DHumeDominates
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Just accepted Harvard's offer!!!!!
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(1) It could conceivably be days after the 15th. I'm not sure about weeks, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's happened before.
(2) If you haven't heard from X by the night of the 15th, you should accept at Y. If X then admits you after the 15th, you will have to get a written release from Y in order to accept X's offer. My understanding is that it's not difficult to get written releases.
Also, if you get an offer on the 15th from Y, and you're not sure you want to accept, you should just ask Y how long you have until the offer goes to someone else.
People have told me that this is possible, but I don't understand it. What would have to happen for a department not to be able to inform an applicant on the wait list that (s)he has or has not been admitted by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m.?
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Incidentally, and not to the point you are making, I would imagine then that for me, that since I haven't received a similar email from Humphreys about my chances being very good, that my chances are likewise less than good.
Perhaps, but I wouldn't read too much into it. Regardless, Humphreys did just respond to my most recent email, and so now I know that he knows that I'd like to be removed from the wait list. So, you're that much more likely to get an offer.
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So, one of the schools that wait listed me is Virginia. I told Paul Humphreys in an email, well over a month ago, that I'd like to be removed from the wait list. A few weeks later I received an email from Humphreys saying that I was still on the wait list and urging me to be patient. I promptly replied that I had already asked to be removed.
Today I received yet another email from Humphreys saying that if someone declines a current offer, I stand a very good chance of being admitted. Highly puzzled, I called the philosophy department and left a message, the gist of which was that, now for the third time, I'd like to be removed from the wait list.
Has anything similar happened to anyone else?
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Do you hear anyone laughing?
The editors of Hume Studies, perhaps?
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And why is it Hume?
I hope you're joking.
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Yeah, though there are a lot of summer sublets, also because of the number of students... you might be able to get a furnished one, and then move your stuff for sept. 1
Hmm. Interesting idea. Thanks for the tip.
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heads up to any of you considering boston-area offers, 99% of the leases are sept 1 to sept 1, because of the number of students here.
Seriously? This is unfortunate.
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MattDest raises a crucial distinction. Irrespective of the value of "tailoring" the personal statement to specific schools, should one drop names? I'd say, in general, no. If you'd like to work with professors X and Y, and the rest of your application betrays that fact, the admissions committee will very, very, very likely know it. If the admissions committee doesn't know it, then reconsider whether you really know whether you'd like to work with X and Y.
Sometimes dropping names may harm an applicant. One runs the risks, most notably, of misstating a professor's interests and inciting jealous reactions from other faculty on the admissions committee.
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Is anyone attending Yale's visiting period (April 8-9)?
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Accepted to SUNY Albany.
Congratulations!
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You have no idea how happy I am for you. I've been rooting for you this whole time.
Same here, bra. Florida's pretty legit. You should enjoy that.
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Admitted to Brandeis. Will decline.
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Any preference yet between Harvard and Yale? (I have no horses in this race, I'm just curious.)
We can discuss it in a PM, if you'd like.
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Removed myself from the Arizona wait list today.
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Just turned down Notre Dame. Fyi
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I removed myself from the Penn wait list tonight. Hope the move helps someone!
EDIT: Also from the Virginia and Wisconsin wait lists.
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I am. My main AOI is ethics, but early modern is my favorite historical period to study.
That's cool. As you probably know, Wisconsin's got some sweet historians of philosophy (e.g., Nadler, who's a boss).
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Am I the only one on TGC this year interested in early modern? I haven't come across anyone who's listed it as an AOI, even though a couple people wrote samples on early modern figures (according to their signatures).
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Rejected from Michigan. Spent at least 12-15 minutes trying to access my Wolverine account of whatever the fuck it's called. Oh, well. I'm not too bothered by the bad news.
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I received an email letting me know that I was on a short waitlist for Michigan Ann Arbor. I believe they tried to call me a day or two ago, but my phone wasn't working.
Insanely jealous. Congrats! Did you receive that email today or yesterday?
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There's no ambiguity, but there's no guarantee that you'll receive notification by 3/15 if you've not been admitted. But, assuming the quoted text is truthful, if you're not notified by 3/15, you can infer that you're not admitted--so either rejected or on a wait list. Perhaps that's something.
Right, essentially that's what I meant. Those rejected might hear by 3/15; they might not. If one hasn't heard by 3/15, one's not been admitted, at least in the first round of admissions.
These next couple days shouldn't be too stressful!
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EDIT3: I couldn't delete the post, so I'm just gonna do the next best thing and delete the content.
This is getting weird.
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No reason to be depressed. You got in at HFU!
Indeed.
But I would still like to know. On the department's FAQ page, I found"When will I be notified if I have been admitted?
No later than March 15th."
Note a crucial ambiguity. The question might be rephrased like so: "If I have been admitted, when is it that I will be notified of that fact?" But it might mean something different, e.g., "When will I learn the status of my application, whether the status is admitted, wait listed, or rejected?" In other words, perhaps only admitted/wait listed people will hear by March 15th.
EDIT: Sorry, Monadology. I deleted it, basically because of what you said.
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I also second philstudent1991's advice. I didn't read any TGC threads, let alone become a member and post in them, until my applications were complete (roughly, late Nov/early Dec), which is not to say submitted.
At this (insanely!) early stage, if you're looking for advice on how to prepare applications, etc., talk to your advisors, those who know you personally.