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Metaphysics, mind, and math/logic

Declined Notre Dame and Stanford

The call was from the admissions chair Ishani Maitra. And, it's probably going to be between NYU, Michigan, MIT, and Berkeley. I'm visiting them before I decide.

Nope, different person. But I've gotten 7 acceptances so I'm thrilled!

Got into Michigan!!

Just got into Stanford as well! (Via email actually)

I GOT INTO NYU

I don't know if he is the DGS, but I am interested in his work if that counts for anything...I would guess they're calling more people by the lack of posts though?

I'm laughing that I'm being called "suspicious af" haha

Agustin Rayo called me, and shortly later sent me an email talking about the visiting days, funding package, etc.

Right now

ACCEPTED TO MIT

I don't know what to think of Harvard - on the one hand they usually don't release all acceptances on one day, but on the other hand there has always been fewer posted acceptances in prior years...

ACCEPTED TO NOTRE DAME

*crickets*

Here's the post on the philosophy admissions blog for the corresponding Friday last year (Feb 20 2015) "That makes this Friday quite a day for important releases – NYU, Yale, Harvard, USC, and Fordham all released today. Perhaps we’ll see a couple more over the weekend. Exciting times nonetheless, and congratulations to everyone who received offers today." ugh. https://philosophyadmissions.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/new-york-university/

I wish I could hibernate until March and refresh my email then

What's your numerical credence that we will either hear from Notre dame or Yale or Stanford today?

Just curious - were the UNC emails sent out by Laurie Paul?

The writing sample argued for a tautology. The inference from the second to third sentence is just invalid. The most charitable interpretation is that it was on Plantinga's modal ontological argument for the existence of God and there were some typos in the description. Voting troll

I'm also wondering about the likelihood of Notre Dame today...

Thanks! Partial answers are appreciated

Does anyone have info about when campus visits usually have been in past years? Do most top philosophy programs have a particular organized campus visit where all admitted students come? Or do most just invite you to come whenever you would like to visit? I'm particularly wondering whether the weekends in mid to late March are really popular for campus visits, in particular the weekends of 12-13, 19-20, 26-27. I know the answers to these questions obviously vary depending on the school, but I'm wondering if people have any data showing recurring trends for, say, the top 20 programs in the PGR.

I applied to several, partly to increase my chances, partly because my interests are broad (in addition to logicky stuff, also traditional M&E, Phil mind, Phil physics). Irvine and Berkeley (LPS), CUNY (math), Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Michigan, Notre dame, Stanford, Rutgers, and MIT (philosophy).

Just curious - what other schools did you apply to?