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    Coronavirus and Applications

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    (I'm going to treat this thread as a coronavirus-in-relation-to-apps thread, if that's all right.) Is anyone thinking about waiting another year (either re-applying next year or trying to defer acceptance for a year) specifically because of the coronavirus situation? It seems as if virtual school will be the name of the game for the rest of the year...and I could see that negatively impacting the grad school experience. I'm just wondering if anyone has been having thoughts about any of this. (Hope everyone's doing okay!)

    Venting Thread - 2019 Applicants

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    53 minutes ago, diodotus said:

    The Grad 20 has disappeared from my application.

    My POI at Berkeley wrote to me in January to inform me that he or she notified the chair of the admissions committee of his or her interest in working with me. I wrote to my POI last week to say that it looks like we will not be working with each other, thank you again, and we will cross paths at X in the future. My POI wrote back to say that, while he or she has not heard anything definite, he or she also cannot provide any assurance.

    The 'Grad 20' disappeared from my app as well.

    Man, that sounds rough (I, at least, would have a hard time not getting my hopes up upon receiving such a note)—best of luck in all your apps (hope it ends up working out at Berkeley!).

    2020 Acceptance Thread

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    8 hours ago, PoliticalTheory13 said:

    What spreadsheet?

    Here's the link (note that there are different tabs to toggle between different pages—the link I'm attaching here should land you on the "predictions" page): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yb_yciijFGEp5roVKYJ40U4eiREo3ZQTeSQkEjGMSsg/edit#gid=339976266

    I just noticed that you're into political theory (whereas this link is for a philosophy PhD predictions page)—just fyi. (I'm not sure if political theory has an analogous spreadsheet.)

    Venting Thread - 2019 Applicants

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    Posted · Edited by energeia11235

    1 hour ago, midcentury said:

    is Michigan going to start calling tomorrow for sure, or is that somebody’s guess on the spreadsheet?

    The spreadsheet (I'm fairly certain) contains someone's estimates based on the past few years' decision release dates (I assume it's an averaging of the dates—perhaps a weighted one, favoring recent years). I've seen consecutive years where a school releases decisions weeks apart (one year 2/5, say, and then the next 2/27), so there is potential for extreme wiggle room. On the whole, though, the estimates seem to be at least somewhat accurate so far. 

    2020 Acceptance Thread

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    Posted · Edited by energeia11235

    4 hours ago, MacDev27 said:

    Who has claimed the Toronto pure math PhD place? Any details on this? Dying to know more...

    Congrats to everyone for getting in! -- Fingers crossed for everyone else

    I hope this does not come as a shock, but: you seem to have found yourself stranded amongst philosophers.  (Potential outcomes: (1) Full-blown conversion (once you get a taste for the good (philosophical) stuff, there's no going back), (2) Mental disintegration (as a pure math person, you'll probably avoid this less-than-savoury option, having already passed the thinking-abstractly test), (3) Rebellion (how great would a movie about a group of mathematicians trying to overthrow a philosopher-king-run society be?).)

    You're (more than) welcome to stick around (there's some delicious Kool Aid coming around later...) but you probably won't get any answers to your questions here (no answers to either math-PhD related questions or really any other ones—we are philosophers after all...).

    Jokes aside, best of luck in your graduate application season! (See here for the math and stats forum: https://forum.thegradcafe.com/forum/48-mathematics-and-statistics/)

     

    e-mail from IU?

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    The fact that your app "reads more like an application for a PhD" suggests that it's impressive—so impressive that (it seems to me like they're implying that) there's a high likelihood that they would accept you to their PhD program if you wrote back that you would like to submit it as a PhD app. (The "we will be happy to admit you for that" sounds like they almost certainly will accept you to the MA program.)

    Also, there seems (to me at least—maybe I'm not thinking of a factor here) to be no downside whatsoever to taking them up on the offer to submit it as a PhD app. You'll get funding; you can leave after just getting your MA qualifications if you're pretty sure you don't want to stay on for a PhD; you have the opportunity to stay on for the PhD if you end up wanting to do that (do you know now that you don't want to get a PhD?); even if they don't accept you for the PhD, it sounds like you've got the MA pretty much in the bag. Anyway, the main point is that they will give you money that you wouldn't get as a MA student if you got in to the PhD program.

    Of course, this is just my impression (given the information you've given). But, if I were you, I would be excited—very excited. That's pretty awesome that you got the admissions committee to be so enthusiastic about your potential. 

    Venting Thread - 2019 Applicants

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    14 hours ago, Coconuts&Chloroform said:

    Other news: according to the relevant people on facebook, the acceptances given over the phone by Berkeley the other day were early and unofficial. It's possible that there is just one PoI who is letting his/her applicants of interest know earlier than the others. Or that the people notified are on a shortlist while other acceptances are decided. So for anyone else waiting on Berkeley, I wouldn't worry about not having heard yet.

    Thanks for the info—another possibility (just to add to the list): they're the ones being nominated for university-wide fellowships (I assume the departments have to figure out that sort of thing by a certain date whereas they have more leeway otherwise).

    Venting Thread - 2019 Applicants

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    Just now, Coconuts&Chloroform said:

    We have no way of knowing either way. One thing that this makes me wonder is what percentage of applicants post their results to the gradcafe. If it's 30%, then the rest of us are probably out of luck. But if, as I suspect, most of us post them, then our chances may be better. Who knows?

    True—we have no clue whatsoever (ah, the uncertainty!). I'd also be curious to know what percentage of applicants tend to post their results...

    2 minutes ago, GeorgiaTechPhd said:

    Just so you know, different schools have very different processes, and a lot of schools send out their decisions (even acceptances) on a rolling basis. In fact, in some cases they even have a pipeline so that all decisions that are made in a given week will be sent out at the end of the week (i.e. Friday). I know that's how Georgia Tech did their PhD admits last year. So just because some people have heard but you haven't doesn't necessarily mean that it's a bad news. 

    Just hang out there, and best of luck. :) 

    Thanks for the well-wishes (and the concrete example of a decision process that's not just all-at-once). Hope your first year is going well!

    Venting Thread - 2019 Applicants

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    10 minutes ago, Coconuts&Chloroform said:

    Yeah, that would make sense. Or perhaps they have decided on the candidates that they all agree on, and are now horse-trading over the rest.

    I hope you're right that there's still a chance, but I kinda doubt that they would send out acceptances if they hadn't figured out exactly who they were accepting (so as to ensure a balanced set of subfields, for example).

    Also, they probably only accepted 5-10 people. Hearing from 3 of those 5-10 seems like a pretty decent number (the rest might be too shy/too excited to post or unaware of these sites or something).

    Anyway, I have the "Grad 20" too—so let's hope that we get some resolution soon. (Best of luck.)

    2020 Acceptance Thread

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    Posted · Edited by energeia11235

    7 minutes ago, diodotus said:

    Only the first one was claimed so far. The first acceptance was from someone who specializes in metanormativity, epistemology, and philosophy of language. First phone call, then email. That's all the info.

    Thanks for the info diodotus! Holding out hope that not all the acceptances are out yet...(just to torture myself a bit more)

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