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Still no word from Hopkins MHS....I was really hoping for it today so I could end my cycle.
Still no word from Hopkins MHS....I was really hoping for it today so I could end my cycle.
Hah! We finally have a word for it.WHAT?! They were telling everyone they'd start on 3/20. Sigh... Looks like they're pulling a Columbia and releasing after the admitted students day.
Sighhhh, Yale has been telling me "Next week" every week for the past three. Last week, they said they planned on having all the decisions sent out by EOW this week. When did you submit your application? I submitted Feb 1st.[/QUOTE
Shout out to western NY!! 🙂 Also, yea, I wouldn't go to buffalo. I got into their PhD program and was not impressed with the department during my interview.I got accepted to Harvard today! I'll probably go there provided I can swing it financially.
Buffalo (my hometown) also accepted me with an assistantship but I'd feel like a fool for the rest of my life if I took that over Harvard.
I don't know. My experiences with the people at Pitt have been great and if I would have been confident I could pay for it, it would definitely still be on the table. However, with them not sending out the aid package before April 15 or giving any sort of commitment to funding, I was too uncomfortable with it given their high tuition. They have a lot of great resources and faculty there and student services has some really great people. I guess it depends on how comfortable you are with the financial uncertainty and what your experience is like when you visit Emory.I went to Pitt's accepted student's day on Friday and while wasn't very impressed with the school as a whole - career services was particularly unhelpful, I LOVED EVERYONE in the epi department. Regarding funding, I talked to a professor who is interested in having me work in her lab, and said the lab may have money to help with my tuition, so that is going to make my decision much harder! I've been all set to head to Emory, but I don't want to underestimate the importance of connecting well with the faculty.
I don't know. My experiences with the people at Pitt have been great and if I would have been confident I could pay for it, it would definitely still be on the table. However, with them not sending out the aid package before April 15 or giving any sort of commitment to funding, I was too uncomfortable with it given their high tuition. They have a lot of great resources and faculty there and student services has some really great people. I guess it depends on how comfortable you are with the financial uncertainty and what your experience is like when you visit Emory.
Hey all. This thread was a great help when creating my application. So to give back...
Undergrad School: University of Miami
Undergrad GPA: 3.74
Major/Minor: Finance and Economics
GradGPA (if applicable): 3.96
Grad Studies (if applicable): Northwestern University, MS in Predictive Analytics
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): GRE was good...forgot the score...I'm thinking Q was 165 and R was 160?
Experience/Research (please, be brief): No research experience. Was a healthcare six sigma master black belt consultant for 3 years, generating $30 million in cost savings for several large healthcare institutions.
***Please include the following whenever possible: specific concentration/track, dates, type of correspondence (phone, email, letter, etc.), scholarships/grants. Judging by last year's thread, yes we are this obsessive and neurotic.***
Applied: (See below) + Johns Hopkins (haven't heard back)
Accepted: Harvard (with $10k scholarship), Drexel (full ride), Washington University in St. Louis ($25k scholarship w/ offer to interview for $45k fellowship), Dartmouth ($10k scholarship), UPenn, Emory, Columbia
Rejected: Vanderbilt, Yale
Waitlisted:
In my application, my "pitch" was despite my lack of a science background, as a process enginerr/data scientist I'd like to study biostatistics/epidemiology to bring big data into healthcare delivery because algorithmic population health management is absolutely the future. Good luck all!
Incredible offers you got. Congratulations!! What did you apply to at Dartmouth? Great to see Dartmouth offered you a scholarship, despite explicitly stating this was only available for PHD programsHey all. This thread was a great help when creating my application. So to give back...
Undergrad School: University of Miami
Undergrad GPA: 3.74
Major/Minor: Finance and Economics
GradGPA (if applicable): 3.96
Grad Studies (if applicable): Northwestern University, MS in Predictive Analytics
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): GRE was good...forgot the score...I'm thinking Q was 165 and R was 160?
Experience/Research (please, be brief): No research experience. Was a healthcare six sigma master black belt consultant for 3 years, generating $30 million in cost savings for several large healthcare institutions.
***Please include the following whenever possible: specific concentration/track, dates, type of correspondence (phone, email, letter, etc.), scholarships/grants. Judging by last year's thread, yes we are this obsessive and neurotic.***
Applied: (See below) + Johns Hopkins (haven't heard back)
Accepted: Harvard (with $10k scholarship), Drexel (full ride), Washington University in St. Louis ($25k scholarship w/ offer to interview for $45k fellowship), Dartmouth ($10k scholarship), UPenn, Emory, Columbia
Rejected: Vanderbilt, Yale
Waitlisted:
In my application, my "pitch" was despite my lack of a science background, as a process enginerr/data scientist I'd like to study biostatistics/epidemiology to bring big data into healthcare delivery because algorithmic population health management is absolutely the future. Good luck all!
