TheNaturalist

Congrats man!! I know you were pretty worried for a while there. UConn seems like it should be a great place to be right about now, hiring people like crazy!

That's pretty bonkers funding. 28k for Pittsburgh should go a long way, don't think that city is terribly expensive. Could be wrong. 3 years of fellowship is amazing too. Congrats!!

I've declined offers from Indiana Bloomington and UMass Amherst, and will be attending Northwestern University in the fall.

Hey everyone -- So the final decision for me comes down to between Northwestern, Indiana, and UMass Amherst. I am going to take myself off the waitlist at UW-Madison. I am going to visit UMass in about a week, but right now I'm leaning toward Northwestern, assuming two of the faculty I want to work with decide to stay there. So chances are I will be declining Indiana and UMass in a couple weeks (but who knows!). Hope this helps someone and congrats to all!

Bunch of Michigan acceptances up. I'm visiting Northwestern right now and a few of the other prospectives got calls from them today. Alas, I did not.

Bunch of Princeton acceptances. Damn.

Ya, that struck me as pretty low. No surprise maybe, since Scott Walker is gutting that state.

Has anyone in here been accepted with funding to UMass Amhest? I ask because I've been accepted and I'm first on the internal waitlist for funding. Really hoping just one person turns down their funded offer.

Good choice. I am a grad student there right now and it is a disaster here. Thankfully I'm transferring out!

Hey everyone, I see that there have been a number of acceptances to Illinois, Urbana-Champaign posted. I'm currently a grad student there, but will be transferring out. Let me know if you have any questions.

Awesome, congrats! My friend is a post-doc there right now.

Accepted at UMass! Huzzah!

This is exactly right. Graduate admissions committees are very, very concerned with "fit" and the AOS/research interests of applicants plays a huge role in who gets in and who doesn't. Even if all of the very best applicants are, say, epistemologists, they are not going to have an incoming class of only epistemologists. And so very qualified people inevitably end up getting rejected.

Try to keep your head up, man. As someone who's gone through this process twice (because I'm transferring programs now), I can tell you that it's just a total crapshoot. I have inferred rejections from both my "safties" but got a fully funded offer from somewhere much better--makes no sense, really, at least not from the applicants perspective. It's best not to try to play theory of mind with the admissions committees, because it's just impossible to know what they are looking for. I really hope everyone lands somewhere; no question that this whole process is rough.

Yeah sorry, I didn't see the separate waitlist thread either. Anyway, I was waitlisted (toward the top, apparently) at Indiana a few days ago. DGA there is very gracious. (Already in at Northwestern though, so not super worried)