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I heard good news from UIC via email today! Good luck to everyone still waiting to hear ??

Hi all, I got taken off the waitlist from Hopkins last week Looking forward to meeting everyone during the Summer institute! 

thanks! I applied to the population and family health (DrPH in Leadership in Global Health and Humanitarian Systems). the interview went well.. they promised to get back this week..

Hello! This is my 1st post. I was originally waitlisted for the DrPH program at Johns Hopkins but yesterday I was accepted! So excited! 

I can’t see it because it’s not there. I emailed financial aid and Brenda Hedrick and found out the following for the PH Finacial Aid Application:
Typically, once your application is complete, it will take our office approximately two to four weeks to process your application and generate an award for you. We review files on a continuous basis once the application is complete. In order to receive financial aid you have to meet the requirements of at least 6 credits per term
You have to be registered for at least 6 credits total (winter and third term combined) and at least 1 credit in third term to be funded for the Winter institute
For Summer Institute funding, you need to take a minimum of 1 credit during summer term and can take the remaining 5 credits during Summer Institute (or for example split it 3 credits Summer term and 3 credits Summer Institute, or some other combination totaling 6 credits).
 

Is anyone else waiting to see what financial aid might be available from Hopkins before sending in their acceptance?
I did take plunge and booked travel to Baltimore for the orientation. If anyone is interested in sharing housing (AirBnB, 2-bedroom, already booked with flex cancellation policy), feel free to direct message me. 

I can’t see it because it’s not there. I emailed financial aid and Brenda Hedrick and found out the following for the PH Finacial Aid Application:
Typically, once your application is complete, it will take our office approximately two to four weeks to process your application and generate an award for you. We review files on a continuous basis once the application is complete. In order to receive financial aid you have to meet the requirements of at least 6 credits per term
You have to be registered for at least 6 credits total (winter and third term combined) and at least 1 credit in third term to be funded for the Winter institute
For Summer Institute funding, you need to take a minimum of 1 credit during summer term and can take the remaining 5 credits during Summer Institute (or for example split it 3 credits Summer term and 3 credits Summer Institute, or some other combination totaling 6 credits).
 

I "THINK" I'm going to be attending Colorado School of Public Health at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus! The mentor match is amazing, and I absolutely love the assistantship I received. I never thought I would change my mind from my top choice, but here I am, changing my mind.

I was rejected last year from all my schools. Here is what I learned from seeking feedback from anyone that would offer. Top Tier Schools do not want a list of accomplishments, they want a game plan. Your statement of purpose should tell them how or why you got to where you are now...and where you want to go. The big part however, is telling them why you need the Doctorate program you seek to act as an incubator or catalyst....you are a change agent right? Show them your change work. My undergraduate grades were horrible, but I turned it around and graduated cum laude from my MBA program. Grades are just an outcome measure so I made sure to show I have a great work history of proof that I can implement, lead, influence, understand policy, use statistics and data to solve problems, and create positive change. I pivoted from being a Quality Improvement engineer to running operations for an accountable care organization. I specifically told JHSPH that I want to copy our ACO pediatric model for helping at-risk kids and transpose it and build an ACO focused on Veterans. I linked all the things I have done, the mentors and leaders that wrote me recommendations, and I attached several power points of my work and abstracts (as well as awards for patient quality and safety). I submitted a full package that supported my statement of purpose...through my actual work.
Also, I networked my butt off. I called JHSPH and asked for alunmni and students I can speak with. I looked up the faculty and read through their published work and connected things that I also was focused on. I did a lot of homework on the program and the culture. All that feedback helped me better craft my application package and really understand what the program could do for me, if I went all in and poured myself into the work. I also made sure that my leadership knew I would be integrating what I studied into my daily work. They were excited for that and I asked them to write that in the recommendation letter as well.

I got an email yesterday offering an interview 

I just received acceptance into my last program!! Thank you guys for being an outlet these past several months!! Many congratulations to everyone who has been accepted, and to those who were not, please do not give up!! 

Did anyone apply to the Bloomberg Fellows Program (Hopkins)? I’m bummed I didn’t get that funding ? 

Hopeful2019,
Fingers crossed for you to get in off the waitlist. It would be nice to have a cohort of a bunch of us grad cafe folks at the orientation this summer.

I'm in, too! Congrats to all of you who are were accepted! Should any of you accept, I'd love to meet you at orientation!
What a great start to a Monday!

Thanks to everyone who has been supportive on this thread. So far I have been rejected at Harvard and accepted at Hopkins (Implementation Science). I am waiting on Columbia. Best of luck to everyone as they make their decisions. 

Applied to Columbia Sociomedical Sciences DrPH as well. Definitely will give more time next time to the non-admin stuff like perfecting my personal statement et al so it's not all a rush doing it on December 1. The struggle to do it with a full-time job that eats into nights and weekends, is definitely real!

Admissions board: What would you like to study
Me: The effects of chronic 'Click-Refresh' on doctoral candidates and the associated rise of carpel tunnel and dibilitating anxiety.
Admissions board: ......we see what you did there, well played. Welcome to Harvard.

Haha. It’s getting to the point that we are going to have to start making calls with robotic software that has different voices. We can all say we have other offers to decide on lol. But in all seriousness, thanks for calling them on different occasions. 

The entire convo:
Me: Hi, I'm looking for some specific information about DrPH program admissions.
Hopkins: What information in particular are you looking for?
Me: I'd like to know the exact date when admissions decisions for the DrPH program will be sent out, or to be connected to someone who has that information.
Hopkins: Decisions have not been sent out yet, and should be sent out early next week.

And I'm not above using the "I have some decisions to make about other programs" line.

At this point, maybe it will be next week...  

You are doing the lord's work. I would be so frustrated if I got through this week and heard nothing!

FWIW, I called Hopkins admissions and the person on the other end said "Yeah, they [DrPH admission decisions] should be coming out this week."
 

Rejected from Harvard and accepted to Boston with partial scholarship 

Well this is a busy day, just got accepted to Boston with a partial scholarship!!