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It’s been real, man. Guess I’m moving on with life. (Rejected)
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Just got my JHU PhD decision today, and it didn't happen. But there is still hope in the DrPH, which was original plan all along... fingers crossed.
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@liz2019drph FWIW, the form letter they read me at my PhD interview said that decisions would come the third week of feb. Not clear if that was just for PhD or for the whole school.
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@ciara54 yeah, they did talk about full funding at the open house I went to. Even so, it does not include a stipend (some programs, like biostats, do). And it’ll take a lot of guts if I do it. I’m a middle aged high earner right now. So it would be opportunity cost of n years of no income. Luckily, it does include health insurance. I might be able to shift to part time work, we shall see. On another-related front, it looks like I was pegged for something really cool, but completely unrelated to my 18 years of work. Professionally, I am a perfect fit for the injury prevention center, but the interview is with someone completely different. Much more related to the single paragraph I wrote about cancer research. I can talk injury prevention all day, but cancer research is a personal interest that I have no academic or professional background in. Just a very personal connection. Like I took my GRE in the middle of treatment.
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Well, I had about given up on my JH application, given it was the end of January. But, I was just offered an interview for the PhD program (epidemiology). I applied to both that and the DrPH, figuring the PhD was a reach, but my dream so I'd give it a shot. Actually, biostats was my dream, but after my GRE scores (very average), I didn't want to waste anyone's time. Wow... I'm not quite sure what to do with myself now... I'm still a bit unsure what I want to do as far as funding, focusing, etc, and I know it will be obvious. But, it is what it is and 24 hours won't change anything, so they are just going to get plain old, honest, me.
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@Hugs4Pugs, is your agency going to pay for it? My boss says he will try to get mine to pay for at least part of it, but I don't have a commitment yet. Mine is really talking up employee satisfaction right now, in light of our dismal FEVS scores. One thing they were pushing was training, so I hope to use that to my advantage. I'm a fed, too, BTW. Small agency, but in public health & safety.
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I agree on that grudge. I was considering the program, but I couldn't get everything together in time. Plus, it was a rather quick decision. I spend the early summer deep in research on a certain medical condition, and it reminded me how much I love learning new things. And then, I got annoyed at having to give up my PhD dreams 15 years ago, yet I was back in the exact same boat today. And it lead to a rabbit hole when I discovered the DrPH option. When I do is definitely public health related, but the MPH and such isn't common where I work. So I didn't know much about it. Yet here I am In my defense, my masters decision was a more rash decision. I was working in software development, and my comments were blown off b.c "we have an expert in [that field] coming in next week." Lo and behold, said expert gave the exact same recommendation I had given for week. Within 2 days I had looked up how to get said credential and signed up for the GRE. And that has served me well for years.
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Hi! Just found this forum as was I licking my wounds on my GRE scores. V:157 and Q:154. Not terrible, but terrible for me. In all my standardized tests, I've never had verbal higher than math. Alas. Its also causing me to give up my biostats dream. I so wish I could use my 1998 GREs, which were around 750 Q. I've been out of school for 18 years, but have a BS in math and an MS in engineering. I've spent the most of the past 18 years working in injury prevention side of public health. My interests lie in stats and epidemiology. I'm live in Baltimore, so of course my top pick is JHU. Also considering a UMD epidemiology PhD. Yes, I know the combo make me seem unfocused, which is probably true. I mean, I have always dreamed of being a research professor, but I gave that dream up 15 years ago (I was being recruited for a fellowship, but couldn't take it for health insurance reasons). So dream me wants the PhD, reality me wants the DrPH since I can keep my job. And I like my income.