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

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corndoggedly said:
Does anyone else feel like waiting for admissions decisions was easier than waiting to find out about financial aid? 😱
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omg same. Getting into these places is super nice and all but it's gonna come down to affordability and I want to hurry up and make my final decision
 
corndoggedly said:
Does anyone else feel like waiting for admissions decisions was easier than waiting to find out about financial aid? 😱
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phclarinetist said:
omg same. Getting into these places is super nice and all but it's gonna come down to affordability and I want to hurry up and make my final decision
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Yes definitely! Especially when schools are expecting us to shell out the big bucks to go to admitted students days when we can't even tell if the schools are viable options because financial aid won't be released in time:thinking:
 
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nannams said:
i know i'm not getting into harvard but i'm still dying to hear back from them ugh
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me too! part of me just wishes that they will overlook my low gre scores lol. been checking that portal every day but looking at the past two years, doesn't look like harvard sends out their admissions results until late February/early March. 😏
 
Cassatrass said:
Yes definitely! Especially when schools are expecting us to shell out the big bucks to go to admitted students days when we can't even tell if the schools are viable options because financial aid won't be released in time:thinking:
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Yes! If there is a universal deadline for accepting admissions offers (Apr. 15), then it only seems fair there is a universal deadline for schools to notify students of offers/financial aid (and it should be with ample time to book travel to visit days!)
 
if anyone is looking at attending UIC... I can hopefully provide some insight on living in Chicago/Chicago in general. I've lived in the area most of my life. Please feel free to message me or reply here so others can see as well! 🙂
 
Speaking of Admitted Students days-- Send me a PM if you're planning to attend the March 2nd Columbia or March 4th NYU visit days and we should meet up. 🙂
 
does anyone know the dates of San Diego State's and Oregon State's admitted students days or preview days? I'm trying to budget right so I can visit, but tickets get so expensive the closer it is to the date
 
cg2018 said:
does anyone know the dates of San Diego State's and Oregon State's admitted students days or preview days? I'm trying to budget right so I can visit, but tickets get so expensive the closer it is to the date
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Have you heard back from either of these schools? The Oregon State admission rep said we would hear by the end of this week and I have been freaking out! Sorry that I can't help with the actual post!
 
Undergrad School: Case Western Reserve previously, now Wayne State University
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 1.5 CWRU, 3.5 after one semester at WSU, 3.86 for my Associates in Arts
Major/Minor: Public Health
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): 162V, 155Q, 6W
Experience/Research (please, be brief): Currently doing a practicum with the Detroit Health Dept, helping a local physician's group with a project to raise HPV vaccination rates, EMS member in Cleveland, Red Cross volunteer, member of student group that does grassroots public health work in Detroit
Special factors: I dropped out of my first university (CWRU) and went to a community college for a year to get my GPA back up before getting accepted to Wayne State. Now my GPA is a 3.5 after one semester at Wayne State, but I'm really worried this is going to go against me in my applications. I already got rejected by Emory (is Emory quite competitive since it's in Atlanta?) and now I'm becoming super anxious that I won't be accepted anywhere even though I've heard MPH programs are not especially competitive.

Interested in: Epidemiology and biostats. Applied for health policy if those two weren't available. Want to go for a PhD later
Applied: (include the date of application): Emory (1/9), U of M (1/14), Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Wayne State (2/3), Texas A&M, USC, Boston U, CUNY, Drexel, GWU, U Penn, NYU, Columbia
Accepted:
Rejected: Emory
Waitlisted:
 
public_healther said:
Same! I hate the wait. They said mid-February but I'm hoping they release decisions this week. *fingers crossed*
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Saw some posts regarding Harvard decisions earlier on this thread, but I don't know if that was for MPH. Any idea when they released decisions last year?
 
phaspirant said:
Saw some posts regarding Harvard decisions earlier on this thread, but I don't know if that was for MPH. Any idea when they released decisions last year?
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I think those decisions were only for the MPH Epi program (Epi decisions are released earlier, according to the HSPH website)
 
phaspirant said:
Saw some posts regarding Harvard decisions earlier on this thread, but I don't know if that was for MPH. Any idea when they released decisions last year?
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in the harvard key portal it does say "Beginning in February: Applicants will be notified of decisions via email." some people in this thread have already gotten in but they applied super early too. I wonder when they'll release for global health MPH
 
x0n said:
I wouldn’t know, still have yet to get an admissions decision 🙁
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I’m still waiting on three of the six I applied to and just heard from two last week, so hopefully you guys will hear something soon! I just meant that even an acceptance doesn’t mean it’s a viable option since so many of these schools are crazy expensive. :wow:
 
nannams said:
in the harvard key portal it does say "Beginning in February: Applicants will be notified of decisions via email." some people in this thread have already gotten in but they applied super early too. I wonder when they'll release for global health MPH
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In my application confirmation email it says "decisions will be released between the end of February and early March." I wonder if everyone's say the same thing? Either way, it's going to be a loooong month. I also got an email from one of their admissions reps asking a question about my application, so I know they've been reviewing it since at least mid-January, it's so nerve-wracking!
 
