The_Last_Thylacine
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Waitlisted at Florida State. I'm one of four people on an unranked waitlist.
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16 hours ago, nonbeingandsomethingness said:
same here!
Also waitlisted at Syracuse. The waitlist has 20 people on it, and I am in the "final third" of the unranked waitlist (so maybe it's more of a stratified than a ranked waitlist). Apparently Syracuse almost always goes to their waitlist, but some years they accept 5 people and other years they accept 15-20 people. The DGS told me that he would be in contact, but that I shouldn't expect to hear anything until April 15th. My chance of admission was compared to a coin flip, which was both funny and terrifying!
An hour after I got that email, I was waitlisted at UC Davis, but at Davis, the waitlist is ranked, and I am third in line for a domestic slot. I know of at least two people who will decline their offer from UC Davis, so an acceptance seems likely in the near future.
Davis's application has an odd feature that requires you to copy and paste your statement of purpose. It also has a word limit and will not allow you to type past the limit. My statement of purpose was truncated, and I also esteemed myself to be a very poor fit for Davis, so I was surprised to learn that I was waitlisted. Still very nice of them to consider me, and I am certainly appreciative of both these opportunities. I also thought I was a very poor fit for Syracuse as well, but again, I'm very happy they're considering me nonetheless. To me, it would be a great honor to be able to attend either of those places.
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Don't forget about the optional question: "Where else did you apply?" Boy, that was such a hard pass answering that question.
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From my understanding, what motivates the use of the PGR is that many academic philosophers believe there is something helpful about the way the programs are evaluated. So, the way in which the PGR will most likely affect your life regards the kinds of job interviews you will receive, and the kinds of jobs you will ultimately get. Because there is a large enough contingent of philosophers who think the PGR is a useful way of judging the propensity of an individual to be a good philosopher, and these same people are likely to be on hiring committees, it is good to pay attention to the rankings for these reasons. For example, Arizona has done a particularly good job of advertising their strengths in social and political philosophy (and the PGR is evidence of their specialty in this area), and they are able to secure a lot of jobs for their graduates based on this reputation.
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2 hours ago, bluwe said:
I've heard the same from others, but I personally have not heard back. I'm trying to figure out the logic of releasing waitlists before acceptances and rejections. How do you know the applicants that are waitlisted if you don't already have a list of acceptances, minimally?
Pretty sure there was a report on an antecedent acceptance. The classmate of someone who was accepted to Minnesota posted in the Facebook group.
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27 minutes ago, Prose said:
naw this dude str8 h8in lmao
Ha! Got 'em.
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2 hours ago, gradhopeful96 said:
hahaha yes I did lol and I’m super happy about it haha, my brain just overthinks and gets scared that that will be my only acceptance. Vanderbilt is a great program and I’d love to go there but it’s that phenomenon of wishing you had an option between two places to make it meaningful you know?? hahah that probably doesn’t make a lot of sense but serial anxiety here says it does ?
Nope, I totally get it! I was just hoping your excitement about the acceptance could get you through the weekend before anxiety set in again!
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3 hours ago, gradhopeful96 said:
Has anyone else been having second thoughts lately and wished they applied to more programs?? haha nothing better to do than just think of all the what if’s while waiting to hear from schools ?
BUT YOU JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO VANDERBILT YESTERDAY!
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8 minutes ago, DanaChristine said:
Rejected by Alabama. Was kind of a shock, their DGS had used very encouraging language when we spoke via e-mail. My GRE verbal scores were not great, but they don't require them for PhD candidates who enter the program with an MA. Wasn't my top choice school, but a rejection still stings.
In addition, it seems that no one has heard from Notre Dame about interviews yet, including myself. While I don't expect to get in, it would be nice to hear something relatively close to the timeline they e-mailed after the application deadline.
Are you in the right forum?
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8 hours ago, akraticfanatic said:
I got rejected from Brown yesterday too, as did everyone in my program who applied there (that I know of). This was the first decision I've gotten back. Waiting on 25.
All three in my program (including myself) were rejected too.
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2 hours ago, xinnabon said:
Thanks friend! Now to plan my very expensive and environmentally painful trip... Does anyone know if visit budgets also cover
Now that's confidence!
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Just now, Prose said:
they send you a text saying "yo u wanna come haha" if you get in
they send you an insta dm saying "dont take it personal bro but we aint vibin" if you're rejected
They snapchat message you, "Sry, it's not u. Its us."
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2 minutes ago, Moose#@1%$ said:
University of Colorado seem to never email rejections. Just from what I've heard from a few pple and my own personal experience a few cycles ago.
According to Grad cafe reports, the University of Colorado, Boulder almost always emails rejections. https://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=boulder+philosophy&t=a&o=&p=3
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On 1/15/2019 at 11:42 PM, MtnDuck said:
@The_Last_Thylacine do you know what day? I'm running the google sheet this year that's tracking everything and I want to keep it up to date but haven't seen that posted yet.
Hey MtnDuck, you reported an acceptance to Florida State, but where is this information?
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I've been accepted to UCSB! I'm ecstatic to have the opportunity to continue studying philosophy.
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2 minutes ago, Marcus_Aurelius said:
Hi all, do most Philosophy programs interview (in person or online)? I figured not because I haven't really seen any mention of it, but I just found out that many Classics programs do, so now I'm not sure.
I have never heard of a ranked program doing interviews, except maybe U. Chicago.
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15 hours ago, MtnDuck said:
@The_Last_Thylacine do you know what day? I'm running the google sheet this year that's tracking everything and I want to keep it up to date but haven't seen that posted yet.
It was putatively yesterday. I'd wait for another report to confirm, but I heard this from a reliable source.
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If you were rejected, come here to tell us about it. We can't empathize with you if you don't tell us about it first.
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Post here if you were waitlisted.
I'm so sorry.
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Hi. I'm a lawyer. Affirmative action is very legal. What is illegal is having quotas for admitting certain groups. See Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978). Moreover, state universities have a compelling interest in promoting class diversity. Favoring minorities in a way that makes an applicant's minority status just one factor of many to be considered does not amount to a quota system. See Grutter v. Bellinger (2003).
Are the laws moral? This is a philosophical question, but I don't think it's academically credible to say that there is anything illegal about promoting diversity.