Msc Economics Admissions Guide (including a Warwick specific post)

Not studying econometrics this year. My situation's a bit weird- I actually started my degree in Industrial Economics (not really an economics degree) and switched into the 2nd year of economics (which is totally isolated from Industrial- as such it wasn't straightforward; admissions needed a bit of persuading!)

This meant I'd missed the first year intro econometrics stream which was needed to take econometrics in 2nd year (and of course, 2nd year econometrics needed to take 3rd year modules). I do regret not trying harder to get onto econometrics now that I'm thinking of doing a Masters... but I did do the 2 intro econometric courses (which together basically covered the whole Introductory Econometrics textbook by Dougherty) and hence covered a lot of the stuff I bolded. And yeah, I did do linear restrictions- but it was just limited to H0: Beta = 0 and H1: Beta (does not =) 0; we did do some stuff in the first year where Beta </> 0 briefly though and implications on one/two tail t-tests, but nothing more than that.

It looks like the A and B streams within the Warwick course might cater for my situation anyway? Would you agree?

I'll speak to my tutor this week regarding my application and ask his opinions on it also.!

Thanks for the advice- it'll be highly useful in the coming weeks I'm sure!

Thanks Paul. I'll definitely try and look over some econometrics books (or try and get some notes from the 2nd/3rd year econometrics courses from Nottingham) over the summer; I want to be in the position to hopefully look at a more rigorous econometrics course so will try and make up that gap in my knowledge!

hey paul, do you have any statistic about applicants/offers/enrolments for a postgraduate in exeter or bristol??

have u ever played football with abhinay? it was.....interesting to say the least.

So I have applied to Warwick. They have received my application material and it has been saying "Payment Received" for 10 days now. Are there any other stati before "offer" for example?

Are they rolling admission?

And in case of multiple offers from various universities, is it fine to keep university x waiting a few weeks to see who else is offering you a course?

Thanks for any help.

So I have applied to Warwick. They have received my application material and it has been saying "Payment Received" for 10 days now. Are there any other stati before "offer" for example? Are they rolling admission?

And in case of multiple offers from various universities, is it fine to keep university x waiting a few weeks to see who else is offering you a course?

Thanks for any help.

Just receive a Msc economics offer from Warwick conditional on sending them a paper copy of my degree certificate or transcript and another reference... I am really surprised one of my referees still has not submitted his reference and Warwick gives out offer without having two references >_<

Just receive a Msc economics offer from Warwick conditional on sending them a paper copy of my degree certificate or transcript and another reference... I am really surprised one of my referees still has not submitted his reference and Warwick gives out offer without having two references >_<

I did the Cambridge MPhil, feel free to PM me if you've any questions.

I did Option A last year(08/09)

Warwick tells me "decision posted", but no email!!!! Does this mean I'm rejected? I thought decisions were emailed???? Oh I'm freaking out a bit right now since Warwick is nominally the easiest department to get in to that i applied to in the UK!!!! I need some hope!!!