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Did anyone end up going for Penn?

I got in off the wait list at Penn - already accepted.

Anyone going to decline an offer from Penn?

Thanks for the information. I was aware of that - I was wondering whether someone on the waitlist had been rejected.

Can anyone claim the recent UPenn rejections?

A 3.9 GPA is only good for law school admissions if it's an undergraduate GPA. Law schools do not care about your graduate GPA as they do not get ranked on that GPA. They are ranked on UGPA and LSAT scores, which is why they care mostly about those. Unless you have a masters in a hard science (which would make you good for patent law), your masters degree doesn't really count for much. Source: I worked at a top 20 law school's admission department.

I was going to say this, but was wondering how many posts it would run on for.

Cambridge grad here. It's Kobe status to have his portrait in Trinity College's dining hall. Only non-white man on the wall.

I meant which schools are going to be making noise... which is what I'm assuming you're talking about.

What's happening? What's the party?

You're lucky you didn't include the abstract: "Andy Clark and David Chalmers argue that the hypothesis of extended memory and belief (HEMB) provides more explanatory power then its denial;" Do you mean than its denial? Your writing sample would have contained an error in the first sentence.

zblaesi - do you think it might be anything to do with your fantastically low quantitative score on the GRE? NYU is the top school, and there are probably many candidates that have qualifications just as good as you, except with better GRE scores. What do you think?

Harvard Philosophy, PhD (F14) Accepted via E-mail on 4 Mar 2014 "Letter was kind of rude--I'm on the fence about this one" What?

Email them and ask?

I have applied to US programs - but only top programs (Stanford, Harvard, UPenn, Columbia). I've been waitlisted at UPenn.

They asked me to describe my research proposal. I just kind of screwed my answer up. I had had a horrible interview at Oxford the night before, and I'm currently 4 hours from Oxford and an hour from London. I also had a draft due in right before these two interviews so I was working on that. AND finally, the Oxford interview was for a completely unrelated research proposal. So I was just unprepared basically. I don't think it was just the interview... there were probably just stronger candidates.

Rejected from LSE after a fantastically horrible interview last week.

You're much better off getting the MPhil at Cam and deferring for that, in my opinion. That will help your writing (through supervisions), Cambridge, UK is more beautiful than Cambridge, MA, and it cannot hurt to have a postgraduate degree from one of the oldest universities in the English speaking world. @philosophe: An MPhil is a year (at Cambridge). A BPhil is 2 years (at Oxford). Cambridge MPhil is a research degree - you do essays with supervisors and a dissertation. No classes, but lots of reading groups and seminars. Oxford is taught classes.

An MPhil from Ox or Cam is hardly the same as an MA in Higher Ed from BU.

Awesome. And just like Virginia Beach is the fence between two worlds (SOVA and NOVA) on which you sit, so too is the wait-list on which you find yourself. It's worthy to remember that sitting on the fence all day will make your arse hurt.

Cambridge PhD lets you defer by 2 terms. That isn't a full year - it's Michaelmas and Lent, so you could basically start in April 2015 instead of October 2014. I know you're applying for the MPhil but just for your mofo'ing information. I'll be a little tongue in cheek but my underlying point, I think, is serious. It's not clear that earning an extra MA in Higher Ed will help you with your end goals. This is because an MA in Higher Ed seems to suggest that you have proclivity toward MA programs that let any Tom, Dick, or Harry in, as opposed to a presumably required commitment to serious study. (I'm unabashedly and perhaps unjustifiably assuming that higher administrative staff at universities should have a commitment to serious study...) It's also true that most higher administrative staff usually have PhDs in some serious subject and have published a bit as well (at least at the schools I attended on both sides of the Atlantic). Education is not a serious subject - not because it cannot be, but because of the way it is taught and the quality of its students, which is a result of the relatively low standards of its programs.

I used to live in DC so I'm generally hostile to NOVA. But I am not white, so SOVA is generally hostile to me.

Sorry to hear that. One day you'll make it out of NOVA, I promise.

How did you find out? Personalized email?

I'm on the UPenn waitlist. It's my top choice, so I hope those who have been admitted choose to go elsewhere!