Triactry03

Yeah, I fully expect it to be a rejection - which is why it's annoying! Just send me the thing already.

Just got a very annoying email from Tufts saying that my decision will be available via their website "shortly," so I should log on to the website "regularly." Really? You can't just tell me I've been rejected or accepted, you want me to compulsively refresh a web page? Ugh.

Superhamdi - Same boat as you. Rejected from PhD at Boulder but accepted to MA. Looking through their funding info it seems that in the past they have allowed out of state applicants to defer for a year so as to begin with in-state tuition. Not only that, but they are part of the Western States Consortium (or something like that, can't quite remember) and you can get in state tuition from living in any state out west. One plan I've been kicking around, as things look increasingly grim, is to move out west for a year and then give it a shot. Of course, this flies in the face of the general consensus on this forum, which seems to be DO NOT go to an unfunded MA program. Still holding out some tiny bits of hope for a few places though. Speaking of which, did anyone else apply to University of Washington? Or have any idea when we might hear from them?

Hey all, a bit late to the party, but thought I would throw up my information and suffer in the company of others. I went to a small liberal arts college (Beloit College in Wisconsin) and have been teaching high-school social studies for the last couple of years. One inscrutable thing, among many, in this process is whether the lack of name recognition of my letter writers is hurting me. My undergrad GPA was a 3.77 and my GRE scores were 167 Math, 156 Verbal, and 5.5 Writing. My interests are mostly in ethics; particularly in the areas of environmental ethics and the philosophy of race. My writing sample was a critique of some trends in contemporary race theory, which I feel has done me no favors in terms of aligning me with analytic or continental departments, but it was by far my strongest piece of writing. I Applied to PhD programs at: Harvard, Toronto, Depaul, Georgetown, Maryland, Boulder, UC Riverside, Washington, and Oregon as well as masters programs at Tufts, North Texas and UW-Milwaukee. So far: Accepted to UNT for a masters, but they don't have any funding. Rejected from DePaul and Oregon (although I am still being considered for their masters program like some others who've posted here). Haven't heard from any of the others yet, which leaves me pretty certain I have been rejected from at least Boulder and probably Georgetown and Harvard as well. Still holding out a tiny amount of hope for the others!