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NOT ONLY due dates? Damn. I can only set the due dates

I became interested in Philosophy PhD because I like teaching.

Who should I bug?

You certainly kicked ass. Where do you think you're going to go? I still don't understand completely (or maybe you haven't made it explicitly known) how you knew you were going to get into every school, and why you only applied to top 10ish programs (but applied to all of them). Did your letter writers say, "Only apply to top 10 schools you will get into them all?" I just don't know how anyone, without prior information, could know this would happen.

The "rigors" oh that's precious.

You could have had the dream. If only you went to Duke, Indiana, OSU...you might be able to live out the fantasy of defeating UNC....

You're turning down Indiana for Syracuse/SLU? What is your AOI?

Did you get into any of them?

Have you been waitlisted?

I was told that the most important page of my writing sample was the first page, the most important paragraph was the first paragraph, and the most important sentence was the first sentence. =P

I was expecting this Wednesday to be insane...=[

Yes...places do care about subfield rankings. High subfield rankings = well known people that others in the field respect. If others in the field respect them, you are more likely to get a job after working under them. Personally, I think the devil would be in the details. Just how much higher is the overall ranked one? Just how much higher is the AOI one?

That is the average score for people Duke accepts. You probably have nothing to worry about with that score.

Yeah that excuse doesn't really fly anymore, although we all agree. In order to get into these top PhD programs from undergrad, you have to have your focus on creating the best application possible, not necessarily being the best philosopher possible. The adcom will see your low GRE scores and most will hold it against you in some respect, whereas they won't bump you up the list due to your 5th reading of Critique of Pure Reason, because they won't even know you did it. Also, the sentiment that ModalFictionalist shared (one of the most successful applicants this year) is right...people expect that you should either be clever enough to score well off the bat, or you be dedicated enough to study. If you do neither, it looks bad. I would suspect that the GRE is the biggest problem with your app. Again, I agree that doing almost anything other than the GRE would/could make you a better philosopher, but it won't make you appear as a better applicant, and the latter is all that matters if you want to get in.

According to results from past years, yes they do hold a separate waitlist.

Ian I noticed you said that CUNY has given out waitlists on your notifications part of the blog. I don't think we have any reason to believe that is so. There was that one post: CUNY Philosophy, PhD (S14) Wait listed via Other on 1 Mar 2014 1 Mar 2014 For those of you who have posted that you got accepted to CUNY, are any of you female students with better offers (waiting on better offers?) I don't think this is someone report ing that they are on a waitlist, but someone asking a question. Last year they didn't give out waitlists until later, nor the year before... With only one person even posting a waitlistish-thing and nobody on the forums claiming it, I would think that it wouldn't match the standard you find necessary.

eek.

CUNY just doesn't place as well as the schools it is ranked near. Idk why...my guess would be that CUNY Grad Center as a whole just doesn't have the prestige that similarly ranked programs do, like Berkeley or Columbia. Perhaps when Random State College wants to increase the prestige of is program, all other things being equal (or even slightly unequal), hiring someone from Berkeley sounds better and works further to that end. A similar story might be told to explain why Yale has better placement than Michigan and basically every other program higher ranked than Yale.

It was obviously a joke/troll. The guy says he is 'on the fence' when he was supposedly rejected to every other school but accepted to Harvard.

You can answer this yourself by looking at the result search for last year.

What was Beyonce a prof in, other than having a PhD in thighs?

Oh...you weren't waitlisted for a personal rejection email? My condolences. Maybe he/she meant personal as in...the writer shared personal feelings of sadness...

This is the rejection thread...can you quote someone claiming a Columbia rejection? I can't find one.

So there are programs that would probably be ranked between 50-60 if it went to 60. I don't think that's a problem with the Leiter rankings (and I'm also not saying that you are saying so), but rather a necessary result of drawing the line at 50.

This again. There are actually relatively strong correlations related to hiring and especially quality of hire. http://www.philosophynews.com/post/2013/10/11/Graduate-School-Philosophy-Placement-The-Leiter-Report.aspx All I can say: Sour Grapes. The sourest grapes ever.