Contingency Plans
Question:
For those of you who are in grad school, were you 100% certain that you would get in? If not, what did you consider as a back up strategy? I have a few, like economic sociology or political science, etc... either way, hopefully econ.
For those who aren't grad students yet, what are you considering if econ doesn't work?
Sorry if this is too pessimistic!
For those of you who are in grad school, were you 100% certain that you would get in? If not, what did you consider as a back up strategy? I have a few, like economic sociology or political science, etc... either way, hopefully econ.
For those who aren't grad students yet, what are you considering if econ doesn't work?
Sorry if this is too pessimistic!
posted by Andy at 11:49 AM
3 Comments:
I never considered another degree path (maybe a business PhD...but that is just an applied econ degree.
I asked because I have looked at other programs, like poly sci and economic sociology. I know that I wouldnt' enjoy either of those as much as econ and that the prospects for jobs aren't as good (or so it seems), but I always like to hedge my bets.
And about the probability: most econ admission pages talk about having statistic from the math dept. At my school we have to take probability theory before we can take stats.
I've only had two economic stat classes, including econometrics, so they were more applied stats than theory. I don't really care for it much, but I like being able to look at real data and make sense of it. I find that it really helps with looking at the empirical sections of articles if you just know the basic applications of econometrics. Hopefully the probability theory and statistical theory math classes with have proofs of all of this stuff that I've been using for two years.
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