<p>How hard is it to get into graduate harvard school of public health?? I would love to have major public impacts throughout my biomedical research and physician possible future careers...</p>
<p>Is this different from Graduate School of Medicine?</p>
<p>What about the business school?</p>
<p>All three are different schools with extremely different admissions criteria. Their respective web sites have lots of information about this. Suffice it to say that B-school is very different from most other kinds of grad school in that they don't care that much about your college GPA.</p>
<p>The business school DOES NOT care too much about your college GPA?? Really? What do they care about?</p>
<p>Work experience (that's #1 by far), GMAT score, essays, personality. They're looking more for leadership potential than for scholarly achievement. A 4.0 doesn't hurt, but it matters WAY less than for med or law school.</p>
<p>Oh sweet. :) So by personality do you mean that you have to show them you want to earn money and become famous or something?</p>
<p>How are students chosen? Is it a committee or something?</p>
<p>I don't know all the details, and I'm sure it varies from B school to B school anyway. But if you're interested, I'm sure there are web sites that specialize in this kind of thing. :)</p>
<p>HSPH is not terribly selective, relative to the other Medical Area schools (Medical and Dental). They are all completely separate in terms of admissions (Med, Dental, HSPH). I don't know if they post selectivity, but for the masters in public health my rough estimate is that they accept about 30-50% of applicants. (That's an educated guess...but a guess nonetheless.)</p>
<p>Does anybody know about the selectivity of HSPH as far as PhD admissions goes?</p>
<p>My junior year English was the former Asst. Dean of Admissions at Harvard's Grad School of Public Health. Gosh was she a b i t c h. </p>
<p>Sorry, I don't have much to add on the actual admissions front.</p>
<p>haha, thanks for the heads up though =)</p>
<p>The Harvard viewbook has the admission rate for HSPH in the low teens. Considering that all their Master's programs require an MD or another medical degree that seems pretty selective to me. Same story with their PhD programs.</p>
<p>US News and World Report has Harvard's SPH rate (also listed on Wikipedia) as 4.5%. I am not surprised it is selective but the numbers suggest that it is the most selective in terms of admission rate from all Harvard schools. My guess is that it is a typo and it is really 14.5%, which would make more sense and making it in the same vicinity with HBS and the Engineering school, but after HMS and HLS.</p>
<p>"all their Master's programs require an MD or another medical degree "</p>
<p>Look on their website. A medical degree is not required. A degree in law or social work can also qualify, and some programs are open to those with only a BA/BS.</p>