Cottagecheeseman

You guys can have the later Wittgenstein but I still want the early one. YAY!

As an analytic, lets forget about Merlau-Ponty and instead try to borrow Husserl for a while.

Ooo that's fun too, lets do that.

I have a feeling he's being facetious.

For those waiting on Umass, this is posted on their website: GOOD LUCK ON MONDAY MAYBE I'LL GET LUCKY!

Thanks, and yeah, that's what I'm going to blame it on. Competitive nature of this thing, not very focused SOP, poor quant GRE score, lack of prestigious school. Honestly at first I was tempted to deny UVA for an MA so I could have a chance to do it again, the more I look at UVA and talked to some students there the more I will probably accept if I get off the waitlist. Students have great things to say about it and their placement is decently strong. But there are also some good reasons not too, and I'll cross that bridge if I get in. I hope I do though, UVA is close to home (relative to the US, I grew up about 3 hours drive to the east) and I know the area well, and I would love to live there and be near the Appalachian trail and I'm a fan of Thomas Jefferson. Also you never friended me on facebook

I wish you had Virginia you could do

Man today has been too slow today...

I'm in this position as well, say if I get into UVA off the waitlist, and also get into one of the MA programs I applied to. I'm not sure which I would choose now, but I would seriously consider turning down and offer to go to an MA if I thought it made my chances quite good at getting into a good Phd program afterwards.

I emailed today asking them, soooo I'll say what I find out here.

Yeah I understand, it just takes some work, and planning. I was 'religiously educated' until college, and my math skills suck as well, and I hadn't had math courses since community college either. You have a super hand up though with your letter writers and prestige of NYU, which probably explains your waitlisting at better schools than a lot of people with similar stats, so if you try this again, getting your scores up and everything else polished would make yourself an even more attractive candidate. Also I was nowhere near as proactive with sending my writing sample to tons of people, and maybe I should have, but ah well we can't redo this year only do next time better (if I don't get into UVA). This isn't against you zach - but I find it sad that prestige of school and the prestige of your letter writers is so important. I'm sure there's this guy at Iowa Country State University with letter writers most people have never heard of and a sample that could be better because of the position he's whose just as good as the people getting into the top places right now. I'm in a similar position perhaps, the only school that has come close to accepting me is one that knows who my letter writers are, because I come from a state school with no graduate programs in philosophy. But then, my sample also sucks which is my fault for not being more proactive and sending it to preeminent philosophers.

I agree, the first time I took the GRE my scores were almost similar to Zach's, but I studied my ass off and were able to raise each section by over 5 points, so that's saying something. I still have dismally low quant scores, but at least it's above average, if only very, very, very barely.

Here's another example for writing sample you shouldn't use, considering my luck so far. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2bL0eoS4wTxNTZ5dEZXVE5xRXM/edit?usp=sharing

Lol. Accepted into Harvard, might not go because the letter was rude. Man I want that problem.

Man that would've freaked me out.

I don't actually know, but I will say that placement =! rankings. There is a correlation that better ranked schools have better placement, but it isn't always so.

If so only the initiated few can see his comments about the SPEP or whatever it's called. Whatever screw them and the APA I'll join then SEP. Society for Exact Philosophy all the way!!!!!!

I'll send it to him and see if he likes it.

And Virginia Tech Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaseee.

Someone just posted a UVA waitlist. I wonder if this is a new waitlist email, or someone who got one back when they were first sent out and is just posting this now.

I think what's interesting is that Fordham, Loyola, and lets add St. Louis (because they are mentioned under epistemology in the PGR as well) is that they are catholic schools, and this puts them in a distinct category. First, then tend to place well into other catholic schools. Second, they tend to have a wide range of different traditions moving towards a single goal. I think they are unique in that sense, and so are kinda in a class of their own.

Me too I'm hiding this NYU acceptance from you guys.

yeah... exactly.

Comments by Leiter in various places. He's just shitting on continental philosophy, and I find the way he does it funny. People have told me I have a weird sense of humour though.