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Philosophy 2012

Sep 26, 2011 08:31

This is for everyone applying to graduate programs in Philosophy during the 2011-2012 academic year.

A new thread has been started since there seems to have been a problem with anonymous commenting on the previous one. Good luck, everyone!

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anonymous September 26 2011, 22:20:53 UTC

Anonymous commenting has been enabled. Hopefully there will be more activity regarding the 2011-2012 application season now.
-temporalparts

Pile of Helpful Links (in PDF) maxhgns September 26 2011, 22:30:38 UTC

One last attempt:

I compiled a PDF last year containing a pile of helpful links that I'd found over the last few years of my own (successful) applications to grad school. It's not a guide or anything so presumptuous, but it does organize a rather large pile of the information that's out there on the intarwebz. I'm still updating it periodically as I come across new stuff, although the link itself doesn't change.

Hope it helps.

http://freepdfhosting.com/78792a49c8.pdf

maxhgns March 30 2012, 03:26:04 UTC

I accidentally allowed the link to expire. So the new link is this: http://freepdfhosting.com/68060fc874.pdf

UK student applying to the States! anonymous September 26 2011, 23:26:57 UTC

Hi guys, I tried to post in the last thread but it didn't work. Well I'm a Scottish student and I'm planning on getting into a US program. I've just completed my Masters in philosophy. I'm applying to many schools, but this is because I really want to get in somewhere this year - I don't plan on reappying. The schools I'm applying to are NYU, Michigan, Rutgers, MIT, Columbia, CUNY, Brown, Chapel Hill, Cornell, Duke, Umass, Colorado, Penn, Syracuse, Connecticut, Georgetown, Boston, Rochester, Albany, Buffalo ( ... )

Re: UK student applying to the States! anonymous September 27 2011, 09:21:37 UTC

I'm in much the same situation as you: applying from Australia with a MPhil in cognitive science (well, I'm still writing the thing) and first-class honours BA in philosophy and literature. My interest is early modern and Enlightenment alongside contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind ( ... )

Re: UK student applying to the States! anonymous October 4 2011, 07:15:43 UTC

(1) You're applying to too many schools. There is no reason to apply to more than 15. Focus on picking schools that are a good fit.

(2) Your accolades, teaching, blah blah, are irrelevant. And don't sweat the GRE too much. Aim to beat 700 on each section.

(3) Spend all your time on your sample. If your letters are good like you say, and your general background is good like you say, the first few pages of your paper will be read. No sense getting feedback on your stats from livejournal as no one can tell you your chances at this point without reading your writing. Even then, it probably wouldn't give you a sense of your odds. Just work on your paper and ignore everything else.

Re: UK student applying to the States! anonymous October 4 2011, 16:52:44 UTC

Or...Apply to as many schools as you like. Feel free to mention all of your teaching accolades, perhaps in the CV portion of your applications. Think twice about putting all of your time into your writing sample -- after all, if you want to get 160's on both sections, you will need to spend some time on that (and soon).

Feel free to spread around your stats on livejournal, and feel free to inquire about how others perceive your chances based on those few details. Consider that it may be a good idea to avoid getting so caught up in your paper that you ignore everything else.

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info notorious_biv October 4 2011, 23:52:49 UTC

Areas of Interest:
Philosophy of perception; philosophy of mind; epistemology; history of analytic philosophy

Tentative school list:
(PhD) Cambridge, University College London, UConn-Storrs, UT-Austin, UMass-Amherst, Indiana U, Brown, U Virginia, U Penn, UC-Riverside, Cornell, and perhaps a few top 15 programs; (MA) U Houston, UW-Milwaukee, Georgia State, Northern Illinois, W Michigan.

Re: info notorious_biv October 4 2011, 23:59:28 UTC

(A message for the person whose response attempt - re: my original post - was thwarted by livejournal)
I completely agree that Riverside is a good place to go for phil of action. However, my interest in the school is primarily due to Eric Schwitzgebel.

Re: info temporalparts October 5 2011, 01:27:20 UTC

notorious_biv: Did someone try to reply to you and it only showed up in an email notification and not on LJ? If so, I'll try to fiddle around with the thread's settings and see if that helps...

Re: info notorious_biv October 5 2011, 02:20:35 UTC

The problem was on the old thread. I haven't encountered any problems with the new one. Thanks.

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? anonymous October 14 2011, 17:22:53 UTC

Where the heck is everybody?

Re: ? pmp_adamski October 14 2011, 18:13:58 UTC

I'll second this question.