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Hello, I just discovered this wonderful website today and it appears to be very helpful! I signed up for an account hoping to be a part of the community applying to the 2020 DrPH programs. I submitted my application to the JHSPH Bloomberg American Health Initiative DrPH Fellows program with a focus area on Environmental Challenges. I was told this week that JHU has received my application package from SOPHAS. This is the first time I applied but has been thinking of applying for several years now. Just like one of the members here, I too, gave up my dream of completing a PhD because of my circumstance at that time. I’m glad I found out about DrPH training and I felt the interest again to go to grad school while working. DrPH programs seem to attract brilliant people, Which is good but scary competitive. Best wishes to everyone here. Congratulations on completing your application. It’s one step towards our goals. Putting together an application package alone is a triumph because of the time investment - having to request for LORs, to take GRE (for most of us, AGAIN), writing the perfect statement of purpose, etc. As I mentioned, I only applied to one program this year. It’s the only program that I liked for my professional growth and that will work with my family and work life. My biggest worry is my GRE scores. It’s just average. If I don’t get accepted for 2020, I will really try to improve my GRE scores, I just need to invest time to study GRE.i agree with one of the posters regarding the GRE as a hurdle. Modesty aside and maybe a rhetorical question, do you think having a solid public health research background, published peer reviewed articles and a book chapter, being invited to speak in conferences, and being awarded for research and work contributions On different occasions will put more weight on my application than GRE? I also was fortunate enough to have distinguished professors and chairs who know me academically and professionally write LORs on my behalf. im interested in DrPH because of having worked in the public health research field since graduating from vet school. I now worked in one of the federal agencies that protects and promotes public health. I reached out to the professor whom I wanted to work with and he is very enthusiastic about being my mentor if I get accepted. Best wishes again to all!