Schopenhauerfanboy

That's wonderful! Congratulations!! 

Got accepted at Tulane!!! Woohoooo! New Orleans baby!

Got accepted at Tulane!!! Woohoooo! New Orleans baby!

Got accepted at Tulane!!! Woohoooo! New Orleans baby!

Got accepted at Tulane!!! Woohoooo! New Orleans baby!

Got accepted at Tulane!!! Woohoooo! New Orleans baby!

Can anyone confirm the UBC acceptance ? 

Also accepted to Brandeis MA with $10,000 scholarship, TA-ship and more potential funding!

I talked to a student in the program and he told me that their search for the new department chair has pushed everything back. They haven't even been able to look at apps yet, but they're going to start this week. Hopefully they'll send out decisions sometime between Monday-Wednesday next week.

Hopefully we hear by the end of this week.

I heard from a grad student that they are in the process of installing a new dept. chair, and it is possible that is a reason for delay.
I hope we hear from them soon!!

Brock is a really unique department, and does admittedly have some good people working in continental as well. But Guelph and McMaster are both significantly stronger programs for continental philosophy (all within a 90 minute radius). Brock has placed some people at Penn State, and one at Toronto's Religion PhD, but it generally performs a lot worse than McMaster and Guelph.  

Praying for people to get offers they prefer to Boston U and Syracuse! 

I will likely be removing myself from the waitlists at Purdue and Baylor this week as well, and probably declining my offer from Tennessee too (depending on how my Skype chat with the DGS goes on Friday). 

Did anybody else apply to Tulane? I got a solicited email from the DGS that they will be releasing their results this Friday. I honestly have no idea if Tulane gets a lot of applicants or is a fringe school. I'd be really happy to go there, in either case. Plus NEW ORLEANS!

I didn't wind up applying but it was on my list for a while. There are some pretty cool people working there  Good luck! (also... Yeah. New Orleans!)

Been there buddy. 

Congrats on that offer - great program. I would have applied to 20 if I could, but I already spent close to 2000$ on my 12 applications (counting GRE, transcripts, etc). 

Simply put, I would have applied to more schools. Even the most exceptional applicants can get shut out by not applying to enough places. I would aim for at least 10 schools, but ideally closer to 20 if you can. A friend of mine, who is now a tenured professor and a graduate of UC-Riverside's PhD program, applied to 20 schools. He was shut out by 19 of them, but accepted at UC-Riverside. He was clearly good enough to have been accepted at most of the other programs as well, but his success was dependent upon him increasing the volume of his applications 

Simply put, I would have applied to more schools. Even the most exceptional applicants can get shut out by not applying to enough places. I would aim for at least 10 schools, but ideally closer to 20 if you can. A friend of mine, who is now a tenured professor and a graduate of UC-Riverside's PhD program, applied to 20 schools. He was shut out by 19 of them, but accepted at UC-Riverside. He was clearly good enough to have been accepted at most of the other programs as well, but his success was dependent upon him increasing the volume of his applications 

Congrats on that offer - great program. I would have applied to 20 if I could, but I already spent close to 2000$ on my 12 applications (counting GRE, transcripts, etc). 

Simply put, I would have applied to more schools. Even the most exceptional applicants can get shut out by not applying to enough places. I would aim for at least 10 schools, but ideally closer to 20 if you can. A friend of mine, who is now a tenured professor and a graduate of UC-Riverside's PhD program, applied to 20 schools. He was shut out by 19 of them, but accepted at UC-Riverside. He was clearly good enough to have been accepted at most of the other programs as well, but his success was dependent upon him increasing the volume of his applications 

Simply put, I would have applied to more schools. Even the most exceptional applicants can get shut out by not applying to enough places. I would aim for at least 10 schools, but ideally closer to 20 if you can. A friend of mine, who is now a tenured professor and a graduate of UC-Riverside's PhD program, applied to 20 schools. He was shut out by 19 of them, but accepted at UC-Riverside. He was clearly good enough to have been accepted at most of the other programs as well, but his success was dependent upon him increasing the volume of his applications 

Simply put, I would have applied to more schools. Even the most exceptional applicants can get shut out by not applying to enough places. I would aim for at least 10 schools, but ideally closer to 20 if you can. A friend of mine, who is now a tenured professor and a graduate of UC-Riverside's PhD program, applied to 20 schools. He was shut out by 19 of them, but accepted at UC-Riverside. He was clearly good enough to have been accepted at most of the other programs as well, but his success was dependent upon him increasing the volume of his applications 

Did you graduate from Degrassi by chance?

I have a good feeling about you getting into Purdue.