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squidfish

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    Germany
  • Application Season
    2013 Fall
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    Philosophy

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  1. "Moreover, fellowship offers that are declined are not re-offered to another applicant; so there is never a "waiting list." The Department is philosophically opposed to waiting lists for the same reason that we are opposed to offering different aid packages to different students." (from here)
  2. I have interpreted the two acceptances as an implicit rejection. Chicago states on their departmental website that they only make one round of offers, without a waitlist. I suppose there remains a shard of hope – perhaps they simply just didn't e-mail everybody on Friday (my last name is far down the alphabetical list!), and perhaps I'll be able to keep this shard of hope alive until Tuesday at the latest – but this is despite my rational self.
  3. I took my test mid-November and included Chicago among the 4 free schools. It has been showing as received for quite some time now, since before the December 15th deadline. On the other hand, I didn't include Columbia, who uses the same online system, among my free 4, but sent the report well before the early January deadline, and they are still showing as awaiting.
  4. I suspect that publications are a detriment if and only if they involve the propagation of half-baked ideas in disreputable fora. These traps are definitely to be avoided and are mostly a danger for those of us who come from undergraduate institutions isolated from the mainstream profession – places where professors may counsel publishing in the journals or books of themselves and their friends, journals and books that are unlikely to have much or any impact and undergo rigourous peer-review (not that this is unique to undergraduate institutions isolated from the mainstream profession... but you want to be seen as being on the "right" side of that divide!) Your publication definitely does not seem to me to fall into this category. It surely looks good on your CV, but I have no idea whether it will have any influence on an offer of admission. The only situation I can foresee in which it would be given real weight is if someone on the committee holds the editor or primary author in really high regard.
  5. I didn't realise that there even existed deadlines before mid-December; my bad! I have to say though, when I compare my application process with my sister's, who is applying to Medicine, I don't feel so bad... even if there is (going by brute statistics) a much better chance that she's taken!
  6. I more or less agree. I don't actually find the waiting time obscene – the difference between when I submitted my last application and when I expect to hear back from the first school is really not so great – but I find myself obscenely checking GradCafe. It's only bad however when I am on my laptop trying to write or read a pdf – I never find myself wondering when I'm having a beer or sitting through a lecture. And as for the GRE: everything I've read agrees that it all depends on the school and the composition of this year's committees. But I really doubt a low GRE would disqualify anybody who would otherwise have been accepted, just if they had a better GRE score. A major university isn't going to justify a cohort of 6-10 with sub-par scores to the Dean, but there is always room for the one or two exceptions who had a bad day.
  7. Thanks for the reply. As, I imagine, anyone viewing this thread, I am anxiously awaiting results. I suspect that it was a bad thing to discover the wealth of information available on gradcafe just a couple days ago, with still almost two months to go until all of the results are in. Congratulations on your very early funded offer - I imagine that it comes along with a robust feeling of relief! As for the schools, I definitely picked the ones I feel are best in what it is I'd like to study, with some attention to the cities in which I'd like to live. Not much to fall back on though, with all of those programs receiving 200+ applicants!
  8. ^ so, not University of Chicago? I applied to twelve schools: Stanford, U Chicago, Penn, Notre Dame, Yale, NYU, Columbia, Toronto, Brown, Cornell, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins AOS: Kant and post-Kantian German Philosophy Canadian student with M.A.
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