kakaz Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 1:19 AM, bluwe said: Would have been nice to know this ahead of time so I could apply to a program that didn't prioritize "gender diversity" even more than programs already do. Stay classy, Irvine. Expand I am pretty sure that akraticfanatic never said that they know that Irvine WILL prioritize "gender diversity" but rather that it SOUNDED like it.
ohtimethypyramids Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 1:19 AM, bluwe said: Would have been nice to know this ahead of time so I could apply to a program that didn't prioritize "gender diversity" even more than programs already do. Stay classy, Irvine. Expand I understand it's frustrating to feel like you didn't get the heads-up in advance that your odds were even more uphill than before. FWIW, I'm a woman in phil of math/formal epistemology (even more heavily gender skewed than regular phil) and I didn't get an offer from Irvine (or an interview, so it's definitely over for me, as they interview all admitted and most waitlisted LPS kids). Try to focus on the positive--you've already got a great offer, and I'm sure more will come in!
akraticfanatic Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 1:25 AM, kakaz said: I am pretty sure that akraticfanatic never said that they know that Irvine WILL prioritize "gender diversity" but rather that it SOUNDED like it. Expand Oh no I do know that. That wasn't the issue. MtnDuck and kakaz 1 1
mithrandir8 Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 As a side-note, UC Irvine is also very unlikely to give prior notice about any gender diversity priority because there is some degree of legal risk in doing so.
Marcus_Aurelius Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/14/2019 at 9:19 PM, akraticfanatic said: Can anyone claim Yale? Expand I was just admitted to the Classics track of Yale's Ancient Philosophy joint program. Not sure about the Philosophy end, except that I was told they're offering admission to someone for the Philosophy track of the joint program. I also heard Yale is aiming for a Philosophy cohort of 5 people, if that helps. markovka and Philosofiend 2
bluwe Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 3:28 AM, mithrandir8 said: As a side-note, UC Irvine is also very unlikely to give prior notice about any gender diversity priority because there is some degree of legal risk in doing so. Expand This is partly why I'm interested because it is also probably legally iffy even if they didn't announce it ahead of time. To admit that it was a consideration is enough to tick the boxes if it is indeed against the law.
jc177 Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 Can someone claim the MIT acceptance? akraticfanatic 1
crunderdunder Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 5:02 AM, jc177 said: Can someone claim the MIT acceptance? Expand Yeah!! Super excited!!! gradhopeful96, charliekkk and Very Hungry Caterpillar 3
akraticfanatic Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 5:17 AM, crunderdunder said: Yeah!! Super excited!!! Expand Congrats! When did you get the call?
jc177 Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 5:17 AM, crunderdunder said: Yeah!! Super excited!!! Expand Congratz! crunderdunder 1
crunderdunder Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 5:19 AM, akraticfanatic said: Congrats! When did you get the call? Expand Thanks! 7pm-ish today, eastern, having missed the first one earlier in the day.
MtnDuck Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) On 2/15/2019 at 4:38 AM, bluwe said: This is partly why I'm interested because it is also probably legally iffy even if they didn't announce it ahead of time. To admit that it was a consideration is enough to tick the boxes if it is indeed against the law. Expand Ehh, it plausibly wouldn't be legally iffy or against the law. I was on several hiring committees at an R1 and after you have HR talk at you for a few hours about affirmative action (myth vs reality)...it tends to stay with you for a while. Even more so when you also have to guide undergrads through how it works in a philosophy course. When you have two equally qualified candidates, it wouldn't be against the law to at the end of the day choose the candidate that is a person of color, a woman, a first gen, etc. AA in the US is legal in a number of contexts and it's not like they said "And we're going to take all the guy candidates and exclude them" <shoves box into trash>. If they happened to notice that they had great candidates this year and that a number of them happened to be women, great, I'm glad we have more women in the discipline doing really well and deciding to apply to go to grad school. If this round they happen to have more women that they offer admission to--cool! Chances are they are all exceedingly well qualified and just as qualified if not more qualified than the folks that didn't get offered a slot this time around (AA may not have even come into play at all tbh). The number of hoops that we would all have to jump through to think that they aren't qualified (not saying you're doing this, but I've been in departments where the men most certainly did and it was egregious) are, well, hoops I think our discipline would be better off consigning to the garbage pile where they belong. That and grad school admissions are already arbitrary AF and can depend on who is in the room, who reads your sample, whether the folks on the committee care about GREs that year or not, whether someone on the committee wants someone good at math (how someone I know got into Stanford), and a bunch of other random things that are totally out of our control. Edited February 15, 2019 by MtnDuck Marcus_Aurelius, akraticfanatic, gradhopeful96 and 2 others 1 4
