[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

On 3/17/2017 at 6:43 AM, melvina said:

Ughh, i'm not a fan of that message from them at all...and it rightfully makes you anxious.  If the last time that you heard from them was last month promising that you would hear mid-march, then i would definitely email them.  Can you find out when the students day was?  (i would wait to email until after that day has passed, and maybe don't use "feeling" words like "curious" and "upset".  You are just asking a question politely because duh, they should be able to give you an answer). 

You could email them something like "I am following up regarding my waitlist status.  Now that the admitted students day has passed, do you have any other information?   Also, it would be helpful if you could tell me my ranking on the waitlist."  

I assume you don't have any other offers....?   If you do, then i would definitely mention it.  Even if their deadline to accept is not imminent.  Let them know that other schools also want you

Would you mind sharing what school this is?  (Im curious :p)

 

Honestly, i find this really bizarre.  If UCLA doesn't even offer DrPH how could you have accidentally chosen it on SOPHAS?  Makes absolutely no sense to me. 

As for reapplying, I hear different advice on this (some profs say they never take re-applicants, but i was accepted to my master's after i re-applied, so if the only difference is $50 and it's your dream school, it's really not a lot to risk, imo (unless the feedback you get is something that cannot be worked in the meantime).  What i did when i re-applied, was submitted all the docs that qualified me the year before (obviously), but i also included a section on what i had done in the one year gap---explaining what made my application better now compared to the year before). 

Since you're first on the waitlist, it's a total coin toss.  At the end of the day, people may reject Hopkins for a whole host of reasons.  Like you said, UCLA was your dream school, so would you have rejected Hopkins for UCLA?  I think you can remain cautiously optimistic, but on the whole, it doesn't really sound like Hopkins is YOUR dream school, and maybe the funding situation plays into your decision.  If you have the time, i would speak to current Hopkins students and find out more about the program, so that you can actually decide whether you even want to be offered Hopkins.  Like you said, it may be too good to refuse even if it's not your cup of tea.  

Thank you for your detailed answer, Melvina. I will send an email to the director tomorrow. If there is any good news I would send a message to you!! Also good luck to your applications! Have you decided where to go?

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

6 hours ago, melvina said:

I suppose it depends what you hope to get out of contacting them....?  

I don't think necessary fits here, but if you want to receive any other information that they might be able to answer, why not?  As long as your email is polite (but perhaps don't mention that you're upset), you don't have anything to lose.

Maybe if you provide some more details of what you hope to gain from the contact, we might be able to provide more helpful comments.   

Thank you for your reply, Melvina!

All I wanna do is to confirm if there is any possibility to get enrolled. The director emailed me last month, telling me that "We are enthusiastic about your application", and "We anticipate knowing more in mid-March after our initial admitted students day.  Please let us know if there are any competing offers with earlier deadlines, we want to be able to get you as much information possible about where things stand before you accept another offer". 

In this case, do I need to contact them? I'm just curious & upset about the result... Many thanks!

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

Do you think if it is necessary to contact with a faculty/director if I am waitlisted by the program? I am very upset about the final result...

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

Anybody hears anything from Stanford Health Policy program?

Anxiously waiting for all results.

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

5 hours ago, fpf1290 said:

I contacted HPM admissions at Hopkins and they said they would release decisions by the end of next week. I applied to Harvard and Berkeley as well but haven't heard anything yet!

Will there be any interviews? Or all interview invitations has been sent out?

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

2 hours ago, lws007168 said:

Organizations and management. So they said there's no interview this year? Did they talk about any reasons? Thanks.

No. I read their handbook for prospective students, which says interviews will be held from January to March. I told this to the program advisor, but he just confirmed that THERE IS NO INTERVIEW THIS YEAR - without any further explanation. Did you apply to any other health policy programs?

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

12 hours ago, lws007168 said:

Any other details or information? I applied to UCB health policy phd program, too. Thanks!

I was told there are ~100 applicants this year, all tracks in total. They will admit about 6 people, 3 of them will be in the economic track.

 

Which track do you apply to?

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

Just called UC Berkeley Health Policy PhD program, and was told that the results would come out in next two weeks. There is no interview this year - strange.

[PhD Applicants Fall 2017]

On 1/18/2017 at 3:23 PM, light10491 said:

Anyone do the JHU Health Policy & Management call? Any details on when they could be deciding?

No information received yet. Called the department yesterday at 11:45 AM but no one answered.

By the way, is there anybody applying to the health care management & economics program in Wharton here? Any results / interview invitations?