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MPH Fall 2016: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!
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Undergrad School: International student
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.07 WES evaluation
Major/Minor: MBBS
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable):TOEFL 101 IBT JAN 2016 , GRE sc0re is just ok December 2015
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
One under graduate research
one review article
one poster
2 year volunteer work with thalassemia foundation
done with usmle step 1.
Interested in: MPH IN HPM
Applied: TDI, UT, UAB, UNT, CUNY SPH
Accepted: UAB
Rejected: UNT
Waitlisted:
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.07 WES evaluation
Major/Minor: MBBS
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable):TOEFL 101 IBT JAN 2016 , GRE sc0re is just ok December 2015
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
One under graduate research
one review article
one poster
2 year volunteer work with thalassemia foundation
done with usmle step 1.
Interested in: MPH IN HPM
Applied: TDI, UT, UAB, UNT, CUNY SPH
Accepted: UAB
Rejected: UNT
Waitlisted:
Heard back from UW MPH/RD with a rejection. I got in to my first choice and already paid my deposit (UNC Chapel Hill) but still kind of hurts 
Good luck to everyone! Signing off.
Good luck to everyone! Signing off.
Congrats everyone! Signature and info updated and signing off.
I wish I knew... I attended virtual session since I am an international applicant. The session itself was pretty informative and casual. I have just received a Skype interview invite from a faculty member.
So nervous..! Any tips?!
I had my phone interview with a Michigan faculty member this morning. The professor asked me about my research and then we spent the remaining half hour discussing why Michigan would be a good fit for me. Be prepared to ask questions!
Same thing happened to me about 2 weeks ago!
I just clarified from Pitt and they said I was accepted to the certificate program but not the MPH degree as I wanted. Guess it's not a big deal as I heard back from other schools, but I was only surprised because a lot of the MPH programs I applied to don't have their MPH/certificates as a separate acceptance and assumed I was admitted to Pitt until I got the rejection letter today. I'll be posting stats here soon!
Congrats! What program did you get accepted to at Columbia?
Thanks a lot, Montreux!
Yes applied to Berkeley on 12/1 as well and haven't heard anything. I think most applicants haven't heard from Berkeley yet either
I am still waiting on Johns Hopkins!
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@nlm13 I received a $30,000 merit award from Columbia on 2/16. I received my acceptance to the program on 2/12. If you minus off the weekend (2/13 and 2/14), it was about a 2 day turn around. Several others seem to have received their scholarship offers the day after receiving an acceptance to the program, though.
eeek ok thanks, fingers crossed..
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All the best! 🙂
It seems like they send them as they make their decisions rather than in specific large wave days. I would expect to hear back about 3-4 weeks after you applied
For reference, last year, Columbia's requirements to receive a merit award were a 3.75 GPA and at least 90% on each of your sections on the GRE. I'm not sure if those standards changed this year though!
Just got accepted to Colorado! 🙂
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Do you have any advice on securing other funding options at Columbia?
Also, I was reading on the website that 1st semester students are assigned clusters and take multiple classes everyday with their clusters. Would you say that set schedule makes it impossible to have a part time day job? Or do you have any insight regarding working part time while being a full time student?
I emailed the FinAid office recently and that's what they told me also, so it looks like it's consistent from year to year.
For reference, here is what they wrote: "In order to be considered for merit scholarships you must have an overall GPA of 3.75 and scored above the 90th% on all sections of your standardized test."
Rejected from Columbia SMS 
Like others above, also rejected from Columbia SMS today.
Don't mind so much because 1) still riding the high from Emory's acceptance 2) it was my third pick school and 3) not going to miss two years of what would assuredly be a financial struggle.
A rejections is still no fun, though. UNC is going to be the hardest wait...it's my top choice, so now I'm really anxious.
Don't mind so much because 1) still riding the high from Emory's acceptance 2) it was my third pick school and 3) not going to miss two years of what would assuredly be a financial struggle.
A rejections is still no fun, though. UNC is going to be the hardest wait...it's my top choice, so now I'm really anxious.
Columbia's financial aid office is very honest in saying that there aren't too many opportunities to fund your education. Basically, from what I got last year at Admitted Students' Day, you need to start looking in October to find the most and best options in terms of aid :/
All first year MPH students are put into 4 cohorts. Cohorts 1 and 2 go from 8:30-2:30 while cohorts 3 and 4 go from 1-5:30. Of course there are days when the schedule is different. You're going to be in class for 22+ hours a week in your first semester, and the workload is quite heavy. I would not recommend working part time at all. That being said, there were a few students who did work part time, but they were an extremely small minority
Congrats! I applied as well. Mind sharing when you applied?
