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2013 Applicants (Philosophy)


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PhD Programs:  

Arizona, Berkeley, Brown, Wisconsin-Madison, Massachusetts-Amherst, Virginia, Syracuse, Connecticut-Storrs, Rice, Iowa

MA Programs:  

British Columbia, Arizona State, Georgia State, N. Illinois, W. Michigan, Houston

 

Areas of Interest:  

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Epistemology

 

Background:  

Honors B.A. from Unknown State School

Cumulative GPA: 3.9+

Major GPA: 3.9+

UG Thesis on Perceptual Content 

20+ Courses in Philosophy

Minor in Cognitive Science

Mediocre GRE Scores

No Publications/Presentations

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PHD

 

University of Arizona, University of Pennsylvania, UNC, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Texas, WUSTL, Brown, Berkeley, Colorado, Illinois, Pitt, UCLA, University of Virginia, Missouri, Vandy, Loyola Chicago

 

Area of Interest:

 

Philosophy and Law, Political Philosophy

 

Background:

 

UG Philosophy degree from Top 5 (PG) school

Law degree from Tier 1 school

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PhD: Arizona, Boston U, Brown, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, Harvard, Syracuse, Yale

MA: Arizona State, Brandeis, Georgia State, Tufts

 

Interests: Philosophy of mind/psychology, epistemology, ethics

 

Background:

BA from Top 30 (PG) department

Major GPA: 3.9

Overall GPA: 3.9

Relatively average GRE scores

No presentations

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(Re: posting from 2012 thing, I guess)

 

I'm not a strict "philosophy" applicant, although I am applying to interdisciplinary programs.

 

 

List of Schools:
 
NYU English
Berkeley Rhetoric
UC Santa Cruz History of Con
OSU Comparative Studies
UMN - CSCL 
Duke English
SUNY Buffalo English
University of Chicago English
Ann Arbor English/Women's Studies
MIT Comparative Media Studies
Brown MCM
U Penn English
William & Mary American Studies
Stanford MLT
Syracuse English
Rochester Visual and Cultural Studies
Yale American Studies
Iowa English
Penn State English
Albany English
Loyola Chicago English
WashU English
Georgia Tech Digital Media
Brown English
Utah English
 
Interests: Phenomenology, Deleuze and Affect Theory, Queer Theory, Object Oriented Ontology, and Queer Literature (with an emphasis on poetry and poetics).
 
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Best wishes for everyone!

 

PhD: UCR, UBC, Fordham, WashU, Marquette, UNM

 

Interests: Continental, Political, Religion

 

UGrad: 3.7 C, 3.9+ M

MA: 3.9+

 

Four conference presentations, two publications.

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PhD Programs:  UNC-Chapel Hill, WashU, SLU, Oklahoma, Baylor, Cornell

 

Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion

 

Background:  

UGPA: 3.3 (Major: 3.8)

GGPA: 4.0

GRE: 168V / 152Q / 5.0AW

2 peer-reviewed publications, 3 conference papers

Languages: German, Latin, Greek

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Why, Mind, of course! Just kidding. For me, it's one article in a no-name, one book review in a good journal, and another article with a good shot a different no-name.

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Schools: UNC Chapel Hill, Arizona, MIT, Texas Austin, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Michigan Ann Arbor, Toronto, Maryland, Boston, CUNY

 

Area: moral, social and political philosophy

 

Background:
Math GRE score: I don't want to talk about it.

