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Rejected from A. That does make decision-making easier, right?

Might be worth telling the west coast school that you have an offer you have to accept by 4ET/1PT? Maybe tell them in the guise of asking what they would advise you to do.
But I've no experience with this. Just making up stuff as I go.
I know one of the places I'm waitlisted at gave their prospectives with offers until 4:30 ET. Which is great for me. The one offer I'm holding on to gave me no such deadline, but just as soon as I know, before the end of the day.

If the cost of living in the area of C is such that, to have in an affordable rent, you'd have to live a lengthy commute away from your university, I'd take that into consideration. 
But as I see it, the most important element of funding packages isn't so much the amount of the yearly stipend. A negative tie-breaker, for me, would be a package that fares poorly on these two questions: How many hours of teaching (and grading) are part of the stipend? What are the funding possibilities beyond year 5? Though I value teaching, I wouldn't want to teaching and grading at a rate of 10 hours/week, each semester. And I would want to make sure that the department has the means to help students finish up their dissertation by funding them beyond their fifth year, and not solely on the basis of teaching (which keeps you away from writing your dissertation).      
Good luck with your decisions!

Good points! Another friend of mine who is in graduate school drew attention to the bit about student loans. I hadn't thought about that. Yes, I do have some loans and it was pointed out to me that I could pay off those loans at B and perhaps take a good bite out of them at C—whereas that would be impossible at A.
I don't think program C would be bad for mentorship. The profs I'm interested in working with are older and are purportedly a bit out of touch with the job market. They also have big reputations as far as publishing good philosophy (that's probably why the school has higher rankings)—but I've heard no independent praise about how they are as teachers and mentors. Whereas I've heard independent praise about the mentorship of the people I'd be working with at programs A and B, especially A.
I think B will be my top choice, unless A makes a competitive offer rather than the projected one.
It's worth pointing out that I'd be happy to go to any of these places. It's important to bear that in mind on this intense day.

Just in time for decision day: the APDA project releases data on how over 100 departments have done placing their students in jobs (including types of jobs and AOSs): http://dailynous.com/2016/04/15/philosophy-placement-data-and-analysis-an-update/

For me, the funding package isn't even a tie breaker, because I think if the funding is sufficient for me to live comfortably in an area then it shouldn't affect my decision.  Instead, I'd take prospective mentors, rankings, location, and cohorts to be the important factors for me to make a decision.
I'm also waiting for two programs, which are my first and second choices.  I hope we will have good luck today.

In at USC! Couldn't be more excited to accept. 

Just declined UCSD. 
Interests in phil sci / epistemology

This happened to me... I politely said I was very interested but I'd have to wait until the end of the day on April 15th. I got a real offer (as opposed to the cart before the horse kind) from that school the next day regardless, which I sat on until a different, preferred school came through. The APA rules say that they can't make you respond before then, stand up for yourself! You can't be bullied into accepting an offer earlier in order to make that offer come about. If they want you, they should give you an offer and wait for your response like everyone else. 

Declining Cornell and will decline Stanford tomorrow once the system is set up for me.  I cried a little…super hard decision for me.  But I'm excited to be at Columbia!

Removed myself from Brown and Cornell wait-lists. I had good positions on them, so I hope this helps somebody sooner or later!!  
Also, I really hope to get into either Yale or Stanford...

I've plucked up the courage and declined Toronto's MA. I hope that'll translate to good news for someone else.

Kant mainly, but also Leibniz and German Idealism more broadly. Kant / Kierkegaard at Cornell.

After a few days of tough deliberation, I just declined UC-Irvine and OSU. That means I've declined all my actual offers except for Pittsburgh. However, I am still waitlisted at UCSD and Cornell and I will wait those out before accepting Pitts' offer. That means that if I do turn down Pitt, it's likely that it won't be until very close to April 15. But I've done my best to make a decision on the options I do have in a timely manner.
Best of luck, everyone!

After a few days of tough deliberation, I just declined UC-Irvine and OSU. That means I've declined all my actual offers except for Pittsburgh. However, I am still waitlisted at UCSD and Cornell and I will wait those out before accepting Pitts' offer. That means that if I do turn down Pitt, it's likely that it won't be until very close to April 15. But I've done my best to make a decision on the options I do have in a timely manner.
Best of luck, everyone!

After a few days of tough deliberation, I just declined UC-Irvine and OSU. That means I've declined all my actual offers except for Pittsburgh. However, I am still waitlisted at UCSD and Cornell and I will wait those out before accepting Pitts' offer. That means that if I do turn down Pitt, it's likely that it won't be until very close to April 15. But I've done my best to make a decision on the options I do have in a timely manner.
Best of luck, everyone!

After a few days of tough deliberation, I just declined UC-Irvine and OSU. That means I've declined all my actual offers except for Pittsburgh. However, I am still waitlisted at UCSD and Cornell and I will wait those out before accepting Pitts' offer. That means that if I do turn down Pitt, it's likely that it won't be until very close to April 15. But I've done my best to make a decision on the options I do have in a timely manner.
Best of luck, everyone!

After a few days of tough deliberation, I just declined UC-Irvine and OSU. That means I've declined all my actual offers except for Pittsburgh. However, I am still waitlisted at UCSD and Cornell and I will wait those out before accepting Pitts' offer. That means that if I do turn down Pitt, it's likely that it won't be until very close to April 15. But I've done my best to make a decision on the options I do have in a timely manner.
Best of luck, everyone!

