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  1. Just declined Boston University and Georgetown (with funding). And I plan to accept my offer from Riverside!
  2. WOW! just offered a spot at Riverside... I hadn't previously been notified that I was waitlisted!
  3. Okay, so...anyone decide to turn down Berkeley yet?!
  4. waitlisted at Boston. I'm stuck in waitlist land
  5. ...a vanderbilt notification? (why does it say notified/posted Feb 14?)
  6. In at Georgetown! After being totally shut out last year, an offer feels good.
  7. I was wondering this as well—was really hoping to hear back from them. Congrats to those who have!
  8. AND just so its clear, this is where anyone and everyone who turns down their Berkeley offer (or WL) is to report immediately!
  9. I'd also imagine that its somehow ordered by AOI, but I wonder how strictly. Unless you heard from someone in the department, I think you can only speculate...It may be, for example, that have 4 or 5 waitlists grouped by specific areas; or they may have just 2 very broad lists. As far as my own interests go, I'm primarily into history (Kant and German, as well as 20th century), but also hope to work on philosophy of perception, and aesthetics/method. What are you all interested in? In any case, I was surprised by the positive tone of the email—as SteveZissou also noted. I'd wondered if they were that positive to all on the WL, because if they were its hard to imagine that everyone on the WL has "a good chance to be offered admission," haha. Are any of you planning to visit the department in April? I'll definitely be visiting, and I'm excited to meet others who've been accepted/WL'd. Good luck!
  10. Bummer! But thanks for the heads up—good to know. Yea, hopefully we'll hear something soon. Just out of curiosity, whats your area of interest? I'm interested in history of philosophy and theology...particularly religion in Kant and German Idealism
  11. Hey, just wondering if anyone else applied to UC-Santa Barbara and UNC-CH? Any guesses on when either might release? I'm looking forward to seeing what happens!
  12. Oh! It looks like Vanderbilt is predicted for tomorrow. Is anyone else hoping to hear from them? I'll be waiting on U-Chicago, Vanderbilt, and Brown this week. (Though, I see that someone posted an acceptance from Brown already. Hopefully thats not not it for them this year.)
  13. thanks! I really hope so. did you hear that our old DM got into FSU?
  14. I'm on the WL for UC-Berkeley! Very excited. Would love to go there.
  15. Thanks for starting the thread. I have been wondering the same thing. One thing I've seen mentioned on twitter is that some academics are considering boycotting US conferences. (On this point, I've only seen it mentioned—I do not have specifics.) To me, this move makes sense. But I find it so depressing. I've also been wondering if applications to other-than-US programs went up this year. Perhaps the scariest/strangest thing will be if (when?) so many philosophers continue to go about their work as if it were business as usual. I hope not. In any case, I'm having a very hard time focusing on the work I've been trying to develop. It feels hollow at the moment. So instead, since the election, I've started to read as much philosophy of race and feminist philosophy as possible. I know its not much, but I'm not sure what else I can do (academically) at the moment.
  16. Thank you! This is very helpful. And it is a huge relief, since I was really looking forward to applying to religion programs.
  17. Hi all! I'll be reapplying this year (I only made it onto a couple wait-lists last year). I've written a new writing sample, so I hope it serves me better! I'm still in the process of deciding on which schools I'll apply to. But I'll probably send out around 15 applications.
  18. I am coming with a background in both theology (MA) and philosophy (MA), and I would like to apply to both philosophy PhD programs and religious studies programs. However, I am wondering about the basics of funding that one can expect/hope for from Religious Studies PhD programs. For philosophy, most of the programs I plan to apply to don't offer incoming students stipends—through TA-ships, etc.—of less than 20k a year (and many offer more). But with religious studies, it seems that funding is often less than 10k a year. Is this the case? Or, am I just looking in the wrong places? If you are applying to religious studies PhD how much are you hoping to receive in terms of funding?
  19. SAME! any idea how many are on the waitlist? I have a feeling i'm somewhat low on it.
  20. Not accepted I talked with Akeel yesterday and he told me I was on the top of one of the two waitlists (I'm assuming the waitlists were categorized by broad interest in European/Social philosophy and Logic/Mind/Sci [though, that assumption could be wrong]). But this morning I was told that all the spots were filled (at least from category that I was in: euro/social). Looks like I'll be re-applying next year.
  21. Yea, I totally agree with what you said about the initial difficulty. It took me a very long time before I took the time to make it past the frustrating stage with Deleuze. I've found reading his work really helpful though..I've always hoped to be a philosopher more capable of being creative than a philosopher who is "right" about something (not to imply that those things are exclude each other). So I've been really encouraged by his work—reading him has actually made me realize that there are not many philosophers that I know of that I feel encouraged by as a I read them. Anyway, why are you planning to read Hyperion?? It's not every day that you meet someone planning to read Hölderlin, haha. (I've recently gotten way into the Romantics [I'm also reading Dalia Nassar's Romantic Absolute, which I forgot to include in my original post], and I deal a little with Hölderlin in my thesis...which is why I'm planning to read Hyperion.) Yes! That is also why I really liked her book. I really enjoyed Burge's book, but I also found it really problematic. And Orlandi did a good job handling a lot of those problems--or at least helping me make sense of them.
  22. How are you liking Orlandi's book? I thought it was really great.
  23. I've mostly been reading Deleuze. Honestly, I can't get enough of him right now—reading him feels like reading Nietzsche in a lot of ways (the passion, the humor, the thoroughgoing critique of philosophy, the wild ideas, etc.). I'm just over half way through Thousand Plateaus with a reading group, but on my own I've just read his Nietzsche and Philosophy, Kant's Critical Philosophy, and am almost through What Is Philosophy? and I'm planning to move to Proust and Signs next. Although, I do hope to read his major texts, Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense, soon...but I don't think I'll be able to tackle those until my thesis is done. I think i've been having so much fun reading Deleuze because his work almost reads like fiction (as he says, "a book of philosophy should be in part a very particular species of detective novel, and part a kind of science fiction"); and, (almost) no one really touches him in American philosophy departments, so reading his work really feels like "outside" reading (even though he's a far more creative philosopher than most I've read). Other than that, I just got a copy of Hölderlin's Hyperion and Kaja Silverman's Flesh of my Flesh.
  24. Just to reply to myself (in the case that anyone else is in this situation): I emailed the director of admissions at Boston University and he told me that I am on a 'secondary waitlist'. I'm guessing that there are pretty low chances any sort of offer will come of this, but its nice to know whats going on instead of just speculating.
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