MPH Fall 2015: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!

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Rejections for the MHS Programs? or rejections from JHU in general? if they did rejections for the specific program then maybe if we havnt heard back yet thats a good sign?
 
Sillvas said:
Rejections for the MHS Programs? or rejections from JHU in general? if they did rejections for the specific program then maybe if we havnt heard back yet thats a good sign?
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Definitely for ScM Biostat. I'm not sure about other programs. I have no idea what the process is like, but I'm hoping it's a good sign for us! 🙂
 
jxa216 said:
Nope. Just my real award and my Americorps award
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Good I'm not alone! I will give them a couple hours before I start asking questions. Maybe they are working on it. I'd find it very strange if I got no loans.
 
KPZ said:
Good I'm not alone! I will give them a couple hours before I start asking questions. Maybe they are working on it. I'd find it very strange if I got no loans.
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Yes, please let me know what you hear. I figured since visit emory was coming up I could drop in and see a FA counselor on one of the days
 
All of my Emory financial aid is up- Loans, scholarship, and grants. I'm still waiting on Yale. Has anyone heard from them yet for merit of need based aid?
 
KPZ said:
Good I'm not alone! I will give them a couple hours before I start asking questions. Maybe they are working on it. I'd find it very strange if I got no loans.
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Emily lakemaker just wrote on the emory FB page. Says that there was an error with FA affecting 250 ppl. Cause they technically shouldn't have been viewable for 24 hrs

I'm gonna give them a day to sort that out

Edit: I missed the part where she said check tomorrow and see if anything has changed
 
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Emily lakemaker just wrote on the emory FB page. Says that there was an error with FA affecting 250 ppl. Cause they technically shouldn't have been viewable for 24 hrs

I'm gonna give them a day to sort that out

Edit: I missed the part where she said check tomorrow and see if anything has changed
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Good to know! Can you send me the link to the FB page? The one I follow is apparently not where all these updates are... haha

Edit: Nevermind. On the main page of the students portal. I'm an idiot
 
KPZ said:
Good to know! Can you send me the link to the FB page? The one I follow is apparently not where all these updates are... haha

Edit: Nevermind. On the main page of the students portal. I'm an idiot
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1592648310958357/

Here you go. Emily will need to approve you first though. It's quite nice that she's very present in the comments 🙂
 
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GWU! I finally get to move my first school out of 'applied' and into 'accepeted'.

This is so amazing because it's been a long road. Although I was confident, I was a little hesitant! So happy to have my first acceptance.
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Congrats!!! I was just accepted to GWU this morning they said my official acceptance letter will arrive in the mail in 7-10 days


[emoji173]️[emoji173]️ it's finally moving along
 
Question has anyone requested a GRE waiver from Columbia MPH program?
(for anyone who holds a graduate degree) I have an urgent question, but would like to address it in private with someone.
 
PurpleViolet said:
All of my Emory financial aid is up- Loans, scholarship, and grants. I'm still waiting on Yale. Has anyone heard from them yet for merit of need based aid?
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I only show loans and the Real award which only covers 37,000 is that it because my EFC is zero should the entire 57,000 be covered? What am I missing?
 
livelady73 said:
I only show loans and the Real award which only covers 37,000 is that it because my EFC is zero should the entire 57,000 be covered? What am I missing?
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The 57,000 includes an estimated housing and living expenses, so maybe that's it? I believe there is also a yearly cap on how much FA you can receive.

Edit: just doubled checked in my notes. You can only receive a max of 33,000 in unsub. loans
 
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The 57,000 includes an estimated housing and living expenses, so maybe that's it? I believe there is also a yearly cap on how much FA you can receive.

Edit: just doubled checked in my notes. You can only receive a max of 33,000 in unsub. loans per year from the gov. so you may have to look for private funding.
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How the heck does everyone else swing this?
 
jxa216 said:
The 57,000 includes an estimated housing and living expenses, so maybe that's it? I believe there is also a yearly cap on how much FA you can receive.

Edit: just doubled checked in my notes. You can only receive a max of 33,000 in unsub. loans per year from the gov. so you may have to look for private funding.
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You do not need to look at private funding. You can borrow grad plus loans up to the amount of the total cost of attendance minus any other funding that you receive. The interest on them isn't great, but it's better than having to take out private loans.
 
