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Hi! We talked on the other PhD forum... sorry you have been unable to find any information! As you know, I'm waitlisted for a different department, but I spoke with the Academic Program Manager yesterday who was extremely helpful. I'd encourage you to find out who that contact for your department is and start there! Good luck! Keeping my fingers and toes still crossed for us!

Take this advice for what it’s worth (i.e., someone else on a waitlist and not on the admission’s side), but at this point in the application cycle, assuming your waitlist notification did not include a date for when they’d get back to you, I think it’s more than fair to reach out and ask. I’m sure they expect it to a certain extent and it never hurts to remind them that you exist and are still interested. Keep in mind though, they’ll most likely come back with sometime in mid-April, as all applicants with an offer have until then to accept or decline it. It’s likely they won’t know if anyone is coming off the waitlist anymore than you do. As far as who to reach out to, I recently spoke with my department’s Admission Program Manager, who was very helpful! Good luck!

Hi CanadaPhDProspective! Congratulations! I have two questions please. First, were you accepted to the Health Systems track specifically, or another track at IH/JHU? I'm hearing very conflicting things about the number of students they accepted per track this year. Second, either way, would you mind please sharing anything about the admitted students day you think was extremely helpful/you didn't know from the website? I'm waitlisted for GDEC and on the (very) off chance I get off, would love any insight from the visit. Thanks so much! (:

I was all on board with telling you to go with the Midwest PhD, but LSP makes some really good points. IF (and honestly, only if) you can waive some MPH courses, and/or if Columbia would let you waive MS courses once you are in the PhD, then the MS route may not be a bad call. Like LSP said, it could give you some great research opportunities. MS degrees tend to be much less "applied" work compared to an MPH, and you could really delve into methods courses and give yourself a leg up for the PhD program. That would also give you a year to get in with faculty and their research. There are also a ton of people I know and work with who have MS and MPH degrees, so there has to be merit to doing both. I think exposing yourself to both applied and methodological approaches might be really great. Finding out the number who transition from MS to PhD, as LSP said, is definitely crucial for making this decision though.

Hi all. Just a heads up, Michigan Epi rejections got sent out this morning (sorry, no idea about Environmental). Knew mine was coming, still sucked. Oh well /:

Hello back! I think I'm digging myself into a false-hope-hole here, but my thought would be that because JHU's funding isn't exactly stellar (especially compared to other schools), that some students may opt for other programs simply because of that. Without knowing where we stand on the waitlist though, I'm not sure how helpful that is. Crossing my fingers for you as well and sending positive vibes!

Hi all! Long time lurker. Congratulations to everyone who has received good news! My stats are below, I'm on my last leg here and pretty much ready to cry and quit, not gonna lie. For those who applied to JHU International Health: 1) If you were accepted, are you going? (Is that a fair question to ask?) 2) I heard the department only takes about 4 students. Does anyone know if that's per program (GDEC, Health Systems, etc), or across all programs? Applied: BU Epi, UMich Epi, Harvard PHS/Epi, Emory Epi, JHU International Health Interviewed: BU, UMich, JHU Accepted: UPitt (applied/deferred last year because of zero funding, same story again this time so not likely to accept...) Rejected: BU, Harvard, Emory, UMich (Super disappointing. Professor emailed me saying he told the committee he wanted to take me, but he can't fund me so to expect a deny letter soon ) Waitlist: JHU (GDEC)