skcolley said:
In my application confirmation email it says "decisions will be released between the end of February and early March." I wonder if everyone's say the same thing? Either way, it's going to be a loooong month. I also got an email from one of their admissions reps asking a question about my application, so I know they've been reviewing it since at least mid-January, it's so nerve-wracking!
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Yeah me too. I emailed the admissions committee and they said mid-February to the end of March.
 
jamorjelly said:
Undergrad School: Case Western Reserve previously, now Wayne State University
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 1.5 CWRU, 3.5 after one semester at WSU, 3.86 for my Associates in Arts
Major/Minor: Public Health
GradGPA (if applicable):
Grad Studies (if applicable):
GRE (including date taken) or Other Test (if applicable): 162V, 155Q, 6W
Experience/Research (please, be brief): Currently doing a practicum with the Detroit Health Dept, helping a local physician's group with a project to raise HPV vaccination rates, EMS member in Cleveland, Red Cross volunteer, member of student group that does grassroots public health work in Detroit
Special factors: I dropped out of my first university (CWRU) and went to a community college for a year to get my GPA back up before getting accepted to Wayne State. Now my GPA is a 3.5 after one semester at Wayne State, but I'm really worried this is going to go against me in my applications. I already got rejected by Emory (is Emory quite competitive since it's in Atlanta?) and now I'm becoming super anxious that I won't be accepted anywhere even though I've heard MPH programs are not especially competitive.

Interested in: Epidemiology and biostats. Applied for health policy if those two weren't available. Want to go for a PhD later
Applied: (include the date of application): Emory (1/9), U of M (1/14), Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Wayne State (2/3), Texas A&M, USC, Boston U, CUNY, Drexel, GWU, U Penn, NYU, Columbia
Accepted:
Rejected: Emory
Waitlisted:
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Emory is not one of the most competitive schools for admission, but it is very highly regarded. There are many people on this thread who recently got accepted to Emory with a broad range of stats-- look through and compare yourself. It's kind of unclear from your post how much time you've spent at CWRU vs. your CC vs. WSU. Are you graduating from WSU in the spring? If so, what was the cumulative undergraduate GPA SOPHAS calculated for you? My guess is that had something to do with your rejection. If it was very low, Emory might not have even looked at the breakdown by semester/year/school. Your quant score is also a bit low (but not dramatically so) for biostatistics and epidemiology. All that said, some of the schools you applied to are definitely less competitive than Emory, so don't get super anxious about not getting accepted anywhere yet! It's a long wait, and just because one school decided you weren't a good fit for whatever reason does not mean anything about how the rest of the schools will review your application.
 
Emory has an alumni-admitted student mixer in D.C next week. Is anyone going?
 
PreHealthGuy said:
Have you heard back from either of these schools? The Oregon State admission rep said we would hear by the end of this week and I have been freaking out! Sorry that I can't help with the actual post!
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I haven't yet, but I am super antsy and I know decisions should be coming out soon for oregon state at least
 
extramino said:
A dumb question. In what situation a school decline the offer that already given to the student? Maybe a very bad GPA in the last year?
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Sounds unlikely to happen unless you’ve failed a class and/or can’t graduate. I would email the individual school if you’re concerned
 
extramino said:
A dumb question. In what situation a school decline the offer that already given to the student? Maybe a very bad GPA in the last year?
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Like revoke an offer of admission? At the graduate level, I would imagine the most common reasons for people coming right from undergrad would include getting dramatically worse grades in the final semester in comparison to the grades they applied with or failing to graduate for whatever other reason. Although I would like to think this isn't common, I also assume offers would get revoked if someone was found to have falsified application materials or were found guilty of some type of criminal activity that would result in expulsion if they were already a student at that institution.
 
