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Yes that's the one alright great, thank you so much! I will try my luck

Thank you! That is helpful advice If the writing sample is indeed the most important part of the application then I think I have a pretty good chance (I'm really confident of my philosophical writing abilities and especially this specific writing sample I've prepared) But I've heard that they may not even read your sample if they see that your transcript is trash. I guess it varies across departments tho. For example I read a blog post written by a professor from Rutgers that they look at transcripts and letters first before moving to the writing sample. But I have also seen professors and department homepages mention that the writing sample is the most important part of the application. I will definitely look for funded MAs and apply to as many as I can but I honestly think I don't need it. I didn't do bad in logic because I didn't know the subject material, I just didn't go to class and didn't do assignments and whatnot. Also for the second half of my undergraduate studies (after I turned my life around) I never received anything below A- in my philosophy classes. As I mentioned I wrote a pretty good thesis which carried my mediocre grades into graduating with honors. Oh and I took two graduate seminars and did pretty well in those. Hopefully the admissions committees will agree that I'm ready for PhD studies, but yeah I should probably apply to MA programs too just in case

Wow this looks great! I would have never found this on my own. Thank you so much!

Thank you! I have considered applying for an MA but unfortunately they are not funded and I cannot afford school without funding. As far as I know, the only place with funded MA in philosophy is Central European University. I will apply there but since I'm going to apply to more than one place, I still need to apply to some funded PhD programs and I was wondering which ones are within my reach (if any)

Hi! I want to apply to PhD programs in philosophy (in the US). My undergrad degree is in philosophy from an Ivy League university. However my GPA is not good (3.5). There is an upward trend in my grades and I have a good reason for my bad grades in the beginning but to make things worse, one of the classes I took during these dark times was logic and I got a C in it. The truth is I should have failed this class because I didn't attend the classes as I was struggling with mental health issues and my professor was nice enough and understanding of my situation so they just gave me a C instead of failing me. I took a leave of absence for a year and worked on my mental health and came back doing much better and getting good grades and even writing a thesis and graduating with honors but I'm afraid that C in logic and the overall low GPA would haunt me. I have a good GRE with high verbal and quant scores so maybe that would redeem me. I am also confident I could write a good writing sample and SOP and I have good recommendation letters. I have thought about applying to political science/international relations/religious studies programs since I have a background in those areas too and these programs seem to be somewhat less competitive and more forgiving of lower GPAs than philosophy programs but I really just want to study philosophy and nothing else satisfies me. But it seems that I would need a near perfect GPA to get in (and without a C in logic!) I don't mind attending a lower ranked program at all and I just want to study philosophy. But even lower ranked schools seem to have ridiculously high standards and I don't know if it's worth applying. I would appreciate it if you could tell me if it is possible to be accepted to philosophy programs with my credentials (granted that I do really well in other parts of my application.) Thank you so much for reading

Has anybody gotten rejections from UCI? Why aren't they sending out rejections if they've already accepted AND waitlisted some people? This is so frustrating

Maybe they had a lower yield than they expected

No problem! I hope you get off the waitlist(s), and thank you for the info Anyone know why this has been a tough season? I am so fed up with this process and their silent rejections and other ways grad schools plain don't respect applicants that I'm questioning whether I want to apply next year at all

I think it's standard to just send an email to show you're still interested in being accepted and getting off the waitlist but I don't think anything more than that would help. Also when did you get waitlisted by UCI? Did you get interviewed? Why haven't I gotten anything from UCI not even a rejection!? UCI ghosted me 🥲 Anyway I think getting waitlisted is better than getting only rejections. There is hope

So according to the results page, people have been accepted to UCI? Why haven't I gotten my notification yet > : ( do they send out rejections at a later time? Or were the acceptances unofficial?

Is UCI announcing decisions this week or next? Someone said this week, another one said next week. Both heard it from their POIs. I bet it's the week after next week

OMG congratulations! UCI is my dream school

I see, that makes sense. Thank you for your time

Thank you! Well, this is scary. Even if most of these rejections are due to fit problems, it seems pretty random because you applied to schools with the right fit as you said. So if you were rejected by these, then I guess the whole process is more of a crapshoot than I thought

What are your confirmed rejections? I'm just wondering because you were accepted to top programs so it's baffling that you were rejected from lower ranked programs