<p>Aeder’s post is patently false and illustrates perfectly why alot of advice solicited on CC needs to be taken with a big time grain of salt.</p>
<p>I know a guy who got his Econ undergrad at Concordia in Montreal, which is a City College style university known mainly for excellent Fine Arts programs. He went on to get a Masters at the London School of Economics and a PhD at the University of Toronto. But those schools suck, right Aeder?</p>
<p>Regardless of people who come on here and post nonsense like “Unless you do your undergrad at Harvard, there’s really no point in applying to Top Econ programs” it still is true that getting into Econ PhD programs anywhere is tough, no matter how competitive you are. The dudes at Vandy who graduated with 4.0’s didnt get rejected from Econ programs because they went to Vandy. They got rejected cause Econ programs are mad selective.</p>