise, G should be above 1350 and T should be above 100. G who wants to go to school B is basically impossible if he can't get more than 1500 (because school B needs an MBA for entertainment, so his English is not good. Of course it matters. Imagine, if G is only 1000, which teacher dares to write you a letter of recommendation?
Postscript:
Many students don't like to attend seminars and conferences. They feel that they don't understand them and simply don't listen. Personally, I have two views: first, I really intend to do research, but now I am in conflict with it, how to get along with it in the future; Second, if you don't understand, how can you communicate with other professors? Just ask people what the weather is like in Xiamen and how the environment is impressive; Or ask someone else, your paper may need to be improved in some places to make a deeper impression. Face-to-face communication is better than hiding in email, and being prepared to hide is better than hiding in person.