MHA 2024: Applied, Interviewed, Rejected, Attending

[Jsitea]

Looking forward to connecting and seeing what this year's MHA application cycle is looking like! I'll start off...

School: University of California (UC) school
GPA: 3.79 -- SOPHAS verified
Major: B.S. Global and Community Health with a concentration in biomedical science
Experience: 2 years in Alzheimer's research (currently co-leading the project), founder and editor-in-chief of an undergraduate research journal in social medicine, 3 months as a clinical research coordinator in oncology, 3 months as a research assistant for a diabetes study.
Extras: 1st author publication for public health related research, and a Nationally Registered EMT (NREMT)

Applied: JHU (10/6), USC (10/16)
Interview: JHU (10/30)
Rejected:
Accepted: JHU (11/6)

Attending: JHU 🙂

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[Calliegrl03]

School: GW undergrad, have an MBA too
GPA: 3.02 SOPHAS verified
Major: English Lit
Experience: 15+ years in non-profit, IT, and financial services.
Extras: Service award from State Department, MBA scholarship, Executive Board member of NCNW

Applied: Dartmouth (10/16) UMD (10/11)
Interview: Dartmouth (11/7)
Rejected:
Accepted: UMD, Dartmouth

Attending: Dartmouth

 

[MHAApplicant2024]

School: Large Public State University

Major: B.S. in Kinesiology
Minor: Business Administration

GPA: 3.3
Experience:
Work
- 3 months at a healthcare startup company based in California, working remotely
- 6+ months at a relatively large Physical Therapy company as an Intern/Technician
- Currently working at the largest healthcare system in my state, lower-level administration

Volunteering/Leadership
- 1 year as an executive board member for one of my schools diversity organizations
- 3+ months volunteering as a instructor for a physical activity program serving individuals with disabilities
- Co-led a team of 10+ individuals at my schools innovation event

Extras:
- First-generation student
- First in direct family to graduate high school, receive a bachelors, and apply for graduate programs

Applied: UMichigan, Ohio State, Penn State, UPittsburgh, UMinnesota, UIowa, UIllinois-Chicago (11/25)
Interview: Penn State (12/10), UPittsburgh (12/19), UMinnesota (1/8), UIowa (1/16), Ohio State (2/7)
Waitlist:

Rejected:
UMichigan (1/15)
Accepted: Penn State (12/13), UPittsburgh ($$ - 12/19), UIllinois-Chicago (1/2), UIowa (1/16), UMinnesota ($ - 1/24), Ohio State (2/11)
Attending: Pending my final decision upon meeting with students and visiting admitted student days

Still waiting on my interviews and responses from other programs before I make a final decision. Best of luck to everyone 🙂

 

[jetely]

Anyone who interviewed at pitt have any insight/info they are willing to share about the interview? Thanks!

 

[MHA2025]

Hello everyone, I am currently debating between choosing Columbia or UNC. UNC is higher ranked but Columbia is in New York and seems to also have great opportunities. Any advice?

 

[MHAApplicant2024]

Hello everyone, I am currently debating between choosing Columbia or UNC. UNC is higher ranked but Columbia is in New York and seems to also have great opportunities. Any advice?

I would definitely reach out to current students and alumni from both programs (maybe 1-2 students and 1 alumni) and hear on their experiences and what advice they would give to a prospect student that is deciding between multiple programs. I found that all students and alumni are happy to set up a zoom meeting with you if you reach out to them on LinkedIn!

Some questions I asked when I met with students/alumni were:
1. How does the program support students in securing impactful residencies and/or fellowships (or if you're into consulting or another field)?
2. How often do alumni come back or reach out to help and are there any programs within that help them do so?
3. Asking a question on how well the program incorporates courses into your career goals (if you want to end up in a financing, strategy, policy, etc. focused role). I wanted to learn more about how the programs incorporates a systems thinking approach in their curriculum.

Either way, they're both great programs! Congrats on getting into them.