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Accepted to Fordham off the wait list!
- Glasperlenspieler, dgswaim, Solio and 8 others
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Still waiting on Fordham. I was told there is still movement and potentially a spot available for me, but man am I tired of waiting. I just want to start moving on if that's what I have to do.
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10 hours ago, bechkafish said:
In at BU off the waitlist. Time to sleep for a million years and maybe not have nightmares for once.
Congrats!
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On 4/9/2016 at 6:51 PM, Dialectica said:
That's all I've got; all my hope rests on my waitlists. Not a fun position to be in at all. Really hoping for some significant movement soon.
Ditto.
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4 minutes ago, iunoionnis said:
Today, I received my first acceptance from the New School for Social Research. I got a 20% tuition waiver and eligibility to apply for the Ph.D. program upon completion. The fact that the program, to some degree, lets you "work your way up" to the Ph.D. slot is attractive to me.
I got my MA from NSSR. It is a great department with great professors, but there are a lot of dysfunctional aspects mostly stemming from the administration of the school in general that, in my opinion, warrant giving an offer some serious thought. PM me if you have any questions.
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22 minutes ago, jelris said:
I applied to MA programs with the hope that I might get some funding despite not having had philosophy as my undergraduate major. At this point, I am on the funding waitlist for LSU and UMT and was given partial tuition remission from AU so I'm deciding between going to AU or not going to graduate school with hopes of getting off of one of the funding waitlists in the back of my mind. DC is so expensive that it seems like even with the partial tuition remission and finding a part-time job, that I would still have to take on an uncomfortable debt burden.
That's what I had to do for my MA in NYC. Partial tuition remission, worked 2-3 part-time jobs, and racked up 50K in debt. Would not recommend, 20/20 hindsight is a bitch.
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Many of the schools I looked at state that if you have previous graduate coursework the DGS can evaluate your transcripts to see if previous coursework can satisfy any requirements. But most schools that do this (that I've seen) state that they will only evaluate your transcripts after you've completed a year of coursework already. And as Gnothi-Seauton pointed out, that doesn't mean you will actually be given any credit for previous graduate coursework. Only people within the programs can tell you if you can reliably get transfer credit.
Some programs (such as Fordham), actually seem to have separate 'tracks' for those with a prior MA in philosophy (the program requirement deadlines leading up to candidacy are earlier), which leads to a shorter time to degree (if you finish you dissertation in a reasonable amount of time). But from the limited research I've done this is less common.
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6 minutes ago, blacklake said:
I hope you get better news! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
Just got my rejection letter, too. Hahaha.
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Just now, blacklake said:
Yup. Got an email rejection. ?
Ah damn, I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm just sitting here waiting for my rejection, too.
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I see a couple of rejections went up for Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. Has anyone on this forum who applied there heard anything yet?
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Here's my shameless plea: Is there anyone else (aside from @lisamadura) admitted to Fordham that thinks they will probably turn down the offer? I'm ranked pretty high on the wait list I've been told.
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Just now, oldhatnewtricks said:
Not a vent so much as an expression of fear (I don't have much to vent about):
I'm just a small-town kid from the south... I've only traveled out of the south twice in my life -- once to go to Hershey Park, and once to go to the 'Creation Museum' (loooong story). The south's all I've ever known. I'm freaked out about leaving it, my family, and my friends behind. Anyone else got the soon-to-be-moving blues?
Hey I hear ya. While I am not faced with the prospect of moving, should I get accepted off the waitlist from Fordham and decide to go I will need to give up the security of a paying job and face the opportunity costs of at least 5 more years of paltry pay and the inability to contribute equally to my family's well-being. Plus my wife and I are planning to try to have a baby soon. All of this is to say I am terrified of the life-change that comes along with starting a grad program. I can't shake the feeling that I will be doing something selfish and irresponsible for my family, despite that fact that my wife supports me in my desire to get my PhD, and that we'd be better off if I just found a better paying job.
As for moving, particularly up north out of the south, there is definitely going to be some culture shock. The first 6-8 months are going to be hard. Staying connected to friends back home is going to be important, as is making new friends who can help you through and make you feel less isolated. Luckily you have a built in opportunity for that with your cohort. Having an activity or hobby that you find comfort in can go a long way toward keeping you centered and can be another avenue for making new friends. Usually the student health insurance schools offer makes it cheap and easy to talk to mental health professionals in counseling centers if you ever feel you need it. As disorienting as moving is, through these (and other) coping mechanisms you will start laying down new roots without realizing it, and and some point the disorientation will be replaced with confidence.
