The problem of trying again the next year is that of being outside of an institution. No recommender would evaluate your recent work in philosophy and you become alienated from the whole discipline.
I was checking this forum since early January. I have been rejected from Michigan and Berkeley explicitly and from Pittsburgh implicitly. Still waiting for two more PhD programs ( Austin and North Carolina) and four masters ( Oxford BPhil, Toronto, CUNY and Tufts).
I am losing the confidence that I will end up somewhere. It is an awful feeling to love something and not being able to practice it.