songsong2012

Lived in Seattle for two, Helsinki (Finland) for one, Sunny State one, and rest, a tropical Asian country. Seattle has the worst weather, it's just endless drizzles and rain, I didn't even want to go out or anything. Transportation sucked according to my standards (compared to NYC, Helsinki, and said tropical Asian capitol), city is just bland, not a great place for foodies even though they claim to have great variety of food (yep, I said it), and generally a hipster town that claims to be really diverse but really doesn't, most importantly, I didn't have much friends from Seattle who weren't transplants (Canucks, out-of-state people, international students, etc). Seattle really has this breeze that is impenetrable, they kind of just let you do your stuff and carry on with the divide. Some say it's because the culture is a blend of Japanese and Scandinavianness, I would agree but Seattle seems to take it up a notch with the pretentiousness. UW campus is really beautiful, though.

Is anyone applying to Canadian schools for Fall 2013? Would like to know if there are fellow applicants, we can wait it out together, share information, etc. I'm applying to three schools - UBC, Simon Fraser, McMaster. Also, any informed Canucks who might know anything more about Simon Fraser and McMaster? These schools are unbeknownst to me, but I'm contemplating to accept any of these schools because tuition is a lot less cheaper than the U.S. Plus, there is the advantage of working outside of campus, legally, in Canada.

Hi, all, My path is almost identical to OP, health policy and global health foci. I've just received an acceptance from U-Minn for Health Services Research, Policy and Admin. (PhD program). Also, I screwed up a Skype interview with Iowa (Health policy) just this week at 2am in the morning where I live. Still waiting out on the rest. Good luck!

Hi, all, Intl. student from Southeast Asia here, been following this post for a couple weeks, I'm applying to women's health. Emory, U-Mich, Harvard, Hopkins, Columbia, Berkeley, UCLA, UW, UNC, BU, U of T, U-Minn GRE: 690V, 720Q TOEFL: 114/120 MS (GPA: 4.0) in health policy and mgmt, BSN (GPA 3:61), RN, undergrad exchange to Finland (1yr), visting grad in the US(1yr, GPA: 3.8), has certificates in hiv/sti prevention & global health; lots of volunteer/on field experience w/ ph advocacy and outreach internationally. TA, RA, interned, no real work experience. (shocker!) 3 intl. presentations, no publications yet, on the way. (double shocker!) I have not received any calls, any emails for interviews and it is freaking me out.