Kantattheairport Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) On 2/14/2019 at 8:38 PM, TorreAttack said: Accepted to U Pitt. First acceptance of second round of applications. Applying out from UT Austin. Notified by phone. Official letter coming. Will likely accept. Expand Hey, I remember you from last year's cycle when we were on the MIT waitlist together! Congrats on a fantastic acceptance! On 2/15/2019 at 12:28 AM, akraticfanatic said: it me!!! what kind of info are you looking for? Expand Congrats, well-deserved! On 2/15/2019 at 4:20 AM, Marcus_Aurelius said: I was just admitted to the Classics track of Yale's Ancient Philosophy joint program. Not sure about the Philosophy end, except that I was told they're offering admission to someone for the Philosophy track of the joint program. I also heard Yale is aiming for a Philosophy cohort of 5 people, if that helps. Expand Congrats! Another great option for you. On 2/15/2019 at 5:17 AM, crunderdunder said: Yeah!! Super excited!!! Expand Congratulations! That's a number of big ones today. On 2/15/2019 at 6:24 AM, MtnDuck said: The number of hoops that we would all have to jump through to think that they aren't qualified (not saying you're doing this, but I've been in departments where the men most certainly did and it was egregious) are, well, hoops I think are discipline would be better off consigning to the garbage pile where they belong. Expand +1 (alas, I have run out of reactions today) Edited February 15, 2019 by Kantattheairport Very Hungry Caterpillar, TorreAttack and MtnDuck 2 1
mithrandir8 Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 4:38 AM, bluwe said: This is partly why I'm interested because it is also probably legally iffy even if they didn't announce it ahead of time. To admit that it was a consideration is enough to tick the boxes if it is indeed against the law. Expand To be clear, I don't think such a policy would likely be illegal, only that, if stated in writing, it could easily be the source of lawsuits and, especially under the current administration, possible Title IX complaints. I also believe that affirmative action is normatively justified, but that wasn't the basis of my comment. Very Hungry Caterpillar 1
bluwe Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 6:24 AM, MtnDuck said: Ehh, it plausibly wouldn't be legally iffy or against the law. I was on several hiring committees at an R1 and after you have HR talk at you for a few hours about affirmative action (myth vs reality)...it tends to stay with you for a while. Even more so when you also have to guide undergrads through how it works in a philosophy course. When you have two equally qualified candidates, it wouldn't be against the law to at the end of the day choose the candidate that is a person of color, a woman, a first gen, etc. AA in the US is legal in a number of contexts and it's not like they said "And we're going to take all the guy candidates and exclude them" <shoves box into trash>. If they happened to notice that they had great candidates this year and that a number of them happened to be women, great, I'm glad we have more women in the discipline doing really well and deciding to apply to go to grad school. If this round they happen to have more women that they offer admission to--cool! Chances are they are all exceedingly well qualified and just as qualified if not more qualified than the folks that didn't get offered a slot this time around (AA may not have even come into play at all tbh). The number of hoops that we would all have to jump through to think that they aren't qualified (not saying you're doing this, but I've been in departments where the men most certainly did and it was egregious) are, well, hoops I think our discipline would be better off consigning to the garbage pile where they belong. That and grad school admissions are already arbitrary AF and can depend on who is in the room, who reads your sample, whether the folks on the committee care about GREs that year or not, whether someone on the committee wants someone good at math (how someone I know got into Stanford), and a bunch of other random things that are totally out of our control. Expand Yeah, I understand the loopholes that are available to make decisions based on factors that aren't allowed usually. And I'm not saying that the female candidates aren't qualified--in fact, for various reasons they may be more qualified than their male counterparts (especially if they're a double or triple threat, which, in academia, is someone diverse in two or three respects). But this is not supposed to be an explicit consideration, and the fact that it is just means that males with equal qualifications are not being considered. Even if it is not an insidious plot and more just a consequence of human psychology, it is still problematic; since, particularly, it is legally questionable, and we're all supposed to follow the laws. On 2/15/2019 at 6:57 AM, mithrandir8 said: To be clear, I don't think such a policy would likely be illegal, only that, if stated in writing, it could easily be the source of lawsuits and, especially under the current administration, possible Title IX complaints. I also believe that affirmative action is normatively justified, but that wasn't the basis of my comment. Expand I'm not sure you understand what it is for something to be illegal. If something is easily the source of lawsuits then it is probably illegal; if not there will be plausible arguments to be made for its illegality. Minimally, it is weird to hold both that you don't think it is likely to be illegal, but will also easily be a source of lawsuits. Maybe affirmative action is normatively justified, but I know philosophers more accomplished than you that think raping an unconscious woman is sometimes morally neutral. So, I'm not quite sure how we should handle normative claims in the real world. Swann, TheFormOfTheGood, gradhopeful96 and 9 others 12
