Graduate seminars (3): Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason / sentimentalism in ethics / advanced symbolic logic
Value theory (4+1): philosophy of law / social and political philosophy / normative ethics / applied ethics / + sentimentalism in ethics
History (5+1): movements in 20th-century philosophy / history of 19th-century philosophy / history of 17th-century philosophy / history of medieval philosophy / history of ancient philosophy / + Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Metaphysics, mind, logic & phil of science (5+1): philosophy of mind / consciousness / philosophy of biology / seminar for undergraduate majors / symbolic logic / + advanced symbolic logic
Other (2): philosophy of art / philosophy of gender
Letter writers:
#1 大一下的教授(伦理学),那门课的 term paper 死搅蛮缠着他帮我改了一年,得过本科生的 best paper award。Writing Sample 的起源。大四上学期又上了他的课。
Came to Philosophy in my junior year, spend an extra year (fifth) as undergraduate.
GPA: Under 3.5 (Cumulative); Around 3.7 (Philosophy)
GRE: Embarrassingly low. Far from adequate.
Writing Sample (on Political Philosophy): State Interference in Parenting
Course Work
Value Theory (5+1): Philo of Law/ Ethical Theory/ Current Moral & Social Issues/ Topics in Social & Political Philo/ Moral Responsibility / Seminar in Legal Philo.
Metaphysics-Epistemology(3): (Intro) Metaphysics/ Philo of Language/ (Advanced) Philo of Language.
Logic (2): Intro/ Intermediate Logic.
History(2): Aristotle/ 18 Century.
Other(3+1): Seminar in Philo of Psychology/ Philo of Art/ Philo aspect of Cog Sci/ (another) (Crosslisted) Cog Sci and Philo.
Letter Writers: (Not ranked):
1 大三上,大五上,大五下的教授 (法律哲学),大五上的那门课觉得特别好。
2 大四上一直到大五下的教授,(政治哲学) ,Thesis Adviser. Paper 想了一年多(觉得前期稿子不太能看,就不算“写”了一年)writing sample是节选。
GPA: Undergrad 3.7/4 MA 3.96/4 唯一一门不是4的课是中特()本硕都在人大
Writing Sample: Making Counterpossibles True Nonvacuously 从硕士论文抽出了一部分改写
MA Coursework: Formal Logic x6; Theoretical Philosophy (including Phi and History of Logic) x7+2 audited at PKU
Letter Writers: 硕士导师(当过助教和秘书)、逻辑的老师(当过助教)、哲学的外教(当过秘书)
Programs applied to:
PhD: NYU RUTGERS CUNY Notre Dame Toronto Cornell Western UConn (Rejected) 人大()
MA: Calgary (off waitlist) ILLC (Logic Year)
很高兴没有被全聚德()
3/11 Cornell一位我很感兴趣的老师发邮件告知了我wl的情况,并且表示对我的ws很感兴趣,实在是太开心啦!
3/15 NYU终于发来了拒信以及 Master in Bioethics的邀请。?????????????????????????????你们真的读了我的SOP吗?
4/14 Off Calgary MA waitlist with funding. 但是两个PhD的wl还没有消息TAT。如果有phd项目要我我就马上decline这个offer
4/15 被UConn拒了TAT
Writing Sample: Justification and Excuse in Knowledge-First Epistemology
Letter Writers: 系里两个外教,一个美国毕业的老师,一个离职的外教
Programs applied to:
MIT, Pitt, UT Austin (off waitlist), UCLA
Simon Fraser, Tufts, Northern Illinois, Texas Tech, Calgary, Virginia Tech, Western Michigan , Wisconsin Milwaukee