Thank you for your response @kimto8 and congratulations on your awesome offers. Leaning towards Dartmouth actually, can you shed a little more light on what is so peculiar with Dartmouth's health policy research as compared to other programs and any other key thing you know about Dartmouth that could help me lock in on a decision, lol. Still stalemate in this BU vs Dartmouth gameI don't know about the other schools but Dartmouth is known for their Health Policy research at the Dartmouth Institute. So if that's what you like, you can't go wrong with it!
Has anyone been accepted from the wait-list at any school?
Shout out to western NY!! 🙂 Also, yea, I wouldn't go to buffalo. I got into their PhD program and was not impressed with the department during my interview.
100% agree. Spread your wings and fly…sounds corny, but it's true. Also, Buffalo weather is terrible. lol (Although Boston got it worse this year)Yeah last summer I interned at Roswell Park, so I made a few UB connections.. but honestly I'd be a fool to refuse harvard to for a free ride in the town I've lived in for 21 years.
oh really? That's weird. I got my acceptance last week too; but they said I'd need to accept/deny by April 1 (maybe it's a program specific thing? I applied to the MPH in Epidemiology). SDSU is most DEFINITELY my #1 (unless a program want's to offer me $$$ to go, doh!) Good luck!I received my acceptance letter from SDSU last week! But the weird thing is they're rushing me to make a decision by March 20th 🙁 and I'm still waiting for other schools. Have you heard of this happening before?
Still waiting on Johns hopkins MHS... going semi insane
Same. Have you called?
havnt called but emailed and got no response
So, going into this whole graduate school thing, I always thought and have heard from friends in grad school that classes are graded as pass/fail and sometimes high pass and low pass. However, I learned that Berkeley's grad classes are graded (A, A-, B+, etc). Is this really as big of a deal as I think it is? Having graded classes makes it seem like undergrad all over again as far as competitiveness goes.
Hi guys,
I just declined the admission at Emory Rollins, Yale and Boston University. So hopefully some of you might hear from them.
Best of luck for all your dreams!
So is the financial aid package out for Emory? I haven't received anything yet.
Just got accepted to Indiana University MPH in HPM
my heart dropped I was hoping it was Columbia.... Sigh still holding on strong for you Columbia!!!
So, going into this whole graduate school thing, I always thought and have heard from friends in grad school that classes are graded as pass/fail and sometimes high pass and low pass. However, I learned that Berkeley's grad classes are graded (A, A-, B+, etc). Is this really as big of a deal as I think it is? Having graded classes makes it seem like undergrad all over again as far as competitiveness goes.
Hopefully we hear something from Columbia this week!! I mean there second admitted student's day is only two weeks away!!!!!!
Incredible offers you got. Congratulations!! What did you apply to at Dartmouth? Great to see Dartmouth offered you a scholarship, despite explicitly stating this was only available for PHD programs
So is the financial aid package out for Emory? I haven't received anything yet.
Which one did you choose and why did you decided against Yale and Emory? I am considering those two.
It seems as a traditional that career services tend to be unhelpful... I met a staff at columbia career services and she answered every of my questions with "I am confused..."I went to Pitt's accepted student's day on Friday and while wasn't very impressed with the school as a whole - career services was particularly unhelpful, I LOVED EVERYONE in the epi department. Regarding funding, I talked to a professor who is interested in having me work in her lab, and said the lab may have money to help with my tuition, so that is going to make my decision much harder! I've been all set to head to Emory, but I don't want to underestimate the importance of connecting well with the faculty.
I need to make a decision between UCLA and Columbia.
No funding from Columbia (so will need to take out school loans + grad plus loans). UCLA offered me some aid, but it's under $10k. I'm a native Angelino & got my undergrad degree from UCLA, so Columbia sounds enticing for the new life experience, but is it silly of me to dive into a pool of debt in exchange for a new "life experience"? Doing Health policy at both schools.
Help pleeeease!
Hey everyone! I've been lurking on this board for the past week and wanted to add to the discussion.
Undergrad School: Howard University
Undergrad GPA: 3.47
Major/Minor: African-American Std./Chemistry/Pre-Med
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): GRE wasn't the greatest.