phaspirant said:
Saw some posts regarding Harvard decisions earlier on this thread, but I don't know if that was for MPH. Any idea when they released decisions last year?
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I went through all the Harvard acceptances from 2016 and 2017 and it looks like there were two massive waves of decisions that came out (both years were pretty consistent):
Feb 23-26 and March 4-8 (for global health)
Feb 23-26 and March 4 (for HSB)
Didn't see many acceptances/rejections before this timeline. Good luck to everyone! :hello:
 
Sth1022 said:
I went through all the Harvard acceptances from 2016 and 2017 and it looks like there were two massive waves of decisions that came out (both years were pretty consistent):
Feb 23-26 and March 4-8 (for global health)
Feb 23-26 and March 4 (for HSB)
Didn't see many acceptances/rejections before this timeline. Good luck to everyone! :hello:
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Thanks for doing that! Any chance you saw a trend with JHU? And good luck to you too!
 
babyjane said:
Congrats!!!!!! That's great to hear - strange with the phone call though....
A few questions:
How do you interpret the phone call? What were they trying to figure out? To take your interest into account in their admissions decision?
When did u apply and when did you get the call ? I submitted yesterday.... did you apply for the april or july?
Does the speed at which they reviewed your aplication give you any hesitation about the quality of the programe?
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I am not sure what to make of the phone call, but it was a bit weird (maybe it was to see how serious I was about them). I submitted the application in the first week of January but I took my GRE in mid January so my application was only complete on around Feb 29th or so. The speed didn't really surprise me because they did say they accept everyone who demonstrated that they would be able to do the work (I probably hit thier benchmarks). I am still strongly considering going there because I want to do internships and stuff and I think having an online program would be good for that.
 
optimist123 said:
I was told that it wasn't haha in public health anyway...
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I am an undergrad public health major at UMass and I can attest that public health isn't UMass's strong suit by far. It has decent programs, but its kinesiology, nursing, and business programs are top notch
 
Ebb55 said:
Sounds unlikely to happen unless you’ve failed a class and/or can’t graduate. I would email the individual school if you’re concerned
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wwmmkk said:
Like revoke an offer of admission? At the graduate level, I would imagine the most common reasons for people coming right from undergrad would include getting dramatically worse grades in the final semester in comparison to the grades they applied with or failing to graduate for whatever other reason. Although I would like to think this isn't common, I also assume offers would get revoked if someone was found to have falsified application materials or were found guilty of some type of criminal activity that would result in expulsion if they were already a student at that institution.
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If I got a GPA around 2.6 in this semester, does it matter?
 
extramino said:
If I got a GPA around 2.6 in this semester, does it matter?
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How does this compare to the GPA SOPHAS calculated? If it's drastically different, yeah it might cause a problem, depending on the school's policy. February is still early enough in a spring semester to drastically improve GPA. In a quarter-system, you still have 1 quarter left to boost that 2.6 GPA. Do you think you can boost it up to 3.0 before May?
 
wwmmkk said:
Emory is not one of the most competitive schools for admission, but it is very highly regarded. There are many people on this thread who recently got accepted to Emory with a broad range of stats-- look through and compare yourself. It's kind of unclear from your post how much time you've spent at CWRU vs. your CC vs. WSU. Are you graduating from WSU in the spring? If so, what was the cumulative undergraduate GPA SOPHAS calculated for you? My guess is that had something to do with your rejection. If it was very low, Emory might not have even looked at the breakdown by semester/year/school. Your quant score is also a bit low (but not dramatically so) for biostatistics and epidemiology. All that said, some of the schools you applied to are definitely less competitive than Emory, so don't get super anxious about not getting accepted anywhere yet! It's a long wait, and just because one school decided you weren't a good fit for whatever reason does not mean anything about how the rest of the schools will review your application.
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Ok, I'm freaking out--SOPHAS sent me an email saying my WSU transcript was received and verified and now when I download my application for Emory and U of M, it says unverified next to my WSU coursework! So Emory never saw my WSU grades and my recalculated gpa says 1.84! I'm going to call SOPHAS asap and figure out what happened. Luckily I haven't sent any other applications yet (I know, I know, but there would have been no point anyway with my first semester at WSU still having not finished in November).
I am in fact graduating from WSU this summer. I was at CWRU for four years, at CC for one, and my first semester at Wayne was last fall. I talked about my difficulties at CWRU in my personal statements and how my mental health affected my academics. I think I made a pretty good case for how I turned around after getting into my CC and at Wayne.
 