IntriguedStudent said:
You do not need to look at private funding. You can borrow grad plus loans up to the amount of the total cost of attendance minus any other funding that you receive. The interest on them isn't great, but it's better than having to take out private loans.
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Oh good, glad other people who actually understand FA stepped in to answer this! My bad for the bad info. I all knew was that there was a cap on unsubsidized loans.
 
jxa216 said:
Oh good, glad other people who actually understand FA stepped in to answer this! My bad for the bad info. I all knew was that there was a cap on unsubsidized loans.
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FA is such a confusing process. I've had to do a ton of reading to even get a grasp on what I'm getting myself into. The amount of debt involved in this is terrifying.
 
jxa216 said:
The 57,000 includes an estimated housing and living expenses, so maybe that's it? I believe there is also a yearly cap on how much FA you can receive.

Edit: just doubled checked in my notes. You can only receive a max of 33,000 in unsub. loans
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Thanks for that info - good to know. That's how much Harvard offered for loans and I was going to ask for more. With all the endowment money they got I'm hoping they will pay the remaining tuition ha ha.
 
IntriguedStudent said:
You do not need to look at private funding. You can borrow grad plus loans up to the amount of the total cost of attendance minus any other funding that you receive. The interest on them isn't great, but it's better than having to take out private loans.
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Where from? I contacted the financial aid office and they said the most I could possibly get in loans is $33k. My "expected contribution" is super high. Apparently I can somehow pull $20k out of my ass.
 
KPZ said:
Where from? I contacted the financial aid office and they said the most I could possibly get in loans is $33k. My "expected contribution" is super high. Apparently I can somehow pull $20k out of my ass.
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I thought I only got 33K because I am working and have no previous debt. But even for me, if the remaining 20K is not covered I will be hard pressed to come up with the rest! You said it better ha ha.
 
Moreneta said:
I thought I only got 33K because I am working and have no previous debt. But even for me, if the remaining 20K is not covered I will be hard pressed to come up with the rest! You said it better ha ha.
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I wish I would have saved up some money and taken a year off of work
 
Does anyone happen to know if grants are more common in the 2nd year due to the fact we haven't been working full time? I will meet with a FA counselor once I make my decision but I'm just curious
 
KPZ said:
Where from? I contacted the financial aid office and they said the most I could possibly get in loans is $33k. My "expected contribution" is super high. Apparently I can somehow pull $20k out of my ass.
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Makes no sense. My EFC is zero and I also only got 33,0000 too. If they don't use the Fafsa data why did we bother filling it out. I'm curious to talk to graduates to see how they faired with all this darn debt!
 
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Does anyone happen to know if grants are more common in the 2nd year due to the fact we haven't been working full time? I will meet with a FA counselor once I make my decision but I'm just curious
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I'm coming in straight from undergrad and made 6,000 last year and still got no grant money so not sure what would change. I'm pissed.
 
livelady73 said:
Makes no sense. My EFC is zero and I also only got 33,0000 too. If they don't use the Fafsa data why did we bother filling it out. I'm curious to talk to graduates to see how they faired with all this darn debt!
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So from my understanding tuition is $15,400 per semester so it will be roughly $31,000 a year which the $33,000 covers. The rest is estimated housing expenses as well as estimated book expenses and things. So the $52,000 is not what you owe it's just an estimated cost of attendance that Emory reports so that people can get the maximum loan they are eligible for.

This was a good resource: http://www.sph.emory.edu/prospectiv...es/tuition-rates-costs/cost-of-attendance.php
 
KPZ said:
Where from? I contacted the financial aid office and they said the most I could possibly get in loans is $33k. My "expected contribution" is super high. Apparently I can somehow pull $20k out of my ass.
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Grad Plus loans aren't based off your EFC. They are available to all graduate students taking at least half of full-time credit. Their interest rate is higher than stafford loans, though. And they require a credit check, but you're pretty much guaranteed to pass the credit check unless you have defaults on your record.
 
Moreneta said:
I thought I only got 33K because I am working and have no previous debt. But even for me, if the remaining 20K is not covered I will be hard pressed to come up with the rest! You said it better ha ha.
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I believe 33k is the max amount of unsub loans available to graduate students. To be denied that you'd need to have a pretty high EFC.
 
From talking to current students and financial aid officers, it seems that there are more opportunities to get funded, without having to take out loans, your second year. It'll depend on the school and department, but you can apply for the FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) fellowship, for example, which can cover most if not all of the tuition and provide a stipend. Then, there are opportunities for research and teacher assistantships, work-study, and other graduate student positions. I think you just have to be proactive about finding funding opportunities once you get there in the fall.
 
