SocialPubHealth Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 12 minutes ago, light10491 said: What was everyone's GRE scores like. Just curious seeing SocialPubHealth had such good scores. 165 Verbal 163 Quant 5.0 Writing Those were neuroticnancy's scores! Mine are worse... lol. Above 60th percentile for all three though.
stereopticons Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Anyone want to claim the Boston epi acceptance? Congrats!
neuroticnancy Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 I called Harvard health policy admissions and was told we should hear news soon...
EpiNYC Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 6 minutes ago, cga said: gotta love the word "soon".... Can they quantify, maybe give us the odds of us hearing in the next two days... SocialPubHealth 1
stereopticons Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 15 minutes ago, cga said: gotta love the word "soon".... I need an operational definition of soon.
SocialPubHealth Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Give me a 95% confidence interval that the response will be within 1 day stereopticons 1
paninisand Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 23 hours ago, ganhuahua said: Undergrad School: California State School Major/Minor: Healthcare Administration BS/Minor Chinese StudiesUndergrad GPA: 3.474Experience/Research: Lab assistant since 2014, paid through NIH initiative starting June 2015. Internships at USC and UCI with a pending textbook chapter publication. Applied: UCI Public Health PhD, UCSD/SDSU Public Health PhD, Harvard Health Policy PhD, Claremont Graduate University Health Promotion Sciences PhD, USC Health Behavior PhD, USC MPH, Charles R Drew MPH Accepted: Charles R Drew MPH (being considered for a scholarship) Rejected: Harvard Waitlisted: N/A Waiting to hear back from the others... Has anyone heard from the schools I'm waiting on? Can confirm- UCSD/SDSU came last week via phone call. Said there should be an an official letter coming in the mail. UCI also came out- their "admit day" is March 10.
modifer Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Has anybody heard anything from BU for the Epi program? I saw one admit today, but I haven't heard anything myself.
stereopticons Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 24 minutes ago, modifer said: Has anybody heard anything from BU for the Epi program? I saw one admit today, but I haven't heard anything myself. I emailed the admin a while back and he said interview invites would be extended by Feb 10, and final decisions would be made by mid-March. I haven't heard anything else, so assuming rejection based on no interview.
modifer Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 14 minutes ago, stereopticons said: I emailed the admin a while back and he said interview invites would be extended by Feb 10, and final decisions would be made by mid-March. I haven't heard anything else, so assuming rejection based on no interview. Thanks for the info. I find it weird that there's not a lot of posting on BU, either here or the survey. Do you know how many people they usually accept and are interviews common? I went back to previous years and didn't see that many interview notifications.
stereopticons Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 1 minute ago, modifer said: Thanks for the info. I find it weird that there's not a lot of posting on BU, either here or the survey. Do you know how many people they usually accept and are interviews common? I went back to previous years and didn't see that many interview notifications. I don't know, sorry. I found the same thing when I looked back. I do know, though, that the POI I spoke with before applying said they had reorganized the department and admissions, so it's possible that previous year data isn't reliable anymore.
CTDrPH Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Hey all, Wondering if I can get your opinions... Had a Skype session with my POI at UConn yesterday. It was not technically a formal interview; he scheduled it with me after I emailed him. During the session, he said he would recommend me for admission to the committee. Should I feel confident that I'll get approval from the committee now that he's provided his approval, so to speak? He expressed a willingness to serve as my mentor and mentioned several grants he's got pending... Just wanted to hear from the group if this sounds as promising as I thought. Trying not to get excited prematurely!
elephant11 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 24 minutes ago, modifer said: Thanks for the info. I find it weird that there's not a lot of posting on BU, either here or the survey. Do you know how many people they usually accept and are interviews common? I went back to previous years and didn't see that many interview notifications. BU had an interview day with approximately 10-13 people in each department, across five departments. It seems like they will admit 4-6 in each department.
epi_08 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Just got rejected from University of Michigan for Epi. Am crushed. Thought the interview went well. Things not looking good
joshre01 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 19 minutes ago, CTDrPH said: Hey all, Wondering if I can get your opinions... Had a Skype session with my POI at UConn yesterday. It was not technically a formal interview; he scheduled it with me after I emailed him. During the session, he said he would recommend me for admission to the committee. Should I feel confident that I'll get approval from the committee now that he's provided his approval, so to speak? He expressed a willingness to serve as my mentor and mentioned several grants he's got pending... Just wanted to hear from the group if this sounds as promising as I thought. Trying not to get excited prematurely! I have heard from 3 schools so far, all acceptances. I'm currently a student at one of them, but for the other two, I spoke to POIs and they were both really positive about my stats and said they would be happy to serve as my advisor if accepted. I think that has a lot to do with my acceptances (funding is another story). Not to give you false hopes, but it's definitely one of THE most important things for a PhD application, in my opinion.
SocialPubHealth Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Am I the only one that's going stir crazy?! I have yet to hear back from a majority of my schools, including my top choices. I just can't anymore. Hubby says I just have a strong case of impostor syndrome mph2phd2017 1
epi_08 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 17 minutes ago, SocialPubHealth said: Am I the only one that's going stir crazy?! I have yet to hear back from a majority of my schools, including my top choices. I just can't anymore. Hubby says I just have a strong case of impostor syndrome Maybe no news is good news. I have gotten rejected from 4 of the top schools, it's not a good feeling
SocialPubHealth Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 1 minute ago, epi_08 said: Maybe no news is good news. I have gotten rejected from 4 of the top schools, it's not a good feeling thank you for that reminder. my friends keep saying that. why am i so convinced of my failure. thank you <3
joshre01 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 8 minutes ago, SocialPubHealth said: thank you for that reminder. my friends keep saying that. why am i so convinced of my failure. thank you <3 Also, tomorrow may be THE friday for some decisions, considering it's the last Friday in Feb. (well, hopefully)
SocialPubHealth Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Just now, joshre01 said: Also, tomorrow may be THE friday for some decisions, considering it's the last Friday in Feb. (well, hopefully) yeah, that's what im thinking/hoping. seems like wednesdays and fridays are the big days.
epi_08 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 16 minutes ago, SocialPubHealth said: yeah, that's what im thinking/hoping. seems like wednesdays and fridays are the big days. Well I got a big fat rejection today and it's a Thursday, so who really knows
SocialPubHealth Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Just now, epi_08 said: Well I got a big fat rejection today and it's a Thursday, so who really knows I'm sorry to hear that I know how that feels. I was speaking from my own experience as I had only received emails on weds/fri but youre right, who knows. hopefully you have some other schools lined up? i applied to 8 and have heard back from 3. two of which were rejections.
ganhuahua Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 4 hours ago, paninisand said: Can confirm- UCSD/SDSU came last week via phone call. Said there should be an an official letter coming in the mail. UCI also came out- their "admit day" is March 10. I called UCSD/SDSU all they said was if I don't receive mail by March 1 to call back UCI said they are still reviewing so idk
PHNutr Posted February 24, 2017 Posted February 24, 2017 I am pretty late to this thread, but... 1. To all those accepted into Harvard's PHS program, congratulations! It seems like it was especially competitive this year. 2. To fellow members of the HSPH PHS waitlist, does anyone know if the only way to be offered a slot is for someone who was accepted to our specific track to decline their offer? For example, I was waitlisted for the program after applying for the Public Health Nutrition (PHN) track and was told during my interviews that the Nutrition department only gets 5 students (of the 40 total) and only 2 of these are PHN (versus Nutrition Epi). So, am I waiting for 1/2 spots? Or, 1/40? I plan to contact admissions after I get my letter in the mail, but thought I would try the hive mind first. Best of luck, everyone!
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now