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Hi everyone,

 

Just joined the forum. Got accepted to Western Ontario, rejected through postal mail from Pittsburgh (HPS), one presumed rejection from UCSD.

 

Congrats to everyone who's been accepted so far !

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confirming the FSU MA acceptance (woo!)  Not sure when they'll release their phd decisions, but best of luck guys! 

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Notre Dame Philosophy, PhD (F15) Accepted via Phone on 19 Feb 2015  A 18 Feb 2015

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  • (Time is in Europe -- it was 1 AM. Really shouldn't have picked up.)

 

This person sounds annoyed to have received an offer from Notre Dame's PhD program. 

 

 

To be fair, his complaint might be that he's now too excited to fall asleep in time for class tomorrow.

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Notre Dame Philosophy, PhD (F15) Accepted via Phone on 19 Feb 2015  A 18 Feb 2015

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This person sounds annoyed to have received an offer from Notre Dame's PhD program. 

 

 

Nope, just sorry for making the professor make an international call on his dime!

 

(Also, it's "she"...)

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Nope, just sorry for making the professor make an international call on his dime!

 

(Also, it's "she"...)

 

Congrats! 

 

By the way, is your "Also, it's 'she'..." a reference to the professor who called to convey the offer to you, or to my post? If the latter, my post uses "person", which is -- as far as I know -- gender neutral! :)

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Congrats! 

 

By the way, is your "Also, it's 'she'..." a reference to the professor who called to convey the offer to you, or to my post? If the latter, my post uses "person", which is -- as far as I know -- gender neutral! :)

 

No, that was a response to Establishment, who posted right after you I believe.

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A bit late putting this up.

 

Acceptances: OSU, IU, Missouri.

Waitlist: Virginia, Rochester

Rejections: Brown, WUSTL (PNP), Northwestern, UNC-Chapel Hill

 

I received an email from Duke telling me to log in to see the decision letter, but I have trouble logging in. Presuming rejection.

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I can't imagine anything worse, in the context of grad admissions, than that. Don't you imagine some students rejected other offers or removed themselves from waitlists? It's not as if CMU has much choice of course: either allow all 800 people to enroll or correct their status. But I can't even imagine how I would feel, just knowing how intense and emotional this process is, to get accepted to my dream school and then to have them email me, hours later rather than the next moment as should have been done, that I had in fact not been accepted. I would cry. I would throw up. And if I had informed my job or told my loved ones or posted on social media. Wow. Is there an "Accept Everyone" button somewhere that someone accidentally sat on? I just don't know how that can happen. A third party is probably to blame, but still. Then again, wouldn't people like us immediately know there was a mistake? If everyone suddenly started posting that they were in at NYU, say. Maybe it's not analogous, idk, but it seems similar. We would immediately think to be suspicious, I guess. Anyway, crazy article, thanks for sharing Ian. 

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It certainly gives good reason for one to never be to hasty in life with big decisions. Sit on your offers, and don't make any rash decisions in rejecting acceptances, removing yourself from waitlists, and declining jobs.

yep, very true.

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Hi folks,

 

Ian and I have now added a funding page on the blog, where you can fill out a response form with the funding details at each of the places you've been accepted. There'll be a table of responses on that page by the end of the day. Unfortunately, the table won't be updated immediately, but I'll be updating it daily. Hopefully people find it a useful tool, and it'd be appreciated if you could take a minute to fill out the response form so we can get responses for most schools.

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Accepted to University of Calgary (MA)!!! It won't be a shut out this year, Wooooooo!!!

 

Huge congrats. If you do end up going to Calgary, I recommend you dress warm -- I'm Canadian, so I speak from experience :) 

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Congratulations! It must feel incredible, especially after your bad luck last year.

Thank you, it is such a relief!

 

 

Huge congrats. If you do end up going to Calgary, I recommend you dress warm -- I'm Canadian, so I speak from experience :)

Thanks! I have never really experienced real cold weather. I'm from the middle east and done my BA in California. I hope that I don't freeze to death if I went there.

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