SamStone
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WOW! just offered a spot at Riverside... I hadn't previously been notified that I was waitlisted!
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On 3/10/2017 at 0:34 AM, eeeeeeeeeeeee said:
Declined Indiana and Georgetown.
Had you been funded at Georgetown?
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waitlisted at Boston. I'm stuck in waitlist land
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...a vanderbilt notification? (why does it say notified/posted Feb 14?)
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In at Georgetown! After being totally shut out last year, an offer feels good.
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3 hours ago, Swann said:
To the DePaul admit: had you previously had an interview? Or is this the first you heard from them?
And congrats!!
I was wondering this as well—was really hoping to hear back from them.
Congrats to those who have!
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AND just so its clear, this is where anyone and everyone who turns down their Berkeley offer (or WL) is to report immediately!
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On 2/4/2017 at 5:23 PM, SteveZissou said:
I can also claim a waitlist to UC Berkeley. Received a cordial email today saying there is a 'good chance to be offered admission' and inviting me out for a reimbursed visit to the department. Seems like there are quite a few on the WL from TGC. Congrats. Wonder how they order the list!
13 hours ago, Witsclaw said:Also on the waitlist!
Though, I am curious about what process they use to admit applicants off the waitlist?
10 hours ago, joshmyers said:I would imagine that it is constrained by AOI
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!
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2 minutes ago, the.waiting.game said:
UNC Chapel Hill already notified--a friend of mine who also applied heard back on Jan 27 and got the official letter from the graduate school on the 31st. womp womp. Sorry. I too was hoping on hearing from them...
Bummer! But thanks for the heads up—good to know.
9 minutes ago, bijou2017 said:I applied to UCSB! Hopefully we're hearing soon, when I was out there visiting in August, the graduate advisor told me the prospective student weekend would *hopefully* be sometime in March. So I'm assuming they'd let people know if they need to travel out to California with a little bit of notice.
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
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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!
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8 hours ago, MentalEngineer said:
Yes! You're getting in this year, I can feel it.
thanks! I really hope so. did you hear that our old DM got into FSU?
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I'm on the WL for UC-Berkeley! Very excited. Would love to go there.
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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.
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21 minutes ago, marXian said:
If you're applying to top tier programs, chances are the funding for all humanities or "school of arts and sciences" students is the same across the board. E.g. Northwestern and Yale offer students about $30k/year (NU five years guaranteed, Yale six) regardless of department (things vary when you get into the hard sciences of course, but among humanities students, the base pay is the same.)
There are certainly less well-funded programs particularly if you're looking at seminaries, divinity schools or other religiously-affiliated schools (though some of those are competitive.) However, I'm not sure I've heard of a program that has guaranteed funding for less than 15k/year for a PhD in RS--meaning, I'm not counting programs who offer no official funding package, who can't guarantee consisting funding year to year, who make students compete for better funding, etc.
Off the top of my head, here are some programs that offer near or more than 20k/year in RS and have people (faculty and grad students) working in "philosophy" broadly conceived:
Yale, Northwestern, UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford, Duke, UVA, Syracuse, UChicago (Divinity), UC Santa Barbara (I don't think all students are guaranteed funding, but the vast majority get it, and I've heard they're moving toward a fully guaranteed situation.)
I'm positive there are more. Some of these may not be as competitive as they used to be--I was applying five years ago, so things certainly could have changed!
Thank you! This is very helpful. And it is a huge relief, since I was really looking forward to applying to religion programs.
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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.
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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?
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12 hours ago, bechkafish said:
Dr. Roochnik at BU emailed me earlier in the afternoon to say that the department still hasn't hear back from everyone who received an offer, so they won't be able to assess the waitlisters until the weekend / Monday. Please oh please, if you're planning on declining, do it sooner rather than later so that the rest of us can cry / celebrate promptly?
SAME! any idea how many are on the waitlist? I have a feeling i'm somewhat low on it.
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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.
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13 hours ago, MVSCZAR said:
The initial difficulty in reading Deleuze is incredibly frustrating, but it does dissipate after you start reading him as a sort of creative writer. That's to say, as dancing on the edge of the really real and pushing against the limit. I've never read A Thousand Plateaus, but I've read Nietzsche and Philosophy and What is Philosophy?. And I read some of Anti-Oedipus. It's the only book I've ever thrown out of a window, by the way, because it was so frustrating. But I suppose that goes to show that my strong opinions aren't meant to be held eternally.
I'm planning on reading Hyperion this summer, too! Twins!
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.)
7 hours ago, notorious_biv said:I love it! So much of the philosophical literature on vision focuses on output states; it's nice to switch gears and discuss what actually goes on within vision. I also really appreciate how clear she is about what the notion of representation is, as well as its role in prominent theories of vision. Honestly, I find her arguments against cognitivism/for EV to be pretty compelling. When I'm done, I might return to Origins of Objectivity. I think I have a clearer understanding of what Burge is up to having read Orlandi.
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.
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7 hours ago, notorious_biv said:
Nico Orlandi - The Innocent Eye
Matthew Fulkerson - The First Sense
Mike Birbiglia - Sleepwalk with Me
The Walking Dead Vol.18
How are you liking Orlandi's book? I thought it was really great.
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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.
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On March 26, 2016 at 0:32 PM, SamStone said:
I just saw that there were some rejections notifications from Boston University this week, but I haven't heard anything from them. I'm curious if anyone has also not heard anything from them.
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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Just declined Boston University and Georgetown (with funding).
And I plan to accept my offer from Riverside!