r/publichealth • u/SadBreath PhD/MPH • Aug 28 '19

ADVICE School and Jobs Advice Megathread Part III

All job and school-related advice should be asked in here. Below is the r/publichealth MPH guide which may answer general questions.

See the below guides for more information:

  1. MPH Guide
  2. Job Guide
  3. Choosing a public health field
  4. Choosing a public health concentration
  5. Choosing a public health industry

Past Threads:

  1. Megathread Part I
  2. Megathread Part II
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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '19

Has anyone with a horrible GRE score (below 15X) got into excellent schools? This is assuming that everything else about one’s application (work/volunteer experience, recommendation, personal statement, strong quant background within courses) are great.

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u/MuffinDog123 Sep 30 '19

I don’t remember my GRE scores exactly but they were just above average, not anything to brag about. I ended up getting accepted into columbia, Emory, and I think the other big school was Yale. I got denied from Berkeley, UCLA, and University of Washington. I am currently in my first year at Columbia, honestly I think the latter schools (Berkeley, UCLA, university of Washington) cared so much more about my GRE than columbia and those sort.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '19

What’s your definition of “above average”? I’m guessing it was above a 150....?

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u/MuffinDog123 Sep 30 '19

I just looked. Verbal was 156, Quant was 149 and writing was 3.5. Let me know if you have more questions!

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u/bubblerboy18 Oct 05 '19

Confirms my opinion that if you can afford grad school you’re likely to get in somewhere.