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  1. Just declined a(n unfunded) PhD offer from UC Santa Barbara. Hope this helps someone.
  2. Accepted into UCSB's PhD program in religion and culture yesterday evening. It would be a very attractive program if the UC system wasn't broke and could properly fund its students. I'll be declining this offer soon.
  3. Ah, right. Maybe they could smell the contempt in my personal history/diversity statement (which, as I understand, is crucial for winning university fellowships in the UC system). Or maybe they think my writing sucks. Who knows.
  4. I'm also waiting for word from them. While there is an acceptance (dated March 1st, I believe) from them on the results page, I highly doubt that all or probably even most of their acceptances have gone out yet, given that they claim to admit such a large number each year on their website. I suspect that, given the structure of the program, they may have decided on an applicant in one area without making final decisions in the others (e.g., Psych and Anthropology of Religion track has their situation figured out, but Philosophy of Religion and others have not). I figure that we'll get word any day now.
  5. I got a B+ in a seminar in my PhD program last spring. I'd never received anything below an A in my field before then, and seriously considered completely dropping out of the program because I'd never heard of another student in the program getting a course grade lower than an A-. This year, I consulted with a professor I trust about it, and he told me first that he received a B+ in a seminar his first year of graduate school, and then that B grades here were far more common than I thought (that at least 5 or so of them were given each quarter amongst the 20-ish students taking courses in the department). To offer further confirmation that a B in a graduate course isn't a mark of doom, I sent out transfer applications to other universities this year, and was awarded a university-wide fellowship at a very large R1 university with just a bit under 10,000 masters and doctoral students. You don't want like 10 Bs, but I don't think for a second that 1 or 2 is going to make any difference at all. In fact, having marks below an A might indicate that your program's grades aren't so inflated that they don't mean anything.
  6. Yep, as expected, my rejection came around 4. Oh well.. I would've had to start over from scratch with coursework anyway.
  7. Yeah, sorry for the rejection. I'm pretty positive I'll be getting the same in the next few days. In any event, though, you've got some nice offers on the table. I like Villanova's department, and you could work with Gasche at Buffalo, which is a pretty coveted position, as I understand. Walter Brogan at Villanova is supposed to be a hell of a nice guy, too.
  8. Last time I applied, this later notification meant that I was getting an offer from the MAPSS program (which I turned down, in favor of a PhD program elsewhere). Given that I'll already have an MA by the fall, I can't see why they'd be doing that again, but who knows.
  9. Although I haven't heard anything, I'm not optimistic. My surname is toward the end of the alphabet, so I'll probably be hearing the same later on in the day.
  10. Doesn't look too bad to me. http://socialthought.uchicago.edu/program/placements.shtml
  11. Well, the standard completion time is supposedly _very_ long for the program, so that could be it. Also, one of my friends in another doctoral program at U of C told me about some parties she'd gone to with Social Thought students, and said that they were a kind all of their own (but in a good way).
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