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[Guest]

Hi,

I'm applying to a bunch of PhDs in the states.

I did a three year program at Bocconi university focused exclusively on
International economics and management, and graduated with 10seven\110
(seven key on my laptop not working for some reason).

I'm taking the GREs on thursday, and have scored SevenSeventy on one
test run and 800 on another for the quantitative and SevenTen and
SevenForty in the other.

I don't have any summer research programs etc, but I think I can get
some pretty good reccomendation letters from my economics professors (
I'm planning to have two economics profs and one law or other subject
per university).

I'd be interested in knowing what my chances of entering were.
I'm planning to apply at the following Unis:

Berkeley
San Diego
Wisconsin
Boston College
Rochester
Michigan State

I might have problems finding 18 reccomendation letters (not to mention
paying $600 dollars in application fees..) so I'd like to drop one or
two schools.
Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch.

[Dick Startz]

On 28 Nov 2005 00:23:46 -0800, redfax@gmail.com wrote:

[Guest]

Okay did the GREs, 780 quantitative and 750 verbal.
I saw on the powerprep softare that 780q is only 65 percentile for econ
phd applicants. Can that be right? Pretty sucky test if 35% of the
sample is in 5% of the scoring range... Okay so they're PhDs
applicants, but that's what they're supposed to test!

Anyway thanks for the earlier post.
If anybody has some info on recent percenitle equivs for the GRE scores
(for the total pop. and for econ phd programs), that would be some
pretty interesting info.

Thanks
Andrea