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

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sokapheapluuh said:
To get our minds out of the waiting game this weekend (and, if you're in the US, out of the political despair), is anybody considering "weird" things about schools they got accepted to or are waiting to hear from? To phrase that better, when looking at schools, is there anything outside of academics/reputation/area/financials that is factoring in?

For example, I belong to a running group that has groups all over the country and I'm tempted to choose certain schools over others if they have this group already established in the city. Also tempted to choose schools with that have my sorority from undergrad, as weird as that may sound.
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To be fair I'm looking for places that are liberal in political attitudes. I don't want to be in a place that isn't open to all people. Also I'm young and so I'm looking for a good scene surrounding the school for breweries. I know I won't have tons of time, but a nice beer to curb the stress sounds wonderful.
 
Undergrad School: Peking University (International Student)
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.14/3.01 after WES🙁
Major/Minor: Biomedical
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): V159+Q170+3AWA
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
2.5 year in Neuroscience lab
0.5 in Ministry of Health internship
King's College London Summer School in Public Health Module
Special factors???
RL from 2 lab prof, 1 from MoH Director General, additional 1 from KCL teacher
Interested in: Epi, Global Health, Nutrition
Applied: UTH, Tufts, BU, UM, Yale, JHU, Harvard, Emory, Brown, UW, UCB, UCLA
Accepted:UTH Epi MPH, Tufts Ms Nutri/ Tufts MPH, BU w/12000$, UM MPH Nutri, Yale Epi🙂 plus UW GH interview
Rejected:None for now
Waitlisted: None

Guess I will contribute my information for international students! Really didn't think I would get AD from so many top school!
Choosing gonna be a huge problem for me though... For safety I really applied to a lot of programs... Anyone offering me some insights about these three directions?(Epi, Global Health, Nutrition) Or which program do you prefer?:welcome:
 
LostInSOPHAS said:
when did you get your acceptance? I never got any login from Drexel to check for updates. Just an email saying decisions will be released beginning late January.
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I got my acceptance email yesterday (1/28) afternoon with the subject reading "Your Drexel Admission Decision" which redirected me to the login. It looks like my portal was updated on Friday 1/27 though. You can see my profile for when I applied

Try logging on here: https://discover.drexel.edu/secure/login
 
nosha2017 said:
Hi, for which department? I applied into the epidemiology program. It has been a long wait. I also haven't received anything after the confirmation email. Hopefully, decisions will be released during the first week of February.
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It's for the Department of Health Behavior, I am assuming the wait may be longer because it is the joint program but I saw that someone from HPM heard back for the MSPH-PhD program. I am just getting anxious! :nailbiting: The program and school is my number 1 so I am waiting to hear back before I apply to my safety schools.
 
jonkjiao said:
Undergrad School: Peking University (International Student)
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.14/3.01 after WES🙁
Major/Minor: Biomedical
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): V159+Q170+3AWA
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
2.5 year in Neuroscience lab
0.5 in Ministry of Health internship
King's College London Summer School in Public Health Module
Special factors???
RL from 2 lab prof, 1 from MoH Director General, additional 1 from KCL teacher
Interested in: Epi, Global Health, Nutrition
Applied: UTH, Tufts, BU, UM, Yale, JHU, Harvard, Emory, Brown, UW, UCB, UCLA
Accepted:UTH Epi MPH, Tufts Ms Nutri/ Tufts MPH, BU w/12000$, UM MPH Nutri, Yale Epi🙂 plus UW GH interview
Rejected:None for now
Waitlisted: None

Guess I will contribute my information for international students! Really didn't think I would get AD from so many top school!
Choosing gonna be a huge problem for me though... For safety I really applied to a lot of programs... Anyone offering me some insights about these three directions?(Epi, Global Health, Nutrition) Or which program do you prefer?:welcome:
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When did you hear from Yale Epi??
 
For those being accepted to Emory now, when did you all apply?
 
sideword said:
For those being accepted to Emory now, when did you all apply?
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I submitted on 10/12. I received two additional emails stating that my application had been received on 11/8 and 12/28.
 
werunthis said:
In at Emory HPM w/10K


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Where were you able to see the 10k part? Was that in your admissions letter?

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I also just got into Emory for HPM (submitted in early Nov). I also never got an email that my application was being forwarded to any department, but that might be because I listed only one.

Also, got into JHU on Friday for MPH/MBA. Super stoked! Now trying to figure out finances for all of these schools and hoping to visit if I can get travel grants (that's a thing, right?)
 