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Just now, SamStone said:
Yea I've been wondering about that program, too. That would be my dream program, but for some reason I just lost hope about it and assumed they already accepted the few people they accept and didn't send out rejections yet. But I must also say: I have no basis for that assumption...I think I am just being down since I haven't been accepted anywhere. So hopefully we hear from them very soon! Good luck!
Nat had reached out and they were pretty vague, saying that they were nearing the final round of review and would let everyone know once that finished up. Also, on the results page someone posted and said:
wrote an email to admissions those waiting for PhD Social Sciences. Here's their response: "All applications are currently in final review;Official notification of decisions are made after the review of all applications and usually begins the last week of February or first week of March. All official decisions are sent by email" THE WAIT IS TORTURE!!
There was another post on the results page some time later that said the decisions would be out by March 15, but it was deleted soon after. So I really don't know what to think at this point. I just want to get it all over with already.
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I wonder what the confidence level is for the Committee on Social Thought sending our their decisions this week.
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2 minutes ago, oldhatnewtricks said:
True 'dat. I hate that feeling. I hope it goes away someday...
I spoke to a philosophy professor recently who said that feeling didn't go away until she got tenure. On the one hand that's terrifying, but on the other hand it's comforting to know that philosophers with PhDs and tenure-track jobs have the same insecurities we do.
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1 minute ago, oldhatnewtricks said:
Has anyone else become increasingly afraid of talking about philosophy with professors during this whole process? Now that my professors and letter writers know that I've been accepted to Yale and Pitt, I have this weird feeling that I'm supposed to speak in either cryptic aphorisms or pithy, profound nuggets of wisdom. So I've just stopped talking about philosophy out of a fear of letting the cat (AKA my true stupidity) out of the bag.
Yes! I generally have a hard time talking philosophy with philosophers. I work at a non-profit that interacts regularly with academics, and I always feel more comfortable and confident talking philosophy with non-philosophers. I always clam up around philosophers because I have a constant nagging feeling that I'm being judged or they're just waiting for me to slip up and point out how stupid I am.
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31 minutes ago, MickeyRay said:
I wish I knew why I am not getting in anywhere...
Hear hear.
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Just now, ABrown said:
Was the message personalized or do you think it was an automated email? I haven't heard anything from Boulder yet and my application portal says my application is still under review. Probably rejected, it would just be nice if they told me in a timely manner.
It was automated. As one poster on the results page noted, it was a generic word document attached to an email. The email itself said nothing other than "please see attached" and the Word document had no personalized information in it, there wasn't even a salutation. Just a generic statement saying my application was not accepted, signed by the Chair of Graduate Admissions.
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Rejected from UC Boulder. I'm not particularly confident of my chances with Chicago. Oh well.
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1 hour ago, bechkafish said:
Woke up to a very kind email from Mark Murphy at Georgetown, telling me thanks but no thanks. This one stings... I really thought it was a great fit.
Me too, I can't believe it, I was so hopeful.
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2 hours ago, Poetic Justice said:
Hang in there! Regarding spreading calls, I had a quick look through the past results and it appears that Georgetown tends to span their acceptances over the Friday and Saturday. So I think there's still hope that you might receive word on Saturday.
Edit: yes, I created an account just to say that.
2 hours ago, Siegfried42 said:Thanks very much! I hope they do the same this year!
Ditto!
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42 minutes ago, Siegfried42 said:
Still nothing from Georgetown
. This was one of my last (semi-)realistic shots at a JD/PhD program. Should I presume rejection by now?
Nothing for me either. It's too early to assume rejection, maybe they are spreading out the calls over the weekend, or we can still hope for the wait list. But man I'm gutted I didn't get a call, and I also can't help but immediately assume rejection. I want so bad to get into Georgetown.
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Just now, bechkafish said:
I'm so anxious about Georgetown that I'm probably going to die.
me too me too me too me too me too!
2016 Acceptance Thread
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Yeah, I found out yesterday. I got a call in the afternoon letting me know the official letter was on the way and was given the basic details over the phone.