So it begins
Imf EP 2019
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Best of luck everyone! Does anyone know how long it takes from the initial interview to getting notified whether you are invited to the panel interview?
Usually they have two weeks of panels in end of December and 2 or 3 in January. I think you're told one or two weeks in advance, not much more.
But many people will stay in limbo for a while: they don't always send rejections early on. If one fellow PhD student from your uni has been invited and you haven't yet, that's not good news.
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Do remember one thing. They do 1000+ prelim interviews and around 100 panel interviews. You don't make the cut from one to the other by being ranked like 80th out of 1000+. There's no way for them to rank 1000 people based on these quick interviews. You make the cut by being the top person of the day (or maybe in the top 3-4 persons for the top universities).
It's not a matter of set quotas or flexible quotas or whatever: just the only feasible way.
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Best of luck everyone! Does anyone know how long it takes from the initial interview to getting notified whether you are invited to the panel interview?
Usually they have two weeks of panels in end of December and 2 or 3 in January. I think you're told one or two weeks in advance, not much more.
But many people will stay in limbo for a while: they don't always send rejections early on. If one fellow PhD student from your uni has been invited and you haven't yet, that's not good news.Do remember one thing. They do 1000+ prelim interviews and around 100 panel interviews. You don't make the cut from one to the other by being ranked like 80th out of 1000+. There's no way for them to rank 1000 people based on these quick interviews. You make the cut by being the top person of the day (or maybe in the top 3-4 persons for the top universities).
It's not a matter of set quotas or flexible quotas or whatever: just the only feasible way.Thank you. Very informative! In other words, since the panel interviews do not start until late December, the earliest that I can expect to be informed about the first round decision is mid December?
At that point, will they then ask for recommendation letters and transcripts, or does that happen before the notification? Thanks again!
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Thank you. Very informative! In other words, since the panel interviews do not start until late December, the earliest that I can expect to be informed about the first round decision is mid December?
At that point, will they then ask for recommendation letters and transcripts, or does that happen before the notification? Thanks again!If they do two weeks of panels in December starting on 17th, that would bring it to early Dec.
Yes they normally ask for letters and a version of your JMP when they invite you. The research department gives a mark to your paper and the letters are converted into a score as well. I don't think transcripts matter much, though they probably ask them as proof against fraud.
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I am pursuing a MA in Economics at the University of Toronto. Is this equivalent to PhD in Economics in international standards?
In what universe would any MA degree be equivalent to a PhD???!!
UT is top 10, it is marginally better than your state econ ph.d
Omg stop being so rank obsessed undergreads. Passing exams at Harvard is not even close to conducting original reasearch over three years at any level. Even publishing in C journals is infinitely more difficult than writing an exam.
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Thank you. Very informative! In other words, since the panel interviews do not start until late December, the earliest that I can expect to be informed about the first round decision is mid December?
At that point, will they then ask for recommendation letters and transcripts, or does that happen before the notification? Thanks again!
If they do two weeks of panels in December starting on 17th, that would bring it to early Dec.
Yes they normally ask for letters and a version of your JMP when they invite you. The research department gives a mark to your paper and the letters are converted into a score as well. I don't think transcripts matter much, though they probably ask them as proof against fraud.Very helpful once again. Thank you!