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For Emory, my SOPHAS app was verified around 11/5, and Rollins said my application was complete with them on 12/16 🙂


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No email from Emory but I was able to view my decision letter! Got into the MPH for Health Policy & Management

These guys are not the best at communicating!

Tbh, the give away is probably the 'To Do list' - that had about 4 documents that I needed to upload for my 'admission'

Edit: Applied end of December. They received my application in early January
 
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Hello, everyone, I am an international student who attended undergrad in the US and thought I would share my stats:

Undergrad School: Cornell (Class of 2016)
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.66 (SOPHAS)/ Public Health related courses GPA (4.0)
Major/Minor: Economics Major and History Minor
GRE: (including date taken) 163V (92nd percentile), 151 Q (43rd percentile:arghh:) , 5 W (93rd percentile)
Experience/Research (please, be brief):

-Worked all four years at college with Student Disability Services providing administrative assistance to students with various disabilities.
-Currently a field research associate for a women's empowerment and development project in rural Ethiopia ( would have completed 1 year at time of enrollment)
  • Research is currently focused on women and child nutrition and involves several randomized control trials and a census covering 22,000 households.
- President of a cultural club on campus that helped raise funds for health purposes in several African countries.

Special factors???

- 3 LORs from professors from UnderGrad. One fairly well-known health economist, one well-known agricultural economist, one professor I worked with in Undergrad and currently working for in women's empowerment project.

Interested in: Global Health/Health Policy and Management
Applied: Harvard MPH, Emory, GWU, Columbia, Yale, JHU (MPP, MSPH), Oxford (MSc Global Health Science), Brown, LSHTM (yet to apply), LSE (yet to apply), UCL(yet to apply).
Accepted: Emory (2/7), GWU (2/9) (with 20k scholarship), JHU (MSPH and MPP), Yale (3/29), Brown (+25% tuition), Columbia.
Rejected: Oxford, Harvard (dont have 2 years work exp)
Waitlisted:
 
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jonkjiao said:
Undergrad School: Peking University (International Student)
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.14/3.01 after WES🙁
Major/Minor: Biomedical
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): V159+Q170+3AWA
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
2.5 year in Neuroscience lab
0.5 in Ministry of Health internship
King's College London Summer School in Public Health Module
Special factors???
RL from 2 lab prof, 1 from MoH Director General, additional 1 from KCL teacher
Interested in: Epi, Global Health, Nutrition
Applied: UTH, Tufts, BU, UM, Yale, JHU, Harvard, Emory, Brown, UW, UCB, UCLA
Accepted:UTH Epi MPH, Tufts Ms Nutri/ Tufts MPH, BU w/12000$, UM MPH Nutri, Yale Epi🙂 plus UW GH interview
Rejected:None for now
Waitlisted: None

Guess I will contribute my information for international students! Really didn't think I would get AD from so many top school!
Choosing gonna be a huge problem for me though... For safety I really applied to a lot of programs... Anyone offering me some insights about these three directions?(Epi, Global Health, Nutrition) Or which program do you prefer?:welcome:
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Same with Emory Epi!
 
I have a feeling my application is getting forwarded to another department since GH is so competitive at Emory. I just think I'm waiting for their better communication to tell me that lol. I was pretty much waiting on this to see if it would sway me from Minnesota and how much I like their program, but I'm taking this as a sign. Congrats to all of you on your Emory acceptances 🙂
 
supercheeky13 said:
I have a feeling my application is getting forwarded to another department since GH is so competitive at Emory. I just think I'm waiting for their better communication to tell me that lol. I was pretty much waiting on this to see if it would sway me from Minnesota and how much I like their program, but I'm taking this as a sign. Congrats to all of you on your Emory acceptances 🙂
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I agree. I also applied to Global Health and I bet that it probably got forwarded to the next department.
 
sillymph11 said:
Totally agree here! I didn't realize how competitive Global Health was, so in the exact same boat with you and @supercheeky13 🙁
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I wouldn't count yourself out just yet. They made a point to say your GRE has to be above 60th percentile or admission is highly unlikely. You are, I am not lol. So just wait it out.

I personally can be okay not going there because I got into my top choice. The CDC is clearly the enticing factor for Emory, but opportunities are everywhere. Just have to go after them! 🙂
 
supercheeky13 said:
I wouldn't count yourself out just yet. They made a point to say your GRE has to be above 60th percentile or admission is highly unlikely. You are, I am not lol. So just wait it out.

