Jespersen

Just accepted NIU - super excited!
Edit: wrong thread, sorry ? It's late and I've been doing my taxes...

Awesome!

Just received word from UCLA that they won't be able to make a decision in time for me to respond to my Arizona offer---so, Arizona it is! I'm really excited!

Just received word from UCLA that they won't be able to make a decision in time for me to respond to my Arizona offer---so, Arizona it is! I'm really excited!

Accept the offer at Brandeis (MA) off the waitlist

Just received word from UCLA that they won't be able to make a decision in time for me to respond to my Arizona offer---so, Arizona it is! I'm really excited!

Just received word from UCLA that they won't be able to make a decision in time for me to respond to my Arizona offer---so, Arizona it is! I'm really excited!

Just received word from UCLA that they won't be able to make a decision in time for me to respond to my Arizona offer---so, Arizona it is! I'm really excited!

Removed myself from Notre Dame’s waitlist. Good luck to those still on their waitlist!

I suggested in my link some ways to mitigate how terrible it can be.
Others include:
Investigating schools well enough that you have a personal ranking system before you hear back from any school. As in, if you got offers from your 7th and 8th personally ranked school, you could in principle turn down the 8th. You might need to pause to make a decision if there's information you couldn't have had access to before (such as a scholarship), but you won't need to pause for, say, comparing your 4th to your 8th. The idea is that if you get your 4th, you can tell your 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ... etc. all the way down that you'd like to withdraw. You don't need to say yes to your 4th yet, but there is little sense waiting to tell all of the lesser ones you are content at a better offer elsewhere. Encourage others to do likewise. Don't hold onto offers because of FOMO. You can't swap but there might be enough shifting that your #8 school you turn down is someone's preferred school, and that it sets the chain reaction to opening up your #4 school. Recognize when you're getting FOMO hard, and talk it out with someone who is more decisive than you. Go with their decision. Or take their decision seriously. Because, after all, you will likely tell them what you really want to hear anyway.

Per the glory that is the Facebook group, the admissions committee is hoping to release decisions by the end of this week. 

Thank you all for your responses and for your support, you guys are great. It is a tough season and it has worn me somehow; given that almost everything related to admissions is out of my control gives me so much anxiety. But I'm glad there are other people who understand and with whom I can share my feelings. 

I wish you nothing but the best.
edit: typo

Not at all! I'm primarily interested in moral and political philosophy (of which Arizona is a powerhouse), philosophy of mind (especially the kind that's informed by neuroscience, so it's not really easy for me to give up on WUSTL right now), and history of early analytic (especially meta-questions about philosophy and its methodology)---but most excited when they intersect! I have side interests in philosophical logic and feminist philosophy as well.
(I saw you were accepted to Ohio State. Congratulations! If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.)

I will turn down NIU, and withdraw from U Mass, Indiana, and Cornell. I hope it helps someone!

I will turn down NIU, and withdraw from U Mass, Indiana, and Cornell. I hope it helps someone!

I will turn down NIU, and withdraw from U Mass, Indiana, and Cornell. I hope it helps someone!

I will turn down NIU, and withdraw from U Mass, Indiana, and Cornell. I hope it helps someone!

I will turn down NIU, and withdraw from U Mass, Indiana, and Cornell. I hope it helps someone!

Congratulations!! & to others as well!

NIU folks (past and present): does anyone know when we hear back about the TAships? (And congrats to everyone who's gotten in so far this cycle!! ❤️)

Accepted to Ohio State with full funding! 

Hi yall 
In at UNC with a five year fellowship

Accepted at UofT!

I didn't apply to any safety schools really (only PGR top 25), mainly because how risky it is to do a PhD in philosophy anyway in terms of finding an academic job afterwards. My letter writers also discouraged me pretty strongly from applying to safety schools. I think that this approach has made the application season more anxiety-inducing for me (trying to have very low expectations), but I also feel like it made sense to spend my money on applying to more highly ranked schools given how unpredictable the process is

I agree with what others have said about the usefulness of PGR. Granted, PGR reflects how a rather small group of philosophers views departments that practice English-language philosophy. However, that group of philosophers is pretty representative, or slightly more disturbingly, authoritative, of the English-speaking philosophical community at large. PGR is useful in the sense that it makes this representative view (RV) available for anyone's reference. Of course, you might think that RV is biased against certain departments, etc. But that is hardly the fault of PGR, which (presumably) merely reports RV.
As for Leiter himself, well, it's not really a question that's appropriate for discussion on an online forum.