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Anyone have any idea on when NYU typically gets back to waitlist applicants? I really want to contact them, but I also don’t want the generic “anytime when seats become available, applications are reviewed” type answer.
 
jamorjelly said:
Ok, I'm freaking out--SOPHAS sent me an email saying my WSU transcript was received and verified and now when I download my application for Emory and U of M, it says unverified next to my WSU coursework! So Emory never saw my WSU grades and my recalculated gpa says 1.84! I was at CWRU for four years, at CC for one, and my first semester at Wayne was last fall. I talked about my difficulties at CWRU in my personal statements and how my mental health affected my academics. I'm going to call SOPHAS asap and figure out what happened. Luckily I haven't sent any other applications yet (I know, I know, but there would have been no point anyway with my first semester at WSU still having not finished in November).
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That suuuucks. SOPHAS truly screws people over sometimes. If it's possible, you could attach a pdf of your transcripts (all 3) to your application as supplemental materials/documents to make sure they see your actual performance. I would also just email them straight to UM and explain the situation-- even if SOPHAS eventually resolves it, it may not be fast enough.
 
wwmmkk said:
That suuuucks. SOPHAS truly screws people over sometimes. If it's possible, you could attach a pdf of your transcripts (all 3) to your application as supplemental materials/documents to make sure they see your actual performance. I would also just email them straight to UM and explain the situation-- even if SOPHAS eventually resolves it, it may not be fast enough.
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I'm going to email U of M right now and start attaching my student-issued transcript to all my applications. I'm really disappointed my application to Emory got botched 🙁 but I'm applying to a ton of other programs so fingers crossed. Thank you for all your suggestions! I'm going to be really careful with my apps now.

Btw--like I explained, after dropping out of my first uni and a year of CC, I had to wait until my first semester at WSU was over--am I too late? Seems like everyone else was done in November, but surely some of these deadlines wouldn't be in March and April if they filled their classes up in December, right?
 
hi all! new to this forum thing, anxiously awaiting to hear back from a few places...


Undergrad School: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.8 SOPHAS
Major/Minor: BS Neuroscience, BM Flute Performance
GradGPA (if applicable): N/A
Grad Studies (if applicable): N/A
GRE (including date taken): GRE 159V/157Q/4.5 AWA
Experience/Research (please, be brief):
- Currently research assistant full time at Hopkins in kidney/liver transplant research...will be publishing 3-5 papers this year
- Worked 1 on 1 with a kidney transplant surgeon at UMich to do project and was first author/presented my research at a national surgery conference
- limited bench lab experience in cellular biology/Huntington's research
- worked for the Ann Arbor VA hospital system to do patient safety research, survey design and learned SPSS & STATA
- president of global health club during undergrad and launched a student-run health coalition in collaboration with the director of University Health Services to increase the flu vaccination rate among University of Michigan students and designed survey to estimate flu vaccination rate among University of Michigan undergraduates and to understand the barriers to vaccination on campus

LORs: Chief of Medicine @ AAVA, kidney transplant surgeon at UMich hospital systems, prof of epidemiology/my PI at Hopkins...they're all very strong letters

Special factors: have two undergraduate degrees (graduated in 4 years with 170 credits) so didn't have a lot of time to do research during the school year and took classes 3/4 summers

Interested in: Patient safety, outcomes research in in-patient setting specifically in those with chronic diseases
Applied(include the date of application): University of Michigan, General Epidemiology MPH, 11/15; Harvard, SM 80 Clinical Epidemiology, 11/27; Yale, Chronic Disease Epidemiology MPH, 11/16; Boston University, Epid/Biostats MPH, 12/7; University of Minnesota, Epidemiology MPH, 11/25; Johns Hopkins, ScM Clinical Epidemiology, 12/7
Accepted: University of Michigan (11/30), University of Minnesota (12/11), Boston University (1/22) (+18k), Yale (1/11) (+6k)
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Waiting: Harvard, Hopkins
 
aregnas said:
Thanks for doing that! Any chance you saw a trend with JHU? And good luck to you too!
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I skimmed through last years forum but there wasn't a huge wave of decisions that came out at once. Looks like decisions came out here and there, some people heard back in early January, a majority in mid-February (my guess is you will hear back around Feb 16 - 23 if you applied around the 12/1 cutoff date, since many people heard back around that time last year). But also saw that a lot of people heard back in early March. Really depends on when you applied. Hope that helps and good luck ~ I'm also waiting for Hopkins so fingers crossed for good news in the coming weeks 🙂))
 
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