objectivityofcontradiction

Plato

Great post. And obviously relevant. http://melissaridleyelmes.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/its-not-on-the-syllabus-cultivating-collegiality-as-a-graduate-student/

I'm headed to a Top-25 from a European MA.

I'm boring and am going to maintain some level of anonymity. But, I will say that I'll be in the Midwest studying Kant and German Idealism. So, if you know the scene, you can probably figure out the few places I might be. Take it easy everyone.

I'm boring and am going to maintain some level of anonymity. But, I will say that I'll be in the Midwest studying Kant and German Idealism. So, if you know the scene, you can probably figure out the few places I might be. Take it easy.

Democritus

Some one should e-mail Leiter and get it reported on his blog, if only for the snarky-ass comments he might have about the situation.

'inerrancy' is just a great effin' word, rolls right off the tongue.

Thanks all for your responses.

Regarding the 'holding onto offers' bit. I have no offers yet to hold onto, maybe I did not make that clear either. I have 3 wait-list 'offers' and, from what I have been told, a lot of times some of us on wait-lists won't hear anything until the 14th or 15th. And when we do, we will be expected to make on the spot decisions for the reasons discussed above and elsewhere: OTHERS ARE WAITING TOO. An old professor of mine told me a story about how back in the 90s when he was applying he got a call at noon on April 15th essentially telling him, 'you are in off the wait-list. Do you accept? We must know now, otherwise we will move right down the list.' This is the situation I am expecting to be in. That or silence and then... despair.

Not accepted yet. Wait-listed. That was made clear in the first post, and clearer in the second. It is all made rather more complicated just by the fact that their visit weekend is scheduled for the weekend before decision day. I have no acceptances yet. Just three wait-list spots, this is why it is a weird spot. Do I visit this weekend while still on the wait-list, or hope that they have several decline between now and the 15th, in which case I'll get an offer, accept, and visit after... maybe it is a rather case-specific problem to have, but I assumed some others like me (wait-listed, no offers, i.e. april 15 is the real judgment day) might be in a similar spot.

OK. I am going to chalk this up to my being a pretty poor internet scribbler, but you two have both grossly misread my question and misjudged my intent. I am not asking a school to extend a deadline. I am wait-listed. I was told, even though I am wait-listed, I am welcome to visit this weekend. My predicament is that the offer to visit was extended on a Monday, and the visit starts on Friday of the same week. Short notice. And, given that next Tuesday is the national deadline, and I have to hear back from this school either way by that day, I am just wondering whether or not I should go through with the visit (given the risks involved as a wait-listed visitor), get my hopes up, and be crushed next week. Or just hope to get the offer on April 15, in which case I'd ask, as AN ADMITTED STUDENT, to visit on my own time, or, I'd just see them in the fall when the semester begins FOR ADMITTED STUDENTS. I am sure what I did not make clear last post was that this particular school is my TOP CHOICE and so I'd definitely accept an offer. Clearer? ps Vineyard: if my visit wasn't funded my salary as a substitute teacher would not allow me to get out out for any visits. save the rich kid comments for some one who is actually rich.... thanks BRO.

A rather specific thread but if I am running into this issue I assume some others are as well. What is the protocol for visiting those schools that, if you are lucky enough, admit you right on or around April 15, and thus presumably after they have already hosted their department organized, 'official' visits? FWIW, I have had two schools tell me that I was more than welcome to attend their visit even though I was on the wait-list in both cases. In the first case, I declined to visit (still on the wait-list). But for school #2 I am thinking about visiting this weekend even though it would be on very short notice. In both cases I was told I'd get department support. I also assume they wouldn't extend the invite if I wasn't either at the top or very near to the top of the wait-list. I am leaning towards not visiting this weekend and just hoping that I will get an official offer by this time next week. So I return to my question from above: is it normal for a student admitted right on or around April 15 to schedule their own personal visit for some time after?

Do it.

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