渣背景求定位master

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Marshall3 发表于 2016-4-27 10:53
No offense, 但是楼上说的基本上是全错。Given 楼主想申请econ的话：
(1)本科生科研写论文是没用的，给国内 ...

1. I guess a RA is useful in sense of showing that one knows how the life of research looks like.
2. Summer school. But too late for master application.
3. I guess a internship is useful or not really depends on where it is. In most case it is not useful, but if it is in some econ research related institute........
4. This is the most important. Not one really care the G (since a very high Q is expected, and V is not in concern)

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chasell 发表于 2016-4-27 12:50
您好，我查了一下学校的课程，下学期能选的只有常微分和实变，只有这两门可以吗。。。

ODE and real analysis are both very useful course.

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1. no offense, who care your 估值报告 in academics?
2. getting a poor grade in a couple of course is unlucky, and the effect of this really depends.....
e.g. you failed all very difficult course and claim this is because of health reason, others will doubt. if you failed a single difficult course, while other similar type of difficult course has a good grade, this sounds perfectly reasonable.

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Aoede 发表于 2016-4-27 12:06
上面说的挺有意思。按照5楼的说法那是更没用，下学期还有课可以选吗？

海外交流当然来得及，可以暑期一个 ...

1. the mathematics course chosen in the second semester of the last year is next to useless for master admission, but it will be useful as a foundation for study in a master, and for PhD application later afterwards.

2. a professional reference is not accepted for a academics master in economics. If it is accepted, then 99% likely that it is not an academics but an applied/professional one.
(well......may be unless the professional is from a research institute, central bank, or being a PhD him/herself....)

3. Agree with you on G and T. fight till like V155+ Q170 will be enough though (the marginal benefit of fighting for even higher is too high)

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chasell 发表于 2016-4-29 21:08
大神，请问我这背景申请cemfi是不是希望渺茫了要是不行的话我可能还得花一大笔银子去美帝了。。。

1. don't ask for chances for a single university, ask for a portfolio or a list of that.
people can say it is safe or not for a list of application, but not for one single application.

2. there is a lot of good university in Europe in additional to CEMFI.

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qwhrp94 发表于 2016-4-30 00:18
觉得你去修一下中级的经济理论课应该也是有帮助的

it is something assumed in the list already, which is next to be compulsory requirement........

wait wait......你不說這個我還真沒有留意到樓主好像沒有intermediate micro/macro....

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qwhrp94 发表于 2016-4-30 00:33
It seems everyone here is assumed to be an econ major... and  have majored intermediate micro/macr ...

you know.......it is quite hard to imagine that someone claim that he/she wanna do a econ master, but without taking intermediate micro and macro......

well........it is very common that econ graduate school are willing to consider math/stat/engineering student without econ background indeed. (basically all school except Canada and Germany.....)

and it seems it is easier to get intermediate micro/macro on the transcript when compared to adv math/stat (mainly due to course registration and availability issue)

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qwhrp94 发表于 2016-4-30 00:48
因为这些专业更能够体现出有量化分析的基础能力？
一般Econ的标配就是高数+概统+线代，如果没有量化方 ...

the problem of economics major only is...........they may have good intuition of the field, but they don't speak the language of graduate school good enough.

and it is easier to train up economics for someone speak maths only, than train up mathematics for those who know economics only.......

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chasell 发表于 2016-4-30 11:17
intermediate micro 80+，没修intermediate macro

MUST: Calculus based probability, proof based statistics, multivariate calculus, Linear Algebra

Next to Must: Intermediate Micro, Intermediate Macro, Econometrics

Very Useful: advanced course in math/stat

Useful: topic course in economics

Better than none: course in finance

Next to useless: business course like marketing and management

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qwhrp94 发表于 2016-5-2 17:58
想问下advanced course in math/stat 一般包括哪些？
我理解的是数分、实复变、高代、测度概率论、数理统 ...

1. yes, 数分、实复变、高代、测度概率论、数理统计、随机过程、常微
maybe also panel data econometrics, time series, PDE, numerical analysis, numerical method for diff eqn, optimization, topology.......

when it is not really possible to take all (it is normal for non-math major), taking part of them will be enough. The selection of them sometimes depends on the academic interest too, since different subfield use different tools.

2. agree somehow, and the reason you mention is exactly why I put it after adv. math/stat course

topic course is also useful, but not that much as maths.......at least one will have some idea what subfield are there, and sometime what kind of research is behind.

indeed, everything is useful. Political science, psychology, or some other social science, or history and philosophy is also useful for economics, because economics is a social science at the end.
but the key problem is........it is quite difficult, if not impossible, for students in university in China (PRC) to have truly social science, especially politics, history and philosophy for obvious political reason.

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qwhrp94 发表于 2016-5-2 18:27
Thanks a lot! I totally agree with you in the last part.
目前我已经修完了大部分经济学分支的intro课 ...

well........something you don't like =/= something that is not useful..........

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qwhrp94 发表于 2016-5-2 18:44
嗯，您说的非常对。不过，我的意思是，这类课原本是非常必要的，但是在教材选择、授课等方面存在一些问题 ...

it is always a pain to find a PhD student to work as a teaching assistant to course like this........

I once saw in a department website saying explicitly that if one has background in history of economic though, it will be easier to get a TA position (I guess it is quite common......just saying this out is rare)...........and that is a quite famous traditional university with a quite good economics department in the Western world.........you can imagine the case in China then......

P.S. 教topic course, 找是做該個topic research / study的profeesor應該是常識吧, especially master / PhD course......
of course there are some school not doing so, and this shows how the quality of a program is.....

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dtu1 发表于 2016-6-5 14:37
想请教一个选课问题。。
如果已经修过一门intro level的计量（覆盖了大部分概率论与数理统计内容，但是 ...

Both.

硬要揀一個我會揀calculus based probability

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dtu1 发表于 2016-6-5 14:37
想请教一个选课问题。。
如果已经修过一门intro level的计量（覆盖了大部分概率论与数理统计内容，但是 ...

Both.

硬要揀一個我會揀calculus based probability