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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Davidson 
UVA
W&M

Econ, then Econ PhD

Money is not an issue

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This is no brainer. UVA. It has a strong Econ program which will give your kid a leg up for graduate school applications.

Signed Ph.D economist. [/quote]

Davidson and W&M have a higher percentage of graduates that get PhDs in Economics than UVA based on government tracking data.[/quote]

I'm a different PhD economist. The trouble with looking at data for these small liberal arts colleges is that Davidson sends a couple of kids per year to an econ PhD program. These samples are just too small to conclude much, as different decisions by one or two people swing the data wildly.

I attended a top 10 PhD program. About 1/3 of people came from  medium sized private universities like Yale and MIT, about 1/3 from large public universities, and 1/3 from foreign universities. Th few who came from SLACS struggled, as they hadn't been very well prepared for the math required. They had no PhD programs at their schools, and their faculty members, probably excellent teachers, had been to grad school too long before to understand what was needed.

That, of course, was back in the early 16th century, and some schools have beefed up their undergrad requirements. To prep for a PhD program,  look for a program that offers intermediate micro and macro  with a calculus pre-requisite, that requires a couple of semesters of statistics, and that offers a senior capstone project with supervision by faculty. Make sure to take math through Differential Equations.[/quote]
I teach at a top 5 business school. This is just nonsense. We attract kids from all different types of schools but those from top SLACs almost always perform extremely well. I can’t say the same for some from the Ivies. The SLAC students tend to excel vs their peers at team work, class participation and writing; their technical skills are typically very strong. [/quote]

An MBA program is not comparable to a PhD in Econ. In the latter, no one cares about class participation or team work. You aren't reading a case study about what some car company did when their door locks didn't work. You have to step through the door ready to do a Lagrangian on day 1.[/quote]

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