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  1. 14 minutes ago, captleibniz said:

    Ended up going with Baylor. Can't argue with that placement. 

    just chaired a session with Robert Minor at the APA Pacific. Pleasant man! Congratulations!

  2. 8 minutes ago, TEELI said:

    Thanks! Is there a reason for not accepting? 

    (1) Columbia is a very expensive school and (2) Columbia is, without a doubt, one of the best PhD programs in the world. You're competing for attention with doctoral students. Columbia doesn't often (ever?) accept students from the vast majority of highly-regarded terminal M.A. programs. You'll spend far more to get an M.A. from Columbia than you would at any of the highly regarded terminal M.A. programs - even if you weren't funded at them at all! And you'd get far more attention at those programs as well. What incentive does a faculty member at Columbia have to help you place well, mentor you, etc.? I'm not saying those faculty members are bad people, but that they have a whole crew of doctoral students already! A PhD is often a form of financial suicide to begin with!

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    2 hours ago, mindbodyproblem said:

    received a waitlist offer for Harvard this morning (after assuming rejection -- goes to show you can't assume anything until you hear from them!). if anyone is interested in doing me a favor, please decline your acceptance ? it's my top choice, but i'm too much of a pessimist to assume i'll get a spot 

    I assume that I won't get into CUNY or Columbia, but I don't mind a pleasant surprise.

    Waitlisted at UCR, which is definitely a top choice for me. I think I'd do very well there.

  4. 2 hours ago, mindbodyproblem said:

    got slammed with rejections last night -- who let so many schools release decisions within an hour?!? now i'm just ready to start making my decision..

    A: BC, BU, UVA, Fordham

    W: UMass

    R: Yale, Chicago, Toronto, NYU, Princeton

    R (assumed): Notre Dame, Harvard

    P: UBC, Cornell 

    Honestly, I'd love to get them all at once. Rip the bandaid off

  5. rejected from Fordham. 

    Accepted: 

    Waitlisted:

    Rejected: Fordham, UC Berkeley, SUNY Stony Brook, Northwestern, Emory, Oregon, Boston U, Loyola Chicago, DePaul

    Pending: UC Riverside, Villanova, Georgetown, Duquesne, CUNY, Columbia, Kentucky, McGill, New Mexico.

    They all probably found my writing sample intimidating and that's why they won't let me in. They're afraid of my intellectual might and intestinal fortitude.

  6. 1 hour ago, thehuman said:

    The advice I got from my supervisor is that I should wait to hear from them lest I look desperate. The thing is: I am desperate to get into these two programs! So, I would like for them to know of my continued interest. I read somewhere that sometimes applicants get in touch with the department to see if they need additional documents to move them up on the waiting list. Still, I am complying with my supervisor's advice for now. But I am open to suggestions, people!

    I mean, given what applicants are hearing about numbers this season, I'd imagine many are feeling are desperate and - given that fact - a department would be acting rather dickish if they were to look down on an applicant for emailing them. The sheer amount of general anxiety among people under 40 right now is immense, and I'd imagine throwing this application season on top of that is quite a lot (even if PhD applicants are, of course, definitely no where near the most unfortunate of their peers)

  7. 47 minutes ago, MtnDuck said:

    Never say never until you have the actual R--a number of schools have hidden waitlists (has been a contentious topic for years) and it's always possible that someone will end up getting off of a waitlist they didn't originally know they were on ??‍♂️.

    Source: had at least one case of this every year since I started running the spreadsheet.

    Yeah, but if I expect the worst I can only be pleasantly surprised. 

    Do not take that from me.

  8. Well, given that UC Riverside, Villanova, Georgetown, Fordham, Duquesne, and DePaul have all sent something out, I'm assuming I'm likely rejected from those. 

    Guess I'm forced to choose a more viable and lucrative career path.

  9. 0a / 0w / 6r / 13p. Boston seemed like a really good fit, too. At least I feel like I got a good backup career plan now, which I did not have before I started my M.A. But, man, it's been rough in general and these rejections really hit harder than I'd expected! However, I think I got really good advice from everyone I asked, etc. I also applied pretty widely, because my interests are pretty wide-ranging: I picked my M.A. program largely due to its strengths in philosophy of science, cogsci, and philosophy of mind, but my "roots" are in 19th Century German philosophy, critical theory, phenomenology, etc. The upshot of this is that I work pretty well with just about anyone and enjoy helping other students a lot, and my writing does not feature the glaring omissions you often in see in a lot of 20th century philosophy of any tradition/school (or, at least, I try pretty hard for it not to do so). I hope that came off in what I submitted to one of these programs!

     

    pending: UC Riverside, Georgetown, Kentucky, Columbia, Duquesne, CUNY, Villanova, Fordham, McGill, New Mexico*, DePaul, Vanderbilt.

  10. 27 minutes ago, PhilBlast said:

    Is not having heard from many programs yet this late in the game a good sign? I've only heard from three out of 12 so far and one was an acceptance (funding waitlist).

    not unusual. I haven't heard back from most of the programs I applied to yet, and some of them do not appear to have sent out any notices at all.

  11. So far, no acceptances or waitlist notifications. Four rejections.

    On the one hand, a lot of time and effort and money may have all gone down the drain.

    On other hand, admissions committees are inadvertently preventing me from committing financial suicide.

  12. Conan : What gods do you pray to?
    Subotai : I pray to the four winds... and you?
    Conan : To Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen.
    Subotai : [chuckles]  What good is he then? Ah, it's just as I've always said.
    Conan : He is strong! If I apply to a PhD program, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is his contribution to our cohort?" If I don't know it, he will cast me out of consideration for admissions and laugh at me. That's Crom, strong on his admissions committee.
    Subotai : Ah, my god is greater.
    Conan : [chuckles]  Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his tenure-track position.
     

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