Economics/Math/ Grad School

CitricAcid
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:27:11 +0000

The math classes that really concern Economics admissions committees are Real Analysis, Probability, Math Stats, Linear Algebra and Topology (although there is argument amongst adcoms about how much Topology matters). If you have good GREs and a solid background (good grades in your Intermediate Economics classes and these Math classes), your application will look rather good. The problems would be getting the teacher recommendations (they prefer teachers who know a.) what admissions is looking for b.) how well you would do in graduate school and c.) how you would handle research/what you have done), so it depends on who you get and what you would do in your time off… work at World Bank, Federal Reserve, IMF, or other research institutions that would help catapult to graduate school.