<p>I'm coming from Cornell with a fairly poor GPA- 2.86
GRE scores are 53rd percentile in Quantitative, 77th in Verbal and 86th in Writing
GPA of coursework relevant to sociomedical sciences and epidemiology is 3.7</p>
<p>My first few years of undergraduate study was dominated by intense pre-med pre-vet coursework. Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Calculus, etc. of which I obviously struggled and lowered my GPA. Starting my junior year, while taking Organic Chemistry, I started taking more public health related classes like Biomedical Ethics, Public Values and Science, Epidemiology, etc.</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone thought that such credentials would help or hurt my situation in my attempts to be accepted at public health graduate school? I'm interested in obtaining an MPH. Does anyone think I have a shot at being accepted at a school as ridiculously competitive at Columbia? I'm also applying to Boston University and SUNY Albany. </p>
<p>Cornell has little to offer in the name of public health and epidemiology so I've had little luck getting professional or more qualified opinions on my chances of acceptance. Please let me know what you think, I'd really appreciate it!</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I don't have much to offer except that I've also applied to Columbia. MS in Biostatistics. Haven't heard from them yet.</p>
<p>What do you know about BU? I considered applying there too, but heard that their biostat program wasn't 30k worthy.</p>
<p>I ended up applying to Columbia, Boston and SUNY Albany.</p>
<p>I applied to Columbia Feb 1 and have yet to hear a definite answer- which probably means "no thank you". Their program seems to be very experience based. So, judging from my lack of experience in the field besides a few sociomedical related classes and epidemiology classes, and less than stellar GPA, I wouldn't blame them. I called this past week to check on my application and they said they had resubmitted it to my second choice program which the secretary kindly explained means "epidemiology didn't take you" :(
So, my chances of going there are incredibly miniscule. Oh well, I'll get over it... but not for a while.</p>
<p>Albany called me personally on the phone six days after I sent in my application to let me know they would love to have me next year. They sound incredibly nice and have a good program- especially for the tuition... $6900 per year!</p>
<p>I haven't heard back from Boston yet, but I only applied recently so I would expect it to take a while. Their program also doesn't seem like it's worth the money- they estimate expenses as $50k a year.</p>