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Got waitlisted at Johns Hopkins.

A lot of us share your feelings, I am sure. I am an international applicant (third-world, too) who is currently only waitlisted at Princeton and offered to visit. The flight prices are around the same here and with a downside, too. The flight price (say, $750 on the average) amounts to twice of the monthly minimum wage in my country due to exchange rates. Insane, right? I don't know whether I will be visiting (depends on what I will hear from other programs), but know at least that I share your feelings.

It was on formal semantics. I believe that he was speaking on behalf of the committee rather than his personal opinion.

It was a personalized e-mail from Hendrik Lorenz, as far as I can tell--commending me on my writing sample especially.

The way the e-mail sounds suggests that they are done with everything, set up the visiting days and so on. Unfortunately, probably.

Just got waitlisted at Princeton.

Congratulations! I guess the more important question is whether they are done with the rejections? Was there any hint that they were?

We, 2018/2019 applicants, may not appreciate the value of this document, though 2019/2020 applicants will surely do. For this, I propose that this be pinned to the top of the philosophy subforum.

How are those who have been rejected by Notre Dame notified--by e-mail or website? I have not received any e-mail (perhaps due to the e-mail being relegated to Spambox and deleted there), neither does the website have any updates. Those who got the e-mail, does the website reflect the decision yet?

This is not hairsplitting; this is beautiful. Let me indulge you one last time then! But if he did not endorse the duty of preserving his well-being, then wouldn't s/he be undermining the very faculty of his willing/endorsing any duty? Therefore, it seems that there are certain things that are irrational to want, that implies a contradiction in willing at any order!

I was thinking in Kantian terms. That is, by endangering his health and life, he is treating his own humanity merely as a means (to getting into graduate school) and, thereby, violating the categorical duty to himself. Good to see there is more than one way we can recommend him to be mindful of his health!

How reliable is this?

Yes. I agree that it would probably attract some of the best untenured assistant professors, which, in turn, would attract some of the best graduate students, which would, in turn, cause JHU to rise in the rankings. However, I doubt whether this would propel JHU to the top-5 position (I have in mind PGR rankings, which I take to be more reliable than QR, Higher Times etc.). Also, as I said, USC is also an example to a radically upward-rising trend and I believe that JHU will show a similar rise, though I feel it will be at best to the top-20 rather than top-5. Good luck to you!

These kind of self-predictions are always a bit presumptuous, though there is a related example to this type of scenario (USC). JHU is already a good department and it will be better with the donation, no doubt, although I would not bet on its becoming top-5 in the next few years. I also applied to JHU, but haven't stated any POI. All in all, my preemptive congratulations, since your POI's words seem like there is only official business to sort out for your admission.

The day being? By the way, congratulations on your acceptance!

When did you receive the call, if you don't mind me asking?

Congratulations there! I didn't apply to any of these schools, but I have a friend who applied to Miami. Was the Miami acceptance an early fellowship notification or regular acceptance among others?

This sounds interesting. I don't know to what extent you are interested in the connection between ethics and metaphysics in general (aside from Aristotelian scholarship, say), but there is some interesting material on this in the literature of grounding which seems pertinent to your project. For instance, people like Selim Berker (2014, "The Unity of Grounding") believe that there is only one notion of ground, which interconnects ethics and metaphysics, as opposed to multiple fundamental notions for the metaphysical, natural and normative. Since grounding literature dates back in a sense to Aristotle, I thought you might take your paper to go beyond an interpretative paper and bear on a more general discussion. Seems worth taking a look at!

I am sincerely considering working at a carpenter workshop run by an old family friend.

In the same boat here. My take was, if you intend to keep on what you have been doing (i.e. philosophy), then I take it that these are the best times to do some deadline-free, on-your-own-dime, no-strings-attached reading and research. Essentially, I had been at my writing sample for more than a year (M.A. thesis) and I am now pretty beat and exhausted on the subject, even though I like it to the heart still. I took a break from the subject and started exploring every which way. Normally, I am a philosophy of language, formal semantics/pragmatics and mathematical logic/truth person, but nowadays I am mostly reading metaphysics. Also these may be the last times you can binge-watch stuff offhand, since, if you get in, you won't have much time and if you don't, then other plans will dominate. So, treat yourself a little.

Thank you for your understanding and good wishes! I wish the best in your endeavors as well.

Thanks for the sympathies! I don't mind. I am from Turkey. If you follow a bit of Bloomberg News, you will appreciate that being from Turkey was not any help in terms of applications, since Turkish lira had one of its worst years overall. This made the whole venture risky as well, considering that I would be putting out there a significant portion of my money, betting on admissions. Yes, quality over quantity should be a general motto. I have the impression that fit is a major player in admissions, even though there seems to be a general notion of strong applicant. I tried to hand-pick my schools as diligently as possible due to this. Thanks for the advice! Yes, it went so far as to be a dealbreaker for me, even though all three of those schools were great fits for me. My school tried to charge me 40+$ per transcript, which is outright swindle, if you ask me. I am so glad that it worked out for you. The thing is, if you get admitted, in hindsight, it absolves of the cost, but applying to graduate schools should not feel like a gamble. For instance, Carnegie Mellon, feeling this way, abolished application fees altogether and I believe in the upcoming years other institutions will follow suit. I guess we will remember ourselves as the martyrs, having paid the heavy price for graduate school. : P Again, I am so glad that it worked out for you. At this stage I can only hope the same for myself.

Thanks for the sympathies! I ended up applying to 12, 4 of them being fee-waived. Even this, coupled with GRE/TOEFL score orders, was almost not affordable for me, since exchange rates were pretty crushing.

I absolutely feel you. Ultimately, I didn't apply to three schools that I really wanted to (Michigan, University of Southern California and UCLA) just because of this requirement. As an international applicant, my school charged obscene fees to send official transcripts to overseas institutions. When I realized that I can apply to extra couple of schools instead of sending official transcripts to these schools, I opted out not to.

I really love the theme of this thread. It feels like the last fortress of hope standing tall among the anxiety, fear and indeterminacy plaguing the rest of the forum. For what it's worth, I am done with all 12 of my applications and laid all of my application-related files on my desktop to their resting folder. Now we wait and do some easy-reading!