Congratulations to everyone being accepted! Every time I log in I see some wonderful posts!
So an update: I have been accepted to Yale! A few months ago I did not think I would get in anywhere, but I have now been accepted to my top 4 schools! I am officially on the fence between my top 2 programs (Yale EMD and Berkeley IDV). Berkeley has been so kind to me, and I love their public health department. I loooove the research that is coming out of Yale, but I am not sure about the transition from SoCal to Connecticut. And honestly, I never thought I would get in so I have not looked at the program as much as I should have.
Does anyone have any advice in regards to picking a school? I have met with UCB students, and would now love to hear from Yale students. Any advice about these specific programs?
Thanks a lot dear. This waiting game along with the stress of funding my education is getting frustrated.
I have applied for my programs in late NOV/ early DEC. But still under review in JHU, Yale, Emory, Umich
Thank you!! This is very helpful!
Still waiting to hear from UW Global Health. They said decisions would be released in mid-February and we are now officially in the latter half of February. I don't want to make a final choice without all the options on the table!
Related, have any of you contacted schools you don't plan to attend to let them know? If so, did you just contact the admissions office directly?
Related, have any of you contacted schools you don't plan to attend to let them know? If so, did you just contact the admissions office directly?
I also emailed Columbia regarding scholarships consideration. They said "In order to have been considered for a merit scholarship you must have had an overall GPA of 3.70 and have scored in the 90th % on all sections of your standardized test."
According to this statement, an applicant must have GPA 3.70, GRE V162, Q165, AW5.0. That is really tough! Congrats to those who receive scholarships!
Just as a follow-up to this, I received a $30,000 merit award to Columbia last week and my GRE scores were not in the 90th percentile across all subjects (Q162). So there is hope for others out there - perhaps they decided to do a more holistic overview of the application this year 🙂
Quick question now that we're on the subject of financial aid from Columbia:
Does anyone remember where the link for the financial survey is--maybe a specific email where people remember receiving it? I tried back combing in my emails and can't seem to find it. I definitely remember not filling any financial survey out though so I'm trying to go back and cover all my bases.
Does anyone remember where the link for the financial survey is--maybe a specific email where people remember receiving it? I tried back combing in my emails and can't seem to find it. I definitely remember not filling any financial survey out though so I'm trying to go back and cover all my bases.
I received mine on Feb. 3 but I know other people received theirs earlier.
Related to that, for those who filled out the survey, when you click on the survey link, does it bring you back to the empty application form (as opposed to bringing you to a page that says you have already completed the survey)? I'm second-guessing whether mine actually got submitted because I haven't heard anything about financial aid yet...
Thank you! I submitted my application Dec 5th, but my last rec letter wasn't submitted until Jan 1st. It was submitted to the department for review on Jan. 7th. Good luck!!
Did you receive it through an email? Also, when did you submit your application? I submitted all my documents on the 15th (the last day lol) so I'm wondering if that is why I have yet to receive the link for the survey.
In addition, if you're second guessing if you actually submitted the survey, I would go ahead and email them! Better safe than sorry 🙂
Yes, I did get it through an email. I submitted my FAFSA last week and then updated it after I filed my taxes this past weekend. But I don't think they're related because I received the link before I submitted my FAFSA. Did you indicate in your SOPHAS application that you wanted to receive financial aid? If you didn't, that might be a reason why you didn't receive the link. Maybe try checking your spam box also?
And noooow I'm getting nervous haha I did indicate on my SOPHAS application that I wanted to be considered for financial aid. I wonder if it is because I am a MHA application and not MPH. But still, they're all within Mailman so financial aid processes should be the same. I emailed them so hopefully they get back to me soon. Thanks for your help though!
If anyone is in a similar boat or knows more, let us know!
Can someone please explain the Boston University Merit award? Is it the same amount each time for three semesters or is the award divided by the three semesters and applied to tuition?
I indicated that I wanted to be considered for financial aid on SOPHAS and I've already been accepted to Mailman, but have yet to receive the link to the survey. Don't lose hope!
In my letter it said that my merit award is being divided by the three semesters. So 12K --> 4K each semester
Have people found that a decision about a merit award came soon after getting accepted?
Same, I was 90+ in verbal and writing but nowhere close in quantitative. I wonder if they have different scholarship types!
I received mine in the mail about a week after the email acceptance!
(Though that's weird/sucks for both of us) it's good to hear I'm not the only one who somehow did not get the link lol what concentration within MPH did you apply for?
Keep us updated if (when) you eventually do receive it! 🙂 I will also do the same.
