Good point about CS—I should have mentioned that in my post. A lot of economists are starting to dip into machine learning and do some heavy computational stuff where CS background is very useful. Also recommend everything else Howie said as well.
Another point for masters programs, especially for econ masters, is to see if they’ll let you take PhD level courses in your second year. If you’re very confident in your ability to take a PhD level course year 2 and you do well in it that would greatly increase your odds of getting into a top 6 program (particularly intro PhD microeconomics theory). Doing badly in a PhD level course decreases the odds, of course, so that’s a risky path.
+1 on taking PhD level economics courses (especially intro micro theory) and doing well on them. Not sure how much it matters where you take those courses but I’d guess high-ranked econ programs would place more weight on courses taken at schools where they expect the PhD courses to be equally challenging.
Good point about CS—I should have mentioned that in my post. A lot of economists are starting to dip into machine learning and do some heavy computational stuff where CS background is very useful. Also recommend everything else Howie said as well.
Another point for masters programs, especially for econ masters, is to see if they’ll let you take PhD level courses in your second year. If you’re very confident in your ability to take a PhD level course year 2 and you do well in it that would greatly increase your odds of getting into a top 6 program (particularly intro PhD microeconomics theory). Doing badly in a PhD level course decreases the odds, of course, so that’s a risky path.
+1 on taking PhD level economics courses (especially intro micro theory) and doing well on them. Not sure how much it matters where you take those courses but I’d guess high-ranked econ programs would place more weight on courses taken at schools where they expect the PhD courses to be equally challenging.