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    2017 Fall
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    Philosophy

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  1. Thanks for the stuff on the language requirement. Does having study abroad on my application make much of a difference? How to admissions people usually see study abroad, and am I missing something crucial if I elect not to study abroad?
  2. I'm about to start my junior year and have started thinking about grad school. I'm not sure if any other philosophy undergraduates at other universities feel this way, but it is extremely difficult to find information regarding things that I can do during my undergraduate to increase my chances of getting into a top PHD program. I go to a public university where the undergraduate advisor for the philosophy department is definitely a great help, but unfortunately my advisor can only really help us with getting our bachelors degrees from the current institution I'm at. After doing some prying on this site, I've found the following to be a pretty good list of things to try and do while I'm here to increase my chances of going to a school like NYU, Harvard, or Columbia. Here's what I know: 1) Having a high GPA is important. A GPA between 3.6-4.0 seems to be what people accepting fully funded PHD's to programs like Harvard or Yale have. 2) The writing statement is, by some accounts, the most important factor to most top universities 3) Having great LORs is key 4) Getting a paper accepted to present at philosophy conferences definitely helps I was wondering whether having studied abroad makes a huge difference in the quality of one's application? Moreover, how important is the foreign language requirement to top schools like Harvard or Columbia? I'm asking since I'm considering doing Spanish at a local community college here for the sake of keeping a high GPA, but I wouldn't want a higher GPA at the cost of a net lower quality application. Please let me know what you think in regards to these two questions, and please feel free to add to my list of things I can do to increase my chances of getting into a top PHD philosophy program.
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