Hi everyone!! Love seeing all of these acceptance posts and hopefully this will bring us all some good luck in the coming weeks. I’ve been constantly checking my email like a crazy person! My apps weren’t officially in until late last week because of one last letter of rec (I was SOPHAS verified by the end of December though!) wish I got everything in a little earlier because the waiting is agony!
Undergraduate School/School type: University of Delaware
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.82 (SOPHAS)
Undergrad Major/minor: Health Behavior Science with Minors in Public Health and Business Administration
Grad GPA (if applicable):
Grad studies (if applicable):
GRE(including date taken): didn’t take! Thank goodness because I truthfully wasn’t confident in my abilities in this area especially with all of the COVID stress this year
Experience/research:
- 2.5 years as clinical research coordinator at university/hospital (primarily liver disease), had an opportunity to work on COVID research from spring-summer 2020 as well which was a plus! (Right out of undergrad - current). Authorship on a few papers/poster presentations over this time period
- internship at state dept of public health in infectious disease division (senior year undergrad)
-undergrad research assistant on nutrition initiative project (school lunch program for elementary/day care facilities) for professor of one of my research stats classes (senior year of undergrad)
- volunteer program through my major: traveled to teach nutrition curriculum to middle/elementary school students throughout the state (senior year of undergrad)
- internship at large nonprofit (summer after junior year of undergrad)
- volunteer position at clinic in my hometown focused on providing care for people in community with lack of access to insurance, opportunity to somewhat brush up on my Spanish skills (summer after soph year of undergrad)
- member of alpha phi omega service fraternity from soph-senior year
Letters of Rec:
- professor of 2 of my undergrad Public Heath courses and supervisor for my undergrad research (one of the directors of the Public Health minor at my school)
- supervisor of my internship at the state dept of Public health in the infectious disease division
- PI/supervisor for my current research job(director of the division so I’m hoping this will be a strong one!)
Interests: epidemiology/biostats (I’d be interested in focusing on chronic disease and maybe eventually cancer Epi, as I truly enjoy the work I do now with chronic liver disease. But my COVID work and my past internship with infectious disease has sparked my interest in that realm as well), global health/health disparities
Applied: Columbia (epi MPH-1/12), Tufts (epi/biostats MPH-1/12), BU (MPH in chronic/non communicable disease but want to add on the epi concentration/certificate as well-1/14), Icahn (Epi MPH -1/14), Drexel (Epi MPH-1/13), Temple (Epi/biostats MPH- 1/13), Penn (MPH generalist- 1/15)
Accepted: Pitt- Epi MPH with $1k scholarship/semester (app verified on 1/5-acceptance email came on 1/13. Only required 2 LoR)
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Attending:
I’m super excited to have an acceptance at this point, a little bit of weight off my shoulders. I know Columbia is sort of a long shot especially because their priority deadline was in December, but that would be really cool to get in. A lot of friends live in NYC and I’m very interested in their program, but I know how competitive it can be (and not sure how this year affects app volumes) I have family in Boston and the public health scene up there interests me, but I’ve heard conflicting things about BU (if it comes down to tufts and BU I’m not sure what I’d do). My permanent address and current job is in PA so one of the Philly schools would be the most convenient and probably cheaper, but we will have to see what happens! Anyway, any input would be great- I think my letters of rec and GPA are strong but honestly looking at this forum has stressed me out a little, y’all are so accomplished! Good luck everyone!
