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One of my colleagues got accepted back in January (!). They were on the plane for admitted students visit day yesterday so I would assume things are already out :/

Someone in the acceptance/rejection thread said they're not done accepting people and that the early offer was due to a fellowship.

MIT rejections are going out via email.

Whatever folks think best. If I get bored (I probably will) I might go back and add a few more data points (e.g., x school does interviews now, etc.) since some things seem good to know about ahead of time.

I've added a second page to the document with a consolidated list of when acceptances were released for the 2015-2017 admissions cycles. A number of dates are missing but this might help folks who are trying to guesstimate when things will be released.

My colleague got a call from Georgetown earlier this evening so best of luck to folks who applied there! (And here's hoping I got onto the waitlist I guess)

I'll put that in brackets and add in the more accurate date. Thanks!

Looks like I already made a few mistakes. Thanks for catching them! I've fixed the entry for Colorado State (only know of rejections, no info about acceptances yet) and Brown (they did send acceptances out and I forgot to put the date in the doc). If it's colored green without a date then it was a mistake (mea culpa). If it's colored yellow/red and there's no date in the B column that's because I'm waiting for the acceptances to come out since at the end of the cycle I want to put in columns of past years so folks can better predict when things might come out for next year. If nothing is colored at all then the school hasn't sent out anything (that I know of). Thanks for letting me know about British Columbia!

I put this is a post earlier and realized it'll just get buried so here's take two Given that the old wordpress site from last year isn't being updated I've created a google doc that consolidates the acceptance, waitlist, and rejection information for PhD and Master's programs. I'm probably missing some from both still though. You can view the google doc here and comment if anything seems wrong/is missing.

I've noticed that the old Philosophy Admissions wordpress website isn't being updated. So, here is a google doc version that has (hopefully) a fairly up-to-date representation of what admissions, waitlists, and rejections have been sent out. Feel free to comment anything I should fix!

Last time I applied I didn't get accepted anywhere except the last place I heard back from (and one of my undergrad profs didn't get in anywhere *except* Stanford...). You never know how things are going to turn out so don't give up hope yet :]

My colleague just checked the Cornell website and had an acceptance letter. No formal email/word of funding yet though. See edit below. Also the letter included info about funding (I just misheard them). I applied and mine doesn't have anything on it so it may only have acceptances up at the moment. Unless someone else finds a waitlist letter on their application... edit: They also received an email shortly after.

I got accepted to University of Washington at Seattle and I'm one of the folks waitlisted at UC Davis (I'll be taking myself off that waitlist pretty soon with any luck). I also know two folks who got accepted to UVA yesterday. All were by email. p.s., for anyone that applied to Virginia Tech they were still reviewing files as of yesterday. We are also in the process of hiring (again) and last time we were hiring acceptances didn't get sent out until mid-March. With any luck things won't get delayed though!

Heck, some departments don't even have a language requirement anymore.

Not sure if I agree with that, or at least I don't agree strongly. While the grammar of Latin and Greek is different, many of the texts I have used both to learn the languages and for teaching them to undergrads and younger children do a decent job at emphasizing how the grammar differs from contemporary English constructions and is similar, to an extent, to non-English, PIE tree languages wrt/ declining and conjugating words (though not with sentence order). I think with a decent enough book, and the internet, some folks at least would be able to grasp the morphological changes in Greek and Latin and discern how the sentence constructions, while different from English, make sense. Personally, sitting in a semester course where you memorize declension charts, how to conjugate verbs, and get repeatedly told that you can't just read the sentence left to right may not be the best use of time (for at least some folks). So, maybe Adequate Philosopher would have success on their own with the languages, and maybe they would need an accelerated IS/class. It would just depend, as it does for all of us, on what kind of structure they need to be successful.

Disclaimer: I am not a historian of philosophy but I was originally trained as a classicist. While you could take beginner classes during your MA, teaching yourself is more than doable (at least for the basics). For Latin, Wheelock's is the way to go in my opinion (unless you want a more entertaining approach with Cambridge). Likewise for Ancient Greek; there are a handful of introductory readers though I favor Hansen and Quinn or the book published by Hackett. The reason I recommend learning the basics on your own first, rather than necessarily taking a class, is that in intermediate and upper level courses you would learn the nuances of the language. Baby Greek and baby Latin introduce the basics, not the nuances. The nuances, along with brute knowledge of vocab, are where folks can sometimes struggle. A few of the classicists I know taught themselves French using Vis-à-Vis: Beginning French (and that is the series I used then I was learning some French) and stay up to speed using duolingo or some other smartphone app. I, personally, am favorable of taking in-person courses for living languages due to the many nuances that might otherwise get glossed over if you were to teach yourself. Myself and a cohort member will be taking German in the fall. If there is a course in PIE based etymology (i.e., Greek and Latin etymology) it may be useful to sit in on it. Learning the roots and about morphology can help you learn both the dead languages and the modern ones that are on the PIE tree. If you attend some institutions, such as Virginia Tech , you get free access to Rosetta Stone as a student.

I am a current grad student at VTech. If you have any questions about the program (faculty, campus, current placement record, climate,etc.) feel free to let me know!