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I did notice that my FA on OPUS dissapeared, so hopefully that's a good sign that it's being updated!
 
KPZ said:
Where from? I contacted the financial aid office and they said the most I could possibly get in loans is $33k. My "expected contribution" is super high. Apparently I can somehow pull $20k out of my ass.
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Do you know why your efc is high? Are you coming right out of undergrad?
 
Mks93 said:
Do you know why your efc is high? Are you coming right out of undergrad?
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No, I've been working full time. I don't get paid an exorbitant amount of money so I don't know.
 
livelady73 said:
Makes no sense. My EFC is zero and I also only got 33,0000 too. If they don't use the Fafsa data why did we bother filling it out. I'm curious to talk to graduates to see how they faired with all this darn debt!
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While you may have a low EFC, that doesn't mean the school will cover the entire CoA. It's all a bunch of tricks, etc. that institutions like to play. Yada yada about schools being more like money hungry corporations.

The most you can do is have the rest covered by a Grad Plus Loan or private loan. Or take classes part-time and work full-time. As for me, I really do not want to take out a grad plus loan so I'm trying to go the job route. I'm only short on housing, which is hilarious (not really).
 
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oceanhue said:
While you may have a low EFC, that doesn't mean the school will cover the entire CoA. It's all a bunch of tricks, etc. that institutions like to play. Yada yada about schools being more like money hungry corporations.

The most you can do is have the rest covered by a Grad Plus Loan or private loan. Or take classes part-time and work full-time. As for me, I really do not want to take out a grad plus loan so I'm trying to go the job route. I'm only short on housing, which is hilarious (not really).
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I'm in the same situation. I don't want to have to take out a Grad Plus Loan, but I'm nervous about starting the semester and not being able to find enough income to cover my living expenses right away. I'll probably take out a Grad Plus Loan for what I need the first semester and then do whatever I can to find enough income that I won't have to take out anymore after that.
 
IntriguedStudent said:
I'm in the same situation. I don't want to have to take out a Grad Plus Loan, but I'm nervous about starting the semester and not being able to find enough income to cover my living expenses right away. I'll probably take out a Grad Plus Loan for what I need the first semester and then do whatever I can to find enough income that I won't have to take out anymore after that.
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Do we have to accept aid for the entire year at one time or just for the upcoming semester? I'll probably take out the plus loan just to be on the safe side but save whatever I might have left.

Thinking financially... WashU is 100% doable. Not sure about Emory. In order to cover living expenses, in addition to my REAL job I would need another job that pays me about $9k/semester... There is a professor I would really like to work with but I doubt he'll pay me that much. Sigh...
 
KPZ said:
Do we have to accept aid for the entire year at one time or just for the upcoming semester? I'll probably take out the plus loan just to be on the safe side but save whatever I might have left.

Thinking financially... WashU is 100% doable. Not sure about Emory. In order to cover living expenses, in addition to my REAL job I would need another job that pays me about $9k/semester... There is a professor I would really like to work with but I doubt he'll pay me that much. Sigh...
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Generally, you accept it for the entire year. However, I believe that before you receive your payout for the second semester, you can go to the financial aid office and reject it. The other option would be accepting it and then paying back whatever you decide not to use.
 
IntriguedStudent said:
I'm in the same situation. I don't want to have to take out a Grad Plus Loan, but I'm nervous about starting the semester and not being able to find enough income to cover my living expenses right away. I'll probably take out a Grad Plus Loan for what I need the first semester and then do whatever I can to find enough income that I won't have to take out anymore after that.
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So are you taking the unsub? I already have 30,000 from Emory undergrad I really don't want another 66,0000! Please someone tell me that having 100,000 in loans and an MPH is doable. I just want to make sure I can pay this debt off when I graduate!
 
livelady73 said:
So are you taking the unsub? I already have 30,000 from Emory undergrad I really don't want another 66,0000! Please someone tell me that having 100,000 in loans and an MPH is doable. I just want to make sure I can pay this debt off when I graduate!
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It's doable especially with loan repayment programs but really depends on the lifestyle you want to live.
 
I'm still waiting on Financial aid info from harvard, but that won't influence my decision too much. It's always been my dream to go to the king of all ivy leagues, and I know that I'll have a great life in Boston despite the debt I could wind up with.
 
KPZ said:
No, I've been working full time. I don't get paid an exorbitant amount of money so I don't know.
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So 33 is all you can get total? Including with the grad plus loans? Maybe you can look into private loans? It does suck how expensive this whole thing is 🙁
 
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