MPH 2020: Applied, Accepted, Rejected, Waitlisted

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Just received an email from an admissions coordinator at Brown and she said the number of applications nearly doubled from last year so it could take some time to hear back.
 
Hi all! Hope everyone are getting offers from applied schools! I have a question regarding Vanderbilt MPH program. My application was verified on SOPHAS before their priority deadline, which is December 15. However, I have yet to receive any email confirmation from the school admission itself about my application being complete or whether it was routed for review. Is that normal?
 
Raccoonfish said:
Hi all! Hope everyone are getting offers from applied schools! I have a question regarding Vanderbilt MPH program. My application was verified on SOPHAS before their priority deadline, which is December 15. However, I have yet to receive any email confirmation from the school admission itself about my application being complete or whether it was routed for review. Is that normal?
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If it’s been that long, I would suggest emailing them just to ask for an update on the status of your app. It couldn’t hurt!
 
Raccoonfish said:
Hi all! Hope everyone are getting offers from applied schools! I have a question regarding Vanderbilt MPH program. My application was verified on SOPHAS before their priority deadline, which is December 15. However, I have yet to receive any email confirmation from the school admission itself about my application being complete or whether it was routed for review. Is that normal?
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you could call them tomorrow morning and request an update . Usually they will let you know atleast if its been rerouted to the concerned department review committee or not and that might help.
 
cat2212 said:
Ah ok thanks. I’ve been nervously refreshing mine hoping to hear from epi soon
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I've only been getting communication/emails specifically from the Institute of Public Health Genetics so the timelines are probably independent. But good luck!
 
Just an FYI I emailed GW because it's been over the 2 weeks and they said they're delayed with giving out the award letters but they should be coming out really soon! They said mine would be sent today but I'm still waiting so don't give up hope!
 
upstreamist said:
If it’s been that long, I would suggest emailing them just to ask for an update on the status of your app. It couldn’t hurt!
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Thank you for the reply! I just got an email from their admission office 20 minutes ago. Happily surprised haha 🙂
 
Bleedingblue94 said:
you could call them tomorrow morning and request an update . Usually they will let you know atleast if its been rerouted to the concerned department review committee or not and that might help.
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Thank you for your reply! I go an email from their admission 20 mins ago. Cool surprise 🙂
 
Undergraduate School: Berkeley
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.53
Major/minor: MCB
GRE(including date taken): Verbal 157, Quant 169, Writing 4 (Taken 9/3/2019)

Experience/research:
(mainly research experience because I decided to go for public health school during senior year)
- 1.5 year in a genetic lab at school, including completion of an independent project and presentation
-2 summer internships at different biochemistry labs

Letters of Rec: PI in the lab I worked at the longest, supervisors from my summer internships. (I never really built relationships with my professors in class, that's my fault.)

Interested in: Epidemiology, Biostats

Applying:
Harvard
Columbia
University of Washington (Genetic Epidemiology)
UC Berkeley
UCLA
CUNY
NYU
Texas A&M
Washington university in St. Louis
Yale
---All in Epidemiology, as I didn't have a strong maths background.

Accepted:
WUSTL (40% scholarship)
University of Washington
NYU
UCLA
Texas A&M
Columbia
Yale

Still waiting for other schools!
 
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Is anyone still waiting on Emory for GLEPI? or UNC for Epi?
 
mphpcv said:
Is anyone still waiting on Emory for GLEPI? or UNC for Epi?
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I’m still waiting for Emory GLEPI! I think they said they review apps in the order they come in so I’m hoping this just means we’re firther down the line?
 
mmjj82 said:
Undergraduate School: Berkeley
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.53
Major/minor: MCB
Grad GPA (if applicable): n/a
Grad studies (if applicable): n/a
GRE(including date taken): Verbal 157, Quant 169, Writing 4 (Taken 9/3/2019)

Experience/research:
(mainly research experience because I decided to go for public health school during senior year)
- 1.5 year in a research lab at school, including completion of an independent project and presentation
-2 summer internships at different biochemistry labs

Letters of Rec: PI in the lab I worked at the longest, supervisors from my summer internships. (I never really built relationships with my professors in class, that's my fault.)

Interested in: Epidemiology, biostats

Applying:
Harvard
Columbia
University of Washington (Genetic Epidemiology)
UC Berkeley
UCLA
CUNY
NYU
Texas A&M
Washington university in St. Louis
Yale
---All in Epidemiology, as I didn't have a strong maths background.

Accepted:
WUSTL (40% scholarship)
University of Washington

Still waiting for other schools!
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Congrats on your acceptances so far! When did you hear from UWashington?
 
