My kid is in an Econ PhD program (not one of the top ones—guess I should tell kid they will be unemployable at the end lol). Almost Everyone in the program has a masters. My kid was told their math background was “weak”-was 1 course shy of a math double major with Econ from undergrad and took the one missing class while applying. Was also accepted to an applied math PhD program. The first year of the Econ PhD was pretty much entirely math proofs.
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