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Got my official offer so I'm now able to claim the UofT HPS acceptance from last week.

How did you find out?

I've posted this elsewhere but I'm first on the Michigan State WL.

I was the first-on-the-WL notif in the results section! Got an email from Dr. Schwartzman on Wednesday night.

Can anyone here claim the PSU rejection from the results page? No one in the FB group has so far.

Sure! I applied to York, Ryerson, UofT (MA and direct-entry PhD), McMaster, and McGill's biomedical ethics MA. The biomedical ethics one was a slight regret since they seem to only take current medical professionals. I was accepted to Ryerson, McMaster, and York, all with full funding (and also had a job offer from Ryerson other than TAing). Ultimately I stayed at McMaster.

I feel like I can't give an ~answer~ but I am a Canadian student at another Ontario university finishing my MA. From what I understand, I don't think it's a strike against you to address your past academic experiences in your personal statement. The general sentiment I've heard here is that upward trends for grades can be beneficial for applicants who had a rocky start to university. Fwiw I did very poorly in a few 100 and 200-level classes (though not in philosophy), and while they affected my average, I still had multiple MA offers.

Maybe this is a silly question, but do most PhD phil programs have interviews? I keep looking at the results page and r/gradadmissions and there are just a lotta people talking about interviews.

Thank you for this! I'm Canadian so the whole public/private thing is new to me, but it's a state school so it's public I believe. This is all they say: "The department does not require GRE scores as part of the application, but you may have them sent to us, and if we have them, we do consider them." I know McGill "strongly encourages" but doesn't require that you send them so I will send them to McGill but otherwise I'm thinking of only sending them if they're a requirement.

For schools that list the GRE as "optional", should I still submit my scores? (162V/151Q/5.5A)

@TorreAttack thank you! That's really helpful. I'm assuming you're happy there, based on your signature here?

Thank you so much for the advice! I feel like I've heard that it's in your best interest to email potential supervisors which is why I'm considering doing it.

Hello! I'm in the process of getting all my spreadsheets in order before app season really begins, and I'm trying to figure out an idea of my dissertation for inclusion in SoPs and when I'm emailing faculty members. I'm currently torn between two very different areas within bioethics/applied ethics and I'm not sure how to narrow things down. Does anyone have advice? I can find faculty with an appropriate interest at most schools I'm looking at.

Of course! There are no guarantees. I just lose any sense of optimism/realism I guess whenever I think about this for a long time haha.

Ah thank you. My AOI is definitely in applied ethics/bioethics, and all the conferences etc I've presented at have also been in this area. I'm interested in areas in research ethics, transgender health care and bioethics, data ethics etc. I've picked my schools based on people in those departments who work in these/related areas, and I've also looked at what courses are offered and what grad students' AOIs are.

Okay, I feel like I need a reality check/evaluate my odds thing because I am capital P Panicking off and on. GRE: 162/151/5.5 GPA: (grad) 3.9 Three strong letters from accomplished profs (one was previously at Oxford as a research fellow, one heads a global health ethics group that works with BMGF) I'm a strong writer so my personal statement will hopefully be strong (and tailored to each school slightly), and I'm polishing a writing sample on a hot topic in applied ethics. The list (philosophy dept unless otherwise listed): University of Toronto (HPS) University of Toronto (School of Public Health) McGill Duke NYU (look, no one gets in but I gotta shoot my shot) Michigan State SUNY Albany (possibly? haven't heard a ton about their PhD program) CMU Georgetown Cornell Idk man... advice? Help? Suggestions for other programs to look into?

Haha thank you. I'm hoping to go into a career as a bioethicist so while it's a small field, it's not academia. I should note that I *am* applying to a number of American schools.

Title says it all! I'm a second-year MA student (in Canada a lot of our Master's degrees are two years) currently looking into PhD programs to apply to this fall. I have research experience, a few conferences, fairly strong grades and, with the exception of my quant score, a good (I think?) GRE score. How do I just not lose hope during this app cycle? I have no idea how my credentials fare in a bigger pool and I have a hard time being realistic (more in a positive sense than a negative sense; the negative side is quite easy lol). Help? Thank you.

@hector549 Thank you for your insight! Much appreciated.

Hi hello! I'm a first-year MA student at a Canadian university. I'm getting an early start on collecting information for schools I'd like to apply to for my PhD. Broadly, my interest is in bioethics, especially in paediatrics, global health ethics etc. but I'd really love to do more work on altruism. I did a small undergrad thesis on the subject and I'd love to revisit the topic after my MA. The thing is that I don't know about a ton of American schools beyond the big names. Does anyone have advice on where I could/should look for someone whose interests may align with mine when it comes to the study of altruism? Thanks!

Any word from McGill's MA in Bioethics?

Hi, Has anyone heard from McGill's MA in Bioethics yet?