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PreciselyTerrified last won the day on February 4 2015

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    2015 Fall
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    Philosophy

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  1. Declined Humanities Vanier last night. Rank: 5. Good luck to someone on the wait list.
  2. UPDATE: The torch has successfully been passed! The new organizer of the group will be posting on here so that 2016 women-identifying applicants know whom to contact about joining the group. Best of luck to everyone this year! Just to be more specific, we created a private Facebook group last year for women-identifying applicants. The group still exists. It contains quite a bit of useful information. If you choose to take it over, the responsibility is minimal: it just means adding other women-identifying applicants to the group upon request. This involves a slight bit of vetting to make sure you aren't adding trolls, but that's really just a matter of making sure the FB pages of people who ask to be added are legit. The group is hidden, so if you take over, please post on Grad Cafe that people can private message you to request to be added to the group. The group is also set up so that any member can add other members. This allows people to add their friends who are applying. I would also be thrilled to turn the climate contacts gmail account over to someone who is interested in continuing this tradition this year. I really encourage someone to do one or both of these things. It's not difficult, it's the sort of grassroots involvement that you can put on your CV, and it it's good for applicants to have a supportive community. I know a lot of you don't get involved with Grad Cafe until December, so I don't expect a response right away. Thanks. -Cherie
  3. Hi, all. Two points of interest. 1) Is there a woman applicant this year who wants to take over the Facebook group for women applicants? We have lots of climate contact info on there. If you are interested (and can show me that you aren't a troll), message me. I will turn it over to you. 2) Sorting hat for philosophy departments, courtesy of Eli Shupe: https://fauxphilnews.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/the-magical-gourmet-report/
  4. Thanks, guys! The undergrads at Rutgers asked for it after I gave the talk. I hope the Excel spreadsheet linked in the information section is useful to people too.
  5. I made this video for people applying this fall: https://youtu.be/lam9E1JR5lQ
  6. I turned down an offer from Arizona on April 12. Best of luck, all.
  7. "Don't try to analyze it." That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. If only that were possible...
  8. I know what you mean. I really don't feel awkward about visiting. It's not like it's shameful to be on the waitlist. I mean, the point in going isn't to suck up or make puppy eyes at them -- it's to see what it's like there, and that's important.
  9. Thanks. That does suggest to me that I probably will remain on the waitlist, but I think I would like to visit. In the event that I got in, I would need to have visited in order to even consider the offer, and if it's April 14, the chance will have passed.
  10. I was told the waitlist at UNC is very short.
  11. Has anyone had a visit experience that has left you feeling something like, "This is exactly where I want to be. My choice is made"? I haven't. They're all awesome. I hate making this type of decision.
  12. I'm waitlisted at Chapel Hill and am not sure how much time I should be putting into considering the possibility that I'll get in. When I initially asked about visiting, the response was, "You’d be welcome to visit, and sometimes people do—as long as you wouldn’t feel awkward?" The email was very nice, but the question mark left me feeling like visiting would be an unusual choice. But as the decision deadline approaches, I'm realizing that if I got into Chapel Hill at the last minute, there's no way I'd be able to accept the offer sight unseen. Is anyone waitlisted at Chapel Hill and visiting?
  13. Declined Penn. It was difficult. The people are fantastic. Good luck to the waitlisted!
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