Dialectica Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Would you pick NIU over Virginia Tech if you went with an unfunded offer? Just curious; I am in a similar boat with NIU and VT. Given their placement records, I would choose NIU over Virginia Tech. I know a handful of people that went through NIU's program, all with great things to say about it. On the other hand, if VT decided to fund me, I would have to choose VT's program over NIU. Im thrilled to be in a position with such options, though I almost wish I had just one. I'm assuming you have unfunded offers from both? Did you apply to WMU at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalForm Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Claiming an Oxford (BPhil) acceptance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ungerdrag Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 BPhil puts me at 10/10. What the actual fuck. Hypatience, deverettf, hopefulpessimiste and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frege-bombs Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Given their placement records, I would choose NIU over Virginia Tech. I know a handful of people that went through NIU's program, all with great things to say about it. On the other hand, if VT decided to fund me, I would have to choose VT's program over NIU. Im thrilled to be in a position with such options, though I almost wish I had just one. I'm assuming you have unfunded offers from both? Did you apply to WMU at all? I have also been admitted without an assitantship at NIU. I am still waiting to hear back from Virginia Tech, Western Michigan, Brandeis, and Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but given my interests and the program's placement record, it will be difficult for me to turn down NIU (assuming the tuition waiver comes through). ungerdrag and kant_get_in 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kant_get_in Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I have also been admitted without an assitantship at NIU. I am still waiting to hear back from Virginia Tech, Western Michigan, Brandeis, and Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but given my interests and the program's placement record, it will be difficult for me to turn down NIU (assuming the tuition waiver comes through). I would like to nominate you for the best username award. ungerdrag and frege-bombs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopefulpessimiste Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Congrats to the Oxford admits! I didn't even have the balls to apply...you guys who got in totally rock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottagecheeseman Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 BPhil puts me at 10/10. What the actual fuck. I have a complex love/hate relationship with you. Glasperlenspieler, philosophe, Edit_Undo and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ungerdrag Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) I have a complex love/hate relationship with you. I'm sorry, ZS. I know it's kind of douchey posting about successes like this on TGC, even in the acceptance thread. Maybe there's some way I could make it up to you. (Tossing my copy of The Puppet and the Dwarf, perhaps? ) Edited March 10, 2014 by ungerdrag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilbert's timequake Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I'm sorry, ZS. I know it's kind of douchey posting about successes like this on TGC, even in the acceptance thread. Maybe there's some way I could make it up to you. (Tossing my copy of The Puppet and the Dwarf, perhaps? ) Just become a awesome philosopher and shake the world so I know that I lose to a worthy guy. AcademicX, philosophe and Structural_Realist 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcademicX Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 BPhil puts me at 10/10. What the actual fuck. Wow congrats! you're a beast! I'm so glad you didn't apply to Columbia because you would have totally taken the Early Modern spot from me (although I am a continentalist, I think my Spinoza writing sample is what got me in). Best wishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elanorci Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) I'm new here and have mostly been posting in the biology forums (it's complicated) but figured I'd chime in and say that I just got accepted at the Cambridge MPhil program. Probably won't go as I didn't apply for internal funding and the external funding that I thought was likelier fell through, though. ): Does anyone have any ideas about funding possibilities? I know it's a shot in the dark, but feel free to pm me or post here if you have thoughts! Edited March 10, 2014 by elanorci Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Anyone claim Purdue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monadology Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Anyone claim Purdue? Oh snap. Seconded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Table Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 April 15 is absolutely ridiculous. Suppose a person received an acceptance offer from a bottom-ranked program B, but wait listed at a very-high-ranked program H, both of which set the deadline for their offers for April 15. Suppose the person has to accept or deny B's offer on April 15 when she does not hear from H. The most rational choice is to accept B's offer. But it turns out that she received an acceptance off the wait list at H after April 15, which she had to painfully deny because she was stuck with B. So April 15 is so ridiculous. This is partly because it is the standard deadline and almost every school follows it. If programs do not adopt a uniform deadline, the April 15 disaster would be avoided. How would having non-uniform deadlines possibly help? If B's deadline was April 15 and H's was April 20, that would just make it less likely a wait listed applicant would hear in time... Having a standard deadline doesn't solve very problem, but it seems pretty clear that it's the best option. Monadology 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Differance Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Anyone claim Purdue? Oh snap. Seconded. I can claim the Purdue acceptance. Email from Paul Draper about an hour ago! Monadology 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I can claim the Purdue acceptance. Email from Paul Draper about an hour ago! Congrats! I'm very jealous now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Differance Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Congrats! I'm very jealous now. Thank you! They said they were planning to make 7 funded offers this year. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! It was a personalized email, so seems likely that they could take a while to get them all out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Thank you! They said they were planning to make 7 funded offers this year. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! It was a personalized email, so seems likely that they could take a while to get them all out. Thanks for the info. I sure would relish the opportunity to study with Michael Bergmann. If the rest of this season has been any indication, I'm probably going to end up going the MA route this time around. I will, however, hold on to hope as long as I can... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Looks like UMass is up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypatience Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I can claim Oxford BPhil and UMass Amherst offers. I've already declined the latter, and plan to do so for the former as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesage13 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) Looks like UMass is up. Can anyone confirm? No email here yet EDIT: Nevermind. Edited March 10, 2014 by lesage13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wandajune Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 BPhil puts me at 10/10. What the actual fuck. Not at all surprising! Congrats on an incredible season. I hope you end up becoming a very famous philosopher one day so we can all say we knew you when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monadology Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I can claim the Purdue acceptance. Email from Paul Draper about an hour ago! Congrats! Also thanks for the info regarding how many funded offers they plan to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stressedout Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 BPhil puts me at 10/10. What the actual fuck. Have you decided where you will go? Selim Berker at Harvard is the awesomesauce...as is Setiya at MIT. I will live vicariously through you if you choose one of these two places. philosophe and Wait For It... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
objectivityofcontradiction Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) 4 BU acceptances with the posters saying they will most likely decline; for the love of casserole could some one claim one of these? Edited March 10, 2014 by objectivityofcontradiction Glasperlenspieler and Wait For It... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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