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wishfulthinker85

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    MI
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    Philosophy, Ethics, Bioethics, Moral Theory, Picking the right grad prog
  • Application Season
    2014 Fall
  • Program
    Philosophy

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  1. attending bgsu, philosophy ma program coming from michigan, metro detroit area currently searching for leftover money to avoid loans haunting me til i'm 40
  2. Hello, I accepted an offer to BGSU's MA Philosophy program. I know it's pretty late to search for funding but I'm kind of at a loss of where to continue looking. School's financial aid dept. has pretty much wrapped up their scholarship season save the one I found and applied to for nontraditional students. The dept. mentioned potential funding but no promises. Any advice of ideas where else I could look would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all who reply to this topic wishful
  3. waiting to hear from northern illinois uni ma phil...
  4. My area of interest is Ethics and Moral Theory (specifically Bioethics). I have 3 admission offers so far, 1. Bowling Green State University (unfunded/loan central) 2. San Francisco State University (loan central + vaguely mentioned pot teaching position mentioned with no details but impressive placement record though doesn't say what the speciality of each student was) 3. CSULA (unfunded/loan central but impressive placement record even mentioning some people in ethics) Was thinking BGSU because wouldn't e such financial strain but they have no placement info listed so maybe not. Still haven't heard from Brandeis (was on the waiting list) or Northern Illinois University Not sure what to do so any advice is appreciated Thanks & good luck 2 all -wishful
  5. thanks for contributing and good luck with your studies!
  6. 1) accepted to BGSU 2) waitlisted at brandeis 3) haven't heard from UWM, NIU, WMU, SFSU, or CSULA 4) rejected from (it's a loooooooooong list): princeton, brown, um, tufts, colorado su, ohio uni, msu, miami ohio, virginia polytech, loyola going out of my mind waiting around but glad 2 have an acceptance
  7. thanks a lot! ok just sent the thank you letter. hope it wasn't too late to send it. they told me on wednesday march 19th lol
  8. I got into 1 school but i still need to hear back from 6 other schools. Do I need to send i don't know at least a thank you letter to the director of grad studies to say thank you for admitting me or say nothing until april 15. this waiting is killing me and i feel so rude saying nothing because i'm really glad some place finally said yes. please advise. thank you.
  9. ok thank u very much. i was thinking about applying to that program. i will def apply to it now. thanks so much
  10. Thanks very much. I will take your advice.
  11. 2014 Applicant I applied to M.A. philosophy programs last year to 4 schools and they were all rejects. I am looking to reapply for fall 2014. i'm going to retake the gre but only to get a better verbal score; my math was fine and i heard you can take your highest scores from different tests now if you took it within the last five years. i'm revising my writing sample and sop in addition to getting a third philosophy professor to recommend me (i only had 2 philosophy recommendations and 1 english recommendation last time). i might also consider having my new boss write something for me as i now work at a law firm. but what i really need help with is picking schools with good ethics and moral philosophy programs (esp. ones that are safety schools that take more than 1-2 people). last time i applied to western michigan, mi state, colorado state, and bowling green. that was a mistake because that's far too few schools. this time i'm going to apply to 10-20 schools and pray one of them takes me. i think i might reapply to michigan state and western since they are located in-state and also bowling green. i added wayne state even though it's not my first choice, miami uni in ohio, and university of minnesota. i would've added uni of michigan to the list of places to apply if their M.A. program offered funding since i studied as an undergrad there. i'd like to apply to princeton and brown as well but even though i have relatives who were alumni of the schools, i'm not sure my chances are that great. my gpa in my major which was philosophy was 3.2, but my overall was below a 3.0 due to pursuing another major prior to philosophy that i hated and wasn't very good at apparently. this is also the reason i chose to apply to M.A. programs v. PhD programs. i figured my switching majors during my last year and the gpa would go against me getting into any quality PhD programs. any advice as to how to pick good schools specializing in ethics and moral philosophy for M.A. programs would be appreciated. thank you.
  12. I applied to M.A. philosophy programs last year to 4 schools and they were all rejects. I am looking to reapply for fall 2014. i'm going to retake the gre but only to get a better verbal score; my math was fine and i heard you can take your highest scores from different tests now if you took it within the last five years. i'm revising my writing sample and sop in addition to getting a third philosophy professor to recommend me (i only had 2 philosophy recommendations and 1 english recommendation last time). i might also consider having my new boss write something for me as i now work at a law firm. but what i really need help with is picking schools with good ethics and moral philosophy programs (esp. ones that are safety schools that take more than 1-2 people). last time i applied to western michigan, mi state, colorado state, and bowling green. that was a mistake because that's far too few schools. this time i'm going to apply to 10-20 schools and pray one of them takes me. i think i might reapply to michigan state and western since they are located in-state and also bowling green. i added wayne state even though it's not my first choice, miami uni in ohio, and university of minnesota. i would've added uni of michigan to the list of places to apply if their M.A. program offered funding since i studied as an undergrad there. i'd like to apply to princeton and brown as well but even though i have relatives who were alumni of the schools, i'm not sure my chances are that great. my gpa in my major which was philosophy was 3.2, but my overall was below a 3.0 due to pursuing another major prior to philosophy that i hated and wasn't very good at apparently. this is also the reason i chose to apply to M.A. programs v. PhD programs. i figured my switching majors during my last year and the gpa would go against me getting into any quality PhD programs. any advice as to how to pick good schools specializing in ethics and moral philosophy for M.A. programs would be appreciated. thank you.
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