One of our graduates, Moritz Lenel (ITFD 2010) just got admitted to the Ph.D. program at the Yale Economics Department. All the faculty in our program thought very highly of him, and he really hit some impressive home runs when a student here. Remarkably, in addition to being an academic star, he is also a genuinely nice guy, and I think our letters reflected that! Of course, we are enormously pleased that the admissions committee at Yale did the right thing, and I would bet real money that some other top schools will follow suit. This is also great news for the program, since it shows that the training here is actually pretty decent preparation for entry into highly competitive doctoral programs in economics...
*** March 10 update **** Moritz also got into Stanford, and is waitlisted at Harvard and MIT. Congratulations again, and fingers crossed...
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