I personally can be okay not going there because I got into my top choice. The CDC is clearly the enticing factor for Emory, but opportunities are everywhere. Just have to go after them! 🙂
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So happy to hear that you got into your top choice 🙂 thanks so much I really needed to hear that! Hopefully more acceptances coming soon for all of us!
 
Undergrad School: UT Austin
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.36/3.56
Major/Minor: Sociology/Neuroscience (Double Major)
GradGPA (if applicable): Public Health GPA (SOPHAS) 3.68
Grad Studies (if applicable): Behavioral Sciences in Public Health, Health policy, health disparities
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): Date: 08/15/2016; V 159 Q 155 W 4.5
Experience/Research (please, be brief): 4 years working on pubertal timing in Mexican-American teenage girls, how mothers discuss puberty with their children and how comfortable they are talking about it; working on a senior thesis about Latinas and their contraception use with an emphasis on how traditional gender roles and beliefs affect their contraception use
Special factors???

Interested in: Health policy, reproductive health, and health education in Latinx communities
Applied: UT SPH (Houston Campus); Emory; UC Berkeley
Accepted: UT SPH (Houston Campus); Emory (2/7)
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
 
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FYI - For anyone who applied to GW, I talked to Financial Aid today and they said that scholarship recipients have not yet been notified and that those notifications should be sent out later this week.

When I met with the Financial Aid officer back in December, he said that merit scholarships are often awarded to those who have a combined Quantitive and Verbal score of 300 or higher, and a minimum 3.5 GPA.
 
Hi, everyone

I am sharing my experience but it is very difficult to choose between the schools.

Undergrad School: international student
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.62
Major/Minor: MD
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): V:152 Q:162 AW:3
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
  • 8-year of working experience in the medical center
  • 1 year of working experience in the remot area
  • PI of two research projects, co-PI of two research project
  • two publications on the SCI journal

Interested in: Epi
Applied: UTH, Texas A&M, U Minnesota, U Michigan, UNC, Columbia, UW, Harvard(online+on campus epi), JHU
Accepted: UTH, Texas A&M, U Minnesota, U Michigan, Harvard, JHU
Rejected: not received yet
Waitlisted:

I'm trying to decide between the MPH program at JHU vs. Harvard's online/on campus MPH in Epidemiology.
The reason I applied the online/on campus MPH program at Harvard is that it allows me to stay with my husband while I am studying despite I have some concern about an online degree.
Besides, Harvard only offers 3 weeks of F-1 visa, so I need to change back to an F-2 in order to stay with my husband in the US.
Given the current situation towards foreign visitors, I am afraid the frequent change of my visa status will be an issue for me.

For Hopkins, my reservation is its tuition fees and the living expenses for relocating to Baltimore.
Really difficult to make a decision!
 
jonkjiao said:
Undergrad School: Peking University (International Student)
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.14/3.01 after WES🙁
Major/Minor: Biomedical
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): V159+Q170+3AWA
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
2.5 year in Neuroscience lab
0.5 in Ministry of Health internship
King's College London Summer School in Public Health Module
Special factors???
RL from 2 lab prof, 1 from MoH Director General, additional 1 from KCL teacher
Interested in: Epi, Global Health, Nutrition
Applied: UTH, Tufts, BU, UM, Yale, JHU, Harvard, Emory, Brown, UW, UCB, UCLA
Accepted:UTH Epi MPH, Tufts Ms Nutri/ Tufts MPH, BU w/12000$, UM MPH Nutri, Yale Epi🙂 plus UW GH interview
Rejected:None for now
Waitlisted: None

Guess I will contribute my information for international students! Really didn't think I would get AD from so many top school!
Choosing gonna be a huge problem for me though... For safety I really applied to a lot of programs... Anyone offering me some insights about these three directions?(Epi, Global Health, Nutrition) Or which program do you prefer?:welcome:
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Congrats! Were you accepted to the Friedman School yet? (For the MPH/MS Nutri)
 
Officially in at Emory for BSHE. I was verified on SOPHAS around mid-November and never got an email that they forwarded my app to my department. Just logged in today and finally the decision letter was available to read. No word about funding in the decision letter, but that's the only way I would go to Emory over my other offers, so we will see!! Either way, super exciting!! Congrats all!
 
raindoespublichealth said:
Officially in at Emory for BSHE. I was verified on SOPHAS around mid-November and never got an email that they forwarded my app to my department. Just logged in today and finally the decision letter was available to read. No word about funding in the decision letter, but that's the only way I would go to Emory over my other offers, so we will see!! Either way, super exciting!! Congrats all!
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Ah so jealous! I keep checking my OPUS but nothing has shown up yet 🙁
 
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