HippoEatingWatermelon

I haven't heard back from Northeastern or UMass Amherst either (same programs). From experience last year, Northeastern can get back to you super later depending on how they match you with a mentor -- they sent me an interview invite on I think March 15 last year...

Brown had a joint interview day for all their PhD programs yesterday (1/21/25) so unfortunately if you weren't invited to that I think it's a de facto rejection. I wasn't invited and feeling slightly grumpy about it as a Brown MPH alumni lol

I'm in the same boat as you unfortunately - can't say it's looking good for us... But doing my best to tough it out till 2/23 when they say decisions will be fully made. The weird trickle of information from the "Results" page is enough to drive anyone nuts.

I'd like to second this -- has anyone interviewed for Havard PHS SBS post-application? It's the only Harvard PHS track I haven't seen much activity for and trying to gauge if there's any hope for getting in without an interview.

Unfortunately not, still waiting. Probably the program that's causing me the most stress right now. But they seem like nice people so hoping to hear from them soon!

To add to this, they told me at my interview that the admissions committee will meet again next week after first round interviews are done and then shortlist candidates will be invited to a prospective students day in mid-Feb. After which the final decisions will be made.

As long as you can justify that your program was sufficiently rigorous and speak well on what you learned, you shouldn't have too many issues. Particularly with respect to job opportunities. Most public health-related jobs in the US are highly interdisciplinary and are filled with people from varying academic backgrounds. Moreover, despite the central CEPH accreditation, there's still a lot of variety across US public health schools in available concentrations, academic approaches and faculty makeup. If you're aiming to go on to pursue a PhD in a field like Epidemiology (which is probably the most "strict" of the public health disciplines), you could run into a problem or two but really don't think you would face additional problems beyond the ones faced by the standard applicant. If you're particularly worried, check out this list of CEPH Foundational Competencies to see how your program matches up. You could even send it to your program as I'm sure they've thought a bit about their program curriculum/design with respect to these areas.