reixis

As I believe many of us will have our futures defined this week, I would like to wish the best of luck for all of us still waiting! It's been a very stressful couple of months, but it certainly helped to have this place to talk about the process. 

As I believe many of us will have our futures defined this week, I would like to wish the best of luck for all of us still waiting! It's been a very stressful couple of months, but it certainly helped to have this place to talk about the process. 

As I believe many of us will have our futures defined this week, I would like to wish the best of luck for all of us still waiting! It's been a very stressful couple of months, but it certainly helped to have this place to talk about the process. 

As I believe many of us will have our futures defined this week, I would like to wish the best of luck for all of us still waiting! It's been a very stressful couple of months, but it certainly helped to have this place to talk about the process. 

As I believe many of us will have our futures defined this week, I would like to wish the best of luck for all of us still waiting! It's been a very stressful couple of months, but it certainly helped to have this place to talk about the process. 

As I believe many of us will have our futures defined this week, I would like to wish the best of luck for all of us still waiting! It's been a very stressful couple of months, but it certainly helped to have this place to talk about the process. 

As I believe many of us will have our futures defined this week, I would like to wish the best of luck for all of us still waiting! It's been a very stressful couple of months, but it certainly helped to have this place to talk about the process. 

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This site provides some hard data for cost of living, crime rate, employment rate, median rent, etc. All statistics come with a comparison with the national average, but you can also set two cities in comparison with one another, in case you are deciding between the two.

I think you should analyze it, but use something better than pro/con lists. Something like a weighted decision table/extremes table would be better. That way you can recognize all relevant values at once and how much weight they hold for each fact. Also allows for focused research. 

Declined Penn. It was difficult. The people are fantastic. Good luck to the waitlisted!

I just declined my offer from UPenn--hope this helps!

We are having our official time April 2-4th.

Congrats!!! I'm hoping to hear good news soon. Fingers crossed.

Accepted at UConn!!! It feels so good, especially after last year's shut out. I hope to see you overoverover and reixis there!

Just accepted to the MPhil in Philosophical Theology at Oxford =) 

(Again, I'm not sure whether this belongs in the Religion section of here - but given that this debate has been raging for over a thousand years, and a resolution is nowhere in sight, I figured I might as well post it here!)

Off the top of my head, I think the person's AOIs are pretty broad, including things like early modern and modern, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and early analytic.

Waitlisted at UConn, with "pretty reasonable" chance of admission.

They offered $20,000, which is $2,000 less than last year, according to the funding survey. I could certainly make it work, but it would be tighter financially than my other offers. (Maybe Georgetown would be somewhat similar, since housing prices are even worse in Georgetown/DC than in San Diego.)
 
 
Not sure if this helps, but I know someone who's already turned down an offer from Penn. It's conceivable that there's a delay of a few days between someone turning down their offer and them contacting the next person on the waitlist, assuming that they start admitting people from the waitlist after each declined offer.

Hang in there! From what you said earlier, your prospects are really good at UConn. I don't know for sure, but my sense is that if you are well-ranked on the waitlist at a less-known program, your chances of getting in are good since some of their acceptances might end up accepting offers from better ranked places.
 
Also, I suspect that many schools will be holding visitations in the next two weeks. You might expect people to start declining offers (if they are so inclined) by that time.

Just got an e-mail from Mitchell Green telling me that I am on the waitlist at UConn. I wrote back asking for the size of the list and where I stand on it.
 
EDIT: The e-mail was solicited.

Just got an e-mail from Mitchell Green telling me that I am on the waitlist at UConn. I wrote back asking for the size of the list and where I stand on it.
 
EDIT: The e-mail was solicited.

Congrats, good luck! Keep us posted if he responds, I'm also curious how many are on the list.

Just got an e-mail from Mitchell Green telling me that I am on the waitlist at UConn. I wrote back asking for the size of the list and where I stand on it.
 
EDIT: The e-mail was solicited.

Waitlisted at UConn! I can't believe this I'm honestly so excited. He said I'm high on the wait list and he thinks it is likely for me to move up. Can anyone weigh in on UW Madison vs. UConn?? I'm wait listed at both but somehow, I just feel more excited about UConn even though it's lower on PGR... My AOI are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, and to a lesser extent Philosophy of Science and Epistemology.

OK, people, it's decided. After having been rejected by Columbia and having gotten a first-round acceptance into UT-Austin, it is Texas for me next year. Ah, that certainly is a big 'take that' to Northwestern, Maryland and Brown for having spurned my writing sample!
 
Haven't hear from Ohio nor U Conn at all. Presumed rejection from Mass.-Amherst, but I still love them because I sent them a weaker writing sample, since unfortunately my main sample was too long for them.
 
Will decline the following offers:
 
Missouri
U of Miami
Colorado (waitlist)
Indiana (waitlist)
 
My stats were these:
 
GRE: 170 V, 162 Q, 5.5 A
BA Philosophy. British degree. Very low 2:1, borderline 2:2
 
I am doing an MA in the UK, but I didn't send any graduate grades because I didn't have any yet. I think it's a miracle I got a good outcome given how low my BA grades were, but one caveat is that it's from a place with very, very good pedigree. All recommendations are from well-known people. I think I got into UT-Austin because I wrote on a very traditional phil of language topic, and perhaps it resonated with some of the faculty there. That's it, I guess!