HomelessSophist

Wait For It..., have you received any information from Loyola asides from the initial email? If offered admission, do you think you would accept? We could speak about it through PM if you'd rather not discuss it here.

Just to clarify (this is the case in my program [don't really want to say which but it's a well-known continental one] but I'm fairly certain it is the norm), learning one or two languages is required as part of the program rather than expected to get into the program. I think it's certainly a boost to your application if you already have some fluency in other languages but plenty of monolingual people get admitted anyway.

Does anyone know how many people Loyola is known to accept every year? Congrats to the acceptances.

I'm also being offered full tuition and the decision gets harder every day that passes (I had no real desire whatsoever to consider it at first). As much as I would like to attend UChicago, this is more than anything a practical, short v. long term issue. Take the fully-funded PhD from a decent school with awesome faculty that's pretty great in my area but with risk of not getting a particularly great job (or a job at all, I suppose)or take the risk of MAPH, get into a bunch of debt and a) figure out what to do for a year after I graduate and then apply and hope for the best or b)Apply right away and hope for the best, the other side being that I get into Chicago's PhD (or some other amazing school with an amazing reputation/placement record). Yeah, no, just writing it out makes the riskiness of the MAPH way too clear. I'll visit but I'm not sure I can allow myself to do it. I just realized that there's literally nothing constructive about this post. Any advice or insight would be appreciated. Otherwise feel free to ignore the rant.

This is for the most part what I'm doing. The DGS at the main school I'm visiting said he'd set up appointments with professor and graduate students if I wanted, so thankfully I don't have to randomly call/email them asking for it. I'm probably gonna try to go to a class or two being taught by POIs, hopefully have an appointment with them (or at least casually talk to them while hanging out), and I'm also thinking of sitting in in an undergrad class taught by a teaching fellow since I'll be expected to do the same in a few years.

Yes, obviously there's no objective answer and any visit is probably better than no visit. Having said that, the program I've been admitted to doesn't have a visit day/week/weekend and I don't really know how long to plan for. It seems like the most convenient amount of time given my schedule is two days (the trip would be three days but I would only be in the city for about two full days). Does that seem like enough to get some sense of what the program is like or should I try to ignore my immediate priorities for longer?

Really continental, I guess "Existentialism" (I kind of feel uncomfortable saying that), Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, and trying to do get into Levinas and Ricoeur before I graduate. I'm coming out of mid-tier Florida school (I'm not being more specific because I'm weird and paranoid, not because you're being particularly nosy).

Sure Applied: Boston College, UChicago, Fordham, UT Austin, SUNY Stony Brook, Toronto (MA), Georgetown, and Northwestern. Rejected: Northwestern and Georgetown (though UT Austin and Stony Brook seemed pretty strongly implied) Accepted: Fordham, UChicago (MAPH with a full scholarship). I literally had no good news a mere four days ago.

Thanks, I feel really lucky and humbled to have gotten an offer. I'm still waiting on a few schools but most of them are implied rejections, so it seems like it'll be a choice between this and an MA with tuition paid at UChicago (and I'm heavily leaning towards the former).

I forgot to mention that I did in fact get accepted to Fordham with full funding ("Well duh," said the world), I went into the conversation with the idea of getting at least a hint about other admissions and waitlists but it seemed awkward and my mind was pretty blank during the conversation anyway.

So Boston College has not responded at all but I just checked my application status and, whereas it used to show no documents pending, it is now showing that I have my "Final Bachelors transcript" pending. Thoughts?

You are now a symbol of hope for the rest of us.

I only started coming here this past year so I have a question: is it normal for some schools to simply not get a lot of reported answers in the results search? Obviously it's not like everyone who applied or got admitted uses the website, I just find it strange that there's at least a handful of reported acceptances to some schools but only one or two (some time apart) from others. Is there any way to know whether some of these schools are just handing out responses slowly or whether it should be assumed that they've made their choices and most of the people who got accepted/waitlisted just don't use this place? I think I just get a false sense of hope when I only see one or two responses from places like University of Chicago and Boston College and I'd like to get rid of it (if it is in fact false, that is).

I probably should have put quotation marks around the words "professional" and "nepotism" to make it clear that I'm not making any kind of judgments about the process. The question was just whether the admissions process is conducive to nepotism (no connotation meant) or whether there's an emphasis on "professionalism" that would force adcoms to downplay their relationships with the people writing letters.

It's not mine but I got the same email, just waiting for the phone call before I submit or celebrate anything.