demondeac

Thanks guys, I appreciate all the support. Unfortunately, it looks like I will be heading to Atlanta, where my wife matched for her medical residency, so I guess I will be sitting it out a year and reapplying at Emory next year. But the good news is that should open up another spot in Theology at BU, so best of luck to all!

Just got a call on my voicemail from BU...accepted with some form of funding. Should be talking with the program tomorrow or Friday. Finally!

Well, best of luck to everyone on this very eventful month coming up. Congrats if you make it, and if you don't, it's really not the end of the world. I'm canceling internet service to save a buck so I'll be more of a stranger in these parts... hopefully that means a little more thesis and a little less gradcafe. I'm pretty much out of the running at this point, and starting to look ahead to reapplication and work for the near future. For those of you in the same boat, I'll see you "same bat time, same bat channel" next year.

And the seventh angel sounded the seventh trumpet, and the online application page was no longer visible on the University of Chicago website. The end is nigh brethren and sistren... At least for me...anybody else? Could just be the "hard deadline" for submitted materials so they take the applications off the system, but still... :!:

I applied to BC philosophy as well, and if the results section is correct, they've already offered some if not all of their top applicants. I was visiting the program the day they distributed the applications to faculty members, and there were 255 apps! Because of my personal situation, I needed to hear back from programs early, so I emailed most and got-- you guessed it-- rejected virtually across the board. So there are situations worse than not a sausage!

Zero for me...I'm starting to figure out that I didn't quite have the pedigree that I thought i had/hoped for/actually need to get in to a phd program.

Sorry for being the drama queen guys; thanks for the support. I'll keep my chin up. It does make me wonder if there isn't some area of my application succumbing to the infamous "kiss of death": a bad letter, SoP off the mark, or even a befuddled writing sample. I'm definitely going to have to make some calls after this thing washes out... I am afraid it's not anything I can really change, like my letter writers (their reputations, or lack thereof) or lack of pedigree. If anything, I know I can work a little bit harder, and if it doesn't work out, organic beet farming here I come. Maybe Arena football?

Four rejections, one day. Nice. Feeling good.

I'm assuming you attended the interview weekend? I know the website says you don't have to be asked to the interview to get an offer, but I assumed that was just covering the possibility that droves of accepted students went elsewhere... Thousandsuns, you should feel like a total badass for getting waitlisted, it definitely is not over!

What might be the worst thing is that I've been working on this year's application cycle since last June, and so I'm not even sure I can compile a significantly improved application to these places for the next round. Maybe I'll take a few years off to recover?

Two rejections via post are up on the results page...so no news is either good news or slow post

My SO is applying to medical residencies, and here's the kicker: she has to rank her programs in a week, then a computer "matches" her to a program to which she is contractually obligated to attend. Good thing I've heard practically nothing from my 12 programs .

Yeah, I couldn't find any course listings for future years, only the ones from this past year. Are there any big faculty moves on the horizon? I'm also guessing you're at Loyola, Gorgias? I'd love to hear a little more, especially since my interests are mainly in contemporary continental and philosophy of religion.

So another week dawns; any predictions? What programs do you think will be contacting this week? I'm sensing some big movement :shock: .

In what kind of program are you interested? Congrats on acing the quant! :mrgreen: