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I think your funding survey is an underrated, useful tool. Perhaps we should propagate that too! The last submission (besides mine) was late March.

Fantastic news!

What you've done here is assume that we should do what is rational (or in our best interest?). I don't take the position that this is what we should do. I understand that this is a very complicated issue. A foremost consideration would be where those extra funds are coming from. If department budgets are such that there is only X amount of money in a pot for fellowships and teacher-assistantships, then one can see their request (demand?) for more funds as taking away funds from someone else. This probably isn't wrong in every case (people with children, from poor backgrounds, etc.), and I can understand the animosity (I work hard and deserve some better standard of living, dammit!) but I can't help thinking that, for some of us, playing departments off of each other is really just taking funds away from somebody else for something we were going probably going to do anyway.

Edited. What are we? MBA applicants?

In case you're interested in programs that are not Leiterific, The University of Florida has three students who have received offers from PhD programs. Offers include Arizona State University (UR), SUNY Albany (UR), SUNY Binghamton (UR), and Wisconsin (22).

Gosh, I'm so jealous. That's a fantastic program in a fantastic place. What are you interests?

I also got a very noncommittal email from the DGS at Davis telling me that I wasn't accepted or wait listed, but that they might come back to my application if enough people turn down their offers.

Samesies. BTW, I feel that my use of "samesis" is merited after receiving that email.

I still haven't heard anything. Wait, they could not offer you financial aid or they could not offer anyone financial aid?

How was this username not taken already?

South Carolina? South Carolina? Bueller….Bueller….Bueller….

The waitlist thread has A LOT of posts which can make it difficult to figure out whether anyone has declined an offer or waitlist spot from a school you're trying to get into. It's also full of a lot of posts that are off topic. I agree with Wait For It…, a new thread is a good way to go.

I sent an email yesterday morning to the DOGS. I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything back. Would you consider it over your other choices?

Tulane. Solicited.

Accepted to SUNY Albany.

Don't let them scare you. Atlanta can be great! There are a lot of great restaurants, places to live, hipster-ish/philosophy kid things to do in midtown. Buckhead is really great too, but it can be super expensive.

If you're one "o" short when you type the web address you end up with some compelling reasons to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.

Man, what a weekend. Vanderbilt, Maryland, and UMass (assumed).

Yeah, studying with Will Kymlicka and Christine Overall. I feel soooo bad for you.

Indeed, I am! I'm curious. Would you chose Tulane over the schools you've already been accepted to? Anyone have information on those Maryland rejections?

Congrats to those who received acceptences today. Can anyone comment on the funding package from Carleton University? 23k for MA students is great!

Maryland rejections. Nail-biting time.

Woot! Everyone is accepted.

I'm now realizing that I posted this in the wrong thread. O_o. Anyway, thanks for the advice! A lot of rejections have been posted today and yesterday. Sorry folks.

I plan to brush up on my prepositional logic and meta-logic. Besides reading Benson Mates' Elementary Logic and working through proofs in my old logic textbooks, can anyone foster some suggestions?