Exactly! I don't know why there isn't a deadline for the schools to notify students. A lot of people hold out until the finaincial aide packages anyways, and the admitted student days should be extended to give people enough time to decide where to go.
You should try emailing both departments (not sure if MSPH and MPH Epi are in the same departments because one is heavily researched based) about a transfer. The earlier the better 🙂
I am an MPH student at Yale. I am working in a part time job, and so are many of my peers. What I highly recommend doing is reaching out to professors and faculty about paid part time jobs in the field. I work in a position that relates to what I want to do when I graduate with my MPH. I justify the added stress and lack of time by knowing I am 1) making money and 2) setting myself to be more competitive for jobs in my field after graduation. I will say I am definitely more stressed and more tired than my friends who are not working who seem to have lots of free time, but it is definitely manageable if your employer is flexible and you have good time management. I would not necessarily recommend taking time away from your studies for a job out of the field, but if you can find a job related to public health, then a little less time spent on studying and school work may be worth the work experience. If you think your current job would be beneficial, then,, in my opinion, it is not impossible to manage.
This is very good advice. This is something I wish I could have done during undergrad instead of working at grocery stores and restaurants. Is it common for professors to offer paid research assistant positions to grad students? I'm hoping to obtain a paid research assistant position while going to school, however I'm worried that my little experience in research will be an obstacle.
I actually just asked a student at Columbia this, since they explicitly advise against working your first semester. She told me probably half of her class worked that first semester, and I assume even more worked after. Personally, I can't make grad school happen unless I'm working (at least) part time, and I think that's true for lots of us. Plus tuition reimbursement is a huge get even with a full time job, so I would definitely not pass that up.
Congrats! Did USC email you?
Right! My point was even with Columbia's intense core, half of the students were working as well.
UMD as in the University of Maryland? I heard back from them a few weeks ago, I think on the 19th of January. It wasn't an official acceptance though, it was a letter saying I was recommended for admission, conditional on my taking Biostatistics between now and matriculation - you may not fall under that umbrella!
Yes UMD as in University of Maryland! I applied for the MPH-EPI but I haven’t heard back at all. The last email I received was in Dec. saying that my application is under review now and will take aprox. 4-6 weeks to review by the Epi dept.
I also heard back from UMD on 1/15 (my app was sent in on 12/15, my supplemental was completed first week of January). The e-mail began, "On behalf of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health, I am pleased to inform you that we have recommended to the UMD Graduate School that you be admitted to the MPH program in Behavioral and Community Health for Fall 2018."
Thank you! Yes I got an email saying I was recommended for admission and that my official letter would post in yoUSC portal within 48 hours
What kind of assistantships? Are those teaching assistants?
Teaching assistant or research assistant
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!
I only saw maybe 3 or 4 people post about health policy last year - looks like all of their decisions came out March 3 - 6 (so much later than global health and HSB). GOOD LUCK!!!! 🙂Thanks for this! 🙂 Did you notice any pattern in Health Policy decisions, by any chance?
Anyway, looks like we'll be waiting for the greater part of this month, arghhh.
If it makes you feel better, according to Emory's website, it's the most applied-to global health department of any public health school. So, their communication is probably bad, in part, because of how many applicants they are speaking to.
omg MARCH!???? ...that's so late. ugh
I'm going to contact my department for research assistantships. I think contacting your program directly will be more helpful.
Ah same!! Haha what do we do? Anyone who has advice I welcome it!
I heard back last week that I was accepted! I submitted in december
I mean if I got 2.2 GPA in this semester but my cumulative GPA is still around 3.3, does it matter?
Medical school will be a major added cost and perhaps more important. When you’re a doctor, that title is more important than the MPH letters. If your MPH is a stepping stone rather than a terminal degree, the name might not be worth the debt. I would sit down and think about how strong of an MD applicant you already are. Do you expect a strong MCAT score? Are your undergraduate grades and experience up to this point already strong? If you are already set to be a strong applicant, where you get your MPH will likely be less of a factor. I would recommend reaching out to your state school and ask if they have data on medical school application success rates and if they offer services to assist with medical school applications. Many of my peers in Yale’s MPH program plan to move on to PhD programs and medical school. Since this is very common here, our career services office also assists with these kinds of applications and planning. I would make sure that your state school has successful medical school applicants and that their MPH program actually aligns with your interests. My state school did not have faculty engaging in the areas I am interested in, so I ruled it out based on that alone. Many programs have student ambassadors and alumni networks. You could contact the schools to see if you could speak with current and past students who want to move on to an MD or have successfully started medical school to hear their opinions on the program. In my personal opinion, I would rather save up for medical school than go into dept for a non-terminal degree, but I would also want to make sure that I wasn’t compromising my interests and future success for that reason.
The big issue here is that SOPHAS re-opens in June-July for you to submit your final transcripts and then the schools begin reviewing them. You would not know until very late in the game if the school is revoking your acceptance. It is only the beginning of February, so you should have plenty of time raise your semester GPA, just in case. Good luck!
I submitted my app for the Epi program sometime at the end of November and I got an email that my app was complete on 12/6. I heard back on a decision 1/19. Have you contacted the school? Someone said on here that they wouldn’t begin reviewing applications until 1/15, but that’s plenty of time I would think. I hope you hear back soon!
I agree. It doesn't give us an ample amount of time to plan our trips, especially traveling from coast to coast.
I applied by the deadline and haven't heard back yet either! Anxiously waiting....Also my portal indicates that they're still waiting for my GRE score report. Their website seemed to indicate that that's normal and that it won't link up, even if they've received it. Does yours show the same??
$12/hr seems pretty low... I get paid that now making sandwiches at the student union...
Yeah, this news made me pretty sad.
