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Anybody?

Has anyone on the UC Davis waitlist received an email about how that waitlist is ranked?

Can anyone who is a member of the FB group for philosophy admissions results tell me if there have been other, unique (meaning those who haven't posted or don't post results here) postings of acceptances from Indiana-Bloomington? (I understand if there is no easy way to determine whether posters use both sites or not.)

The term also irritates me, but for a different reason: if one has not been told anything, not been given a linguistic or conversational act at all, then nothing has been implied, because there has been nothing to do any implicating. I prefer the phrase “inferred rejection”, which is what it is. But, as abductive inferences go, there is always discounting evidence in favor of another explanation.

I just checked my own and it just lists the date that the scores were received and a green check mark indicating that this part of my application is complete. Edit: By "portal", do you mean the Boulder application portal or your ETS GRE portal?

I second this. I also did my undergrad at a PGR ranked program, and that was the word I got from advisors and other professors.

It’s a tired old phrase, but this forum is evidence in support of it: misery loves company.

As of right now, I am one such person.

It looks like four acceptances to UW-Madison have been posted, and they were received before the waitlists were. It sucks, because I haven't heard anything from the department and it is one of my top choices. I misread your comment and mangled its meaning. Please disregard.

I'm not the person who posted the rejection from WashU, but I do know that the programs that use applyweb post decision letters on your particular application portal (or whatever it's called). And, WashU uses applyweb, so I would guess that rejection letters are posted there, and that is where you can check your status.

Waitlisted at UC Davis. I'm extremely pleased to not be rejected from this program, because it's one of my top picks.

I agree. But, as a philosopher, I also have to point out that the post is ambiguous as to which university is being referenced. Does "Chicago" name UChicago, UIC, Loyola University Chicago? It is unclear.

It's going to be hard to find a decently priced place right around DePaul because it's in Lincoln Park, which is a ridiculously expensive neighborhood. Most of the north side is expensive due to gentrification and a contrived "cool" atmosphere. Avondale is next to Logan Square and is a good, cheaper place to live if you want to stay on the north side. If I were to recommend anything, it would be to stay away from the north side and instead find a place in Bridgeport, Pilsen, Little Village (not too far west in this neighborhood), or somewhere around UIC. You will have to take public transportation or ride a bike, but that's not such a hassle in Chicago. The south side neighborhoods I mentioned are the cheapest places in the city, besides some weird far west or south neighborhoods. They are also, in my opinion, the best neighborhoods in the city, though I'm sure that a lot of people would disagree, especially about Little Village.

I think that, for me, this feeling comes from reading Moby Dick. It's hard to describe what it is that causes such strong emotional reaction, but I would say the chapter The Try-Works is a good example of the heights Melville's writing can reach.

Who doesn't like Borges??? William T. Vollmann's Seven Dreams, currently on Argall, Vol. 3 (but published fourth in the series) Jaegwon Kim's Mind in a Physical World Gareth Evans' The Varieties of Reference

Thanks, and congratulations to you!

Ok, that's good to know. Was there any conversational implicature indicating that calls are still being made?

I second this.

At least they hope we pursue our graduate education elsewhere...

Thank gods for some hope. I've yet to hear back about 9 applications, and even with those numbers, it's getting a little hard to feel anything but a hangover.

Yep.

I'm also anxiously awaiting MIT and Harvard. I hope they tell us something today.

This is a great thread. I can't say which philosopher is my favorite, because the degree to which I'm interested in one philosopher or another changes from time to time. I can say that a few of them will always be at the top of my list for being the most engaging, very readable, lively, and enjoyable. Those are, in no particular order, Putnam, Quine, Wittgenstein, Gareth Evans, Ned Block, and Nozick (primarily Philosophical Explanations). I could read the writings of these philosophers over and over and always get something new. I also think that Sellars (particularly EPM) is fascinating and invigorating, but definitely hard to decipher, which is why he doesn't make the list with the others. My interests are in mind (especially anti-individualism and concepts), epistemology (especially self-knowledge), and cognitive science. I'd place Richard Moran and Galen Strawson somewhere else, as I'm very interested in their recent and current research and think that there is a lot of fertile ground in their work.

It still just says "Submitted". Whether that's strange or not is not for me to say...