MPH Fall 2017: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!

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wait i'm confused. my acceptance letter said i'm in for Health Policy & Practice, but I applied for sociomedical sciences? is that a typo b/c JHU sent me a typo too LOL

EDIT: read the letter too fast b/c excitement--i'm in the Health Policy & practice certificate under sociomedical sciences haha
 
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Hi Friends so I am updating my post:

So I ended up not applying to all the schools I had originally listed. If you want to see the full list it is somewhere in this thread.

I have currently been:

Accepted: Tulane, George Washington University, UC Berkeley, Boston U, Columbia U, UNC

Rejections:

Waiting: Harvard U, JHopkins, Emory U.

Good luck to everyone and congrats to those who have heard back!
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~Hi Friends,

Happy December 1st!

This is my first time posting here and would love some feedback 🙂

Undergrad School: Small liberal arts college
Undergrad GPA/ Major GPA: 3.3 overall/ 4.0 major (darned chemistry)
Major: Premed concentration, Major in Public Health/ Minor in French
GRE: 148 Q 158 V AW: 5 (womp womp)

Experience/ Research: (I'll be brief)
- 1 year international maternal child health organization in Africa and Asia
- 1 year medical research asistant
- 2 first author publications, 4 co-authorships
- 2 research presentations at international conferences
- undergraduate internship with global health organization in Africa
- 100+ hours physician shadowing experience in Africa and US
- Received 3 senior awards at undergraduate graduation ceremony
- Founded an local NPO
-Various other related ECs

-Great LORs 2 from undergrad, 3 from post-undergrad experiences ( principal investigator, supervisor at MCH organization,head of dept at one of the schools I am applying to and have been working with)

Interests: Global Maternal Child Health, Population and reproductive health, Women's health

Applied: Columbia (MPH), GWU (MPH), UNC CH (MsPH to PhD), JHOPS (MsPH), Harvard (MPH), Tulane (MPH), Boston U (MPH), UC Berkeley (MPH), and Emory (MPH)

Accepted: Tulane, George Washington University, UC Berkeley, Boston U, Columbia U,

Interview: UNC

Rejected:
 
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where do you all find this scholarship info for Columbia? Mine has a video, and then 3 pages of a "preview application proof"
 
123publichealth said:
oh really? how did you find the letter? if there isn't one does that mean no scholarship?
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It was right underneath the admission letter. I'm not sure what it means if there isn't one there.

Here's a picture:
Scholarship Letter.png
 
sokapheapluuh said:
It was right underneath the admission letter. I'm not sure what it means if there isn't one there.

Here's a picture:
View attachment 214474
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Weird-my screen doesn't look like it at all...I'm wondering if they haven't uploaded my information yet or something? Would make sense why my application right now just says "preview application..." instead of the official decision letter, and fingers crossed, any scholarship letter.
 
Got an email from Columbia, "Admission Status Update", however I cannot access the page 🙁
 
Columbia peeps: does anyone else have some weird "Preview Application Proof" note instead of a "Decision Letter" --or am I just a super special snowflake? 😛
 
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eek_ said:
Columbia peeps: does anyone else have some weird "Preview Application Proof" note instead of a "Decision Letter" --or am I just a super special snowflake? 😛
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I have that too (in addition to my admission letter)!! But if you look at the end of the proof, it also has the admission letter... at least for me :shrug:
 
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ellb39 said:
Hello 🙂

Undergrad School: Ivy
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.7/3.8
Major/Minor: Public Health
GradGPA (if applicable): N/A
Grad Studies (if applicable): N/A
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): V 165 Q 153 W 5
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
- 2 years full time employment in public health/social work at managerial level w/ focus on preventative health + infectious disease
- Work experience in non-profit, private, and start-up environments
- International work + research experience in Gambia, India, and Peru.
- Founding executive member of public service start-up recognized by UN, Forbes, and Business Today

Special factors??? Honors in major, bilingual (Spanish), published poet.

Interested in: Social epidemiology, community driven health practice, health equity, social determinants of health, stigma.
Applied: (in no particular order) MPH: UW (COPHP), Harvard (SMS), UIC (HPM), Brown (EPI), Yale (SBS), Drexel (CHP), Columbia (SMS), BU (Equity, Social Justice), UC Berkeley (SBS); MPH/MSW: UPitt (Community Health Sciences/Organization +Advocacy)
Accepted: BU (+ 20k merit), UPitt, UIC, Drexel (+ funded Public Health Fellowship), Yale, Columbia
Rejected: n/a
Waitlisted: n/a

Still waiting on UW, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, and UC Berkeley.
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Accepted to Columbia - no scholarship info as of yet.
 
There's a snowstorm here happening in NYC tomorrow 🙁 I don't have to go to work because NYC public schools are closed, but I hope it doesn't affect admissions coming out
 
OysterIndicator said:
There's a snowstorm here happening in NYC tomorrow 🙁 I don't have to go to work because NYC public schools are closed, but I hope it doesn't affect admissions coming out
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Yep, we're supposed to get the same snow here upstate NY. Ugh I don't think I can take it if we have to wait until the beginning of next week 🙁 Hopefully it's some sort of automated thing!
 
OysterIndicator said:
There's a snowstorm here happening in NYC tomorrow 🙁 I don't have to go to work because NYC public schools are closed, but I hope it doesn't affect admissions coming out
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I hadn't even considered this...but now I'll be sure to refresh my email double as much as I sit in my office in the city, watching it snow...wishing I could be refreshing from the comfort of my bed :bang:
 
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