Hi everyone. I'm from a Scottish university. I have a first class degree in joint honours English/Philosophy, and I'm just completing my MLitt in philosophy. In terms of AOI...pretty much everything! I'm into applied ethics (particularly issues of morally permissible violence), feminist philosophy, philosophy of mind and psychology, meta-ethics, epistemology (disagreement), metaphysics (time), paradoxes, Spinoza, and French and Scottish Enlightenment philosophy. My writing sample is most likely going to be a history piece on either 1) Enlightenment feminist philosophy 2) David Hume's racism.
I'm applying to many graduate schools -NYU, Michigan, Rutgers, Columbia, MIT, CUNY, Brown, Chapel Hill, Cornell, Duke, UMass, Colorado, Penn, Syracuse, Connecticut Storrs, Georgetown, Boston, Rochester, Bufallow, Albany.
I am very stressed out about this application process. I have to travel hundreds of miles to take the GRE (never done a standardised test in my life), and I have very little idea of my chances. I am worried that my broad interests and eclectic writing will not be well received. Good luck to everyone!