Anyone know how competitive entry to the new school for social research is? particularly for a post-grad in economics. I was looking into it and I like a lot of their research areas and thought it would be a good alternative to Columbia which I figure a long shot ( Read more... )

Hi all. I'm a first time poster and I need some help with SoP. My deadlines are not till mid-December, so I'm not yet stressing out, but it's getting close, I know. I'll take any suggestions. My places ask for 500-700 words, but I'm definitely way under that. Would that be a problem? Thanks in advance!

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I was originally planning to study MBA but I think that I might be too young for that and an MBA program might be "generalist", so here are my best next options:

MS Financial Engineering

Master in Applied Economics

Assuming that they are of equal academic reputation (they are in the same college anyway), I want to know which between the two ( Read more... )