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RevolutionBlues wrote a brilliant post. I may only humbly add what I'm going to do now, because I'm also applied to Princeton and haven't heard from them. I will try meditation. Also I'm thinking about that place as it doesn't fit me, not only me's not fitting the place. Maybe you're saved from 5 years of headache and disdain. Cheer up!!! Cheer up! Cheer up. Cheer up....

I'm waitlisted at Hopkins. I've mailed POI and he answered me that "if there will be acceptances in your subfield, you're in". That's it. I think the only strategy is to mail politely your POI (if you have mailed them before) and wait.... Thanks for this thread! I was waiting for it)

@jujubea, can you PM me also? i'd be very grateful!!!

@Monadology — of course) And, on that Critique's basis, we may ask for universal agreement on this point! @a_for_aporia — I found the structure of the second part of Derush ha-Iqqarim and Physics IV very close, so I tried to compare them in one of the chapters of my MA (in Hebrew). Then I translated this into Russian (and reworked it significantly), and published it as an article, then, again, translated into English (and imporved it again). Now this is my writing sample. If anybody has a wish to read 14 pages of questionable English on Abraham Cardoso, Aristotle, and Lurianic Kabbalah, I'd be happy to send it and receive some criticism.

Hi friends, I'm trying JHU Philosophy this year. My story: I was born in Latvia, then studied in Moscow (MSU), and studied there history and Hebrew. GPA is 4.12 out of 5 (maybe ~3.3 in 4.0 scale?) Than I moved to Israel and finished here MA at HUJI at dept of Jewish Thought with GPA 93.29 out of 1000 (3.8? 3.7?). My M.A. was dedicated to publication of a manuscript of an almost forgotten Jewish self-proclaimed Sabbatean prophet/messiah which was a Neo-Scholastic philosopher at the same time. His work is dedicated to unknowability of the First Cause and written like a Kabbalistic treatise, yet I think he draws heavily on Christian apophatic tradition and pholosophy. That's what I tried to prove in my work (apart from publishing the text itself) Another field of my interest is KANT. I'm totally devoted. I've spent countless hours on him and wrote a big work about his notion of freedom in the 3rd (not a typo!) Critique. My writing sample was about the notions of time and space in his work; I tried to show how his thought is related to Aristotle and to Lurianic Kabbalah. Looks like I'm fitting precisely neither for philosophy, nor for religion, nor for history in US. Still I'm trying to become accepted! So, this is my story.

I'm applying to UCSB, JHU and Princeton; my topic is Sabbateanism and Early Modern Time philosohpy/intellectual history. JHU history waitlisted me yesterday.Congrats to all who's been accepted!

Wow, good luck to you! I hope that you will get there and get the funding. But it looks like you're almost in! I'm on Jewish Studies, so you easily can guess who's mine POI I've heard that he can be crazy, but he is definitely one of the greatest scholars in my field right now. After I've mailed J.R. who is responsible for grad admissions I've chosen both tracks (as I remember it is possible for them), like MA/PhD and PhD. I have a very good M.A. at HUJ and good LORs, so maybe I'll get through... Maybe we'll even drink coffee there together, ha!)) Thanks for the info about the timeline. I will be less nervous at least for a week!

congrats! I'm applying there too, but no news from there still. Can you say, who's your POI?