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So having now been almost shut out from America (aside from New School Masters which I can't afford) I'm looking at other places to apply and am looking at Europe, my joint interests in phil of maths/logic, Wittgenstein and early continental stuff makes it quite hard to find suitable places I was wondering if anyone knew of potentially good places that would teach in English? The LMU logic & philosophy of science masters looks interesting, but I'm having some other problems for here in the UK I'm looking mainly at Southampton, Sussex & Warwick but open to other suggestions if people have them? Thanks in advance !

Had my rejections flooding in the last few days, just hoping Tufts miraculously like me when nobody else did, Toronto and McGill change their mind before sending mine back, or I gain a particularly lucrative sugar daddy in New York so I can actually afford to go to the new school

Got a New School offer, nice to have something but only 35% merit scholarship is less than ideal - def couldn't afford living in New York with that little support!

I just got it as my first offer and Alice Crary is one of the best people possible I could work with, and on the continental side there's a good number of people, but I only got a 35% merit scholarship and I've heard the major problem is that the student:staff ratio is one of the worst out there, so you really don't get the personal attention you should be getting in a graduate program, so I'm happy but it's definitely at the bottom of my list if I get other offers

blarg I feel like a warning to future applicants despite still having 8 places to hear back from (although implied rejections from 2...), top-ranked undergrad, near-perfect GRE, good letters from well-respected people (including a world-leader in my AoI), writing sample that was my thesis which already got a 1st so I do know it's good, but not great marks because apparently having 18 hours of exams at the end of two years is a sensible way to determine three years of progress asdvhaiogaskalsdf i should be optimistic because my rejections so far are from two of the most competitive programs and there's still a bunch left but it's hard to keep your head up (also, y'know, depression etc.)!

waaaaaagh 2 weeks since my 2 rejections and nothing yet and nothing from Stony Brook or Toronto so I'm really not hopeful for those ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh @ the rest of them do it reject me you cowards free me from this hell

I wouldn't think so at all, they must expect some people not to be able to pick up!

way way too much bleh $200 for GRE (just used free prep material and luckily was fine on the first go), $169 on sending 7 score reports out, fee for each of the 10 I applied to, averaging $80 each? So in total about $1200 I'd budgeted an upper limit of £1000 to pay for it and it took me a while to get a job but luckily my rent's very cheap and my family gave me some money to pay for the last few places for xmas

Does anyone know about the funding situation for the Tufts Masters? I really like the look of the course (and think my application is good!) but that average 60% fee reduction of $50k fees having to be paid in the first six months is quite scary One of the main reasons I applied to US schools predominantly was the better funding situation and with Avner Baz/Nancy Bauer/Dan Dennett I felt I couldn't not apply but if (touch wood) I do get an offer it'd be very shitty not to be able to afford it

From the survey it looks like they usually send out decisions in early march

Yeah I did really well on the GRE, mainly because I got a bunch of flashcards to learn the vocabulary and my undergrad was in maths & philosophy, also I did lots of Maths Olympiad stuff at school which is pretty similar to that kind of question. (and despite that I've only got rejections so far, although admittedly only 2/10) & Everyone I've heard says it can only be a stumbling block in it's a mark against you if you have bad Verbal scores and doing well isn't seen as indicative of much they can't work out from letters/writing sample I didn't prepare much for AW aside from looking at their ideal answers and working out what they asked for, partially because that form of structuring arguments is exactly what my work in developing philosophical skills so far has been about I was consistently amazed it's considered a grad-level exam tbh, is it similar to other American styles of testing? Like it's the first multiple choice exam I've done since I was like 14 haha

Yep! Just got a rejection. Maybe because I already (technically) have a masters? Also got my Berkeley rejection, both expected given offers out already but Chicago would have been my top choice if I'd got all my offers Less miffed about Berkeley though, I'd emailed Hans Sluga as someone who works on Heidegger & Wittgenstein and he was pretty pessismistic in general and said the department was quickly swinging heavily analytical and even Wittgenstein was getting a bit much for them still 8 left to hear from though! optimism! hope for the future!

Mine was the final chapter of my thesis, which was a Wittgensteinian phenomenology of emotion, laying out Naomi Scheman's discussion on on naming of emotions, responding to Sue Campbell's criticism of it as 'social constructivism', then adding some extra Cavell on the social contract to flesh it out more (which given he was Scheman's PhD supervisor hopefully makes some sense haha) with a bit of transfeminist theory in there for fun!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I have literally nothing to do at work at the moment either so it's so hard not to check my emails every couple of minutes, waiting on top, 3rd & 5th choice! (Chi, Berk, SB)

Yeah this is v true! Although one thing I don't see changing tooo much is that I can barely stand any temperatures above 25 degrees and was going to apply to Emory until I looked at the temperatures in Atlanta haha (also affected not applying to Riverside in the end)