Cottagecheeseman

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Anyone claim the Miami philosophy (the one in Florida) acceptance?

I know the exact same feeling when I was waitlisted at UVA! Congrats!

A friend of mine just got rejected there, he's pretty heartbroken, it was his 'safety school'.

Man Arizona hated my application so much they sent me a letter in the mail too.

Man so many of my gradcafe pals are getting rejections today. So sad.

Who called?

PLEASE PHONE RING TODAY. (I'm expecting it not too but whatever)

I'm wait-listed at UVA. I'll pay everyone $1 if they take themselves off the waitlist or deny the acceptance. Not really I don't have any money.

I want to downvote because I dislike the rejections but I feel that would be mean. So sorry

Congrats to UT Austin wait-lists. I hope it was you guys who got it!

It's Monday. Come on Monday, bring me an acceptance! Any acceptance! Let's do this!

I actually started something similar to this but it got buried. I think we mostly said we watched TV and read. Mostly I just check my email 500000000000 times a day.

With so many acceptances why aren't you just partying all the time?

Wow there are still schools you haven't heard back from yet! I Congrats, I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

I concur, some kind of site listing offer information would be nice. But I'm not sure submitting anonymously would be the best ideal. We see here on the grad cafe how easy it is to fake that kind of stuff, and you can't really filter it anymore than "that looks wrong". Some other way, like private emails that the important details get posted anonymously might be a good thought, that way it could be semi-verified.

This does sound like someone did a bad job hiring people. You're supposed to hire people in the areas you need people to teach classes in!

I trying more for "Gold" for acceptances because culturally gold means you won something.

I think teaching at a small liberal arts college is a respectable goal going to the kind of places you are accepted! But I don't know those schools well, I just know they are respectable places for certain kinds of philosophy. As for Table's thoughts that adjuncts teach upper level, at my university, they rarely did, and if they did it was only because no full-time faculty could teach it at the time. That being said, its probably more likely for adjuncts to teach lower level classes than not.

It should be noted that adjuncts typically only teach introductory classes as well, and the adjuncts I know have to teach so many classes just to not fall into extreme poverty that they don't have time for research. But I understand your fears. I mean, it just happens that most of the people on this forum and in graduate school right now won't end up in research oriented positions, if only because these positions are the most coveted and more rare that teaching-oriented positions. I'm just trying to be realistic, and though a research position is what I want, like you and probably most people here, it's probably not what I'll get, and I'm okay with that.

I started my college career at a community college, and had some fantastic teachers. I would be perfectly OK with a 'full-time' position in community college. But not an adjunct. Have you seen what they pay adjuncts anywhere? It's atrocious. Only being able to be an adjunct is what honestly worries me about choosing to go to a top program.

Man congrats on the acceptances/waitlists! Man some people racked in like 3 or 4 schools in the past couple of days. I wonder if the weekend will prove busy since the last few days have been.

Congrats! I can't wait till I finally get one of those!

Someone was waitlisted for "philosophy of religion" phd at Chicago. Does anyone know if that's through the philosophy department or religion? It's kinda a weird thing.

I'll pray to them for you if you pray for me! University of Miami and University of Southern California should release stuff soon based on last year! Also if you're accepted/waitlisted at UVA and positive you won't go there, please let them know that in a timely manner! Best of luck everyone, we still have another month of this left!