MPH Fall 2016: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!

Hi everyone! Excited that this thread is finally here. Edited 10/19 to add test scores and a school list.

Undergrad: Northwestern University
Major: Psychology
GPA: 3.89
GRE: V - 169(!!!), Q - 156, AWA - 5.5. I did a bunch of math prep and was hoping for a better score, but this is above average for everywhere I'm applying (with verbal way above average). Perfectionist me is pouting, and sane me is so happy to be done.
Experience: *2+ years as lab manager of a child psychology lab that studies children's social cognitive development (i.e., how they think about group membership, intergroup relations and real-world social categories like race, gender, SES, etc.), lab located at a top-5 university
*1 year as lab manager in undergrad for social psych lab studying body image, sexuality and the media
*1.5 years as research assistant in an infant cognition lab
*10-month internship at a crisis hotline for runaway and homeless youth
*2-month internship at a national non-profit dedicated to mental health advocacy on college campuses
*Helped found a chapter of the org mentioned above on my college campus, served on its executive board (including as president) for three years
*Spearheaded campaign to get mental health programming included in my alma mater's freshman orientation programming, succeeded & helped develop programming
Other: *First-author on poster presentation for project examining kids' expectations about a gender pay gap
*First generation college graduate

LOR: Professor in undergrad (also was head of the body image & sex lab), call center supervisor at runaway hotline, current boss

Interested in: Berkeley - MPH (Health and Social Behavior), Columbia - MPH (Sociomedical Sciences, Social Determinants of Health cert), University of Washington - MPH (Health Services, Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale - MPH (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Applied: Columbia (11/19), Berkeley (11/22), UW COPHP (1/14), donezo!
Accepted:
Waitlist:
Rejected:

Best of luck to everyone else!

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MPH Fall 2016: Applied, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected!