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Ah yes, I remember these from when I applied to Law schools a couple of years ago. Something along the lines of "we are not able to make a decision on your admission status at this time", which is basically a fancy way of saying you're waitlisted but don't ask us any more questions about it

Accepted to UC San Diego! Phone call from Eric Watkins. No special scholarship or anything, so admissions decisions should be going out for others pretty soon.

Trying to figure out if Harvard is finished sending acceptances - did anyone who is working in Early Modern receive a call or email? It looks like people are being contacted by their POI, so if anyone has been contacted by Jeffrey McDonough or Alison Simmons, please let me know!

I am going for the visit! Really excited to see what the department and city are like. I have LOTS of factors but the primary is that my main AOI is Early Modern, and Toronto's EM faculty are kickass, and there's so many of them (Donald Ainslie, Marleen Rozemond, Karolina Hubner, Nick Stang... heck even Sergio Tenenbaum and Arthur Ripstein work in or around my AOI). The only person to really supervise an Early Modern project at Pittsburgh seems to be Engstrom, who seems really good but that is sort of limiting as I am still not sure what exactly I want to work on. I also applied and was accepted to Law at Toronto, and the joint JD/PhD program is really enticing. On the other hand, I am interested in lots of different areas not confined to Early Modern philosophy, and Pittsburgh does have a really amazing overall faculty, and would probably be a 'smarter' choice strategically as far as job prospects down the line. I also did my MA at Toronto, so some diversity of perspectives would be nice too (EDIT: though half my profs did their PhDs at Pittsburgh, so maybe it won't be that diverse after all...).

This is correct for Pitt, based on their phone call to me. There is actually, as far as I understood, even an extra step: I was told on Saturday that I'd get an email during this week 'recommending me for admission', and that the official email from the school would come even later. So the phone call was an informal warning that an informal email was coming. And the application portal doesn't say anything for mine yet either (also the Pittsburgh application portal is hella confusing). On a more hopeful note, I am currently very unsure about whether I want to go to Pittsburgh or Toronto, and I'm still waiting to hear back on Harvard, NYU, UC San Diego, Stanford, and Notre Dame, all of which I would at least consider. So there is a decent chance at least 1 applicant will get pulled up

Accepted to Pittsburgh! Extremely nice phone call from Erica Shumener referencing my writing sample and inviting me to visit in March. Not sure if I'd go over Toronto but it is nice to have a choice to make

Anyone want to claim the Yale acceptance? (been lurking for a while: so far got rejected by Berkeley and accepted by Toronto)