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  1. Hi mariePhy, First off, congrats! I think the department just says you won't know your exact final funding package until later because there are some large entrance scholarships that may only be able to awarded after you have accepted your offer (these would be added to your base funding). Your base funding package info should be available before you accept your offer. I would echo flybottle's comment about bargining. If you are in a position to negotiate and funding is a big concern, then I would politely email the DGS explaining the situation. Worst case, they say no - it won't change your acceptance. Best case, they are able to make the offer more attractive. If you come for the visitation days, you can perhaps also discuss it with the DGS then. You will also be able to chat with other international PhDs to see how they do with funding (I'm a domestic PhD with external funding, so I'm not much help). In the summers, there are typically some RAs available that can supplement your income. International students are also eligible for external funding in the form of OGS and Vanier scholarships, although the competition is tough. It is worth mentioning that the cost of living in London is pretty reasonable. The Philosophy Graduate Students' Association has created this website for new students to help them with budgeting and planning a move to London: http://westernpgsa.ca/new-students/ Hope that helps!
  2. Hi indeedwine, Sorry I can't be more help, but the Theory and Criticism department is seperate from the Philosophy department. The Philosophy department admits international students, so I would assume the Theory and Crit department does too, but I'm not sure.
  3. Hi All, This forum was super helpful to me when I was applying, so I thought I'd pay it forward. I'm a PhD student in the philosophy department at Western Ontario. If any admits have questions about visitation, the program, etc, feel free to ask me here or PM me. I'm also a resident in the Rotman Institute if anyone has questions about that!
  4. Just found out from my school of graduate studies that I was awarded a doctoral CGS!
  5. I feel like it would help my sanity to keep track of what schools have notified people - it seems like UVic, Waterloo, Queen's, anywhere else? (As far as I know, my school of graduate studies hasn't notified people yet, but I'm still freaking out, as I sure everyone else is.)
  6. Yeah, I think I may have been confused. It could be the case that I recieved an email not from SSHRC, but rather from my grad department notifying me.
  7. Just to clarify, do we think SSHRC will send no form of email notification, only mail? Or will the letter simply come sooner? I remember recieving an email from SSHRC for my MA scholarship a couple years ago (before the MA system changed) in addition to the letter. I'm just worried - the city I live in has a notoriously slow/generally bad mail system. EDIT - Nevermind, I looked around the website, and it says: "SSHRC will announce the competition results in spring 2014. Competition results are not provided by telephone or email."
  8. As a public service to female philosophy students, you might want to let us know what school you end up attending. I know that personally, I would be unhappy if I had to do my PhD in a cohort with unsupportive (verging on hostile) collegues who were dismissive of climate issues. (Not that the attitudes of members of your cohort are wholly decisive factors, but they could certainly be considerations.)
  9. Thanks for letting us know, and congrats! I wonder if this has been the admissions process in the past (a few early admits, then more later), but those admitted early simply didn't use GC? Or the admissions committee could just be doing things differently this year. Admissions processes are certainly mysterious.
  10. Does anyone find it odd that we haven't heard anything more from Michigan? Of course, not everyone accepted (or perhaps even waitlisted) uses gradcafe, but historically there have been more than 2 posts, and the waitlists and acceptances have come fairly close together. I wonder if their admissions are just being handled differently this season, or if the posts made on the GC about Michigan are/were accurate?
  11. I wonder when we will hear more from Michigan - only two posts so far, right?
  12. The extension is posted here: http://uwo.ca/philosophy/graduate/ Now it says the deadline is Jan 14 at midnight. I think our dept might have been having some technical problems with the online application system.
  13. I'm a grad student at UWO in philosophy, and our grad chair posted this on our grad program facebook page earlier today: "I'm very pleased to announce that the deadline for applications for Western's graduate program for Fall 2014 has been extended until Jan. 13th. Best of luck everyone." Hope that helps!
  14. More hope for those on alternates lists - I was just offered a Bombardier Master's Scholarship. It was a very pleasant surprise as I had assumed that all the awards would have been given out by this time. Does anybody know how getting the CGS Master's typically impacts your departmental Master's funding? Does it simply vary school to school?
  15. Hey, thanks again for all your help! After a lot of going back and forth, I ended up accepting Western!
  16. Oh really? I'm surprised that they are not open to phenomenology since I saw they were offering a seminar on Merleau-Ponty in the fall. I sort of assumed this indicated a Continental presence at UWO, but maybe it's more of an anomaly? I am indeed (at this point) hoping to do a PhD immediately after. I would probably consider applying to the PhD at UWO, but I'll also likely be applying once again to American, Canadian, and Australian schools. I'd like to get at least one new reference, which was partly why I thought UWO might be a better place (since it's less massive and thus I'd be more likely to develop better relationships with profs in a shorter time). But in light of what you've said, I'm starting to lean back towards Toronto?
  17. Thank you! I have heard similar things about U of T, although I have also spoken with an MA student who had a very positive experience. Out of curiosity, did you apply for PhDs this season? If so, may I ask how you fared? My main reluctance to turn down Toronto is to due with their reputation, which I imagine helps in the PhD application process. I'm curious as to how Western is regarded at American and other international universities. My AOIs are normative and applied ethics, with secondary interest in phenomenology. Both schools have faculty that I'd love to work with in both of these areas (Western mostly at the Theory and Criticism School, which I've been told I can take classes at).
  18. I was hoping people might be able to give me some advice. I've been accepted to funded MAs in philosophy at both Toronto and Western Ontario. I'm having a hard time deciding. Both have great faculty in my AOIs. Toronto is more prestigious, but I've heard that I'd get a lot more attention paid to me at Western because it has a more closely knit community and fewer grad students. Can anyone offer any advice? I'd like to go on to a PhD afterwards, so I want to pick the program that will best serve that end. Thanks!
  19. Congrats! I'm still waiting to hear from Toronto, UBC, and Queen's for Master's. I'm in at Western! Which ones have you heard back from, if you don't mind me asking? Maybe we'll be seeing each other in the fall at Western?
  20. Hey, question. Will places that usually notify by phone opt to send you emails if they can't reach you? I'm out of the country for reading week this week, so my cell is off (and I don't use voicemail). Has anybody ever recieved emails in lieu of calls in such situations?
  21. I'm done all my applications - just trying to ensure that letters, transcripts, samples, etc all arrive at the right places. I'm graduating this year with an Honours BA from McGill in philosophy, minors in classics and political theory. I'm applying to a sort of ridiculous amount of schools: MA @ Toronto, Western, Queen's, and UBC PhD @ Northwestern, Georgetown, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, MIT, Rutgers, Columbia, NYU, and Chapel Hill My areas of interest are contemporary normative ethics and political philosophy (non-consequentialism, distributive justice). I also have an interest in French and German phenomenology (Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty), but will only really pursue this if I am lucky enough to get into one of the pluralist schools to which I applied (although I would obviously be lucky to get into any of the schools to which I applied!). Good luck, everyone!
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