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Finally just heard from the last school I was waiting on. University of Toronto Social & Behavioural Health Sciences program just emailed to say that the reason they hadn't communicated with me was that I was on some kind of waitlist but those spots have been confirmed so it's now a rejection. Nice to know now but I wish they had communicated the waitlist notification earlier! Going to be accepting my offer at Hopkins SBS - if anyone else will be joining that cohort feel free to message me! Excited to meet y'all in the fall.

SDSU/UCSD has been super slow (I just received my offer last week in Health Behavior) but I am going to be turning down that offer and moving forward with another school so it's possible they may move to an unofficial waitlist for additional offers.

Aw thanks so much for this response! It is an unfortunate thing that happens. But I was able to reach out to them and they were completely understanding and actually still wanted to interview me! So we did the interview and I was accepted. Everything actually worked out great but I definitely could have avoided that panic?

Wow, thank you for sharing NYU's funding commitment! This is very helpful to see. I am struggling to make a decision between programs because the funding commitment from some schools is very sad. Like for Hopkins SBS, they offered tuition and health insurance guaranteed for 4 years but no guaranteed stipend amount. They say you can make about $20K working as a RA during the school year (19hrs/week), with a potential to make more over the summer. Many students have also said they often cannot make it to 19hrs/week of work due to the heavy course load in the first year. Not having a guaranteed amount per year makes it very hard to plan your life around and also just feels like they aren't committed to you. I keep thinking "I don't know how they think they can get away with this" but they do, and people still go?

UCSD/SDSU Joint PhD

So I just checked my spam folder on a whim and to my horror there was an interview invite in there I received 13 days ago! I'm sure y'all are way more on top of it than I am, but just in case anyone needs a reminder - CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDERS!

I promise we're trying! I only received waitlists last year so I know what you're going through. This is obviously a huge decision to make and trying to get all the information needed to inform that decision is proving difficult and time intensive. For example, some people cannot schedule meetings to talk about the offer until next week and I wasn't able to get flights to visit until later in the month. It also doesn't help when some schools still haven't released decisions and we're waitlisted at other programs as well. We're doing our best and are not trying to wait to the last second!

I know y'all are mostly just here for results, but I love hearing about where you all applied and all the different programs. So I'm curious, what are all of your research interests? I'm applying to explore how social and economic policies shape structural and physical violence outcomes among transgender and gender expansive populations!

I take it back, just received an acceptance to University of British Columbia! I met with two faculty members before the application deadline but hadn't met with anyone since then so this came as a bit of a shock!

Yes I did! On 1/25

Just got the waitlist notification from Brown BSHS. I was expecting this at this point! Update: Accepted: JHU SBS (2/23) Waitlisted: Brown BSHS (3/2) Rejected: UW Public Policy (3/1) Pending: Northwestern HSIP (SSH; interviewed twice), UCSD/SDSU Health Behavior, U of Toronto SBHS, U of British Columbia

Got my rejection from UW Evans. Knew that was coming so glad to have that confirmed! Hope everyone waiting for that one heard back too.

Still haven't heard anything from UW! Won't be holding out hope for that one?

Y'all...this is my third (!!!) round of applications and I finally received my first acceptance from Johns Hopkins Social and Behavioral Sciences PhD! I think I'm still in shock. Hope everyone waiting also heard back!

I'm also waiting on a decision! I saw two people post acceptances and one person post a rejection so I'm not sure what the silence means!