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Philosophy Ph.D Chances?

BA in Phil from top 25 private UG, 3.7+ GPA. Top 5 Law Schoo...
obsidian disturbing organic girlfriend
  03/23/10
lol haven't you studied enough and gotten enough debt nob...
ruby rigor
  03/24/10
no debt in a phD program, BRAH
Metal misunderstood native mad cow disease
  03/25/10
Did you get reccs from famous profs? That can help your ...
Aquamarine soggy pervert property
  03/27/10
have recs from famous profs within in their respective AoIs,...
Frum hideous associate
  04/13/10
no chances at those schools. apply to UNC
ruby rigor
  04/07/10
what's ur major GPA? a 3.7ish philosophy gpa means you aver...
ruddy electric state
  04/13/10
3.8+ Technically, anything below a 4.0 is "averaging...
Frum hideous associate
  04/13/10
if a 3.67= A- and 4.0= A, then you need to break 3.835 to av...
scarlet set voyeur
  04/14/10


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Date: March 23rd, 2010 7:48 PM
Author: obsidian disturbing organic girlfriend

BA in Phil from top 25 private UG, 3.7+ GPA. Top 5 Law School. Perfect GRE. Good recommendations, writing sample, and SoP

Applying to:

NYU

Rutgers

Princeton

Columbia

Harvard

MIT

Yale

Stanford

Berkeley

Brown

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Ethics, Math Logic (maybe), Phil of Lang (Maybe)

Chances?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14478550)



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Date: March 24th, 2010 12:52 AM
Author: ruby rigor

lol haven't you studied enough and gotten enough debt

nobody in philosophyphd gets a job-- all the professors live to be like 95

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14482392)



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Date: March 25th, 2010 10:28 AM
Author: Metal misunderstood native mad cow disease

no debt in a phD program, BRAH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14495703)



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Date: March 27th, 2010 12:52 PM
Author: Aquamarine soggy pervert property

Did you get reccs from famous profs?

That can help your app quite a bit, especially if they come from famous profs in your area of interest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14516629)



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Date: April 13th, 2010 7:45 AM
Author: Frum hideous associate

have recs from famous profs within in their respective AoIs, but they aint no martha nussbaum.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14695604)



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Date: April 7th, 2010 9:15 PM
Author: ruby rigor

no chances at those schools.

apply to UNC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14638302)



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Date: April 13th, 2010 5:38 AM
Author: ruddy electric state

what's ur major GPA? a 3.7ish philosophy gpa means you averaged an A-, why pursue academia?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14695528)



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Date: April 13th, 2010 7:45 AM
Author: Frum hideous associate

3.8+

Technically, anything below a 4.0 is "averaging an A-"...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14695603)



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Date: April 14th, 2010 7:43 PM
Author: scarlet set voyeur

if a 3.67= A- and 4.0= A, then you need to break 3.835 to average an A

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1259851&forum_id=3#14712002)