| Supporting Materials
Your supporting materials consist of five items.
1. Departmental Form that summarizes the six most advanced courses you have completed in both economics and mathematics at a university or college. You can download this form in pdf or Word format.
- If you cannot print out this form, then it is acceptable if you create your form which contains the same information in a similar format.
- List only courses that have been already graded, and not courses that you are currently taking, or are planning to take.
- In the first five columns you should fill in the course number, title, the school at which it was taken, date of completion, and grade exactly as they appear on your transcript.
- In the sixth column, mention the main textbook for the course, if there was such a text (it is enough to write the author(s) name(s) and the first few words of the title as space permits).
- If you have taken more than six courses in any of these disciplines, pick the six most advanced ones (but ensure that you mention core courses in intermediate microeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics and econometrics).
- If you are taking very "substantial" courses during the Fall term and do not have the grades in time to be included in this form application, you may send an updated version of the form as an e-mail attachment to econphd@northwestern.edu after you know your grade. By substantial courses we mean advanced math courses such as Real Analysis or graduate economics courses.
- If your Fall courses are standard economics courses of a similar level to those you have taken before, there is no need to report their results after submitting the application.
2. CV / Resume. Submit only if you did not conclude this in your on-line application.
3. Remaining Letters of Recommendation. Most recommendations are now submitted on-line. If any of your recommendations are not submitted on-line then ask the recommender to prepare a letter written on the school's letterhead. The letter must be placed in the school's envelope, with the recommender's written signature across the seal, and mailed to us.
4. Transcript(s). An official transcript is required from each institution attended. Transcripts must bear the registrar's signature or official seal to be considered official and acceptable.
5. Copies of GRE, and (if necessary) TOEFL/IELTS/TSE results. If you have already received your GRE and TOEFL/IELTS and TSE results, send copies of the results. More details on these tests are described in Steps 3 and 4 of the applications process. If you receive your results after you submit your application, you may fax your results to the attention of the Graduate Secretary at the Economics Department at +1-847-491-7001, or scan the results and send as an e-mail attachment to econphd@northwestern.edu.
Note that items (3) and (4) are required in hard copy and should be mailed to:
Office of Graduate Studies
Northwestern University
Department of Economics
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-2600, USA
Items (1), (2) and (5) can also be mailed in hard copy, but you can also send them as scanned or electronically-created PDFs in e-mail attachments. E-mail to econphd@northwestern.edu, with your full name in the subject line.
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