Vespasian

Depends. I eSubmitted on 12/23/14 and was verified 12/29/14. Some people reported longer times- a few weeks.

Magoosh underestimated my verbal and pretty much hit my quantitative. I feel as though the actual GRE verbal was much easier than what I prepped and the quantitative was much harder.

Awesome! I had a 149Q (161V) and got in to a lesser known Epi/Biostats program at Temple (and general MPH at Mercer). I think my solid undergrad grades in epi, biostats, and a few other stats/research methods courses helped make up for my pitiful quant score.

Received my acceptance letter from Temple today. It was just a single sheet basically rehashing what I received in an email telling me I might be receiving more correspondence from the epi/biostats department. Maybe there'll be something more impressive. I'm waiting on Mercer's packet too, we'll see how that goes.

The timeline depends on the school- my transcripts were received and posted by SOPHAS within about 10 days of me requesting them. If your school acknowledges mailing them and SOPHAS hasn't received them by about 2 weeks or so I'd make a few phone calls.

3.38 SOPHAS GPA, 161v/149q/3.0awa... abysmal quantitative and awa scores. Ugh, hoping I get some love from the programs I applied to; USF, UF, Tulane, Temple, Mercer. Mainly applied to epi programs.

Appreciate the advice and I'm leaning more toward graduating then applying for the Fall semester. I think hearing someone offer perspective who is heading into a similar journey was what I needed to hear. I was considering FSU because I spent a year in Tally last year taking classes at FSU and working as a research assistant. I loved the school and most of the faculty and my research mentors said great things about FSU's MPH program. To me it's more of a back-up school along with UWF. I'm definitely hoping for UF, USF, FIU or Tulane. I'm hesitant to aim for a program that will end up putting me $40-80k in the hole though. My parents have three dachshunds and they are definitely a pain in the ass. Cricket farted three houses down? Barking fit. Doorbell on TV? Barking fit. I've got a 1 year old siberian husky myself and he's a handful; boundless energy and a knack for destruction. I've been using Magoosh's vocab prep on my iPad and I'm going to spring for their prep subscription, also going to grab the ETS guide and the Manhattan GRE books as well. I've never had a geometry class and I'm ~1.5 years removed from any non-stat math classes so I'm hoping Magoosh and MGRE (+a handful of practice tests) will be enough. Thanks a lot!

Should have mentioned this before, I'm 27; have a wife and baby. LoL. I've had a handful of jobs (mostly in retail/sales), and have about 9-10 months of research experience (2x 3-4th author pubs, 2 poster presentations).

I'd like to get some opinions on my situation. I have two options; 1. Apply to graduate in Fall '14, end UG with a 3.506, BS in PH. Take GRE end of Sept. beginning of Oct., apply for grad school Spring/Summer. Pros: Less UG debt, potential to begin grad school earlier. Cons: Take GRE sooner (less studying), slight crunch on LORs, slightly lower GPA. 2. Add a minor, graduate in Spring '15, end UG with a 3.54, BS in PH (Infection Control minor), take GRE toward end of year/beginning of '15. Apply for grad school Summer/Fall. Pros: More GRE study time, more time to gather LORs, slightly higher GPA. Cons: Little more UG debt (~$2k more), limited to Summer/Fall admission for grad school. I'm averaging about a 150-160 on the QR/VR sections. Looking at USF (epi), FSU (MPH), FIU (epi), UF (epi) and Tulane , UGA (epi), and UWF (MPH).