humean_skeptic

Anyone know what on earth has become of UConn? They've sent out just a couple of offers so far early on (late Jan, early Feb), at least from what's been posted on the results page. But nothing since then. I doubt they're taking a smaller entering class this year, since they clearly have become a very well funded department lately, making at least five or six big new hires lately. In fact, they're supposed to climb the rankings *very* significantly on the next Gourmet Report, from what Leiter and others have written.

Good advice!

Wish I could up-vote this five times instead of just once. And I have to wonder: Would David Hume himself get into all the Top Ten Leiter-ranked PhD programs in Philosophy?

I feel your pain. Just wanna get in off the AZ wait list as soon as is logically/metaphysically possible And, incidentally, I did my MA at McMaster, so I can provide some info about the department if you're interested.

Arizona doesn't do that, though, from what I understand. Or do they? Uh oh. They gave out six initial offers, so I was assuming they wanted to fill six spots, going to the wait list for people who decline initial offers (which most initial offers seem to do).

So there are still Michigan and Oxford offers to come?

There's no regress here, I'm afraid My reason is simple: You're criticizing everyone who prefers a considerate, warm rejection letter to a cold, perfunctory one. So I'm responding to your extremely broad criticism, since I'm in that 'everyone'-group. Edit: As mentioned before, you accused everyone who prefers such rejection messages as having an "obsession".

You're missing the point. Point is: Why do you care enough *about whether all people care*, so that you have to criticize what you take to be their "obsession" with receiving "nice" rejection messages?

Actually, I can certainly see why people would want a rejection letter that's not worded in a completely perfunctory and/or cold sort of way. Applications are very expensive and a ton of work. Moreover, the application process is so competitive now that even very strong applicants can expect rejections to be the norm from most top schools. Here's something I really *don't* understand, though: Why on earth do you keep trying to belittle and insult stressed-out posters on TGC?

NYU rejection. There goes my safety school

I know eh. He also allowed the TAs to mark papers. I felt special.

I was lucky enough to get to effectively design a mini-course while TAing during my MA. The prof let the TAs set not only assignment-due dates but also assignment-topics for his/her tutorial sections.

Out of up votes. But 100% agreed.

This recent post on Leiter seems especially salient: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2014/03/the-virtues-of-timely-responses-to-admission-offers.html But, as I emphasized before, seems like most people are really considerate and conscientious about this stuff. So this may be largely a moot discussion.

I'll third this. I know that a few people have been great about declining Arizona if/when they get offers from T5 or T10 schools (and I'm *very* grateful for their being so considerate!), but in case there's anyone else with an Arizona offer/wait list who also has offers they're more likely to accept, please do the right thing so us wait listers can sleep properly again. And thank you to everyone who has already declined -- not just Arizona either, but in general.

I hope you get in

Congrats!!

Toronto rejection email received.

This is *very* good advice!

Interesting, well-written paper. I honestly think you should blame the super-competitive state of graduate philosophy admissions at top schools, rather than the quality of your sample. And you're wait listed at UVA, right? So it's not all bad!

Congrats to all the people who received NYU offers!! I wonder if they're still giving out wait lists.

Sounds like you know the literature quite well. Still seems like a very broad scope for just one 15-20 page paper, though. My paper was just on a single sentence, namely, 'This sentence is false'.

Thanks for posting your sample. Now I'm feeling left out. Might have to post mine.

Nice paper. Thanks very much for posting it. And, of course, congrats on your (incredibly impressive) results!

Congrats, underdrag!!!!!!!