We are sorry to inform you that we are currently unable to offer you
admission to the Ph.D. program in Economics at Washington University.
The difficulty of choosing candidates out of the pool of over 315
applicants this year cannot be overstated. We hope you can appreciate
the fact that we had a record number of candidates, many with
exceptional qualifications.
Unfortunately, due to the large number of applicants we could not admit,
it is simply prohibitive for us to respond to individual inquiries about
the reasons for non-acceptance.
We wish you well in your future endeavors. Please keep this department
in mind in the future if it should be appropriate for you to apply again.