GodelEscherBach

I third the suggestion of the Gaslight District. In the Clifton area, that's clearly the best place to live for a grad. student. Farther away from most of the undergrads, lots of good food (3 Indian restaurants in 1 city block), Arlin's bar, and it's safer than the parts of Clifton near UC (But not totally safe -- it's definitely still a "be careful and be smart" area).

I would definitely not recommend Corryville south of MLK. A lot of students live there, but I wouldn't. Corryville north of MLK is better.

You don't want to live south of campus. It's more dangerous and it's party central.

One of the best things about Cincinnati, no question, is how cheap it is to live here. I pay $325 in rent and am less than a 10 minute walk to campus.

I think there's some reason to believe that it's very difficult to gain admission to top graduate programs unless you have significant pedigree OR your application is just truly outstanding.

I don't think the tone was meant to be arrogant -- he teaches at Riverside, a school with a good philosophy department but not of reputation, and he mentions that students from his school can't seem to break into the top tier.

He made a follow up post about this later: http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2011/10/sorry-cal-state-students-no-princeton.html

Obviously it isn't true that if you don't go to a top school you can't get into (a) a top school -- people do it every year or that ( a PhD program at all -- he never even indicates that this is true. Really the point is just that at top departments the competition is very steep, and without coming from a department that routinely places people in such departments, it can be hard for your or your faculty advisors to know what your application really has to be like to succeed at getting into Princeton or whatever.

I think you could swing $700. It would be a huge chunk of your pay, no question, but the difference between $650 and $700 over the course of a year is "only" $600 dollars.

One thing you could try is contacting other people in your cohort and seeing about splitting an apartment/house. Before I found my apartment, I looked into doing this and actually didn't find it to be much cheaper, at least for renting a house even among ~5 people, but you might have better luck. It can also be a bit of a logistical pain in the ass.

My main advice would just be to keep looking. It took me a few months of moderately serious searching to find my current place, but I did eventually.



I don't think anyone uses that thing. I was advised not to, and to just stick with craigslist.



I'd say earlier. There were plenty of August listings when I was looking late last spring and through the early summer.