MPH How am I doing now, and what can I do to improve my chances of getting into an Epi progam?

[Cadco]

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Hey all, thanks for checking out my thread. I am about to enter my second semester as a sophomore. I am an Environmental Health major at Western Carolina University. I would love to go to graduate school to study epidemiology, which is really my dream career.

My current cumulative gpa is a 3.935. I have completed one semester of independent study, started doing community service (which I plan to do every semester), gotten into the Alpha Lamda Delta honors society, and I received an award from the Western North Carolina Safety School. I am taking an internship course this year that will help me create my resume and apply for summer internships, and my professors seem confident that I will be able to get an internship. If so, I will be able to get a summer internship this year in the Environmental Health field, and I will complete another ENVH internship in the summer of 2017.

Am I in a good place to get into an Epi program? I am currently interested in Maryland University, UNC Chapel Hill, Emory, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. What can I do to improve my chances? I will continue to work on my grades, and hopefully raise my gpa a little. I also want to get a position on the honors college board at my school, and perhaps a position like treasurer or vice president in the Alpha Lamda Delta club.

Thank you for any help or advice you can offer!

 

[vlklngboy11]

Ideally, get an internship or some work experience where you are managing, analyzing, and cleaning data. Something that works with large amounts of numbers and ideally involves some sort of statistical work up to using STATA or SAS. Besides that, relax, MPH programs as a whole aren't that difficult to get into. Your GPA is fine, it doesn't matter if you raise it from a 3.9, and that really shouldn't be your focus, just nail the GRA and build that experience.