MPH Fall 2018: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!

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MidnightCafe said:
Sorry to hear that 🙁. May I ask when you submitted your application? and got a completed email?
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I submitted the application November 15 and got a confirmation email that my application was complete November 21
 
First time posting; I hope it's helpful!

Undergrad School: Top 5 Public University
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.1/3.6
Major/Minor: Public Health / Public Policy Minor
GradGPA (if applicable): NA
Grad Studies (if applicable):NA
GRE (including date taken): Q:160 V:156 AW:5
Experience/Research (please, be brief):

- Several research positions at all top 4 medical schools
- 3 publications
- Clinical work abroad
- Fluency in 3 languages

Interested in: Health Policy & Management
Applied(include the date of application): Hopkins , Yale , Columbia , Emory , Harvard , UCLA , Berkeley [All submitted and verified by 11/25]

Accepted: Hopkins MSPH (12/6) , Yale MPH (1/25) ; Columbia MPH (1/18) ; UCLA MPH (1/25)
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
 
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So jealous you guys are hearing from BU! Did any of you apply to the MS in Epi by any chance?
 
Jasmine Chou said:
Mine is scheduled on Feb 1. I searched information on some Chinese forums, and learned that the interview will cover questions such as why health policy & management, what concentration do you like in this field, what's your career plan, and talk about your on-going research about health/public health, then it will be the section that you can ask the interviewer some questions. The girl who shared those experience also said that her interviewer was an ethnic Chinese, so I don't know whether they will designate the faculty according to the students' background, but I guess the questions will be pretty similar. Good luck for everyone!
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Thanks for the tip! This is really helpful information. My friend had a couple of interviews last year, and she said that they mostly focus on your future goals and why the school would be a good fit to achieve them.
All the best for your interview. Let me know how it goes 🙂
 
phclarinetist said:
I submitted to BU on 1/3 and was verified on 1/9.
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Congratulations! 🙂
My documents were on SOPHAS by the priority deadline, but my test scores went in later. So I think I'll have to wait a little longer to hear back from them.
 
Undergrad School: Top 20 private research
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.99/4.00
Major/Minor: Sociology/Linguistics (and pre-med)
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): 166V/165Q/4.0AW on 11/15 (Yikes, I didn't know what the writing section was about until the morning of)
Experience/Research (please, be brief): 1 year AmeriCorps VISTA, 4 years professional experience (community engagement and community-based research professional at a northeastern liberal arts college)

***Please include the following whenever possible: specific concentration/track, dates, type of correspondence (phone, email, letter, etc.), scholarships/grants.***

Interested in: UNC, UMD, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Drexel, Penn, Columbia
Applied(include the date of application): UNC (12/1) Health Behavior, UMD (12/15) Behavioral and Comm. Health, Emory (1/5) BSHE, JHU (1/15) MHS in Health, Behavior & Society
Accepted: UMD (1/15) via e-mail, UNC (1/29) via application portal
Rejected:
Waitlisted:

I was NOT on the ball and submitted all my apps on their respective priority deadlines, with some LORs and test scores coming in later.
 
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I just left the BSPH after an “interview”. The director told me that the next patch of MSPH decision will be sent out by Feb 9th.
 
Undergrad School: GWU
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.25/4.0
Major/Minor: Public Health / Sustainability
GRE V: 155 Q: 151 W: 4.5 (9/28) V:153 Q:154 W:4.5 (11/14)
Experience/Research
  • 3 month policy internship with Sierra Club
  • 3 month Hill internship
  • 3 month global health policy internship with HIV advocacy organization
  • 3 month program assistant internship at UN branch
  • Participant in year-long health professional development program
  • Health club leader at local under-served high school
  • Sponsorship coordinator at global health student org
  • Substantial volunteer experience with under-served youth
Special factors:

Applying right out of undergrad. Test scores are a little low. GPA is also low (I failed chemistry freshmen year...yikes) but my GPA for junior and senior year is 3.6. Also 4 strong letters of recommendation. I'm interested in global health but nervous because I did not study or intern abroad.

Interested in:

GWU (GH Program Design, Monitoring & Eval), BU (Community Assessment & Program Design), Oregon State (Global Health), Emory (GH Infectious Disease), Tulane (International Health & Development), UCLA (Community Health Sciences), Colorado (Community & Behavioral Health), U South Florida (Global Health Practice)

Applied: GWU (12/15), BU (1/5), Oregon (12/2), Colorado (1/15), UCLA (12/1), Tulane (1/25)
Accepted: GWU (1/22), Colorado (1/29)
Rejected:
Waitlisted:

Will update!
 
