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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]

This could be more about interest than preparation....

UVA has a top Econ grad program ....but W&M is a strong program and any kid who seeks advice there will be prepared.  There are strong economists at both of those schools.  I know less about Davidson as an economist - but SLAC schools can be a great starting point.

Go where the kid wants to go - just be sure to tell them to speak to Econ department professors about courses to take and to follow their advice on how to best prepare.  Math will be very important (multivariate calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, real analysis), as will choice of economics classes.  Be sure to choose the ones that are heavy on math.  And as someone else pointed out - having strong econometrics and multiple econometrics options would be a good thing too. [/quote]
Agreed. If PP's DC wants to be competitive for top PhD programs/predocs right out of undergrad, they'll need (in addition to research which all three unis can provide) graduate coursework, which you can only officially find at UVA.

Perhaps if prerequisites for grad classes at UVA are too strict to fit them in, the next best option by be graduate-level independent study courses at the LACs (the rigor of which can be backed up in LoRs), [b]but that strikes me as a very high risk strategy with a lot of options for failure.[/b][/quote]

LACs have been shown to be higher producers of PhDs across subjects than large research universities, so they would seem lower risk.  [/quote]

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