Most applicants to GSU apply by our February 1 deadline to be considered in our initial round, and we've already made offers (and put people on the waitlist) from that pool. However, we accept applications up until our final deadline of April 15, and applications received between February 1 and April 15 will be considered on a rolling basis.
Applicants during this period are much more likely to be initially slotted somewhere on our wait-list rather than immediately receiving an offer. However, strong applicants still have a good chance of being admitted, as people turn us down and we start admitting off of our waitlist. Obviously, earlier is better (an applicant submitting on April 15 would get an offer only if a slot fell through the 4/15 deadline for accepting our admission offer). But anybody who does receive an offer also gets an assistantship that includes a tuition waiver. For more info on our program please see http://philosophy.gsu.edu/graduate/ .
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P.S.: Two new tenure-track faculty will be joining us in the Fall: Juan Piñeros Glassock, who specializes in philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, and moral psychology (and who also has a strong side interest in Aristotle), and Allison Piñeros Glassock, who specializes in ancient philosophy, especially the intersection of ancient epistemology and ethics. See https://juanpineros0.wixsite.com/action and https://allisonpinerosglas.wixsite.com/philosophy for more info. These hires will help make us stronger in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and history of philosophy.