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  1. I'm praying for you, dfindley. I hope you get the psychological help you need.
  2. Table, thanks for that important reminder. However, I think the ROA and the Michigan philospophy department do contradict each other after all. Although the ROA purports to require official transcripts, the Michigan philosophy department says the following. (Here's the link http://www.lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/graduate/prospectivestudents/admissionsfaq.) "All the following materials should be uploaded into your online application by [the deadline] date: One copy of official or unofficial transcript from undergraduate institution. Upload the scanned copy at the Transcript page." You're absolutely right that an "official" transcript that is uploaded is actually unofficial. However, the above text clearly indicates that the department accepts an upload into the online application of an "official" (and thus actually unofficial) or a (genuinely) unofficial transcript. I uploaded a (genuinely) unofficial transcript, and so I think I'm fine.
  3. Hey idol.chatter, those are some fine states. If you were given the opportunity, would you choose philosophy over religion or religion over philosophy?
  4. Also, why does no one on this forum have any self-confidence? All of you profess to be almost certain you'll be rejected from every school. I should say that I don't think this will happen to me at all, notwithstanding the insanely competitive applicant pools.
  5. Why do I check these forums compulsively? They make me so stressed, almost physically ill.
  6. I'm ignorning what a graduate school says if the philosophy department at that school says something different. E.g., Michigan says that it allows official or unofficial transcrits, but the Rackham Online Application says that applicants need to upload official transcripts ... or it calls an "academic record." I have no idea what that refers to. Regardless, I'm ignoring what the ROA says and just relying on the philosophy department's information. I feel like both Harvard and Wisconsin, Madison don't really need officials right away. It was noteworthy that both of those schools required me to input into the application form every philosophy class I took in college, the grade received, etc. It's as if that's substituting for an unofficial transcript. Anyway ...
  7. I'm just worried that an admissions committee will initially ignore all "incomplete" applications, find enough qualified applicants who sent complete applications, and so send offers to them, not even bothering to double check the incomplete ones. Fortunately, I applied to 15 schools and this is an issue for only 3 of them. Still, this stresses me out to no end.
  8. Hey zizeksucks, I ran into a similar problem. A couple schools I applied/am applying to require official transcripts (one of them in addition to the unofficial uploads in the application) that I have not/will not be able to provide by the deadline. As long as you make this known to the DGS, as maxhngs recommended, you should be fine. Still, it's, of course, optimal that all materials get there in time. I was also freaking out when I realized this. (I f***ing hate this process!) So, I e-mailed my undergrad advisor, with whom I have a very good relationship. He told me that the school he went to didn't receive all of his materials until March, at which point it decided to admit him, with funding, anyway. Of course, you should try not to be that late with the transcripts ... ETS is also a pain.
  9. Thanks for the welcome. It's refreshing to be able to talk to people who are going through the same process at the same time. However, friends of mine who are now in grad school have warned me about how constantly checking GradCafe, especially during the weeks and months by which applicants can expect to hear back, can quickly become a very unhealthy obsession. I'm sorry the paper was awful. Do you remember who wrote it? I'm most interested in his metaphysics and epistemology. Good luck with everything! (I'm a guy, by the way .)
  10. Right. I can see this. In addition, I appreciate the cordiality of your post.
  11. I know some schools (e.g., Michigan) inform all of their applicants of whether they've been admitted, waitlisted, or rejected by March 15th at the latest. The thought is then that accepted applicants have at most one month to make a decision.
  12. Yeah, so they owe them a reply. It is disrespectful to refuse to respond to an e-mail because it doesn't include words like "please" and "thank you." Let me add that this is especially true in the context at issue. The student knows the professor; the professor knows the student. If the exchange were between complete strangers, you would (perhaps) have a (slightly) stronger case. What I said hardly qualifies as "passive-aggressive indignation." (Seriously? Do you even care whether your criticisms are on the mark?) On the other hand, lambasting me as an "arrogant asshole" for dissenting forcefully from the general consensus on this forum is, frankly, very disturbing.
  13. Whatever, Chomsky. I basically agree. I myself more or less follow the basic format you've provided here. The point I was trying to make is that failing to follow that format isn't really grounds for calling the "perpetrator" out. In general, I think it's a good idea to disrupt the power imbalance between professors and students in order to make students feel more comfortable speaking their minds, thinking for themselves, etc. Censuring students for not saying "please" and "thank you," as if they were one's own children, is precisely not the way to to that. I suggest that perhaps the students who write the allegedly disrespectful e-mails may well not deserve outright condemnation and you call me an "arrogant asshole." This is sad. Am I not permitted to disagree strongly with what someone says on GradCafe? Also, thanks for the tip regarding the philosophy job market. Until that post, I was utterly ignorant of how cutthroat it can be.
  14. Good day, all. Here are my "stats." Overall GPA: 3.91; Major GPA: 3.97 GRE: 168 (V), 156 (Q), 5.5 (AW) Interests: the history of early modern philosophy (e.g., Descartes, Hume, Reid, and Kant), contemporary metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind and perception, metaethics, among others Applying to several schools in the top 10, several in the top 25, and a few in the top 50 (according to the Philosophical Gourmet Report)
  15. I think you're overreacting massively. "Professional e-mail etiquette"? Give me a break.
  16. I got a 5.5. I don't know what to tell you regarding the "issue" essay. I think the GRE General Test should do away with it, as the prompts sometimes require background knowledge (albeit not extensive) in certain disciplines. There's really no way to prepare for the issue essay, in my view anyway. The "analyze an argument" essay is much easier. What I do is read the text carefully and jot down (on the screen, not on the sketch paper) all of the flaws in the argument (e.g., baseless premises, fallacious inferences, otherwise questionable moves). Then I methodically expand on them until there's a fair amount of material on the screen. Finally, I add a conclusion and an introduction. One piece of advice is to make your conclusion somewhat pithy or provocative. Don't just recapitulate what you say in the body of the text. Apparently, the scorers like to see writers bring everything together in creative ways, not just by rehashing everything that's already been said. Good luck!
  17. Slate doesn't have useful information to provide prospective doctoral students in humanities disciplines. Read the Chronicle of Higher Education. It paints a very bleak picture, too.
  18. Well, it would be absolutely insane to get a second B.A. Under no circumstances should anyone do that. As long as you did relatively well as an undergrad and hope to pursue something in grad school that is vaguely similar to philosophy, or for which philosophy classes might have provided solid preparation, you can get an M.A. or Ph.D. in another discipline.
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