For Columbia’s financial aid requirement of parental financial information, if my parents make too much for me to qualify for financial aid anyway, can I just not do it? It would be a hassle for me to get their info if I can’t get any need-based aid anyway. But would this affect my merit based scholarships if I just had my info in there? Thanks!
 
pusheen323 said:
For Columbia’s financial aid requirement of parental financial information, if my parents make too much for me to qualify for financial aid anyway, can I just not do it? It would be a hassle for me to get their info if I can’t get any need-based aid anyway. But would this affect my merit based scholarships if I just had my info in there? Thanks!
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Hey I'm in the same boat as you, but I went ahead and called my parents and got all of their info, it took about 15-20 minutes to complete.
 
pusheen323 said:
For Columbia’s financial aid requirement of parental financial information, if my parents make too much for me to qualify for financial aid anyway, can I just not do it? It would be a hassle for me to get their info if I can’t get any need-based aid anyway. But would this affect my merit based scholarships if I just had my info in there? Thanks!
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I'm in the same situation. Since I got into my other schools, I didn't bother. According to their website, it doesn't affect your eligibility for merit-based aid.
 
Does anyone know if there's a way to update or at least check your Social Security Number in SOPHAS? Right now it's only letting me see the last 4 numbers. Got an email from one of my schools saying either my SSN is wrong on there or on my FAFSA but I'm sure it's not the FAFSA that's incorrect.
 
MarcusAureliusAntoninus said:
Does anyone know if there's a way to update or at least check your Social Security Number in SOPHAS? Right now it's only letting me see the last 4 numbers. Got an email from one of my schools saying either my SSN is wrong on there or on my FAFSA but I'm sure it's not the FAFSA that's incorrect.
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I got the same email from a few schools. Apparently a lot of the time it just doesn't sync between the two so the admissions office needs to input it manually. I had to do this for GW and Emory so far.
 
MarcusAureliusAntoninus said:
Does anyone know if there's a way to update or at least check your Social Security Number in SOPHAS? Right now it's only letting me see the last 4 numbers. Got an email from one of my schools saying either my SSN is wrong on there or on my FAFSA but I'm sure it's not the FAFSA that's incorrect.
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I'm wondering the same thing, since I just got an email from GW asking me for it.
 
Cassatrass said:
I got the same email from a few schools. Apparently a lot of the time it just doesn't sync between the two so the admissions office needs to input it manually. I had to do this for GW and Emory so far.
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I had to call BU to have them manually input my social security number too
 
For Columbia aid, if i update my FAFSA with my parents income, will that affect the need-based aid i get from other schools? Because with my parents income taken into account I will never get need based even though I am financially responsible for school costs. So I would rather not input it at all if it will affect my other schools.
 
mooseluva12 said:
For Columbia aid, if i update my FAFSA with my parents income, will that affect the need-based aid i get from other schools? Because with my parents income taken into account I will never get need based even though I am financially responsible for school costs. So I would rather not input it at all if it will affect my other schools.
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When I entered my parents information my family contribution was listed as $0 even though it should have been higher due to their income. Generally they consider you as an independent for graduate programs but I would check with the schools.
 
mooseluva12 said:
For Columbia aid, if i update my FAFSA with my parents income, will that affect the need-based aid i get from other schools? Because with my parents income taken into account I will never get need based even though I am financially responsible for school costs. So I would rather not input it at all if it will affect my other schools.
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Last year, I directly asked BU and Yale, and they told me they ignore the parent contribution page because they know most students at the master's level are covering costs themselves and consider us independent. They told me they know a certain school requires parent info and that they would not penalize us for it. I got some form of aid from every school I applied to EXCEPT Columbia, which was the only one who considered my parent's info. If you're worried, you could call and ask the schools. BU and Yale seemed to be honest.
 
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I was just accepted to the University of Washington Epidemiology MPH (via email). Hope to see some of you guys at the admitted students day!

Undergrad School: University of Washington
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.5 overall, 3.7 Public Health major, 3.8 MAGH major
Major/Minor: double major in Public Health / Medical Anthropology & Global Health
GRE (including date taken): 2017, 165Q 167V 5AW
Experience/Research (please, be brief): 5 years of work experience in the industrial hygiene field, 3 years of work experience in the field of consumer genomics

Interested in:
Applied(include the date of application): UW MPH Epidemiology 12/1, Harvard Epidemiology 12/1, UW MS Genetic Epidemiology (1/1)
Accepted: UW MS Genetic Epidemiology (1/22), UW MPH Epidemiology (1/30)
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
 
Don't know if this was asked already, when does Emory notify concerning scholarship? Recently admitted after a long wait, but not getting my hopes up b/c of cost!
 
OUCH.... Got rejected from UW. :grumpy: This hurts because I went there for undergraduate and thought I had a pretty good chance at admission, even though I didn't major in their department. Congrats to all UW acceptances - UW is a GREAT school and you guys will love Seattle. If you have any questions about the school and location you can always PM me. :nod:
 
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