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Just accepted an offer from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. :-)

I just removed myself from waitlists at UMD and Ohio State. Hope that helps someone!

Officially rejected from Toronto via e-mail.

Officially rejected by USC via e-mail to check their site.

Rejected from Duke.

Rejected from Michigan as well.

Yup. Received it about half an hour ago. There have been similar posts (i.e., about receiving rejection e-mails from Arizona) on the applications Facebook group today.

Officially rejected from Arizona

Not sure. If I got into the University of Michigan, I'd almost certainly choose to go there instead. How about yourself? There was a wait-list posted on the Grad Cafe feed a while back. I haven't heard anything official yet either. I guess I'm being a little pessimistic by already listing it as "presume rejected," but then again, given the actual odds of getting in anywhere perhaps they should all be labeled as such.

I was just wait-listed at Ohio State. I'll wait to see if it turns into an acceptance, but (assuming I'm not admitted anywhere else) I will likely turn them down in favor of University of Wisconsin–Madison.

I was just wait-listed at University of Maryland. I'm apparently the "number two philosophy of mind candidate on our waitlist." The e-mail says they'll likely make an offer later (if movement on the waitlist in the past is any indicator). I'll likely turn them down given the acceptance from Wisconsin–Madison, but I'll wait to see if it becomes an actual offer of acceptance first. Anyone else wait-listed?

Not sure. I'm one of the earlier acceptances. I did however just get a personalized e-mail from Elliott Sober. He says he'd be happy to work with me, and that Shafer-Landau's work (who is returning to Madison) seems like it would be "right up your alley."

Congrats! That's quite the first response. They have a great program. Also, for the IU HPS waitlists: Please e-mail me if you want to discuss the program here.

I wish. Nope, I'm leaving the program with another MA (this time in HPS). If I didn't get in anywhere, I intended to stay and finish out the program. But now that I've been accepted somewhere, I'm definitely taking the MA and leaving after this semester. Getting two PhDs, however, is not hugely uncommon. For example, Massimo Pigliucci has two, and I have a friend who (relatively) recently got a PhD in Neuroscience from MIT and afterwards got a PhD in Philosophy from NYU. She's wicked smaht.

I'm also one of the Wisconsin acceptances. Super relieved to get one this early in the season. Congrats to everyone else!

Since this is the venting thread, I guess I'll say this here: This whole process sucks.

A Northwestern acceptance has apparently been posted on the admission results page. I know lots of people that go there. If you get accepted to Northwestern, feel free to contact me and I can put you in touch with some of them. http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=philosophy

I just checked the Ohio State website and it says my application is still "pending." Hope there are still acceptances to come in the next few days.

Yup, I am in the HPS department. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Hi everyone. I also did applications again this year, and so figured I should re-introduce myself. So... hello! Also if anyone gets accepted at Indiana University (either for the straight Philosophy department or for the HPS department), I strongly encourage that you to contact me. Good luck everyone!

Officially decided: I will be attending Indiana University's History and Philosophy of Science program in the fall. Is anyone else attending? If so, send me a PM. :-)

Rejected off of OSU's wait-list.

UPDATE: I've been informed by the DGS that (1) the Columbia acceptance on Tufts' website is not a mistake (which would mean that the APA data is incomplete), and (2) the update for their website correcting the Northwestern mistake "will probably be in a couple weeks."

As I stated above, the error has been confirmed by the Tufts DGS who says that "The website is undergoing revision" and that "Once done that change should be reflected." However, I informed the department of this mistake almost a month ago, and it still hasn't been corrected. Also, for what it's worth, I personally know both the Tufts DGS and the entire incoming class last year at Northwestern (which includes the Tufts undergrad). EDIT: Just sent another e-mail. I also asked about the Columbia acceptance, which I also suspect is a mistake. I will post again if/when I hear back anything new.

"If you are referring to last year, the final tally, AFAIK, was 5 Master's students admitted to philosophy PhD programs and 2 (maybe 3?) shut out." While I am unwilling to name the names of those shut out last year (even though I know of several), I am willing to identify those placed into programs last year. As mentioned on the APA data, there are three: one at Arizona (Tyler Millhouse), one at Brown (Rachel Leadon), and one at Duke (Bryce Gessell). Concerning the Northwestern posting on Tufts’ website: as mentioned above, I have contacted the DGS (Patrick Forber), and have been informed by him that it is a mistake. The only student coming from Tufts last year accepted at Northwestern was Kyle Scott, who was an undergraduate. I realize this does not account for the Columbia acceptance on the Tufts website, but given that (1) it is not reported in the APA data, (2) the DGS has already confirmed that the current data is inaccurate, and (3) no names on the Columbia website for incoming students appears to be recognizable as a recent Tufts MA student, it seems reasonable to believe this is also a mistake. If you have information that could confirm the Columbia acceptance, I am more than willing to hear it. "No, it doesn't, because the first figure includes the 25-30 students attending at the time the report was published, while the second figures ignores students who were accepted into PhD programs but decided to pursue other careers." Where in the APA data do you believe the currently enrolled students are located? I see no space for them given the rows of the chart displayed. Furthermore, I think it is extremely unlikely that the APA would make such a careless statistical mistake. Unless there is reason for thinking otherwise, I think it is reasonable to believe that presently enrolled students are not included in the data (since, once again, there does not appear to be a section for them). Also the exact wording in the APA data is "Accepted into a Ph.D. Program," and so (I would assume) would include those that were accepted, yet declined the offers to pursue other careers. "The website is misleading, but the APA guide isn't any better." I’m glad we agree that the Tufts website is misleading, but I don't understand how the APA data is not far superior. Granted, it is still incomplete in some respects (since it isn't broken down by individual student), and I wish all programs would move over to a display similar to Georgia State's. However, I fail to see how a display could be more misleading than Tufts'. It records all of the hits and none of the misses. As mentioned before, this has caused some to conclude that their placement rate is 100 percent! In various posts on Leiter's Blog in the past is has been claimed that often schools will fail to update their website or will provide misleading information displays that give a more favorable presentation of the department to prospective students. Until sufficient pressure is put on programs from the outside to give non-misleading displays of their placement data, they will be able to get away with displays such as the one currently present on the Tufts website. One final point: I realize that in my previous post I used the phrase “placement rate” to refer to the fraction of those accepted into PhD programs in philosophy to all of the students no longer enrolled in a program (for whatever reason). I realize that some may think that this is a misuse of language, and would prefer to use the phrase “placement rate” to refer to the fraction of those accepted to those that applied. I can see the merits of this; however, if I were a prospective student of a program, it is the former number that I would be most concerned with. In other words, I would want to know what chances the statistically average student entering the program has of gaining admittance into a PhD program in philosophy. EDIT: It has been brought to my attention that there may be as many as two other acceptances for the 2013-2014 season from Tufts that are unaccounted for on the Tufts website (since the website only tracks where students become enrolled). These acceptances may be included in the APA data, but since it is not broken down by individual student it's impossible to tell. Even so, the concern about misleading presentation and misinformation present on Tufts' website still stands.