MPH Fall 2016: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!

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I happened to check the UCLA application status portal and saw my admission letter! Accepted to Community Health Sciences, although I still haven't gotten an e-mail from them. Anyone else going to LA or anyone who lives there wanting to help me with my decision between Berkeley and LA? I haven't really ever been to LA but I have heard from a lot of people that it isn't a great place to live.
 
brazilnut03 said:
I happened to check the UCLA application status portal and saw my admission letter! Accepted to Community Health Sciences, although I still haven't gotten an e-mail from them. Anyone else going to LA or anyone who lives there wanting to help me with my decision between Berkeley and LA? I haven't really ever been to LA but I have heard from a lot of people that it isn't a great place to live.
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Berkeley.

Sincerely,
Biased Bay Area resident
 
To anyone who received an acceptance to BU last week, did you receive the official acceptance package with scholarship info yet?
 
Starting to get impatient with BU. Submitted Jan 5th & was verified 1/12, but haven't heard back yet and it seems like a ton of people had quick turnaround times. Hoping they're just going through a ton of applications at the moment.
 
SASH14 said:
Hey everyone! Just FYI, I did receive a scholarship email from UTHealth yesterday night!
I was accepted on 01/15.

Good luck to everyone still waiting on that!
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Congratulations and thanks for letting us know. Your "Accepted" date seems to be erroneous. Did you mean 1/16?
 
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The waiting will never end.
When I was waiting for my first article to be reviewed, I refresh the editorial system every hour.
When I was accumulating my citation count, I refresh these stats several times a day.
Since you are going to be admitted to MPH programs, you will be in the academic world.
Our waiting will just continue.
 
nicole210 said:
Starting to get impatient with BU. Submitted Jan 5th & was verified 1/12, but haven't heard back yet and it seems like a ton of people had quick turnaround times. Hoping they're just going through a ton of applications at the moment.
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Hey! If you were verified jan 12th you should probably be hearing back maybe two weeks after those who applied on jan 5th. Give it another week or two 🙂 good luck!
 
nicole210 said:
Starting to get impatient with BU. Submitted Jan 5th & was verified 1/12, but haven't heard back yet and it seems like a ton of people had quick turnaround times. Hoping they're just going through a ton of applications at the moment.
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I am in the same boat. I was verified on 1/13 and haven't received a decision yet either.
 
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Still awaiting Harvard and Yale. 🙂 Didn't get into Hopkins (of the three, I thought that was my best chance). Guess I need to dust off Plan B. 🙂 Congratulations to all who got accepted!
 
BrisaLibre said:
Congratulations! I am still waiting.. But the chance doesn't seem pretty high.
Can you briefly share your stats if you don't mind? It would be helpful to future applicants as well. 🙂
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Sure thing!

Undergrad School: University of Kansas
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.7
Major/Minor: Neurobiology
GRE Q 160 V 163 AWA 4.0
Experience/Research :
- 2 years undergraduate research
- 2 years EHR consultant
- 2 years hospital volunteer
- President of a mental health org
- current volunteer at Ronald McDonald House of Charities
- miscellaneous volunteer hours

Interested in: Epidemiology
Applied: University of Washington, Yale, Minnesota, Johns Hopkins, UTHealth at Austin, USF, Colorado, UIC, University of Maryland, Oregon State, KU (I went overboard, but I honestly was not sure about my chances)
Accepted: Johns Hopkins (1/28), UMD (1/27), Minnesota (1/25), Colorado (2/3), USF (1/27), OSU (1/19), UIC (recommended via phone on 1/25), UTHealth (1/14)
Waitlisted:
Rejected:
 
Tjacksonjr said:
Still awaiting Harvard and Yale. 🙂 Didn't get into Hopkins (of the three, I thought that was my best chance). Guess I need to dust off Plan B. 🙂 Congratulations to all who got accepted!
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Don't lose hope yet. In the end this whole process is basically just convincing a bunch of people in a room to like you. Just because one committee said no doesn't mean others won't say yes!
 
ljt913 said:
Congrats! Thanks for letting us know. Did you get it in the mail or email? and also did you get your admissions letter in the mail yet?
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I received it via email saying that an official formal offer will be forwarded shortly.

I have been out of town for work this past week, but nothing before that!
 
Just filled out my FAFSA to get my EFC for the Columbia survey... I wish there was a way I could tell them that I likely *won't* be working during school. :nailbiting:
 
I wonder if the snow will delay Columbia's decisions if they had planned to release them today. I think NYC is expected to get 3-5 inches.
 
Pudu2009 said:
3-5 inches? That's nothing 😛. Decisions are usually sent out by e-mail, which is not delayed by snow.
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Haha I know! (I live in Boston 😛) But I know there have been school closures so I wasn't sure if that would impact someone's job to approve/press the "send" button (or whatever they do to send out decisions lol) Sigh, just making excuses as to why I haven't received an email from Columbia yet lol
 
According to GradCafe, someone got into UCLA for Epi today. As if I haven't been refreshing my email enough already...
 
ec_lc1114 said:
Just got into Berkeley!! I applied to HSB and was admitted to MCH, but I had strongly considered MCH when I applied and am super happy regardless!
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Ah, congratulations!

I wonder if it has any bearing on other HSB applicants. I know MCH has been rolling out this week, so if it got kicked over to that department, maybe we HSB-ers are still in for a wait. Fingers crossed not!
 
totesk said:
The first Columbia acceptance was posted at 4:16pm on the first Friday of February last year. ... I'm eager enough about this to check the posting time.

I'm not even really considering Columbia, I just want to know! I'm sick of waiting.
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Called them today and they said "mid-February" or "mid March" depending on when you applied". Sigh.
 
For anyone that is considering Berkeley, the School of Public Health is amazing! Also, they are in the process of building a new public health building on campus! The staff are approachable and the resources here are unparalleled. I have taken many undergrad and even some grad courses across all subjects with professors and faculty and have been inspired again and again.
 
totesk said:
The first Columbia acceptance was posted at 4:16pm on the first Friday of February last year. ... I'm eager enough about this to check the posting time.

I'm not even really considering Columbia, I just want to know! I'm sick of waiting.
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LOL I'm in the same boat!
 
Does anyone have advice on UT and all the different campuses? Is there a difference between them?
 
junnnie said:
Does anyone have advice on UT and all the different campuses? Is there a difference between them?
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I was accepted at the Austin campus and I'm sort of regretting the decision not to apply to Houston. I'd much rather live in Austin, but I'm not sold on distance learning, nor on how small the program is.
 
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