Cottagecheeseman

Don't. When I talked to Dr. Paul once when she came to give a talk she said that nearly all their first picks ended up not coming to UNC, because they all got in at comparatively better schools, and they always needed a fairly substantive waiting list. So don't worry too much until you get officially rejected!

I got into Philosophy of Religion because of apologetics, which of course means Craig and others like him who misuse philosophy in presenting one-sided arguments and views. But I took two courses on philosophy of religion in my undergrad, and I've read a lot of what you call smart-non-fundie-apologetico-like theistic philosophers, and I've read some work by recent atheists. (personal favorite is anything by Mackie) I like philosophy of religion it's just not something I tend to think about or care to think about. I did however invite Laura Ekstrom to give a talk at my campus back when I was interested in phil of religion a lot, and that was a really great talk.

I might check that out sometime. To be honest, I used to be interested in phil of religion, but I'm awfully tired of it now for various regions, mainly because the more I studied it the less religious I became and the less interested in the arguments I became, and I got tired arguing with people who I used to count as friends before I stopped sharing a few beliefs with them and apparently that made me a huge enemy that needed to be confronted every time I ran into them. Also I'm 100% analytic! Not a continental bone in my body! (lol)

I'm not even going to try to engage how bad advice this is and how badly it doesn't reflect philosophy and it's graduate admissions, but it does. Seriously, this is terrible, terrible advice.

Probably David Lewis. I mentioned "On the Plurality of Worlds" in my statement of purpose just as an example of why I love philosophy. Dude argues for this crazy theory (that all possible worlds exist as material worlds, but are causally isolated from one another) and he does it so well I kinda want to believe it. Or as Neil Sinhinbabu (spelling!) has on his facebook profile, I'm in a complicated relationship with modal realism. I'm also a big fan of Ayer, he was a pretty cool cat back in the day, and in terms of historical figures (outside of the last 100 years or so) I would have to say Hume. That guy was flippin sweet. If you haven't read the dialogues of natural religion, you should pick it up, hands down one of the best works on philosophy of religion (and philosophy in general) I've read and the philosophical reason for why I'm not a theist.

Awww man. Well good luck with the other stuff!

I'm going to just say that I'm going to drink heavily either way. A sing a drunken tune of giddyness or sadness depending on the circumstances.

Okay, so for a few seconds let's not think about admissions and instead think about something else. What did you guys do for your letters writers? They took a lot of work (especially for you people who were rich enough to apply to 20+ programs) to write them and upload them and whatnot, so what did you do/plan to do in response? I have no idea what is acceptable but I want to do something to show my appreciation to them!

Yeah why can't they just reject people they know they won't accept like early? I JUST WANT TO HEAR BACK ALREADY!!!!

Whatever you feel comfortable with. Unless they told you not to tell anyone, it's perfectly alright to say, and many of the 'acceptances' on the results are unofficial results similar to yours.

Unnoficcial typically means someone from the university told you they were going to accept you, an official acceptance is when you actually get an official email from the university saying "you've been accepted, click here to say YES!" or receive mail or so forth. So please, tell us about it!!!!

I love how there's a "HOT" sign next to this thread now.

Man, I almost applied there. Also congrats to whoever got it!

Yeah we posted at the exact same time, lol.

From the history and philosophy of science program, which is a different admissions than straight up philosophy. If the person with that interview reads this good luck!

this is one of my favs, not about philosophy but about grad school.

This or "The Musings of A Narcissistic Schizophrenic".

He's been banned for a bit now. I'm kinda sad actually, this place is a bit calmer but slightly less interesting. Poor guy, I wonder what he's doing with his time now.

It was sarcasm, it's just hard to tell in writing.

I love how on the internet, especially with philosophers, everything becomes an argument.

How you guys feel trying to check your email while gmail was done? Cause I was like "LOAD MAYBE SOMEONE EMAILED ME DAMMIT!!!"

It's not like they are busy going through grad apps right now

Hey man, you seem really stressed all the time about your apps. Calm down, take a deep breath, this kind of stuff doesn't really matter. You know what really matters? Was your writing sample a good paper? Did you do well in your classes so that you have good letters? - you can't (probably) do anything about these things now, so don't worry. But to answer your two questions: 1: No, it's depends on the school and the year. Typically it changes year to year. 2: It's debatable. Some do, some don't. It probably won't hurt you unless those people are leaving, not taking students. I

Cool. Good luck with that interview!!!!

Ooo I'm only two hours away so if I can get off work/or if it is a weekend I might drive down.