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  1. The first thing you need to do in order to make any sort of cost/weight analysis since it doesn't seem listed on their page, is email and ask for a complete placement record for their M.A. program. A list of all students who entered, and which one of them were accepted/enrolled to which schools.
  2. Jelly. That area looks gorgeous.
  3. And many, many are left shut out, now with HUGE amounts of debt.
  4. See also: "In order of the average weighted English world faculty rank of a PhD program since 2002 that the MA programs place their students into:" http://www.philosophynews.com/post/2013/10/20/Graduate-School-in-Philosophy-Terminal-MA-Programs-In-Philosophy.aspx
  5. <rolls up sleeves>
  6. Why do you hate America so much?
  7. Bishop Berkeley's prose makes me an instant fan of him.
  8. Do you hear anyone laughing?
  9. And why is it Hume?
  10. I'm the same, though for different reasons.
  11. This. My undergraduate university had a funded MA program and a PhD program, and MA students got just as much attention as the PhD students. But it varies.
  12. He's not talking about those programs, but those like CUNY, Columbia, Colorado, and U Florida which offer a PhD as well, where often PhD placements are given but not MA ones.
  13. Welp. I downvoted you but it's too late to take back. #YOLO
  14. Wow, get wrecked.
  15. That's dangerous information. If I was in the top 5. And my AOI was logic. I'd find out who in that original 10 was doing logic and... make them a offer they couldn't refuse, if you catch my drift.
  16. I think by far the most important thing, as everyone has said, is placement record. You're going to an MA, I presume, because you want to get into as best of a program as possible, generally speaking. There are rumors that various different MA programs have ins at various PhD programs, so if you are interested in Department Y it *might* make sense to go to MA Program A if they've placed multiple kids to Y while MA Program B never has. (I say might, because may kids at Program B aren't interested in Department Y) I do think though that there are huge differences in area of focuses, and that this is important to keep in mind. I didn't apply to Georgia State because looking at their faculty members and looking at what graduate courses have been offered in previous semesters, I'd probably end up leaving philosophy since they just don't have anything of interest to me. If I'm interested in phil science/sciency things, I'm going to want to go to Virginia Tech. If I'm interested in ethics or metaphysics, I'm probably going to check out UWM. If I'm interested in some sort of vanilla-LEMM-analytic philosophy, I'm going to NIU. Although that said, there is something to be said about branching out at your MA rather than specializing, so maybe you intentionally go somewhere different? But maybe not. It's up to you to decide. You also want to keep this in mind, which is near to what Dialectica was saying. Ask how prepared 2nd years were when applying out. Most kids at NIU don't write a thesis. They do a series of pretty difficult exams. This means that it's up to you to get your writing sample down pat, which is by far the most important part of your application. Other places do things differently. At UWM, grad students in their second year take a writing workshop course basically structured around improving your writing sample, throughout your whole third semester. (And then you basically take this writing sample and make it your MA thesis your final semester.) Depending on what you want out of your MA program, one or other of these programs might be more appealing.
  17. Do you know why Dzhafarov says that? I actually just crossed off UConn from my tentative application list because looking more closely at it, there really wasn't much work being done that interested me, as was being done at other places in certain areas of mathematical logic, phil math, and mathematics. But now I'm worried that maybe I'm missing something.
  18. The only potential use I see for that field is if we want to distinguish based on when the applicant's application season was. For instance, I just filled out the survey, but I had to enter data into all the date fields because I wanted to make clear that my application data is from last year's admissions cycle. Ideally speaking, if this survey continues each year, then as people who were successful in the past come to check out this forum/that survey, they can enter in the data from their application season, even if it was a year or two or four back. That way we could build a pretty nice database.
  19. There's a semi-famous kid, Errol Lord, who went to Nebraska for two years as a PhD student out from undergrad instead of one of the MA programs he was admitted to, and after the two years at Nebraska (effectively picking up an MA) he transferred to Princeton. Back when this occurred he spoke about his experience and had nothing but good things to say about Nebraska's support for him and his decision. EDIT: And now apparently he's tenure track at U Penn because he's more balling than NBA-Jesus.
  20. If you really want to thank me, give me an upvote. I don't do these things for free, you know?
  21. Programs have policies regarding this, so you'll need to ask the specific programs. For instance, Harvard: "Candidates must pass at least twelve approved half-courses or seminars during their first four terms in the department. Students who have done graduate work elsewhere may petition to obtain credit for up to three half-courses, which may be counted toward the preliminary requirement. If they are in philosophy (as would normally be the case), such courses will be regarded as equivalent to those taught by members of the department." Notre Dame, "Students entering the doctoral program with a Master's Degree in philosophy may be excused from 6 to 12 hours of course work." Nebraska, "Students entering the program with graduate work in philosophy at another institution may transfer up to eighteen hours of seminar course credit, as determined by the Graduate Advisor in consultation with the student and the GraduateCommittee."
  22. Wow, what are you, some sort of pinko-commie?
  23. I've heard the things objectivity mentioned. EDIT: No idea if they're substantial, but definitely heard them.
  24. What I find useful about this project, but which might run into difficulties with preserving anonymity, is the potential to see a rather extensive description of the sort of applicants that get accepted into which programs so that one can compare themselves and see where they stand, and if any patterns emerge, then they emerge.
  25. If we do this, for the love of God there needs to be some way to address the notion of "publication quality". There's a huge difference between publishing in a vanity press, self-publishing, some random philosophy journal like Think, and then the biggies like Philosophical Studies, etc.
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