AgentScully Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 really hoping for some UNC news soon.... Then UCSD, and UW- madison..... Any thoughts about these predictions? philstudent1991 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacbarcan Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 UNC probably won't come out till this Friday or next week. UW is all over the place in the past few years. I'm pretty unsure when it'll come out. UCSD is pretty consistent though. I would expect it to come out on the between the 10th and 16th. (...Leaning more toward happening this week.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosophe Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 4 hours ago, machineghost said: I am also anxiously awaiting their decision. I'd be excited about that one and, importantly, so would my wife, who would not be particularly excited about some other schools to which I applied. Fortunately for her, I didn't get in to any of those schools (OR AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT I AM ASSUMIMG GIVEN THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD!) I feel that. My significant other is also not super excited about the location of certain schools. Here's hoping that everyone ends up happy! machineghost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MentalEngineer Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 1 hour ago, philosophe said: I feel that. My significant other is also not super excited about the location of certain schools. Here's hoping that everyone ends up happy! I have a list as long as my arm of lessons learned in this area. Sadly, the only generally applicable one is: this is a minefield, tread carefully, good luck. You know, in case the application process in isolation wasn't enough cause for optimism. machineghost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erratic_Akratic Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 10 hours ago, jacbarcan said: UNC probably won't come out till this Friday or next week. UW is all over the place in the past few years. I'm pretty unsure when it'll come out. UCSD is pretty consistent though. I would expect it to come out on the between the 10th and 16th. (...Leaning more toward happening this week.) Hi Jac, Thanks for filling our vacuous expectations with well-studied predictions! Any estimate of your confidence on Brown releasing acceptances this week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacbarcan Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Yeah actually. I would say I'm confident it'll come out this week or next week. Most likely, it won't be earlier than Friday. I picked a date lower than the average because they seem to consistently come out on Friday's. The 12th, 13th, 15th, and 17th seem likely. Erratic_Akratic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjb919 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 For anyone who applied to the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought program, I emailed the administrative assistant to inquire about when they might start notifying applicants, and was told probably by the end of the week. Fingers crossed. philstudent1991 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosophe Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I got impatient and emailed Indiana (non-HPS). The administrator there says the admissions committee is finalizing decisions and she should receive a list of acceptances "soon." Dialectica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacbarcan Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Always "soon" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVSCZAR Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 14 minutes ago, jacbarcan said: Always "soon" behindclosedoors, psm1580b, AnotherKantFan and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosophe Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Just realized Stanford and Yale are predicted for the same day. Better to crush my dream in one fell swoop! abisch and AnotherKantFan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psm1580b Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 26 minutes ago, MVSCZAR said: This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherKantFan Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 45 minutes ago, philosophe said: Just realized Stanford and Yale are predicted for the same day. Better to crush my dream in one fell swoop! Glad about this too Siegfried42 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smwinterfeldt Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 1 hour ago, MVSCZAR said: I never knew that there was a gif that so accurately described the entire applications process. bechkafish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorshake Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 (edited) Not knowing is worse than rejections.. oops, wrote that in the wrong thread! Sorry However, I have heard from an admin person at Villanova that "the admissions process is well on the way". Whatever that means. Edited February 10, 2016 by majorshake mistake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
502845824 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Is it real? Is today really the day for WashU?!?1111!!? *Crosses fingers* I plan on having my phone in my hand and my email open in front of me all day. Anyone else? LLeuven 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MentalEngineer Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 15 hours ago, smwinterfeldt said: I never knew that there was a gif that so accurately described the entire applications process. There's also this one: FoxAndChicken and perpetuavix 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
currentphilgrad Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Come on WashU and Madison! I need some good news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacbarcan Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 I'm going to write an official blog post soon and post this also in the acceptance and rejection threads, but I've asked a fellow applicant to collaborate with me on the blog. This person's role would be to call universities at appropriate times and check on the status of decisions. We hope that by doing this we can alleviate some stress on the applicant side as well as on the side of professors, grad students, or administrators in philosophy departments, the latter by reducing the amount of applicants calling and emailing. We never before have done this and it is possible it won't work. If it seems to cause too much trouble, my collaborator may withdraw from the role. Please let us know how you feel about this and whether or not you think we should continue with this option. Best, Jac jjb919, FoxAndChicken, 502845824 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorshake Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 19 minutes ago, jacbarcan said: I'm going to write an official blog post soon and post this also in the acceptance and rejection threads, but I've asked a fellow applicant to collaborate with me on the blog. This person's role would be to call universities at appropriate times and check on the status of decisions. We hope that by doing this we can alleviate some stress on the applicant side as well as on the side of professors, grad students, or administrators in philosophy departments, the latter by reducing the amount of applicants calling and emailing. We never before have done this and it is possible it won't work. If it seems to cause too much trouble, my collaborator may withdraw from the role. Please let us know how you feel about this and whether or not you think we should continue with this option. Best, Jac That's a spectacular idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machineghost Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I also think it is a spectacular idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatsjustsemantics Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 After a presumed rejection from Arizona, I'm hoping that UNC and Madison will notify applicants this week. I'm also hoping Cornell will release early, considering that they may have received fewer applications after that poach by Rutgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosophe Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 (edited) @jacbarcan are you sure that indiana has released accepts? I'm curious since there's only the one accept and no one's claimed it. (Not to mention that my inbox is nothing but crickets ://// really thought I had a shot there). Edited February 10, 2016 by philosophe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 22 hours ago, MVSCZAR said: UGH! No more upvotes!!!!!! Worst TGC policy of all. They're my upvotes dammit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacbarcan Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 I'm not completely sure, but people don't typically post fake results that are (a) not a top 10 school, (b) not an ivy league school, and (c) somewhat close to the prediction. Maybe a job for my new blogger buddy could be to make sure after a few days of crickets. philosophe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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