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I've accepted my offer at Boston University (off the waitlist). It was a rough season for me, but now I'm thrilled about how it turned out.

I looked over CUNY's recent graduates and placement pages awhile ago, and I was struck by a few things. One, they don't have a spectacular placement record. Two, a lot of their faculty doesn't seem to advise dissertations. In fact, I don't remember seeing a lot of the bigger names listed as advisors.

Notre Dame rejected people with 4.0 GPAs and great GRE scores. Guess that shows how difficult grad school is to get into or the importance of  letters and a great writing sample. 

Well, looks like UC Irvine and UCSD have started sending offers! Good luck to anybody who's waiting to hear from them. Hoping this means UCSB contacts me soon!

I've got CUNY and UMass as maybes still because CUNY hasn't waitlisted anyone and the only two UMass admits both received the Puryear, making me think they might be waiting for funding details before admitting more. Toronto is probably a rejection, but maybe a waitlist? No way to tell. UCSB is killing me.

Honestly, I'd be cool with any acceptances. I'm optimistic about getting accepted off the waitlist at BU, less so about Maryland. It'd be nice to know something definite about my future, though.

I'm rooting for you! (Though admittedly it's because I want to get accepted off of BU's!)

Well, looks like UC Irvine and UCSD have started sending offers! Good luck to anybody who's waiting to hear from them. Hoping this means UCSB contacts me soon!

Notre Dame rejected people with 4.0 GPAs and great GRE scores. Guess that shows how difficult grad school is to get into or the importance of  letters and a great writing sample. 

Thanks for the reply. Hoping to hear from them soon, though this probably isn't a good sign for my application.

I saw that Duke has started notifying people of making the waitlist. On the off chance that one of the people who have heard from Duke has posted here/reads this thread, I'll ask some questions. Did you get an email to check the website? Did 'Waitlisted' appear where it used to just say 'Submitted'?

Thanks for the input. The book in question is an anthology specifically designed for use in graduate classes in communications and some areas of linguistics. The odds of a philosophy professor knowing (or caring about) the editors or my co-author is relatively small. My co-author is a communications scholar (tenured at my university, which has a nationally-recognized communications college, and widely-published). Cool stuff, and I'm glad I worked on the project with him, but not my primary interest (which is by and large philosophy).

Mine says 'Under Review.'

With implied rejections from Cornell, USC, and Toronto in the last two days, my large list of 13 schools has been reduced to a more meager 7. 

Anyone who applied to UCSB: I received a solicited email from them stating that I would hear about their decision 'in the next two months.' Yes, two months. 

Still waiting for Maryland, Boston University, UMass Amherst, UCSB, Ohio, Brandeis, and CUNY.

Well, I was assuming a rejection because of the acceptances. Maybe I spoke too soon.

And you're probably right about the emails; I think I've been letting my anxiety get the best of my judgment. 

The Maryland acceptances make it sound like personal acceptances. So there could still be hope!

They rejected some people on Feb 19.

The Maryland acceptances make it sound like personal acceptances. So there could still be hope!

Well, I was assuming a rejection because of the acceptances. Maybe I spoke too soon.

And you're probably right about the emails; I think I've been letting my anxiety get the best of my judgment. 

Mine says 'Under Review.'

With implied rejections from Cornell, USC, and Toronto in the last two days, my large list of 13 schools has been reduced to a more meager 7. 

Anyone who applied to UCSB: I received a solicited email from them stating that I would hear about their decision 'in the next two months.' Yes, two months. 

Still waiting for Maryland, Boston University, UMass Amherst, UCSB, Ohio, Brandeis, and CUNY.

Can anyone claim the UCSB admit? I'd really like to know what's going on there. My application still says 'submitted.' Not sure what to reasonably expect at this point.

They rejected some people on Feb 19.

Can anyone claim the UCSB admit? I'd really like to know what's going on there. My application still says 'submitted.' Not sure what to reasonably expect at this point.

CUNY accepted someone. Honestly, this will be the one that hurts the most. That's my dream department.

Here's a different questions for everyone. So I have two forthcoming publications in a book. Both are coauthored; I am primary on one and secondary on another. The book is reputable (published by Routledge, peer-reviewed) but it isn't in philosophy. Instead it's in discourse analysis. It really is going to be a top-notch book (some really big names in discourse analysis are involved), but it isn't philosophy. I'm not sure they'll have any effect on my application chances. It really isn't philosophy, though arguably what I wrote on could be classified within pragmatics. It's very much about doing case studies and showing applications of theories, not doing conceptual analysis or something like that.
 
Thoughts?
 
(And yes, I realize how ridiculous this question might sound. After all publications can't really be a detriment, right?)

I've had a similar experience: I ordered my transcript to be sent to a school (School Y, I suppose) two weeks before their deadline. It didn't arrive on time. School Y's grad director called me to ask if I was still interested in the program. I said yes, and she then told me that she hadn't received my transcript. Turns out my university lost my order. I had to call them and pay for rush shipping. When I contacted School Y's grad director about it, she said it was totally fine and that, as long as my self-reported GPA was pretty accurate, it wouldn't be a big deal if the transcript was late. She wished me luck, and now I'm just waiting!
 
I would like to think that most admissions committees will be understanding of a minor error; after all, mistakes happen on both sides at least a few times a season.

And about applications: the one thing I've noticed that every department cares about is the writing sample. Unfortunately, that's the hardest part of the application to quantify.