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I heard back from the PhD in Social & Behavioral Sciences with an acceptance.

I was admitted to the program. From what I learnt, funding only comes from being able to identify and secure a RA position. It's not automatic.

^ I got an email from the coordinator at Hopkins HBS department. Also got awarded full tuition scholarships for 3 years (and possibilities of RAships for stipends)

Got into Hopkins, PhD program in Social & Behavioral Sciences

Thanks @Familiar Heron -- may I ask if you were already notified by Harvard PHS?

Hopefully this won't be just vain hope on my end -- but is there any chance that Harvard PHS notifies applicants at different dates depending on their tracks? So far it looks like most of the PHS acceptances on the results board are for Epi. I applied to the Social & Behavioral Sciences track. @EpiGirl2016, do you have any thoughts?

The interviews/visits that I have attended were paid for. You submit your receipts and the school will reimburse you. Some schools are more generous than others (i.e. some will reimburse for snacks/meals as well, others only do transportation/hotel).

Claiming another acceptance in Health Behavior PhD at UNC, with no funding decision yet. @storm_jonas I think all Yale interviews for the Public Health programs (including EMD) are taking place this week. I applied to a different concentration, so I might be wrong though.

Interviews for Michigan HBHE PhD have gone out.

Lots of positive updates from UCLA Congrats everyone!

Someone posted an acceptance for Berkeley in Health Policy!? I didn't know that decisions come out that quickly for this program.

The PhD programs in Biostats, Epi, and Health Behavior at USC (Southern California) just concluded their first day of interviewing applicants. Second day will be February 9. I believe each program invited 2-5 candidates out for each day.

Hi, I was the one who posted about the NYU interview. I applied to the College of Global Public Health. FYI interviews for the PhD in Public Health across different tracks at Yale have gone out as well.

Hello all, I'm in a bit of a quandary regarding how to let my employers know I am taking a few days off in late Jan/early Feb to attend on-campus interviews. I will need to send out the email to notify them soon (at the latest by the end of the week), so I'd appreciate your input as soon as possible. Thanks so much for reading on. Basically, my situation is that I work a 9-5 job at a boutique market research company and was given a very limited amount of personal/vacation days through this job (about 8 days a year not including national holidays). In September 2015 I used 2 days to attend a conference, and in October I used up about 3 days due to an emergency situation (not a medical leave, so I couldn't use my sick days). That left me with only 3 vacation days as of February. Right now I am currently scheduled for 3 interviews, which would take up about 5-6 days in total. I am okay with using the rest of my vacation days, and not being paid for the 2-3 extra days. However, the relationship I have with my supervisor isn't the best, and knowing who she is, I believe she would give me a hard time when I ask to take these days off, and possibly going as far as denying my request based on my lack of accumulated days off. It's not impossible to ask her to consider it, esp. given my willingness to take a few unpaid days off, but I will have to give a very convincing reason and agree to compromise somehow (i.e. working extra hours). She does know I plan to go to graduate school at the end of the summer. In addition, leaving the job at this point is not an option for me, as I do have excellent benefits that me and my partner do need in the next few months. I would like to know what's the best way to address this request to my supervisor. What kind of approach should I take and how should I word the request? Has anyone been in this situation before? Thanks.