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I called them two days ago. They said they had sent out all PhD offers. Those accepted have until April 15 to respond. Until then, they will decide whether or not to issue more offers, but I think it is very unlikely, especially with financial support. Quote: if you have other offer, you should better accept it.

Anyone heard from Davis Biostat? It is so late now but there still isn't any result in the result board.

I totally agree with you. We pay to have our application evaluated and replying applicants questions and requests is just what they are obliged to do. I understand sometimes members in the admission committee have more things to deal with than their recruiting duties. But they can always have the program coordinator/ assistant reply the emails for them. Right? I've got the best experience with one school. The Assistant Director of the program was very responsive. No matter how many questions I asked, she always replied with extensive information. And when it came to the time when they started to send out offers, she was a bit slow in replying and I am sure it is because the overwhelming inquiry emails. Then another faculty member was delegated to contact me and answer all my questions. He was very busy professor himself and he was kind and helpful, answering all questions in great details, not just referring to department website like the others did. I am just saying, everybody has a lot to do in the university, but there are a lot the program/department can do to make applicants, who are already anxious and fragile, feel better.

I emailed them and got rejected. Good luck to you...

I have the same experience. I was admitted to a school and got the notification from application website. I never heard anything from the program, not even when I emailed them multiple times. Their ignorance made me feel unimportant to their program even though I was accepted. Sp I kept writing. First I wrote to the program coordinator, then vice director of the program, then the director, then the chair of the department, and in the end I finally got my emails replied and questions answered. But this is a really unpleasant experience. I can understand they ignore emails from unadmitted students. But to admitted students? No idea what they are thinking.

Where is your offer from? Do you mind sharing your stat? I already received rejection from Boston. I think it is their first round of rejection. Sad... I think I might have overestimate myself considering my non-stat background. Sign...

Thank you Noco7. If without funding, GWU is my last choice. I have been contacting people in GWU for possible funding opportunities. But there aren't any luck so far. I still have 9 more school to go, although some of them are very unlikely to accept me, as I saw a few offers reported on the result survey yet heard nothing from the schools. I am curious, do some schools just to hold their rejections to the last minute and give them out all at once? As for the ranking, it actually doesn't matter much to me. In fact, it is difficult to find GWU biostat ranking and I don't even remember where I saw it. Or it is just Public Health ranking. Geographic location is one of the main factors in my school choice. My husband is in Houston, so my top choices are the two school there. Unfortunately I was rejected by UTH biostat and told to wait until after April 15 by Rice. I applied to GWU because of the location in DC, where there are many job opportunities for my husband and also in the field of public health that I wish to work in. But right now I am so anxious and super scared that I might get rejection from all the others. I also have admission from Emory for their MSPH program, unfortunately downgraded from PhD application. I aimed for PhD programs and didn't think much about master programs. I heard that it is not so hard to get jobs for graduates from this program but not so easy for them to enter Emory PhD program. Any thoughts about it? But the thing is that I will have to wait until after April 15 to hear about the funding. BTW, Noco7, I saw from other post that you are also applying for Vanderbilt. Have you heard anything back yet? I was told to wait about two weeks and that they only have 3-4 slot this year.

Anyone got accepted by GWU biostat PhD program? I am curious about what people think about this program and the school as a whole. About the school. I checked the GradCafe result survey. I found that about 70% of the acceptance reported here came with the note of no funding. And I know from people I know that funding in GWU is quite difficult to get, even for PhD students, especially first-years. So my curiosity is that how could GWU, as decent ranking university and in such an ideal location, be in such lacking of fund to her graduate student? About the program. According to the previous ranking, this is a decent program with biostat ranking of 16 (I just picked this number up on the internet, correct me if I was wrong). But I feel their funding for PhD student is decreasing year by year. This year all the admissions from them came with no funding, I think. Also, a strange thing is that, after I was admitted the program (emailed to check website), I heard nothing from the program, not even admission email. They even reply me after 3-4 repeated emails I wrote. I feel a little uneasy about this. From my friends experience with admission, they would usually be greeted with a nice email notification from the department head, then extensive emails from program coordinator about how to accept offers and get enrolled and many other emails about trivial details on studying and living in the school. But in my case, even when I got reply from GWU biostat about my questions, I got nearly no useful information at all. Anyone feel strange about this kind of attitude? I am just curious, do they just accept anyone who applied and think few people would come because of the funding? I am not really sure about going to GWU. But this is the only PhD admission I have so far, so there is a chance I might have to go. The funding thing is huge problem. I understand PhD students can usually get funding towards their senior years. But I wonder how do people get by in their first year? Especially when GWU tuition is so high and DC is so expensive to live in. I recently got rejected from my top choice. I thought I had a pretty good chance. I am really devastated and don't want to wind up nowhere to go. Any input would be highly appreciated.

Emailed Rice Stat PhD program yesterday about application status. They said they've sent out the first-round of offers and I have to wait until the second round. I don't know how to react to this update. To panic or what... I am just curious has anyone received rejection from Rice? Or is it just that Rice just hasn't sent out rejection at all? And this will-be-considered-for-the-second-round thing just doesn't mean anything at all. I am soooooooo frustrated!!! My husband is at Houston right now. So I want to get into Rice soooooooooooooo bad, just to put an end this long-distance thing. So to those who got offers from Rice, if you are not attending, please decline soon... T^T