mithrandir8 Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) On 2/15/2019 at 7:50 AM, bluwe said: I'm not sure you understand what it is for something to be illegal. Expand This is interesting because I happen to be a lawyer. Edited February 15, 2019 by mithrandir8 akraticfanatic, Dysexlia, brookspn and 4 others 2 5
markovka Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 4:20 AM, Marcus_Aurelius said: I was just admitted to the Classics track of Yale's Ancient Philosophy joint program. Not sure about the Philosophy end, except that I was told they're offering admission to someone for the Philosophy track of the joint program. I also heard Yale is aiming for a Philosophy cohort of 5 people, if that helps. Expand Congrats bro Marcus_Aurelius 1
Sextus Propertius Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 7:50 AM, bluwe said: Yeah, I understand the loopholes that are available to make decisions based on factors that aren't allowed usually. And I'm not saying that the female candidates aren't qualified--in fact, for various reasons they may be more qualified than their male counterparts (especially if they're a double or triple threat, which, in academia, is someone diverse in two or three respects). But this is not supposed to be an explicit consideration, and the fact that it is just means that males with equal qualifications are not being considered. Even if it is not an insidious plot and more just a consequence of human psychology, it is still problematic; since, particularly, it is legally questionable, and we're all supposed to follow the laws. I'm not sure you understand what it is for something to be illegal. If something is easily the source of lawsuits then it is probably illegal; if not there will be plausible arguments to be made for its illegality. Minimally, it is weird to hold both that you don't think it is likely to be illegal, but will also easily be a source of lawsuits. Maybe affirmative action is normatively justified, but I know philosophers more accomplished than you that think raping an unconscious woman is sometimes morally neutral. So, I'm not quite sure how we should handle normative claims in the real world. Expand Yeah dude, you sound *exactly* like someone I’d wanna have in my grad school cohort and work with for 6 years Marcus_Aurelius, practically_mi, akraticfanatic and 7 others 1 9
brookspn Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 7:50 AM, bluwe said: I know philosophers more accomplished than you that think raping an unconscious woman is sometimes morally neutral. Expand Which "philosophers" are these, I wonder. The_Last_Thylacine, Dysexlia and philosophaurus_rex 3
The_Last_Thylacine Posted February 15, 2019 Author Posted February 15, 2019 Hi. I'm a lawyer. Affirmative action is very legal. What is illegal is having quotas for admitting certain groups. See Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978). Moreover, state universities have a compelling interest in promoting class diversity. Favoring minorities in a way that makes an applicant's minority status just one factor of many to be considered does not amount to a quota system. See Grutter v. Bellinger (2003). Are the laws moral? This is a philosophical question, but I don't think it's academically credible to say that there is anything illegal about promoting diversity. Marcus_Aurelius, Stencil and brookspn 3
Krauge Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) This forum is supposed to be about who was acceptanced where for fall 2019. Take these arguments to another thread. Edited February 15, 2019 by Krauge brookspn, Eternity, Nothingtown and 1 other 4
Cogitodoncrien Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) On 2/15/2019 at 6:42 PM, Krauge said: This forum is supposed to be about who was acceptanced where for fall 2019. Take these arguments to another thread. Expand I need some modscle over here! Edit: sorry, I couldn't stop myself Edited February 15, 2019 by Cogitodoncrien
bluwe Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) On 2/15/2019 at 8:52 AM, mithrandir8 said: This is interesting because I happen to be a lawyer. Expand Congrats, so you see I'm right. On 2/15/2019 at 6:30 PM, brookspn said: Which "philosophers" are these, I wonder. Expand Peter Singer On 2/15/2019 at 6:39 PM, The_Last_Thylacine said: Hi. I'm a lawyer. Affirmative action is very legal. What is illegal is having quotas for admitting certain groups. See Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978). Moreover, state universities have a compelling interest in promoting class diversity. Favoring minorities in a way that makes an applicant's minority status just one factor of many to be considered does not amount to a quota system. See Grutter v. Bellinger (2003). Are the laws moral? This is a philosophical question, but I don't think it's academically credible to say that there is anything illegal about promoting diversity. Expand Thanks for actually providing a substantive answer rather than just appealing to the fact that you went to law school. Again, people seem to be misunderstanding me--I'm not against AA, I never claimed AA per se is against the law, all I claim is that it is legally questionable, and the fact that questions of AA have been in and out of courts for decades, as you have noted, provides enough evidence to think that. Edited February 15, 2019 by bluwe
Nothingtown Posted February 15, 2019 Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 6:42 PM, Krauge said: This forum is supposed to be about who was acceptanced where for fall 2019. Take these arguments to another thread. Expand Take it to DMs, guys. bluwe 1
theophaniac Posted February 16, 2019 Posted February 16, 2019 Accepted at UofT! antianticlimacus, TorreAttack, sunrisesunset and 2 others 5
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