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That's interesting! As someone with a high GPA and decent scores, these have been a point of confusion and frustration for me. I have been sent into a tizzy of doubt about the more subjective elements of my application, especially having been rejected from an MA program that to which I was assured was a perfect fit and I had a high probability of acceptance. I am an ever-growing puddle of insecurity on the floor of my department.* *It should be noted that this isn't far off from my base-line.

Thank you! I'm doing my best to find a shred of hope, but am scrambling to find some decent remaining MA back-ups that offer some form of funding.

I'm over caffeinated still and not sleeping, so I thought I'd go ahead and introduce myself and be friendly and all. I am currently finishing up my BA at UC Riverside, with a current 3.94 GPA (including two graduate seminars) and high-moderate GRE scores. My interests are in 19th and 20th Century "Continental" Philosophy, Asian Philosophy (specifically Buddhism and Taoism), and the thematic overlap between the two. My writing sample is a critique of naturalistic approaches to understanding folk psychology (specifically dealing with Paul Churchland's eliminativist objections) by reconceptualizing folk psychology as a framework which provides intelligibility to the social, intersubjective world, through Ian Hacking's discussion of "human kinds" and the making up of people. As for applications, for PhDs it's Columbia, Georgetown, U.Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame University, Princeton, Harvard, UT Austin, Boston University, Marquette University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego. And I applied to Georgia State's MA program in time for the Feb. 1 initial consideration deadline. So far I have heard one official rejection from Notre Dame, and am assuming rejections from the departments that have already contacted accepted applicants: Chicago, Northwestern, SDSU, and possibly Berkeley. My fingers are crossed but I'm not known for my optimism in life. To those of you who got in to UCR, the department is absolutely amazing and I'm very happy I decided to transfer here.