u/Own-Sympathy-8358

I'm currently a rising senior at a T50 university in the United States, Math and International Affairs Major, with an Economics minor. This semester, I have the opportunity to take PhD Micro and Macro as an undergrad. The thing is, my coding skills are pretty weak and I don't have a good writing or coding sample. My plan was to focus on improving my Stata and MATLAB skills and writing a short paper on my own time. However, I'm worried that taking both PhD Macro and Micro while also doing my undergrad classes and trying to do my own project will be too much. Should I prioritize coding instead? What do pre-docs value more? Does taking both PhD classes instead of just one make a big difference on my application?

I'm happy to provide further stats like math classes taken, GPA, internship/research experiences, and GRE scores if that makes any difference.

While interning full time, and within 2 months!!!

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The answer key says A, which I would agree with . . if the question stipulated that n >0. Am I crazy??

I'm a rising senior at a university in the U.S. and wondering what I should apply to. My university is within the top 50 in the U.S., and I'm a double majoring in Math and International Affairs with minors in Spanish and Economics. For my mathematics coursework, I've taken proofs, linear algebra 1 and 2, graph theory, combinatorics, number theory, and abstract algebra 1 and 2. I'll be taking Real I and Differential Eq this fall as well. For econ, I've taken intro micro and macro, intermediate micro and macro, econometrics, international trade, international macro, and development economics. My current GPA is a 4.0, and I have special approval from the econ department to take phd micro and macro this fall as an undergrad. I've also been prepping for the gre and have done really well on practice tests. But, I'm aiming for top programs and I'm not sure that I have enough experience within econ to actually get in. I've had several internships related to econ and also participated in the Fed Challenge, but no actual papers or anything like that. So should I delay applying to Phds and instead apply to pre docs to give me a better chance? Or look into an RAship? Any advice would be appreciated becuase I have 0 clue what I'm doing​

Don't be an idiot ❤️