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Thank you to everyone who has helped and offered advice! After hearing back from the offer at Duke (the standard ~22% that people said it was on here), I have decided to go to Princeton Seminary.

I don't have a direct interest in ordination but I am open to the possibility. My ultimate goal is a PhD and a teaching position, but I'm assuming ordination isn't a very large detour from that goal. So, it's a possibility but neither a driving force nor a large weighing factor

Lux, you seem to be fairly knowledgeable about PTS. Reading the bios, Graham seems to have an interest in Wittgenstein and Theology and Johnson has an interest in Levinas. While these are just briefly mentioned in their bios, both of these piqued my interest. I have a large interest both in Levinas' phenomenology and Wittgenstein's understanding of language/logic. Can you confirm/deny that they are knowledgeable in these areas? These are very specific areas that I want to study and a major draw to Chicago.

I've been in contact with Dr. Kevin Hector (Chicago) and he informed me that the divinity school there had an extremely close relationship with the Philosophy dept. at Chicago. They even encourage their students to take classes from the department. So that was very good to hear. I sent an email to academics@div.duke.edu asking them the same question of whether or not their was a relationship with the Phil dept at Duke and an opportunity to take classes and have yet to hear back. Does anyone know about that type of relationship between Princeton Seminary and Princeton proper? I know that it's a little different since PTSem is it's own institution and not formally linked to Princeton university

Hello all, I've been reading through these forums for a few days now and I have a question. I was accepted to three different programs: Duke - MTS (no funding announced yet) Chicago - A.M. (50% tuition) Princeton Seminary - MDiv (80% tuition) And right now I'm really struggling to try and figure out which one I should accept. My background is Philosophy and Government from Houston Baptist University (BA May 2013) and I ultimately would like to pursue a PhD in Philosophy specializing in either Religion or Continental Philosophy (Existentialism, Postmodernism, Phenomenology, etc). I also do not have a huge financial pool to draw from (shocker, I know.) so I'm a little stuck. On the one hand, Princeton's financial offer is tantalizing and Chicago's smaller offer coupled with their high tuition really weighs on my mind. On the other hand, Chicago's faculty (Hector, Marion, etc) is right in my wheelhouse and would do the most to help me in my long term goal. And then Duke is just a wonderful program with some of the top Christian theological minds in the world (I'm specifically thinking of Hauerwas here) and the atmosphere/aesthetic appeal of NC is a big factor for my fiancee and I. Obviously all three are strong programs and I was blessed to be accepted into all three and faced with a dilemma that I'm sure others would be excited to have. But as of right now, I could really use some insight and advice. So, anything anyone had to say would be extremely welcome and appreciated