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The latest Harvard Health Policy acceptance is mine. Management track, I just got a phone call an hour ago! I'm extremely excited, and congratulations to all other admits!

I was actually interviewing for management. But I agree -- considering how few students they admit, I really have no idea what to expect. I'm trying to not have my hopes too high, since it is definitely my top choice.

I have not heard anything since my interview. They told me mid to late February for decisions, so hopefully it actually is soon now. Looking at past years on the survey, late February seems about right.

I did interview for the management track, and I know one other person was there for ESS at the same time as me. I'm not sure how any other tracks work, but for management they told me they would try to release decisions by mid to late February. I got an email Friday evening informing me I was waitlisted at Hopkins for HSR & Policy. They said they could only offer admission to 3 students. I have not yet heard from UC Berkeley. I try to post all of my information in the survey, hopefully it's helpful!

I got an email requesting a Skype interview at UMD yesterday.

I got an email from the assistant program director last night (1/23).

I have not heard from Yale HPM yet either. This week I've received invitations from Harvard Health Policy (management track) and BU HSR for in-person interviews.

Same for health services research. Nothing since my phone interview earlier in the month.

I was contacted by UNC Health Management and Policy today asking to do a short phone interview (I'd spoken with the POI last fall at length regarding research fit,) but I didn't get an idea of when they'd be making any decisions.

Health services research at BU, HSR & Policy at Hopkins. I was surprised to hear anything this early, honestly!

So far I have had phone interviews at Boston University and Brown, with Brown then reaching out to invite to recruitment day 1/27. I also received an email from a faculty member at Johns Hopkins asking to set up a phone interview time within the next few weeks. No other word yet. Good luck to everyone out there! The waiting game is not easy!

Hello everyone, this thread was pretty popular last year so I thought it may be interesting to those of us applying for PhD programs for the Fall of 2017! Just copying the formatting / information from last year. Feel free to add your info, interests, and then we can all worry together next spring about acceptances! Undergrad School: University of Michigan Undergrad GPA: 3.49 Major/Minor: History If Applicable: Grad School: Master of Health Informatics - University of Michigan Grad GPA: 4.0 GRE or Other Test: GRE: 98th percentile verbal, 70th percentile quant, 98th percentile writtenExperience/Research: 5 years project management in health insurance. 2 years research assistant at Michigan. 3 first author publications . 1 under review publication as first author, 2 conference talks and 3 conference posters. Letters should be excellent. I'm applying to various health policy and management / health services research PhD programs, primarily interested in combining organizational theory and management with research on health information technology. Applied: Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, UMichigan, UNC, Indiana (IUPUI), Brown, UWashington, Minnesota, Northwestern, Maryland, UCLA, BU. Accepted: Rejected: Waitlisted: Hopefully my quant GRE doesn't hurt me too bad and my quantitative publications make up for it!