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For posterity, at this time UNC doesn't do any financial aid for the DrPH. However, occasionally we get emails for smaller scholarships that can be a nice gift but are small compared to the total cost. The most common form of financial assistance is employer tuition assistance (or none). I'll DM you my email.
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UNC has 15 spots for the DrPH. Most people accept but if people decline then they would get someone else to fill the spot. It's an amazing program.
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I know this may not help with anxiety but I'll share the info. I was accepted into a DrPH program last year and rejected at some. Now that I've started the program it's very clear that it was the best fit for me, which is why I got in. Interviews are not a reliable measure of acceptance. Some people get accepted without interviews. Some programs say they aren't required but they interview everyone anyway. It's just hard to know so don't torture yourself by guessing. One year ago this week I was OBSESSIVELY hitting refresh on my phone looking for news about my applications. I told myself it was bad for my mental health but I couldn't resist. I really wish I let it go and wait for the response to come to me without obsessing over it. I was on the trip of a lifetime in late February, at the literal end of the Earth in Ushuaia, Argentina. And yet every time I got service I hit refresh on my applications. I got one rejection during that time. I let this take some really good days from me where I wish I was enjoying myself more. I returned, just as the pandemic was hitting the US. Work got turned upside down and then I got a wonderful acceptance. I'm not going to offer platitudes of "let it go and what will happen, will happen." I will just say that obsessing doesn't change the outcome, it only makes the process more painful for you. If you can, truly let it go when you can no longer control the outcome. Good luck!
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The ones that have the hybrid on site + remote that I remember are UNC, Hopkins, UIC, and possibly Texas. I'm sure there are others. This was a requirement for me since I couldn't do a program in residency, except the one program near me which was PhD not DrPH.
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Last year I heard back from UIC, JHU, and UNC in mid Feb-March
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Have you considered non-residential programs? Some of the programs have occasional travel for a week on site, and then you go home. In the grand scheme of things the cost of travel is not huge compared with tuition.
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I only know the applicant numbers because I am currently in the program and have heard through the grapevine.
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UNC is still going through apps. They received almost double the number of applicants from last year, and last year was already a record year. They have 15 spots available and probably approaching 300 applicants. It's a great program (UNC is ranked the top DrPH program, but Hopkins is ranked the best public health school). I trust that if you apply to a few schools of interest and work hard on your essay being honest you will get accepted to the program that fits best. Good luck!
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Last year I heard from Hopkins first and then UNC. Both were in late February.
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For what it's worth I think my interview was terrible and I got in
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They don't tell you what goes on behind the curtain and what I think got me accepted or rejected is just my guess. The interview is definitely crucial though. Although I think if you get an interview it's yours to lose. If you make it that far your odds are good. In the program where I got accepted they were creating a very specific collage of diversity - diverse backgrounds, interests, race, gender, and expertise. It wasn't clear to me until I joined that I was a missing puzzle piece in what they were making. So this is the catch..lean into what makes you special. If you are the right fit for what they need you'll get in. I wasn't the right fit for some programs and got accepted at the perfect program for me. I just didn't know it at the time. So you've got to have decent grades and GREs (at least used to, guess they are waived a lot now). It seems the verbal GRE favors English first language folks. Anyway, once you get past the hurdle of grades and GREs your essay has to be poignant and real. I'm not going to get into that because there are tons of resources on that, but it's very important. Show purpose and passion for what you want to do. Then if you make the interview relax, be honest, and if it's meant to be it will be.
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I am in my first year of a DrPH program. I can tell you that I learned about my rejection/acceptance during Feb and March before COVID really hit I was in Chile as it was unfolding, on the trip of a lifetime. Hiking Patagonia, touring Argentina... and obsessively refreshing my phone at the hotel so much that I was hiding it from my wife because I was crazy. It's a tough type of torture. I wish I had advice but it was like that until I accepted my offer. Breathe deep and know it is out of your hands until an interview. Let go, if you can. Hope you can maintain your mental health better than I did. Good luck and see you on the other side!
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I'm at UNC. PM me if you have questions or if you get in. It's a fantastic program and they have the distance part dialed in.
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I just wrote a long reply and lost it accidentally clicking on an ad. Oof. Here's the summary of what I wrote and if you're interested I'm happy to share more. I applied to Hopkins and UNC. GRE was 96V/64Q/98W%. I have 20 years in healthcare, 15 in leadership, and the past 8 years at C-level leadership for a good sized health organization. I was rejected at Hopkins and accepted at UNC which turned out to be a WAY better fit for me. I didn't know it early on, but the lockstep format at UNC and the senior level of students is a much better fit. Perhaps Hopkins saw that and maybe the schools even talk (if that's allowed) and steered me to UNC. If I had to guess, I would say my essay was hyper focused on one area of practice, which aligned with the Bloomberg Scholar program which I was also trying to get into. So maybe I screwed up on trying so hard to get into the Bloomberg program that I didn't demonstrate my other interests. And I also think they lacked professors with my particular interest (they were hiring at the time). Or maybe they didn't like something else. I share this to say that the data you shared should not make you confident that you'll get in. Those numbers get them to look at you, but the qualitative part is very important. Clearly it was the qualitative part that got me rejected. I was shocked and crestfallen when I didn't get in, but whether it was by design or dumb luck I ended up in the perfect program for me. I don't mean to be a downer in the least. Quite the opposite. If you are a good fit you should get in, but it won't be your gmGRE and grades that decide it. Good luck!
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