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The time has finally come to talk about the final stretch, the application. This article covers applying to schools starting from the summer before you apply. If you are applying directly out of undergraduate, this is the summer before your senior year. At this point, what’s done is done; now it is just time to get it all together.

While coursework and grades will undoubtedly boost PhD applications, thinking that learning stops at the classroom door is a terrible mistake. To survive in what is essentially a professor apprenticeship program requires lots of passion, motivation, and dedication.

Now that we have gotten through the math hurdle, it is time to talk about why we are here: economics and finance. As previously mentioned, while an extensive math course load is almost a universal requirement even to be considered for a PhD program, a significant number of students who have not taken a single economics course are admitted each year to programs nationwide and internationally.

In this first article, I will discuss whether the academic route is right for you. Getting a Ph.D. is a long journey. It takes dedication, resilience, and most importantly passion to survive and thrive in this choice. But nonetheless, for those for whom this is the right choice, there is nothing that compares in the end.