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Your words bring positive vibes! Thank You. 

Hey SamuelSR, I hear you! It's frustrating on our end to have pending decisions. However, it's a super stressful time for everyone involved. Keep in mind, they do want to give decisions to applicants - universities are technically businesses. This would be high-stress time for them normally; hundreds if not thousands, of applications to rummage through to pick the best of the best. However, the current situation in the world with remote working is a new challenge for them. We are stressed on the receiving end but imagine a group of people trying to come to a collaborative decision for an applicant via digital software? That would be extra stressful! Plus we never know what is going on behind the scenes! It's a tough situation for all involved. Keep perspective and remind yourself why you applied to these programs in the first place. We are blessed to just have the opportunity to be eligible to apply to such reputable programs.
Here is my outlook: If I don't get in, it wasn't meant to happen at this moment. I say follow your heart and what you want out of life - do you just want MPH after your name or does it mean something to come from one school? Your education tells a story - do you want to excite people or do you want to say "I did it because I didn't know what else to do?" 
Keep positive in this stressful time, friends! I wish you all good luck on your admission and best of luck on the rest of your journey!

Congratulations !

Thank you so much! I was sent an email saying that a decision had been made and to check SGS, where it now says Decision Made and there is a decision document which is the acceptance letter!

Congrats! I also checked this afternoon and found that I was admitted to the program as well!  Haven’t received an email yet either!! 

Hi everyone, I just checked my SFU portal and was admitted (no email so check your portals)!

Hi everyone, just got my acceptance to SFU! 
Finally, they were really the only school left I was waiting on. Received an email with my letter of admission and have 2 weeks to respond. I'm going to try to decide between UBC or SFU over the next few days (as I need to reply to UBC by April 1st), and I will be declining UoA's Health Promotion and Guelph's offers, so if you've applied for those schools don't lose hope yet!

Just received an offer from Lakehead University for MPH with a specialization in Gerontology!!!!

*For anyone waiting to hear back from Queens*
 
I emailed the grad assistant and she said that rejections and waitlists are going out by the end of this week/beginning of next week. Do not take my word for this, but from the emails it seems like for those who haven’t heard back, we are either rejected or waitlisted and then a second round of offers will go out after they’ve heard back from the first rounders. It sucks but it is what it is. I hope this information is helpful. 
 
It is really frustrating when there are people who are super passionate about working within the public health field who are losing spots to those just using an MPH as a stepping stone. I can understand the latter, but it’s still frustrating.  Good luck to all who are still waiting! 

Wow! I guess I am receiving a rejection letter from a few universities then. I totally agree with you on losing spots to those using this as a stepping stone but dont lose hope you will hear positive news soon.

It really is! A lot of pre med students apply to mph programs as their backup as well as professionals already working in the healthcare are applying. I am literally checking my email every 10 minutes and it is driving me up the wall. No rejection or acceptance so what is going on ?!?!? Would suck to get all my rejections in one go lol 
 
But I hope you hear back soon

Hi everyone, I know this can be a really stressful time as is even without the Pandemic. Admissions decisions times can determine what and where we will be in the future substantially, so I understand the stress. But I just wanted to say you all are scholars in your own ways. Whether you’ve already been accepted, rejected, waitlisted, or have no updates, you’ve gotten up until this point even through all the chaos that’s going on in the world. As a kind virtual neighbour to you all, it is my most sincere wish that you all are keeping healthy, safe, and warm in your homes. I know there are many who may have used the distractions of the outside world to cope with deteriorating mental health and I hope if you’re in this position, you nurture your well-being the best you can during this quarantine phase. All the best to absolutely all of you in your graduate study endeavours! Thoughts and prayers are with your admissions decisions and families ❤️

No, I really don't think the time of application matters. Someone on here said they applied to UBC on the deadline and they've been accepted already. I think last week? 
PS: It's not time to give up yet. Admissions are still rolling. So keep the hope burning. 
Good luck! 

Hey! There is an application status button under Quick Links or below step 6. Doesn't give much info but I imagine this is where you'd see an update once a decision is made

I phoned them on 2nd March, so they were like yeah this week would be it!

I phoned them on 2nd March, so they were like yeah this week would be it!

I just emailed them now, I'll let you all know if I hear back about when admissions decisions will be released.