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BU has Paul Katsafanas, who at least includes Schopenhauer in his syllabi pretty often (for example, in his Nietzsche seminar last year they read S, and he's currently teaching a 19th century survey course). I think Dan Dahlstrom also at least knows S pretty well, and that dude has written about almost everything.

several drinks in. cheers, fellow rejects.

Rejected from MIT as well. I've basically given up on this admissions season.

Thanks for that, and yep I'm definitely who you think I am (or I'm lying for the offer of free beer!).

I'm dangerously close to being shut out. Fingers crossed for a UConn admit.

I laughed, but damn this is getting difficult. I can infer rejection from 6. That leaves me with 5 more, and 2 of those felt like longshots even before this whole process.

Looks like another message was posted and then deleted. If it's a troll, it's a persistent one.

There were too many NYU postings for me to think they were all a hoax. Odds are the message from the NYU department was fake (mods might've seen it didn't come from an NYC IP address or something, thus why they took it down).

Like UConn, this year's BU cohort had a huge number of incoming students with an MA (and by huge, I mean 6 of the 6 had an MA). That's sort of unusual: in my cohort, there were 2 students with MAs out of 7. The year before that, I think there were 2 out of 6. I don't know (and wouldn't even want to guess) what next year will be like.

This isn't the thread or, in fact, the forum for this. This is a forum to discuss grad admissions.

Sorry to beat on a dead horse, but since we haven't seen any other Harvard news for 5 days, does it seem reasonable to conclude the Harvard posting was fake? (Ian rightfully points out that Harvard spreads stuff out, but 5 days seems extreme and, I think, implausible!)

I was flipping through Kant's First Critique today and noticed that he uses the same convention in his dedication. So there's a venerable philosophical history of signing off like that!

Congrats! There are some really good people at Calgary!

Yeah, almost every school in Boston has had around 5 snow days this semester. Some delays should be expected.

Same boat re: UCLA. I figure it's just better to wait it out.

You rang? Basically, yeah. I have 1 implied rejection (Berkeley) and 1 god-knows-what (UCLA), but there's been nothing from 9 others. It's not a terrible situation to be in (it could be worse), but the anxious waiting is getting to me.

The best way to figure that out is to look at placement records.

I'm pretty skeptical that the Harvard post is legit. It's earlier than usual, on a Saturday, and there's only one. Now, all three of those things are possible, but the conjunction is pretty unlikely, yeah? Harvard usually sends out waitlist notifications at the same time and we've seen none of those. Harvard does have a different DGA this year, so things may be completely different. But even taking that into account, I'm skeptical.

Congrats to everyone admitted so far! I'm still playing the waiting game. Only two of my schools have accepted anyone, which leaves me with nine more to still hear from. Hoping for good news soon!

Yep. And unlike the Berkeley case, I can't even just infer rejection.

I was just coming to ask. It'd be weird for two reasons: Princeton usually sends out rejections and acceptances at the same time, and they usually don't notify anybody this early. Completely, totally, absolutely unrelated: I'd take a Princeton or UCLA acceptance email.

Some admits from Chicago and Rochester. Good luck, everyone!

Congrats!

They might not seem great currently, but I think the predictions can probably only be assessed in retrospect (esp. since the bulk of notifications go out later this month and into next month). Also, none of us (Sid and Ian included, I think) take these predictions too seriously, since we know there are serious problems with the methodology, particularly due to the bad data sets (neither Sid nor Ian, to my knowledge, have claimed that the methodology was sound). Or at least I hope! I've been using them to sort of informally get a sense of when I'd hear back (late February? Early March? etc), and that's probably what they're best used for.

BU was in the mid 40s. We lost a lot of faculty recently, though are hiring currently.