<p>Hey, I have a 3.8GPA right now with a bunch of college credits. When I transfer in the Fall of 2007, I will have close to 50 credits which I hope will bring my GPA up to 3.85 or 3.9ish.</p>
<p>I don't have any extra-curriculars (if you can recommend some, I'm listening) -- I have a few ideas, ie., Democrat headquarters, getting more involved in my Church (I am already an editor for them), helping at the literacy learning centre, and I put in an application to help this summer at my library.</p>
<p>Can you recommend some schools to look at for analytic philosophy. This is the list I have now:</p>
<p>Brandeis, Washington & Lee, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Harvard, Reed College, Swarthmore, Colgate, Haverford, Georgetown, NYU, U of Penn, Wesleyan, Williams, Amherst, MIT, Oxford</p>
<p>As you can see I don't care about demographics, I just want to go to a top school with a great grad placement rate. I already know about the philosophical gourmet, but would prefer to stay away from most of those schools as they don't like inbreeding (having undergrads become grad students).</p>
<p>I am at a community college, and had very low SAT scores. I plan to take the ACT so I don't have to submit my low SAT scores along with my high ones (when I retake them), even if colleges say they only look at the higher one.</p>
<p>Any advice? Any advice on other colleges to look at?</p>
<p>I know nothing about analytic philosophy, but if you haven't already, you can probably spend hours reading these colleges' Philosophy Dept web pages, and search their sites for relevant publications.</p>
<p>I have and those websites show what I want but I didn't know if anyone knew of any other (general) colleges to look at with that GPA, that I could check out.</p>
<p>"Among schools that do not offer the PhD or MA in philosophy, those with the best philosophy faculties would probably include: Amherst College, California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Reed College, University of Vermont, and Wellesley College"--The Philosophical Gourmet, February, 2004</p>
<p>U of Toronto has a gigantic and superb philosophy department, including lots of Analytical philosophy types. Wisconsin is very diverse, too, so it has enough Analytical types. U of Chicago and Michigan lean to the Analytical, I believe. Anything in the UK will be VERY Analytical...Oxford, Cambridge, and U of Edinburgh would be good choices--although I don't know about British universities and transfers. If you look at the online college catalogs, and check the titles of the philosophy courses, it will become apparent which way they are leaning in the Continental/Analytical war.</p>
<p>Almost every major university focuses mainly on analytical and not continental. UPitt might be a good option, the program is more grad focused. But the dept. is amazing nonetheless and is pretty easy to transfer into.</p>
<p>Re: credits and UK--not necessarily. My sister's credits were accepted for the most part to St. Andrews, which is quite strong in the humanities.</p>
<p>Re: continental v. analytical. McGill swings both ways. And Canadian/UK unis in general tend to be more (ahem) forgiving when it comes to stats. Get them over a certain mark and they'll let you in. From there, it's all about attrition.</p>
<p>I would say ECs were the strongest component of my transfer application. If I were in your position, I would look to do some research/writing/publication stuff. You need to make yourself competitive academically speaking, and your ECs should enhance/reflect your academic interests.</p>
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