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This thread has gotten busy! Congrats all on your acceptances and interviews. 
 
@seaturtles and @kang6789, what program at UW did you apply to?
 
@KB8, I heard that I was wait listed for the DrPH program at Berkeley yesterday. It is weird that someone posted an acceptance date of February 2nd, especially considering that last year's acceptances didn't come out until March. 
 
@gnarls_barkley, my impression is that 'prestige' matters more in academia than public health practice. I'm applying to a lot of DrPH programs, and I personally would take better fit/funding over a big-name school (within reason). Money also matters, so if you're going to be in debt for 10 years in the more expensive program, that might be a reason to avoid it. Otherwise, unfortunately, a school's reputation matters a lot in the research world. It's probably more likely to open doors for you later, compared to having had more research freedom during your PhD program. JMTC (if this isn't an acronym already, I'm coining it right now)

Here's by day of the week, rather than week of the year (as above):
 

 
Looking forward to Friday tomorrow!

University of Michigan is a good place for health management and policy. The program itself is good, but really the whole school is strong in business/management/policy. The different grad schools support each other well in that sense. I can't speak for the other schools. 

This is incorrect. Most schools do not give interviews for MPH programs. A few exceptions to this would be Health Policy and Management programs. A few schools do interview for those. As far as the schools you mentioned, I only applied to Mount Sinai and I was accepted without an interview. 

That's nothing. In one of my applications I apparently wrote about professors in my SOP that are in a different department. A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT!

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Upvote for oddly repeating yourself without apparently being aware of it. This level of crazy is knocking at my door.

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Upvote for oddly repeating yourself without apparently being aware of it. This level of crazy is knocking at my door.

I was staring at the mailbox out the window! I was told I would get notification today so I couldn't leave the window. 

I have not received an acceptance yet.
I have not won the lottery yet.
I have not had a puppy show up at my door yet.
I have not had Bill Gates give me a free computer yet.
I have not found the secret to having rock-solid abs without working out yet.

I think that covers some bases at least.

Not to brag, but I had lunch with Hofstadter last summer.  Okay, it is to brag.

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Upvote for oddly repeating yourself without apparently being aware of it. This level of crazy is knocking at my door.

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Upvote for oddly repeating yourself without apparently being aware of it. This level of crazy is knocking at my door.

Yeah, this is the most articulate flame war I've ever seen. Grad Cafe is so weird.

Yeah, this is the most articulate flame war I've ever seen. Grad Cafe is so weird.

......me

It's like a train wreck.... I can't turn my eyes away from it all.

space, dude
 
 
I think you just introduced a nuance to the game

This is what happens when you stress out a data geek for too long...
 

 
Using R, I scraped the data you would get by searching for "epidemiology" in the Results Search. The dates are from the "Decision & Date" column, not the "Date Added" column. The fourteen bins in each histogram roughly correspond to the 14 weeks between January 1 and April 15. This also excludes people who put "Other" for degree type (not PhD or Masters), reported something other than acceptance or rejection, or applied for something other than the fall term. The sample size is 779.
 
I'm curious to hear your interpretations of the data. Anything else I could look at?

This is what happens when you stress out a data geek for too long...
 

 
Using R, I scraped the data you would get by searching for "epidemiology" in the Results Search. The dates are from the "Decision & Date" column, not the "Date Added" column. The fourteen bins in each histogram roughly correspond to the 14 weeks between January 1 and April 15. This also excludes people who put "Other" for degree type (not PhD or Masters), reported something other than acceptance or rejection, or applied for something other than the fall term. The sample size is 779.
 
I'm curious to hear your interpretations of the data. Anything else I could look at?

Space man
 
(okay so technically it is only one word...but Space man)

This is what happens when you stress out a data geek for too long...
 

 
Using R, I scraped the data you would get by searching for "epidemiology" in the Results Search. The dates are from the "Decision & Date" column, not the "Date Added" column. The fourteen bins in each histogram roughly correspond to the 14 weeks between January 1 and April 15. This also excludes people who put "Other" for degree type (not PhD or Masters), reported something other than acceptance or rejection, or applied for something other than the fall term. The sample size is 779.
 
I'm curious to hear your interpretations of the data. Anything else I could look at?

This is what happens when you stress out a data geek for too long...
 

 
Using R, I scraped the data you would get by searching for "epidemiology" in the Results Search. The dates are from the "Decision & Date" column, not the "Date Added" column. The fourteen bins in each histogram roughly correspond to the 14 weeks between January 1 and April 15. This also excludes people who put "Other" for degree type (not PhD or Masters), reported something other than acceptance or rejection, or applied for something other than the fall term. The sample size is 779.
 
I'm curious to hear your interpretations of the data. Anything else I could look at?

I'd recommend staying off of Grad Cafe as long as you can. I'm right on the cusp of several notifications and I can't tear myself away.
 
Alternatively, binge drinking seems to be a common theme. To each his own.

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Upvote for oddly repeating yourself without apparently being aware of it. This level of crazy is knocking at my door.

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Upvote for oddly repeating yourself without apparently being aware of it. This level of crazy is knocking at my door.