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Yup, I do mean Seattle. My AOI's are Egalitarianism, Structural Oppression, and Philosophy of Language as it relates to politics, oppression, and power. What are your's?

I got into UW off the waitlist and accepted the offer. This is such a relief.

Thank you. I had no idea this site or many of the other resources existed until a week ago.

I haven't heard back from Memphis and Vanderbilt. I have been waitlisted at UW and Rejected at Penn State. I don't think I'll be accepted this time around so I'm looking at this as a trial run. I didn't take the GRE until late December when the vast majority of of deadlines had already passed. I applied for the few schools whose deadlines hadn't passed that have programs that had someone in my AOI. I was working as a teacher full time so I had no time to properly adjust my paper that I intended for my writing sample and wound up using an Ancient philosophy paper. I have a low undergrad GPA and still managed to get waitlisted on the strength of my SOP, AOI, recommendations, and my GRE score. I am taking some time from teaching so that I can have the time to finish my paper and do a bit of reading by the professors at some of the schools I'd like to attend, and spend more than one or two days hammering out 5 applications. I am going to take one or two classes because the single most limiting factor was not having access to a university database. How do I find out which schools have which focus; is there a database somewhere?

I've emailed to ask if there is a ranking and I haven't gotten a response. I got waitlisted a day earlier than the others who reported. I know I'm grasping at straws but I wonder if that's significant. It could mean that it was a no brainer that I wasn't going to be accepted off the bat.

I've seen that at least two people report that they were either rejecting an offer from UW or taking themselves off the waitlist. Has anyone on the waitlist been notified?

I applied to Vanderbilt, Memphis, Penn State, and Washington. So far I am waitlisted at Washington and rejected at Penn State. Does anybody know how UW's waitlist works?. Is there an order or do they pick at it depending on who doesn't accept their offer?