"Thank you so much for your application to the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management PhD for the 2022 Fall entering class. The Fielding School was overwhelmed with the number and quality of candidates in this year's pool of applicants which made our decision process very challenging. Unfortunately, your application was not chosen to proceed to acceptance. Many very qualified candidates, much like yourself, were not selected due to the limited space within the program. While we wish we could accept more, the strength of our program rests on the small faculty to student ratio that provides outstanding teaching and mentoring to our students. I understand this decision is disappointing." Oh, yes it is. $50 for the SOPHAS application and $120 for the supplemental application. This was my most expensive application. Anyhoo, congrats to all those who made it.

Interviewed two weeks ago, notified via zoom today.

Emailed POI, replied all interviews requests were already sent

Interview was about 30 mins, discussed research interest and past projects. No GRE or Pubs

Interviewed with POI in my SOP

Has anyone had interviews with UCLA?

5 pubs and 1 patent. My dream school and dream advisor!

Assigned initial advisor, PI who I interviewed with.

Informal conversation via Zoom with POI. Prof told me I was waitlisted, but wanted to let me know as the school isn't planning on sending out waitlist notifications for a while, and wanted to let me know ASAP. Prof also indicated that it is unlikely for me to come off this waitlist, as this program doesn't tend to reach into that list. All good, happy to know in advance.

Already assigned advisor, which was a POI I was interested in working with and interviewed with.

Admitted without interview.