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  1. If I were doing this again (Gods all forbid), the number one thing I would change would be to get in touch with faculty before I applied. I have seen that other people have done that and it has really helped them through the process. I would also have taken the time to tailor my statement of purpose for each individual department, even though I applied to a lot of schools and it would have taken forever.
  2. I would tend to follow the funding, because it doesn't matter how good your grad education is if you can't afford to finish it. That said, don't downgrade a school because it's in the country. There is a certain amount of cultural stagnation, true, but you are going to be spending all of your time working on your PhD anyway. You might even see being in the country as an advantage - there are fewer distractions that way! I've spent most of my undergrad in some very isolated, hick-type places, but the departments I studied with were full of people who were doing interesting and quality work. That's what matters to me. I have my studies and I have my friends.
  3. I'm in a similar situation, except that I'm on a waitlist, so I don't know if I'm even going to hear by the 15th. If I haven't heard anything by the 12th, I'm going to call my backup (which I actually really love) and tell them about the situation. They already know I'm waitlisted at a top-15 school. I wish I could wait until the 15th, but I'm going to be out of town that weekend... urgh.
  4. My experience is that graduate admissions will never tell you straight-out whether you've been rejected. I'm guessing that the second email was a kind of boilerplate response from them, and they were unaware that you'd already been contacted by someone who could actually answer your question. It's really annoying that they would mess with you like that.
  5. I think what a lot of people have been doing is just calling or emailing with a vague, polite question about when you can expect to hear more about your application. They usually will let you know what the decision was on your app if it's already been made.
  6. True so far, with the exception of Chicago. Chicago sent a big thick envelope with glossy brochures about MAPH, along with their letter rejecting me from the PhD program. Deceptive.
  7. "Good news! You were one of hundreds of qualified applicants this year..."
  8. Well, can you elaborate on the "problems with funding"? If you are going to have to worry about scraping for funding every year or working outside of school, that can add a lot of stress. I am having a similar fish vs. pond size problem choosing between schools right now. I'd love to hear what some other people have to say about whether it makes sense to choose a lower-ranked/less "good" department because you feel like at the "better" department, you might be a little bit out of your league. Would you rather be a great student at a decent school or a decent student at a great school?
  9. And homosexuals. Don't forget the homosexuals.
  10. I haven't heard anything from NYU, Harvard, or Toronto. Has nobody heard from Toronto? I can't figure out how to check the results from last year, so if anyone has a sense of how long it took them to make up their minds last year, I'd love to know.
  11. My undergrad department is just now starting to see more female students seriously interested in philosophy, which I find really heartening. I haven't had any trouble with discrimination here, but I've been the only female in many of my upper-division courses. I have some interest in feminism (from a more analytical perspective), so I looked at a lot of departments that were strong in that area. Now here's a question - I've noticed that the vast majority of people writing in environmental ethics are female, while the vast majority of people writing in metaphysics are male. I've also noticed that there seem to be a lot more women in ethics than any other subdiscipline. Has anybody else noticed this? Do you have theories as to why?
  12. I was hoping to hear from the rest of the schools by March 15. I got all excited on March 15, going out to the mailbox and hoping to find letters there from the 7 schools I still hadn't heard from. Acceptance, rejection, I didn't really care any more, I just wanted to know. No mail. No mail at all. I managed to find some of the info online, but I am still waiting on 3, and I'm waitlisted, so I'm slowly going insane as April 15 approaches.
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