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
Summer Medical and Dental Program (
Medical Internship in Gujarat, India
Served 2 years with AmeriCorps after graduation
Applied: Emory (BSHE), BU (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Columbia (SMS)
Accepted: Emory - 01/27 (so far $5000 service scholarship), Columbia - 03/10
Rejected: Yale
Waitlisted: Columbia -02/11, BU
I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Columbia was originally my first choice. But Emory is close to home. After I was waitlisted at Columbia I assumed that I wasn't going to be admitted there. But I was accepted two weeks ago....and haven't heard from them since.
I'm a Howard grad as well!Hey everyone! I've been lurking on this board for the past week and wanted to add to the discussion.
Undergrad School: Howard University
Undergrad GPA: 3.47
Major/Minor: African-American Std./Chemistry/Pre-Med
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): GRE wasn't the greatest.
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
Summer Medical and Dental Program (
Medical Internship in Gujarat, India
Served 2 years with AmeriCorps after graduation
Applied: Emory (BSHE), BU (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Columbia (SMS)
Accepted: Emory - 01/27 (so far $5000 service scholarship), Columbia - 03/10
Rejected: Yale
Waitlisted: Columbia -02/11, BU
I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Columbia was originally my first choice. But Emory is close to home. After I was waitlisted at Columbia I assumed that I wasn't going to be admitted there. But I was accepted two weeks ago....and haven't heard from them since.
I'm committing to Berkeley, I've notified the other schools. So, hopefully, anyone waiting on Emory, Columbia, or UCLA for HPM will hear back soon!
I was accepted to UCLA, Columbia, and Berkeley for health policy. I chose Berkeley for a few reasons. These aren't the only reasons for my decision, but they were important ones:
. . . Good luck deciding, I know it's tough.
- I got a research gig that'll help pay for school.
- The culture of the school was a great fit (go to admitted students days if possible)
- I asked around and the post-grad money in policy isn't all that great. The problem is, as I understand it, we HPM folks get all lumped together (policy and management). The management group does alright salary-wise, but us not as much. So, careful when you hear about ~$70,000 salaries straight out of grad school. Not that it's impossible . . .
- I opted for an in-state tuition (still at a top-10, by the way) for less than half the cost. What's the real difference between Columbia, UCLA, and Berkeley anyway? In my opinion, you'll get a world-class education at every single one of them.
- Lastly, and for policy, it's worth considering that the ACA roll-out was highly successful in California (many states are looking to us). UCLA, and specifically the Center for Health Policy Research, lead the charge in that regard. So, ask yourself do you want to do international (go NYC) or domestic policy?
Hey I have applied to the same departments and schools. Leaning most towards Columbia right now. I will make up my mind after Emory visit. You gonna be there for the admitted students day?
I'm a Howard grad as well!
Ugh this is so so helpful, thank you so much!I'm committing to Berkeley, I've notified the other schools. So, hopefully, anyone waiting on Emory, Columbia, or UCLA for HPM will hear back soon!
I was accepted to UCLA, Columbia, and Berkeley for health policy. I chose Berkeley for a few reasons. These aren't the only reasons for my decision, but they were important ones:
. . . Good luck deciding, I know it's tough.
- I got a research gig that'll help pay for school.
- The culture of the school was a great fit (go to admitted students days if possible)
- I asked around and the post-grad money in policy isn't all that great. The problem is, as I understand it, we HPM folks get all lumped together (policy and management). The management group does alright salary-wise, but us not as much. So, careful when you hear about ~$70,000 salaries straight out of grad school. Not that it's impossible . . .
- I opted for an in-state tuition (still at a top-10, by the way) for less than half the cost. What's the real difference between Columbia, UCLA, and Berkeley anyway? In my opinion, you'll get a world-class education at every single one of them.
- Lastly, and for policy, it's worth considering that the ACA roll-out was highly successful in California (many states are looking to us). UCLA, and specifically the Center for Health Policy Research, lead the charge in that regard. So, ask yourself do you want to do international (go NYC) or domestic policy?
You know I may just call them on my way out today. I don't want to miss the admitted student's day... Nor do I want to get stuck with a $800+ ticket it can get that crazy to fly out to NYC from my place. Especially with last minute flights. And driving is about 10 hours for me (maybe even more).
When is it exactly?
April 10th. Driving for me is not an option lol it would be around 25 hour drive. So hopefully we hear something before this Friday.
Congrats!! When was your interview with Columbia if you don't mind me asking? Im still waiting on them. I'm hoping for good news [emoji4] I just wish I knew how their system worked
It was on Feb. 14, 2015 (and I was notified of acceptance a few weeks after that, the exact date is somewhere in this thread, I think). Hope that helps give you an idea of where you're at. Plus, I just got their confirmation of my withdrawal a few hours ago. Good luck!