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Can anyone here claim that Yale acceptance? Area?

Ah, no that's not quite it. It makes more sense than that. I received the nomination for the Phil Religion track but the department picked an/some alternative person(s) for their "interdisciplinary" slot. They pool the less popular areas together for x amount of offers, and they didn't pick me/Phil Religion at the departmental level. Still very upsetting, though. Especially since it, apparently (acc. to my POI there) makes me less likely to get in this time around.

Anyone want to claim that Northwestern acceptance? There must've been some mistake because Feb 23rd hasn't happened yet. (On the other hand, if they meant Jan 23rd, that probably means I'm toast, as I interviewed there on the 18th... )

That's terrible to hear. I almost applied to IU, and he would have been my POI no doubt. There is a silver lining, I suppose, it could be the case that professors leave in the fall. If this happens you'd have students who just started there--and maybe chose program X for this particular person--and now get stuck at a department they would have (now) rather not picked. We had this happen to several students here at Purdue when we lost Steup to CU Boulder last year.

Speaking of Indiana... Tim O'Connor just accepted a position as distinguished professor at Baylor, starting fall 2017. Hope he wasn't anyone's POI there (and, if so, terribly sorry!) http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/01/tim-oconnor-coming-to-baylor.html

I know many alumni and several professors there. Outstanding department. Congrats!

Sorry just saw this response. I don't think so, only if you are in one of the smaller 'interdisciplinary' pools such as I was (the department takes 1 or 2 from 'smaller' fields like Phil Religion, Islamic Studies, etc.). Yes it killed me. Still does. I didn't get an interview at Chicago, just received the waitlist notification over e-mail. Same to you!

I applied to all three of those, and I did last year as well. I received a phone call saying I got the nomination for my area (Phil Religion) at Yale at the beginning of February, and they ended up taking an Islamic studies person in that stead (which I discovered a few weeks later). I received a waitlist notification for Chicago in mid February. Those aren't in HB, though, but Phil Religion/Theo.

Thanks everyone. Yes unfortunately I can't help you there, I'm very much in the dark regarding these sorts of details. My subfield there is systematics.

Philosophical Theology (Late Medieval & Early-Modern (Aquinas to Kant), Contemporary Analytic, & Medieval Jewish/Islamic)

RE Questions about Marquette: Can confirm they are real, I have a Skype interview scheduled next Monday. Granting a short e-mail exchange with the guy who set it up, it doesn't seem to be a 'preliminary' interview. I also had one with Northwestern yesterday.

Any Oxford Admits out there who've heard back from funding? Still waiting it out myself.

Thanks for that. (I'm out of upvotes for today...). It seems like in general there are fewer people reporting acceptances this year than there have been in years past--it's somewhat disconcerting.

This is a (possibly desperate) shout-out to anyone who was accepted into the Philosophy of Religion track at Chicago (in the Divinity School). First off, congrats. Secondly, if you are even remotely considering attending elsewhere, please send me a PM. I'm wait listed there and it is looking like my only shot this time around. #shamelessplea EDIT: Also, has anyone heard anything from SLU? There were two wait lists posted last week but it's been quiet since.

This is a (possibly desperate) shout-out to anyone who was accepted into the Philosophy of Religion track at Chicago. First off, congrats. Secondly, if you are even remotely considering attending elsewhere, please send me a PM. I'm wait listed there and it is looking like my only shot this time around. #shamelessplea

I think the "rags to riches/'fundie' to progressive" move that was suggested above is a great route to take, as others have said. Academics eat that up, especially in the US where many scholars/students (myself included) have similar backgrounds. EDIT: Unless you personally still wish to identify as a 'non-progressive', of course. You definitely don't want to lie, but I think you could spin this motif even if you do consider yourself more generally 'non-progressive'.

Looks like someone posted a Yale acceptance (early in the morning--for an American time zone, at least) this morning. Can anyone here claim it? EDIT: There was a waitlist notification reported yesterday as well.

Just to put it out there, I received a waitlist notification from Chicago several hours ago (Philosophy of Religion track)

That's horrible, I was told something similar to that back when I applied for my first round two years ago. (On a side note--I almost went to that conference with one of my advisers who presented. Was it good?)

I think they are close--I am surprised they haven't gotten it out yet. I was contacted by my POI on the 11th--who nominated me for the Philosophy of Religion slot (!!!!)--and he said the department will likely have the final decisions made "by the end of next week" (now last week) or the beginning of this week. Fingers crossed! (And good luck everyone out there...)

You can get in with an MA in Philosophy, too, if it's a more philosophically-oriented program you're applying to.

I don't know if Avicenna says this, but Averroes says something like this in his On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy. Avicenna, Averroes, Alfarabi, Al Kindi, Augustine, Aquinas, Abelard... why so many A's? (I know, I know, the "al" is the direct article in Arabic--there are just a lot of medieval A's) I was also told once by Jeff Brower that the greatest proof for the existence of God was the existence of Thomas Aquinas (a joke at the time, but this argument might actually have some merit--the man was amazing. I don't remember the exact numbers, but someone calculated the amount he wrote [i think it was Fred Freddoso] and claimed that if you averaged out his lifespan with the number of words he wrote, it comes out to somewhere near 2,000 words a day.) Good call on Swinburne. He is, methodologically, one of my favorite philosophers also. I'm not really fond of a lot of his ideas and reasons for backing them (esp. his work on simplicity & aseity), but the man is a philosophy machine. His the Existence of God is perhaps the best--methodologically--work in philosophy I have read (excepting, maybe, Spinoza's Ethics). If you come to Purdue, we're having the big Swinburne retirement conference there this fall--it's going to be awesome.

I don't know if any here are applying, but I can answer questions about Purdue.

I completely agree. PhD Student c. 1993: Man, I will never get this epistemology paper on warrant published. I just can't get around this one scant counterexample to my re-definition of K''''''. Friend: Look, someone just published an article with a functionally-identical definition! PhD Student: WHAT? Are you kidding me? Friend: I'm not, sorry-- PhD Student: WHOOHOOO! Academia, here I come! And, by the way, that's not me endorsing Tim Williamson.

The man responsible for the last 50 years of epistemology, and he did it all in three pages... that is definitely impressive!