Did anyone complete grad work at their undergrad institution before applying to PhD programs? I'm in what I feel like has become a weird position, where I am likely going to graduate from my undergrad with only a little more than a semester's worth of classes short of the MA course requirements in philosophy from that institution, that is, 24 or so credits, depending on what I do this spring. (Long story short, I have been registered as a non degree seeking grad student since my second year through a different department's accelerated bachelor's/master's program, but stopped taking grad classes in that department after my sophomore year when I realized I could be doing all philosophy instead.)
I realize that I won't be able to transfer more than 12 of these credits to most programs, some even less, but I didn't take the classes for that purpose -- I just enjoy the work, and wanted to be able to demonstrate an ability to do graduate-level coursework. I'm just wondering now whether it will look bad that I didn't finish the MA, even though that wasn't my goal in the first place. I was wondering if any of you have been in this situation, or applied with a MA from your undergrad institution, or anything else similar.
For what it's worth, I'm in the US, coming from a continental-leaning department, applying to mostly continental schools with secondary interests/some faculty who work in the analytic tradition.