philstudent1991 Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Also got the rejection from UNC. It was a reach of course, and the email was very polite and came in a very timely manner. Couldn't have been a more pleasant rejection lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophist Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I just saw someone chose philosophy of math on the poll, I assume that was you . Welcome! May I ask what programs are you applying to? Nope, it wasn't me! I applied to NYU, MIT, Cornell, CUNY, Princeton, Pitt, and then a handful of other schools that were lower on the Leiter report. Edit_Undo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDest Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Also got the rejection from UNC. It was a reach of course, and the email was very polite and came in a very timely manner. Couldn't have been a more pleasant rejection lol. Right? It was the nicest rejection I've ever gotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alethicethic Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I'm also on the UNC wait list. Received a nice email from LA Paul this morning. Hypatience, MattDest, greencoloredpencil and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDest Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I'm also on the UNC wait list. Received a nice email from LA Paul this morning. I meant to upvote this, but I hit the red arrow and it won't let me take it back! Haha, just so you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I meant to upvote this, but I hit the red arrow and it won't let me take it back! Haha, just so you know. Uh, yeah. Me too =X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDest Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Uh, yeah. Me too =X I'm not that petty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alethicethic Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I meant to upvote this, but I hit the red arrow and it won't let me take it back! Haha, just so you know. Hah! Thanks Matt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I'm not that petty. I hope we just established a new tradition. Congratulate all of the acceptances....secretly flood with downvotes wandajune, humean_skeptic, Edit_Undo and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Table Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I'm not that petty. I was going to say aww, Matt, I think you're very pretty. Then I realized I can't read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopefulpessimiste Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I'm also claiming one of the very kind rejections from UNC. An inauspicious start of the application cycle for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDest Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I was going to say aww, Matt, I think you're very pretty. Then I realized I can't read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquinasDuo Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Philosophe, let me know if you get into St. Andrews! Also, for everyone's information, Missouri is a school that invites a large number out and splits them into wait-list and acceptances. It seems they invite a few top choices. Then, about 10 others get invites a little later on that ask the person to come to campus but do not explicitly offer a place and from those 10 some are accepted and the rest wait-listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHumeDominates Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Huh. I didn't receive any e-mail from UNC, not an acceptance, rejection, or wait list. Peculiar. ... (I'll probably be rejected tomorrow.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greencoloredpencil Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Is it reasonable to expect that those of us that didn't hear from Berkeley are likely not going to be admitted? Does anyone have any more information on how their department goes about giving offers? Is there more than one round of offers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosophe Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Is it reasonable to expect that those of us that didn't hear from Berkeley are likely not going to be admitted? Does anyone have any more information on how their department goes about giving offers? Is there more than one round of offers? Someone mentioned earlier that Berkeley had multiple rounds of acceptances last year. I hope that's accurate. Also, it seems interesting to me that half of the accepts heard by phone, and half by email. Wonder what's up with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHumeDominates Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Is it reasonable to expect that those of us that didn't hear from Berkeley are likely not going to be admitted? Does anyone have any more information on how their department goes about giving offers? Is there more than one round of offers? No, it's not reasonable. Table and philstudent1991 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDest Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Also, for everyone's information, Missouri is a school that invites a large number out and splits them into wait-list and acceptances. It seems they invite a few top choices. Then, about 10 others get invites a little later on that ask the person to come to campus but do not explicitly offer a place and from those 10 some are accepted and the rest wait-listed. Do you have any additional information about this process? I seem to be in the latter camp, and was told my chances of admission were good. It seems like the campus visit is going to be after they have already decided admissions, is that correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griswald Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Is it reasonable to expect that those of us that didn't hear from Berkeley are likely not going to be admitted? Does anyone have any more information on how their department goes about giving offers? Is there more than one round of offers? I think it's always reasonable to expect that you're not likely to be admitted to any given school. Given that you're not a first round acceptance, it would be unreasonable for you to increase your confidence that you'll be admitted. So, given that you're not a first round acceptance, I think it's reasonable to continue to expect that you're not likely to be admitted (to Berkeley, or wherever, whoever you are). greencoloredpencil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greencoloredpencil Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) I think it's always reasonable to expect that you're not likely to be admitted to any given school. Given that you're not a first round acceptance, it would be unreasonable for you to increase your confidence that you'll be admitted. So, given that you're not a first round acceptance, I think it's reasonable to continue to expect that you're not likely to be admitted (to Berkeley, or wherever, whoever you are). I agree with what you've said. Perhaps I worded my question poorly since I didn't mean to suggest that I thought it was ever likely to be admitted to any given program. What I meant was something more like the following. Given that Berkeley has made offers and I was not one of them, is it now highly likely that I will not be admitted (the likelihood of being admitted is less than it was to start with). The answer to this seems to depend on Berkeley's admissions procedures. Do they have a second round of offers, do they have a waitlist, etc Edited February 4, 2014 by greencoloredpencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platonist Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) As long as Berkeley does not give out the waitlists, it is not completely unreasonable for us to hold some hope-because you may be put on their waitlist, which will or will not be made public. But if they release the waitlists along with the acceptances, then those of us who are not either of them surely have been rejected. Edited February 4, 2014 by Platonist greencoloredpencil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) Someone mentioned earlier that Berkeley had multiple rounds of acceptances last year. I hope that's accurate. Also, it seems interesting to me that half of the accepts heard by phone, and half by email. Wonder what's up with that. International applicants by email, American applicants by phone. #criticalthinking #gg EDIT: Yes I edited this post to add hashtags. EDIT 2: Yes I edited this post to say that I edited this post to add hashtags. EDIT 3: Yes this is getting regressive so I'll just stop here. Edited February 4, 2014 by TheVineyard idol.chatter and philstudent1991 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griswald Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I agree with what you've said. Perhaps I worded my question poorly since I didn't mean to suggest that I thought it was ever likely to be admitted to any given program. What I meant was something more like the following. Given that Berkeley has made offers and I was not one of them, is it now highly likely that I will not be admitted (the likelihood of being admitted is less than it was to start with). The answer to this seems to depend on Berkeley's admissions procedures. Do they have a second round of offers, do they have a waitlist, etc I know that in past years they've had a wait list, and that they've drawn from it. Procedures everywhere tend to be pretty opaque, so I'd say don't jump to conclusions until you've heard something from the department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edit_Undo Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Anyone wants to claim the UC Irvine submission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianfaircloud Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Anyone wants to claim the UC Irvine submission? I'm not claiming it, but I'm betting that it's legitimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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