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:

As a baptist (the good kind), I don't even consider myself the first! :wink:

That's a ballsy move to put Roman Catholics and Orthodox in the same "apostolic" category . Not to mention all those double-predestination calvinists lumped in with the free will baptists....laaaaaaud have muh-ceee (in smooth southern drawl).

I just heard from HDS...after sending an email to the grad coordinator, I found out I was not admitted :cry: . She said they only admitted 6 ThDs, so best of luck to everyone else. Now, where is my Glenfiddich 18 year....

It's hard to hate women when you can't even walk on the same sidewalk; at Bob Jones they have blue and pink sidewalks, you can do the math . Achowa00, do you have any idea how many spots Loyola has or will accept? I don't really have any info on them, so I can't even begin to rank the relative probability of acceptance.

Mconsul, I went ahead and emailed. Only I was unsure whom to email: I sent an email to one of the Assistant Deans of admission, two days ago, but haven't heard anything yet. Ordinarily I would email the faculty I had been in contact with, but since Harvard doesn't post faculty emails, I had to go through their secretaries, most of whom never replied. I was able to make very brief contact with one faculty member, but I'm not sure it was significant enough to send the "hey, remember me?" email. Any ideas on whom might be the best faculty or administrator to contact to find out? On a happier note, congrats to the folks accepted to Emory! :mrgreen: (green with envy)

Loved the heart-stopping email from Loyola today that was formatted like a formal letter, beginning with my address and "Dear DemonDeac:".... apparently my application is complete and " The committee is still in the process of reviewing applications and making decisions." Not sure what the implication of "still" is, I wonder what I can read into it...

Good point blurb, I checked the website and they left an important exception for the non-divine :wink: : In addition, a master's degree, normally the master of divinity, is required; this degree should include a wide range of work in theological and religious studies.

There was a blog post I read once which gave a great description of the phenomenon as nothing more than a magic trick; two and three letter words remain the same, four letter words only swap the inner two letters, and these make up the majority of the English language. From these it's easier to read the longer harder words since they give you context clues...neat trick though!

Well that takes all the fun out of it... I guess it's another example of our brains humming along without actually paying attention (to something like spelling). Like the so-called "studies" that have shown people can read anything scrambled as long as the first and last letter of the word is in place, like: Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe. If you had trouble reading that, it's probably time to stop at the third or fourth single malt... :mrgreen:

Okay, maybe. My one acceptance wasn't super exciting, so I guess it wasn't difficult to spell correctly. Still, I think if I had just received an acceptance to my highest "reach" school, I would sit there and relish in the moment before submitting... I also must say that I've been really careful with my spelling in this post, since it would be uber-embarrassing to be called out for a spelling error while calling others out...