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Well, yesterday I discovered that I am unlikely to be accepted into Notre Dame's MA program in philosophy, because it doesn't exist. I could have sworn I read about it, and that their online form let me choose "Philosophy MA," but whatever. At least I got a hilarious email out of it, and it's being treated as a Ph.D. application.

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Unrelated to the poker, but you can probably apply to the Ph.D. program and then bail along the way with an M.A. This is what I did (at Iowa). You might even decide to stick it out. An M.A. in philosophy is, shockingly enough, not of great utility.

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I was a math major and have been advised that I am unlikely to be admitted at a good Ph.D. program immediately.

--Nate