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Where would you suggest to live if I will not have a car and want to be walking/shuttle distance to campus and grocery stores/etc?
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MPH Fall 2018: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!
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anyone going to Emory's admitted students event in March? I am considering going but I am from California so its a little far!
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I submitted my email on January 5th and got a completed email on the 11th so hopefully I get to hear from them soon!
Just got into Tulane for International Health and Development. I must say, Tulane is one of my top choices but their acceptance email is kind of lacking. The subject was Last Name, First Name and the email had no header logo and was kind of generic.
I know i thought the same. But mine had a letter attached with the tulane header logo and a more formal acceptance letter which helped a little bit.
Did anyone receive GW scholarship information yet?
Hopefully they'll get back to you soon! I know it's so nerve wracking seeing people post and not having heard back yet! Good luck though!
Thanks for the response! What other places did you apply to?
I didn't even apply this year but in the future I'm considering looking at Emory. Is Atlanta a good city to drive in? How is parking near the campus?
I accidentally started the app a few months ago. One of the counselors have been annoyingly persistent, even after telling him I'm not looking for an online program.
I applied to BU, Drexel, UMD, Pitt, and ETSU (where I got my undergrad). Got into all of them with scholarship money from BU and Drexel, but BU is too expensive, and Drexel isn’t the most ideal location for me. Right now I’m in between Pitt and UMD.
I applied to HBHE 12/15 and still haven't heard back; I've been checking my portal multiple times a day. Uhh hoping to hear back soon!
Lol Atlanta's traffic is the WORST. I mean, last year one of their highways caught on fire and burned down. That said, around Emory (which is in the suburbs) the traffic's not too terrible. I'm planning on bringing a car and driving around the suburbs and maybe to campus, but if I ever need to get to downtown I'll take public transport or Uber. Campus parking passes are $675 per year.
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Wow Vanderbilt emailed at 9:30PM that I'm in for their HPM!!! They did indeed get back by Feb 1st!!
Accepted to Vandy!!!!
Congrats guys!! I can't wait to hear back for epi later this month-- they're definitely one of my top choices!!
It says I was "recommended for admission." I do not really know what that means.
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I’m in at Vandy as well! Maybe they just wanted to up the drama by waiting until 9 P.M. to send out acceptances, which I can appreciate.
Vanderbilt!! Got in!!!
Dang really? I better start looking! Y'all got me so excited! lol Living in LA for 4 years definietly burned a hole in my wallet. 😛
I'm from Cali and I'll most likely be going. I visited there a couple years ago but they canceled half the info session due to weather. lol
I know the feeling! The difference now is that I graduated last summer, and I have all the time in the world to obosess over Atlanta and Emory...after work that is. LOL
MS Epi applicant here. I was admitted to Columbia (1/22), UW (1/30), and BU (1/30).
It pretty much means you’re in. I received that notification several days before I got the official decision. Congrats!
It's 1:54 a.m. over here in EST, and where am I? That's right, I'm sitting on my couch looking at apartments in Atlanta when I should be asleep.
In a related story, I have no self-control.
In a related story, I have no self-control.
Meanwhile I'm reading Emory's Cost of Living guide in awe of how much loans I'll have to pile on top of undergrad. 😛 I'm trying not to let the expense deter me from my dream school...that's why I'm also looking up loan forgiveness programs. lol
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Got accepted to UCLA Community Health Sciences MPH program! Way to start my day and weekend!!
I was accepted to Columbia Theory and Methods (1/22), UNC (1/23), and Pitt (1/30). Have not heard back from BU, Harvard, JHU, or Yale.
I can't honestly say because I was never in that situation. I lived on-campus as an undergrad and had a car after I graduated, so I never fit those criteria. I had friends that lived in off-campus apartments around Emory, but I don't know the shuttle routes so I'm not sure which are accessible.
Would you consider investing in a bike?
Most schools are going to have a separate admissions process for the department and the school. The department's job is to pick the candidates they want, but they can't "accept" them...they have to forward their decisions to the school. The school then basically gives your application a once-over to make sure you're not glaringly bad then approves your application.
In other words, the only way you would be "recommended for admission" and not accepted is if you had, for instance, a really low GPA that the department was willing to overlook but the school decides is unbecoming of an incoming graduate student.
It's a similar process for anyone who has worked in higher ed...you have to go through HR but they have no real say in the hiring decision beyond filtering out bad candidates and approving department/office decisions.
Hahaha. Depends who you ask. If you live outside the perimeter and work downtown, you're looking at a 3 hour round trip commute every day. If you live in the city and travel to other points in the city, it's really a breeze.
If you went to Emory, you could basically live, work, and play in a 3 or 4 mile radius of the school and avoid the headache of 85/75/285/400 traffic. Little Five Points, Inman Park, Decatur, Grant Park, Virginia Highland are all neighborhoods accessible to Emory with restaurants, bars, cafes, grocery stores, theaters, and parks that don't require driving alongside commuters.
got into Vandy!!!
I was accepted to the MS in Biostatistics Theory and Methods at Columbia (1/22), which is where I will attend.
I applied to the same thing and the conselor was the same 😀 very persistent! Did you get a response yet?
MS in biostatistics applicant here! I got accepted to Northwestern (1/2) Columbia (1/22) BU (1/22) NYU (20k, yesterday), still waiting on Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Brown and Hopkins.
In at ColoradoSPH Health Systems, Management & Policy! 🙂
Hi kumamonnn, did you apply to the MA (2 year) or the MS (1 year) program at BU? I applied to the MA but didn't hear back yet...
I should know within the next 2 weeks. The counselor called me earlier this week and kept asking if I was applying to any other schools and how they ranked with me. I thought that was super weird! The program is ranked well and they have a lot of cool opportunities but that made me question how I preceived the program, especially since we were still in the "you want us" phase
I applied for MS in applied biostatistics (2 year) in mid-December. When did you apply?
I applied for the MS in applied biostatistics in mid-December. When did you apply? Don't worry if you have not heard back yet, I think they are sending out decisions every two weeks.
I applied for the MS in applied biostatistics in mid-December. When did you apply? Don't worry if you have not heard back yet, I think they are sending out decisions every two weeks.
Has anyone heard from Michigan about scholarship offers?
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idk if this is relevant to you at all, but i applied for their MHA program 12/4 and still haven't heard anything. I already committed to another school though so I gave up on them.
Got an email from Michigan to invite me for the school visit day, and there are words at the beginning of the letter "Congratulations on your admission to the department of Health Management and Policy for Fall 2018". Until now I haven't received any formal admission letter or a application status change. Has anyone received that too, and can I consider it an informal admission letter? So thrilling right now! And really hope it won't be a mis-sending email, since such thing happened years before haha
I applied to the MPH program, as well, and I want to find out now!!
I'm waiting on Harvard (global health mph-65), Vanderbilt (MPH epi), Brown (MPH epi), and JH (global disease epidemiology and control; MSPH international health).
Just in case this is helpful for anyone!
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