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I hate that the international student that was admitted to Yale did not report his GRE score, after mentioning how crucial it was for his admission to Yale university. Nonetheless, this demonstrates, I think, that the GRE is important for Yale. I only hope that it is not for the others.

Were you there? Why are you calling it sexist and arrogant?

If I may ask you, how do you know so many others here?

The most boring presentations for me are usually those that are not about philosophy but that I am forced to hear. They are usually about some other discipline about humanities, and I can't brook them because I suffer listening how they approach to some not very interesting themes, without a critical and philosophical mentality. All that lack of criticism, of logic, of desire to expand and to purify one's knowledge is excruciating.

Do not worry, you will have happier times later.

And talking about financial consideration, many of us will not be able to attend if we do not get a full scholarship, so it does not matter how much I love some school, its location, its programme, and its people, if I can not pay it, I can not go.

Are they superexpensive? Yes they are. Would I go if I could pay them? Yes I would. Could I pay for them? No, I could not. If you are worried about prestige and that sort of things, I can tell you that they are the 15th in the world at the QS's ranking http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2015/philosophy which is a great place, higher than many of the "USA's best".

By the way, I remember that I read somewhere -it might have been at the little comments of the gradcafe's report of results- that they tell you if they accepted you first, in march, and then they tell you about the scholarships one month later, in april.

Please do not let me be misunderstood. I did not have any particularly mocking or complaining tone, I kindly ask you to forgive me if it read like that. I am not a native English speaker and, while I had to study it extensively to approve those evil examinations, I have not developed enough sophistication to express myself with very detailed and subtle nuances.

They said from the beginning that results were going to be published 8 to 10 weeks after the deadline.

Or better yet, do not even consider that "Leiter" man on your life at all, like every philosopher did in the past.

It is very disappointing to find out that most here are choosing a school aiming to get a work in philosophy. Conventionally, this is what everyone else is supposed to do, but WE ARE PHILOSOPHERS, we do it for the love of wisdom.

Plato, Marx, Russell.

What did you choose?

Those two options alone are not really the most important factors. I think it is more important to think about what your experience as a whole will be. But, anyway, the location is more important than the "rank", first because the rankings are very controversial and are probably not the best indicators of what university is really the best one FOR YOU. The location should be considered, but for the right reasons, like what you will be able to live at there, according to YOUR OWN tastes and desires, even if they are not so deep and intellectual. In example, if you like Japanese girls and you get accepted at Tokyo, you will probably prefer to be in Tokyo than at somewhere else without Japanese girls. And certainly having cute girls near you is not the most important thing to consider, so you have to measure that factor with other important factors, like what kind of education you will get in what you want to study. But, in a hypothetical situation where the University of Tokyo has a programme almost as good as the other "top" university that admitted you, and their only difference is that they have Japanese girls, which one would win? And all it comes to your own criteria, what you want, what you like, and what you dream or desire. It does not matter if the convention says that USA's schools are better, or if your family does not want you to relate with so many Japanese girls, or if your linguist brother thinks that the Japanese is not a very advanced language specific enough to express the deepest ideas of philosophy, or if your feminist sister thinks that is bad to like certain kind of women physically, or if your adviser will get mad at you because you rejected to cross the doors he opened for you (the admission to the "top" programme) with his recommendation letter, or any other stupid reason you can think of... The only thing that matters is what you want in your life and how that particular university will help you to get it.

What is the trick to get in?

11 minutes ago, Erratic_Akratic said: Thanks!

Reading is harder.

This is my tip: Wake up and start directly working in your thesis, until you feel bad from not eating, at least. Write and read everything you can. This should be at least 1 hour, though I resisted 2. Then do everything else, including making your thesis in normal day time as if you had not worked in it. This way, anything can happen, you could be lost, it could be snowing... But you already advanced some pages from your thesis. And everyday it will grow up. When you wake up you have nothing else in mind, and starting it directly -without even caring about getting dressed- you concentrate deeply and immediately. Just think about as if it were a ritual of waking up. And DO plan to work on it at the normal day. Though you may skip the normal day session -although if you were disciplined you would not skip it, and you would not even need this kind of tips-, you shall never skip the waking up working session.

I really did not understand both questions.

I suggest you edit the brown date, because the admission that happened at february 12 was a special case, and the normal admissions have not been released yet.

But how do keeping us waiting help them?

It is not an inherently formal question. And I am sure that knowledge is related to other things besides logic -or at least we research hoping that be true-. But the detail is, how would one study that question without using logic at all? I try to think about a manner to do it, and I think perhaps thinking about experience and how it feels and how that is part of what conforms knowledge might be something that could be done without using too much logic, but I still cannot find a way to do it without logic at all. I always thought that the logic was, in part, the organisation and the relation of the thoughts. Of course you can create a myriad of logical systems, and there are uncountable ways of organising the thoughts, but whatever organisation your thoughts currently have, that organisation is its logic. And, as epistemology inquires knowledge, it is hard to not consider the organisation of thoughts in a research about what is knowledge. Perhaps people usually call formal epistemology to those researches that make an extensive use of logical symbols and similar things? But this would not be very rigorous. I analysed one argument with symbolical logic at some article about epistemology, but I would not really like to call my article a "paper about formal epistemology". However, I am delving in trifles, I only wanted to have some philosophical chat as it has been a long time since my last philosophical discussion. All this "application" thing takes a lot of time and it is really a waste of it, as we could be advancing in our philosophical development instead of using our energies in making a dozen of repetitive applications and feeling bad with every rejection. Why can't they simply give automatic admission to the postgraduate level to all their graduates?

Great. May I continue talking about this? I find really impossible to make epistemology without logic. Since Plato I can quote examples of epistemology being made with mathematics and logic. If I am right, at one dialogue (I think it was Meno but I could be wrong) Socrates calls a slave and asks him questions about geometry and the slave eventually answers them correctly, thus supposedly proving that the theory of reminiscence is true. Hence all epistemology should be formal, though not exclusively formal. Am I right?