Undergraduate School/School type: Mid-sized college in the Midwest
Undergrad GPA/Major GPA: 3.94/4.00 -- two community college classes I took during high school pulled down my 4.0
Major/minor: Public health: policy and administration & social work
Grad GPA (if applicable): N/A
Grad studies (if applicable): N/A
GRE(including date taken): N/A
Experience/research:
- semester long policy internship
- 8 months of aging research
- currently interning at a domestic violence advocacy non-profit where I work primarily in court (450 hours by the time of graduation)
- leadership positions in a club that provides free summer camp for kids whose parents have been affected by cancer
- multiple positions within my sorority including chapter president
- one policy publication
- award from political science department
Letters of Rec: 2 from professors (1 from my social work degree, 1 from the professor I studied abroad with), 1 from my policy internship supervisor (this will definitely be my strongest letter), 1 from someone at my sorority's nationals headquarters who I have worked closely with (she wrote about my leadership and perseverance)
Interests: Health policy, aging policy, reproductive health policy, truly any kind of policy sphere -- my ultimate goal is to be a health policy analyst but I have recently been considering consulting as well. I would like to get some government experience in my career too. I am considering a DrPH
much later down the line because I will be financing my MPH completely through federal loans.
Applied: BU (9/8), UMN (9/16), Drexel (9/16), UNC (10/10), UPenn (10/10), GWU (11/7)
Accepted: UNC (11/21), UMN (11/29), GWU (11/30), Drexel + $ (12/14), BU + $$ (1/17), Penn (1/31)
Waitlisted:
Rejected:
Attending:
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