<p>Getting this requires that a student has achieved "achieved A grades in at least two-thirds of courses". Does anyone know whether an A- is an "A grade?" I would assume that it is not if not for the fact that Yale's blue book, speaking on the topic of joint BA/MA degrees in general, claims that "Applicants cannot be considered for admission unless by the end of their fifth term of enrollment they have achieved at least two-thirds A or A grades in all of their course credits as well as in all of the course credits directly relating to their major."</p>
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<p>no1 has any idea, huh?</p>
<p>I think Austin Goolsbee did this right? The BA/MA seems like a great option but it may be better to use the four years in undergrad to take more classes outside of the department, like math or applied math for example. </p>
<p>If you’re interested in grad school at the masters level there are a bunch of options, all but the MBA programs take recent grads:</p>
<p>public policy/international affairs MPA or MPP (e.g. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Kennedy School, SIPA, Woodrow Wilson).</p>
<p>finance (Princeton, Oxford MFE or LSE)</p>
<p>mathematical finance (Stanford, Columbia, NYU, UChicago)</p>
<p>financial engineering (UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Columbia, UCLA)</p>
<p>economics (Duke, NYU)</p>
<p>MBA (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Sloan, Kellogg, Chicago)</p>
<p>Yep, an A- is an “A grade” in this case. The two-thirds rule is also the rule for getting a distinction in the major when graduating. But srsly, just concentrate on getting into Yale. Only 5% do a combined BA/MA, not because most people can’t, but because most people do other more meaningful things with their four years. You’ll get here and you’ll find your viewpoint changes drastically, don’t sweat it.</p>
<p>well how much would the time actually take up? You have to complete eight graduate courses, but is that in ADDITION to the like 12 for the undergrad or do you just take like into macro, micro, intermediate micro and macro, and econometrics and then move onto the graduate courses. If you can do this, it doesn’t really stop you from doing other things with your four years. So how does it work?</p>
<p>All 8 are in addition to your 12 required major courses. And only 4 grad courses can count toward your required credits for graduation. So you’ll have to have several semesters when you take an extra grad course on top of the other ones you need to graduate – you’ll essentially need 40 credits instead of 36 – and this is more difficult than it sounds. Most people I know who started doing the BA/MA didn’t end up finishing it.</p>