Verbal: 160

Analytical Writing: 5

**I usually have exam accommodations, so my letter writers are speaking to this - could not get them for GRE.

 

Current PhD student: A+ from one class taken (the other is pending)

Master's GPA: 4.3/4.3

Undergraduate GPA: 88% last 2 years (Canadian school)

**First 2 years of undergrad, all Bs - extreme health concerns that prevented me from going to class and doing well

 

Publications:

One revise and resubmit with very good journal (used as writing sample)

 

Presentations:
One colloquium presentation
One grad student conference

One professional international philosophy conference

One guest lecture

 

Other:

TA for 3 courses

Editorial assistant for two books being published

Research assistant currently and in the past (diff schools)

Tutor at Writing Centre currently and in the past (diff schools)

Referee for undergraduate journal

Chaired an undergraduate conference

 

Essay awards:

2nd place in university wide essay competition

Tied for 1st - best MA student essay in philosophy

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Schools: Chicago, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Toronto, McGill, Queen's, Western (Ontario), McMaster, Waterloo

 

Specialisation: Social and political philosophy (especially Rawls)

 

Master's GPA: 4.0

Undergrad GPA: 80% (82% in last two years)

GRE: 158V / 161Q / 5.0AW

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Do any schools interview? That can be an early indication of one's chances. 

I'm hoping to hear back from Northwestern, Yale, and MIT in about a month.   

 

Since we're all just waiting, any predictions on the first school to start accepting/rejecting?

 

Name the school and when.

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Hi everyone.

 

AOI: moral theory, applied ethics

Schools: Minnesota, Northwestern, Utah, Rice, Loyola Chicago, Michigan State, SUNY Albany

UGPA: 3.66

GGPA: 4.0 

GRE: 169V/161Q/5.0AW

Writing Sample: um, I like it?

Handicap: missing pinky finger on my left hand

 

Good luck!

 

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I have an article in Philosophia and another in a theology journal.

Pretty impressive! Your numbers look good, and you have a master's already? This question is prying, but our interests are similar, so I was wondering: why aren't you applying to more prestigious programs, like Rutgers, Oxford, or Yale? 

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Since we're all just waiting, any predictions on the first school to start accepting/rejecting?

 

Name the school and when.

 

Duke and UNC have, in previous years, tended to notify people around the end of Jan/beginning of Feb

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Torturous! (What do you think we're all doing on TGC?) Where have you applied? 

 

Hey aglaea,

 

I applied to Temple U, Viilanova U, DePaul U, McGill U, Fordham U, UOregon, UMemphis, UAlberta, UBuffalo, Michigan State U, New School for Social Research, Georgia State U, Tufts U. 

 

My research is continental heavy. AOI: Kantian judgment, the sublime, philosophy of literature, critical theory, etc. 

Would seriously do anything to get into UOregon, DePaul U or Fordham U. Really, though, I will be happy with acceptances from any of the schools I applied to! Hoping for at least one piece of good news  :)

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Schools: MIT, Cornell, UMass Amherst, Toronto, Ohio University, Brandeis University, CUNY, Maryland, Duke, University of Miami, USC, UCSB, Boston University.

 

GRE: 164 V, 154 Q, 5 AW

 

GPA: 3.6

 

Two undergraduate conference presentations (not expecting these to be a factor).

 

Two forthcoming book chapters in a communications/discourse analysis book to be published by Routledge.

 

Sample is a on some unpublished Kripke work. 


I've gotten to read one of my letters, and it was excellent. I'm assuming the rest are at least good.

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Schools:  Princeton, MIT, Yale, Rutgers, USC, UCLA, Berkeley, Wisconsin, Arizona, UT Austin, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Duke, UCSD, CUNY, UC Boulder, UMass Amherst, 

 

Areas of Interest:  Epistemology, Metaethics, Phil. of Language, Phil. of Mathematics

 

BS Math, BA Phil - T30 public school - Cumulative GPA = 3.80, Phil GPA = 3.95

JD - T25 ranked school - GPA = 3.24

MA (non-philosophy but at school with T10 leiter phil dept.) - GPA = 3.91 - (mostly phil grad seminars)

 

GRE - 630 V / 800 Q / 4.5 AW

 

2 years practicing attorney

TA for math & phil courses as undergraduate - 3 years

 

Departmental Fellowship @ MA Program

Tuition Scholarship @ JD program

2x awarded prize for outstanding performance as undergraduate in mathematics

no presentations/publications

 

Looks like a stellar profile, with the only weak point being the JD GPA, but I doubt that matters at all to philosophy admissions people.

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