humean_skeptic

I'm out of up votes, but thank you!

First NYU offer has been posted, folks. Congrats to the poster! Anyone able to claim it?

Email to check web site for Pitt rejection, same as the rest.

I'm sure other Rutgers applicants will be relieved to hear that!

What if you get an offer from Rutgers?

Well congrats on the CUNY offer anyway! Does this mean you'll be turning down Arizona as well?

Out of up votes for great Office reference.

University Of Pittsburgh Philosophy, PhD (F14) Rejected via E-mail on 3 Mar 2014 A 3 Mar 2014 MA 4.0 1a/1w/10r extremely kind personal email Pitt is sending out extremely kind, personal rejection emails to 200+ applicants?

Aren't you in New York?

Actually now I'm 99% certain the Columbia rejection posting is fake.

There's a Columbia rejection posted. Surely Columbia isn't already sending out rejections though? Is it an assumed rejection?

Cornell rejection email from Ted Sider. Mine was totally personalized though. No. No it wasn't.

Congrats

If you were trying to help stressed-out applicants by arguing that getting into a department ranked high on the PGR isn't so important after all, I guess there's some intrinsic merit to that. But what you've said here just doesn't make any sense. You started off by saying that you're "not going to make the expected critique of the PGR-rankings". Then you proceed to make the expected critique of the PGR-rankings, with the added bonus of some nonsensical, conspiracy-theory-sounding gossip at the end. The PGR is not a ranking of placement records. No one said it was such a thing, though there's definitely a rough correlation between a department's ranking and its placement record.

Brilliant!!! Hahaha

NYU on Monday, then, I guess?

On the assumption that your question isn't a rhetorical one, see 1) dgswaim's post in response to the post of mine you're questioning; 2) my response to dgswaim's post (above) immediately after afterwards; and 3) the results in my signature.

Hahaha I see your point! Damn referential opacity in intentional contexts! I meant to say: good luck especially to everyone *else* with Arizona wait lists or offers (since their getting an NYU offer increases my chances of getting in off the AZ wait list). Oy...

NYU tomorrow, folks! Good luck to everyone, especially those with Arizona offers or wait lists!

I'm a self-important asshole and I find this offensive.

Congrats on CUNY!! By the way, I did the same thing with my U of Arizona email: posted on TGC that I was top of the wait list before carefully reading the entire letter (The short wait list isn't ranked).

Yeah I have a friend with an AOI in Mind, who's currently in the Rice PhD program. He said they have job talks all the time down there. Likely to be even more job talks now.

Up voted.

February 27th, 2014: The TGC Yale massacre.

True, but if the applicant agrees to enroll in the program without aid, then turning the applicant down and admitting the applicant aren't technically exhaustive of all possibilities. It might still be possible to wait list the applicant, which involves neither admitting nor not-admitting the applicant. Of course, I'd hope that this possibility is unlikely to become actual!