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Hello. I got waitlisted at Fordham. To anyone accepted who is declining their offer, please do so as soon as you can! Fordham is my number 1 choice! 

Hello. I got waitlisted at Fordham. To anyone accepted who is declining their offer, please do so as soon as you can! Fordham is my number 1 choice! 

Hello. I got waitlisted at Fordham. To anyone accepted who is declining their offer, please do so as soon as you can! Fordham is my number 1 choice! 

Hi all.
I graduated in August 2019 with a BA in philosophy (GPA 3.85, major GPA 3.87) from a top public college in NYC, as Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Sigma Tau --in all of these instances of receiving honors, my university's philosophy department nominated me. I have applied to 16 PhD programs. I have a stellar/very original/extremely polished writing sample comparing Spinoza and Heidegger, using the latter to interpret the former, and asserting that the former interprets the latter. My GRE scores were 149 Q 152 V and 5.5 AW (the particularly less desireable GRE, can be implicitly explained in my statement of purpose, whereby I explain the fact that I had little to no real education until I was 17 and entered into university, where, I only took 1 math course). My letter writers all know me very well, like me a lot and one of them even teaches at a school I have applied to and is the chair of the department of my undergrad university. My top Choices are Columbia, NYU and the CUNY Grad Center because they are close to home.
Now, I have been rejected so far by 4 programs. What is the likelihood that I will actually get in somewhere given what I am bringing to the table?

Hi all.
I graduated in August 2019 with a BA in philosophy (GPA 3.85, major GPA 3.87) from a top public college in NYC, as Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Sigma Tau --in all of these instances of receiving honors, my university's philosophy department nominated me. I have applied to 16 PhD programs. I have a stellar/very original/extremely polished writing sample comparing Spinoza and Heidegger, using the latter to interpret the former, and asserting that the former interprets the latter. My GRE scores were 149 Q 152 V and 5.5 AW (the particularly less desireable GRE, can be implicitly explained in my statement of purpose, whereby I explain the fact that I had little to no real education until I was 17 and entered into university, where, I only took 1 math course). My letter writers all know me very well, like me a lot and one of them even teaches at a school I have applied to and is the chair of the department of my undergrad university. My top Choices are Columbia, NYU and the CUNY Grad Center because they are close to home.
Now, I have been rejected so far by 4 programs. What is the likelihood that I will actually get in somewhere given what I am bringing to the table?

Hi all.
I graduated in August 2019 with a BA in philosophy (GPA 3.85, major GPA 3.87) from a top public college in NYC, as Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Sigma Tau --in all of these instances of receiving honors, my university's philosophy department nominated me. I have applied to 16 PhD programs. I have a stellar/very original/extremely polished writing sample comparing Spinoza and Heidegger, using the latter to interpret the former, and asserting that the former interprets the latter. My GRE scores were 149 Q 152 V and 5.5 AW (the particularly less desireable GRE, can be implicitly explained in my statement of purpose, whereby I explain the fact that I had little to no real education until I was 17 and entered into university, where, I only took 1 math course). My letter writers all know me very well, like me a lot and one of them even teaches at a school I have applied to and is the chair of the department of my undergrad university. My top Choices are Columbia, NYU and the CUNY Grad Center because they are close to home.
Now, I have been rejected so far by 4 programs. What is the likelihood that I will actually get in somewhere given what I am bringing to the table?

Hi all.
I graduated in August 2019 with a BA in philosophy (GPA 3.85, major GPA 3.87) from a top public college in NYC, as Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Sigma Tau --in all of these instances of receiving honors, my university's philosophy department nominated me. I have applied to 16 PhD programs. I have a stellar/very original/extremely polished writing sample comparing Spinoza and Heidegger, using the latter to interpret the former, and asserting that the former interprets the latter. My GRE scores were 149 Q 152 V and 5.5 AW (the particularly less desireable GRE, can be implicitly explained in my statement of purpose, whereby I explain the fact that I had little to no real education until I was 17 and entered into university, where, I only took 1 math course). My letter writers all know me very well, like me a lot and one of them even teaches at a school I have applied to and is the chair of the department of my undergrad university. My top Choices are Columbia, NYU and the CUNY Grad Center because they are close to home.
Now, I have been rejected so far by 4 programs. What is the likelihood that I will actually get in somewhere given what I am bringing to the table?

Hi all.
I graduated in August 2019 with a BA in philosophy (GPA 3.85, major GPA 3.87) from a top public college in NYC, as Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Sigma Tau --in all of these instances of receiving honors, my university's philosophy department nominated me. I have applied to 16 PhD programs. I have a stellar/very original/extremely polished writing sample comparing Spinoza and Heidegger, using the latter to interpret the former, and asserting that the former interprets the latter. My GRE scores were 149 Q 152 V and 5.5 AW (the particularly less desireable GRE, can be implicitly explained in my statement of purpose, whereby I explain the fact that I had little to no real education until I was 17 and entered into university, where, I only took 1 math course). My letter writers all know me very well, like me a lot and one of them even teaches at a school I have applied to and is the chair of the department of my undergrad university. My top Choices are Columbia, NYU and the CUNY Grad Center because they are close to home.
Now, I have been rejected so far by 4 programs. What is the likelihood that I will actually get in somewhere given what I am bringing to the table?

This is not my opinion: its what all my advisors and many professors from schools I am applying to who are experts on the topic I have written about have said about it. Perhaps in different phrasing, but still. 

This is not my opinion: its what all my advisors and many professors from schools I am applying to who are experts on the topic I have written about have said about it. Perhaps in different phrasing, but still. 

Actually, while you are right about CUNY, you're not right about Columbia and NYU, but I do see your point. Where I have thus far been rejected has either just had Spinoza people or just had Heidegger people. Columbia and NYU have both, and in a sense, makes these schools actually a perfect fit for me. My concern is more-so with my GRE, actually. It'd be a shame for them to overlook all of my other credentials due to a stupid score --especially considering I couldn't really afford test prep, only took 1 math course in college, and I was a fuck-up in high school and went to poorly funded/criminally dangerous schools my whole life up until college (the poorly-funded/criminally dangerous aspect was something I mention in my statement of purpose. 

This is not my opinion: its what all my advisors and many professors from schools I am applying to who are experts on the topic I have written about have said about it. Perhaps in different phrasing, but still.