I took three semesters of German as an undergraduate. Still can't read philosophy in German (haven't done any German in a year) but I have the basic foundation to build off of. I'm planning on working through April Wilson's German Quickly book this summer. I'm pretty poor with languages though (my work ethic could be better in this area too); I know some philosophers who have taught themselves German.
But I think that, in general, the language learning infrastructure (in America) is terrible. We are required generally to take a few semesters of language classes in college and high school. But why so late? Isn't the best time to learn languages when we are in elementary school? And, when we do take language classes in college they are 4 days a week for an hour a day. Obviously that's not the most efficient way to learn a language. Seems like the best way to learn a language would be to live immersed in it for a few weeks—I imagine 8 weeks of German immersion (where you can't use English) in the summer would be more beneficial than 3 semesters of German classes. The problem, of course, is that the immersion style programs are so rare and expensive. I got accepted into Middlebury's language school for the summer (by the way, they have other languages as well), with a grant that covers half the tuition, but I still don't have quite enough to go. But that does seem to be the most efficient way to learn. Would be interested in hearing others' experiences.
 
Edit: One other thing. They say, in philosophy only reading knowledge is important. It's true that reading knowledge in German, for example, is a must if you're doing Kant. I'm skeptical that it's all that helpful to divorce language-for-reading from language-for-living. So yeah, I bet there are a lot of philosophers that can read, say, Kant in his original language, but couldn't speak or live in a German environment. But I'm just skeptical that their reading of German is really authentic when it's divorced from knowledge of living in German. But maybe I'm making a lot of unwarranted language assumptions. Would be interested in hearing others' views on this.

I took three semesters of German as an undergraduate. Still can't read philosophy in German (haven't done any German in a year) but I have the basic foundation to build off of. I'm planning on working through April Wilson's German Quickly book this summer. I'm pretty poor with languages though (my work ethic could be better in this area too); I know some philosophers who have taught themselves German.
But I think that, in general, the language learning infrastructure (in America) is terrible. We are required generally to take a few semesters of language classes in college and high school. But why so late? Isn't the best time to learn languages when we are in elementary school? And, when we do take language classes in college they are 4 days a week for an hour a day. Obviously that's not the most efficient way to learn a language. Seems like the best way to learn a language would be to live immersed in it for a few weeks—I imagine 8 weeks of German immersion (where you can't use English) in the summer would be more beneficial than 3 semesters of German classes. The problem, of course, is that the immersion style programs are so rare and expensive. I got accepted into Middlebury's language school for the summer (by the way, they have other languages as well), with a grant that covers half the tuition, but I still don't have quite enough to go. But that does seem to be the most efficient way to learn. Would be interested in hearing others' experiences.
 
Edit: One other thing. They say, in philosophy only reading knowledge is important. It's true that reading knowledge in German, for example, is a must if you're doing Kant. I'm skeptical that it's all that helpful to divorce language-for-reading from language-for-living. So yeah, I bet there are a lot of philosophers that can read, say, Kant in his original language, but couldn't speak or live in a German environment. But I'm just skeptical that their reading of German is really authentic when it's divorced from knowledge of living in German. But maybe I'm making a lot of unwarranted language assumptions. Would be interested in hearing others' views on this.

I took three semesters of German as an undergraduate. Still can't read philosophy in German (haven't done any German in a year) but I have the basic foundation to build off of. I'm planning on working through April Wilson's German Quickly book this summer. I'm pretty poor with languages though (my work ethic could be better in this area too); I know some philosophers who have taught themselves German.
But I think that, in general, the language learning infrastructure (in America) is terrible. We are required generally to take a few semesters of language classes in college and high school. But why so late? Isn't the best time to learn languages when we are in elementary school? And, when we do take language classes in college they are 4 days a week for an hour a day. Obviously that's not the most efficient way to learn a language. Seems like the best way to learn a language would be to live immersed in it for a few weeks—I imagine 8 weeks of German immersion (where you can't use English) in the summer would be more beneficial than 3 semesters of German classes. The problem, of course, is that the immersion style programs are so rare and expensive. I got accepted into Middlebury's language school for the summer (by the way, they have other languages as well), with a grant that covers half the tuition, but I still don't have quite enough to go. But that does seem to be the most efficient way to learn. Would be interested in hearing others' experiences.
 
Edit: One other thing. They say, in philosophy only reading knowledge is important. It's true that reading knowledge in German, for example, is a must if you're doing Kant. I'm skeptical that it's all that helpful to divorce language-for-reading from language-for-living. So yeah, I bet there are a lot of philosophers that can read, say, Kant in his original language, but couldn't speak or live in a German environment. But I'm just skeptical that their reading of German is really authentic when it's divorced from knowledge of living in German. But maybe I'm making a lot of unwarranted language assumptions. Would be interested in hearing others' views on this.

Declined Simon Fraser and Loyola Chicago. Removed myself from Notre Dame's and Johns Hopkins' wait lists. Will decline 2 of the following by the end up the month after I've visited: UC-Irvine, OSU, and Pittsburgh. Trying to keep things moving for those of us on wait lists. I'm waitlisted at UCSD and Cornell and will wait to hear back from them. My main AOI is Kant's theoretical philosophy and Leibniz.
Best of luck to everyone!