procrastikant Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 I've just been thinking about what the potential range is for the number of Philosophy PhD applicants per year. If a place like NYU or Columbia gets 400 applications per cycle, there must be a huge overlap with the other "top-tier" programs, as well as a sizable overlap with more mid-ranked programs. Anyone have any guesses? Or anyone good at math (I gravitated toward English/lit/philosophy in secondary school to avoid math, so it's beyond me)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandmaster Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 I can not really speak to philosophy specifically, but what I found in my application cycle was that basically everyone who was in my "interview cohort" at the schools I interviewed at were basically the same with a few people swapped out here and there. I found it very interesting (granted my specific field is much smaller than a broad, major subject) that so many of the same people had applied to the same programs and were that program's "top picks" for interviews. So I would assume there is quite a large overlap between the programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxhgns Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 There's no official count that I'm aware of. When I was applying (in '08 and '09), even pretty low-ranked programs were getting 300-400+ applicants. Things have definitely slowed down a lot since then, so I'd guess that the total number of applicants (if you count applicants overseas, those who only apply to one or two programs, and applications to non-PGR-ranked programs [including VERY unranked programs]) is <1000 for Anglophone programs. I'd put it at somewhere in the vicinity of 500-600. But that's a total guesstimate based on little more than intuition. Duns Eith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kantattheairport Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I was told NYU had ~380 last cycle, and that this was 'particularly competitive'. So perhaps it has slowed down a bit, as maxhgns says! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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