Does anyone know if Columbia, Harvard and UC Berkeley send out their acceptances at the same time as their rejections? Or are those to different batches?
 
mmjj82 said:
Undergraduate School: Berkeley
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.53
Major/minor: MCB
Grad GPA (if applicable): n/a
Grad studies (if applicable): n/a
GRE(including date taken): Verbal 157, Quant 169, Writing 4 (Taken 9/3/2019)

Experience/research:
(mainly research experience because I decided to go for public health school during senior year)
- 1.5 year in a genetic lab at school, including completion of an independent project and presentation
-2 summer internships at different biochemistry labs

Letters of Rec: PI in the lab I worked at the longest, supervisors from my summer internships. (I never really built relationships with my professors in class, that's my fault.)

Interested in: Epidemiology, Biostats

Applying:
Harvard
Columbia
University of Washington (Genetic Epidemiology)
UC Berkeley
UCLA
CUNY
NYU
Texas A&M
Washington university in St. Louis
Yale
---All in Epidemiology, as I didn't have a strong maths background.

Accepted:
WUSTL (40% scholarship)
University of Washington

Still waiting for other schools!
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Haha same my only faculty LoR was from an English professor even though I am a public health major. Good luck with your other schools!!
 
In at NYU CGPH for a 2-year MPH in epi with a $9000 per year semester scholarship! I have a 2.91 sophas GPA with multiple repeated classes and Cs littered all over my transcript, so I didn’t think I could I get in anywhere. I’m over the moon right now.

Edit: $9000 per semester, $18000 per year
 
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nfrockwell said:
In at NYU CGPH for a 2-year MPH in epi with a $9000 per year scholarship! I have a 2.91 sophas GPA with multiple repeated classes and Cs littered all over my transcript, so I didn’t think I could I get in anywhere. I’m over the moon right now.
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CONGRATS! That's amazing 🙂
 
nfrockwell said:
In at NYU CGPH for a 2-year MPH in epi with a $9000 per year scholarship! I have a 2.91 sophas GPA with multiple repeated classes and Cs littered all over my transcript, so I didn’t think I could I get in anywhere. I’m over the moon right now.
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Congratulations!! When did you get put under review?
 
mayday97 said:
Congratulations!! When did you get put under review?
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Thank you! I applied on 11/18 and went under review later that same day and just found out a little bit ago via an email with the subject line "Your NYU GPH Admission Decision".
 
Has anyone applied for a PhD in public health this cycle and heard back? Eagerly awaiting admission decisions!
 
random q. Is anyone applying for the Oxford MSc in global health? I saw on their website interviews are supposed to start this week, but I haven't gotten an email. Are they not extended to everyone?
 
RuralRN said:
Has anyone applied for a PhD in public health this cycle and heard back? Eagerly awaiting admission decisions!
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I applied to epidemiology PhD programs this cycle and am still waiting to hear back from a few programs.
 
rwm2266 said:
Thanks Harvard for sending another financial aid email. Yet again I am tricked into thinking it is a decision
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Classic, do you think all of them do this on purpose? I got one like this from Yale last week too.
 
LiveTheMoment98 said:
Yeah I got that one too..
no, do they have an mph forum?
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I wouldn't really say it's a forum but I've generally just been typing in the names of the schools I applied to and people list out whether or not were accepted to PhD/Masters programs at a certain school
 
janvier_z said:
Just got accepted to Pittsburgh for MS biostats!
(btw none of my acceptance letters mention scholarships etc. Given that I am an international student, does it mean I won't be getting any scholarship?)
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you may get another email for that later. I am international too and I got a scholarship for BU so I don't think it has to do with being international
 
janvier_z said:
Just got accepted to Pittsburgh for MS biostats!
(btw none of my acceptance letters mention scholarships etc. Given that I am an international student, does it mean I won't be getting any scholarship?)
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Pitt has historically been very stingy with their funding. I was offered a scholarship for my MS, but only if I was in the first 50% of my cohort that confirmed enrollment, and it was only for like $1000.
 
Dmohr21 said:
Pitt has historically been very stingy with their funding. I was offered a scholarship for my MS, but only if I was in the first 50% of my cohort that confirmed enrollment, and it was only for like $1000.
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haha that sounds ridiculous! Guess I won't be counting on them then!
 
janvier_z said:
Just got accepted to Pittsburgh for MS biostats!
(btw none of my acceptance letters mention scholarships etc. Given that I am an international student, does it mean I won't be getting any scholarship?)
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Not necessarily. I was offered my $9,500 scholarship from Pitt a few days after my acceptance and then I was offered 50% tuition about 2 weeks later
 
vzr05 said:
Why do I have a feeling that Columbia saying decisions by “the end of this week” will mean 11:59 PM on Friday night? LOL
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Where did Columbia say they’d send decisions by the end of the week? And was this for a specific department?

But yea end of this week for sure means at the last second, maybe even next week.
 
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