Summer Admissions Webinar (July 2023)

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So me, hi Hello. Wanted to save introductions until we got into it, So any late attendees?

Know who I am. I am Melissa McGinnis and I'm the Assistant Director of Admissions at the Jackson School of Global Affairs here at Yale. I've been here starting my fifth year. Prior to Yale, I was at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs for 20 plus years. And so I've been in this public and international affairs space for many, many years. So I'm happy to to help teach you about Yale and Jackson and also about applying to a.

Program like this, greetings from New Haven, CT As I said, I'm going to castrate first link in here which is on our website I think is what our experiences and when people are looking at Yale and at Jackson, I think some of the number one concerns is New Haven. What about New Haven? Why aren't we, you know, we're not in DC or New York or friends up north in the little town of Cambridge, MA, but.

We are a great little small city. I like to call it and so.

The link I just sent you the video needs to be updated which will work on sometime this year, but it gives you the idea or a little.

Booty town, you could say. And so hopefully some of those links and maybe the video will actually give you some some tips about what living in you. Meaning like there's a great Eastrop park, which is a.

People, I don't know how they biked up it, but it's it's a very big rock and it's a neighborhood, but people go hiking and hiking up there. And if you like to do that kind of thing, it's right here, right in outside of downtown, within walking distance of Jackson.

So Jackson, we are, we've just became an official school at Yale as of July one last year. So we've just had our first anniversary as the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Prior to that, we were the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale. We were part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences when we were the Jackson Institute and prior to that we were Galey's IR program, right, so Yales IR program.

Founding member of APSIA, which was founded decades ago and not following, absolutely should.

Have that link ready, but going to put in that link for you because if you are interested in higher graduate programs, you'll want to follow them. They do a lot of great work and they actually do webinars about how to apply to programs similar to ours. And so they can be very useful. And we post some of our events on their web page as well. So in any case, a lot of people think ohh well Jacksons new. We're really new in name only. We are.

We've been around at Yale in different iterations for for many, many decades. But we are it's a big deal. We are the first school created at Yale since 1976 when they created the School of Management. So it's a super exciting time to be both at Jackson and at Yale. And so if any of you have been around and following Jackson for a while, you might notice some changes. The biggest change for us is in admissions is having our own application. So not going to lie.

Very, very crazy year separating the Graduate School we used to manage our application. So if any of you have applied before, you'll notice hopefully some differences. Because I think our having your own application makes it a lot more clear what we're looking for at Jackson rather than getting sort of lost in the 40 plus mostly PhD programs that are part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences here at Yale. So we hope to hone it each year, so we'll talk about it towards the end.

Maybe some of the practical tips for applying, but in any case that's one of the the major changes as we are excited to have our own application. But let's talk about a brief overview of a couple. Jackson is who we are, what we are and over the four plus years of doing this, I've sort of come up with what I call the five F It's just my own little thing. It's not like an official, you know, copy written thing or whatever and if any of you have attended these.

Or maybe you've heard them. So it's it's, it's a way that I hope will help you remember a little bit of what we are and what we stand for. So flexibility, family, faculty funding in future, we'll touch on each of those a little bit, first being the flexibility. So Jason's program is known for being one of the smallest, if not the smallest top IR program out there. Our cohorts for our two year MPP.

Global Affairs, only about 30 to 35 students and we do have a one year MAS program, a Master of Advanced Studies and Global Affairs, which is usually as maybe as few as 2:00 to 6:00 or so. So very, very small cohorts. And the flexibility is that for the MAS, it's literally 8 courses, your choice.

That's it. That's why a lot of people are interested in the one year program. Like I can't find a lot of information. That's because it is as simple as that. As far as the two year program, the traditional sort of program that we and a lot of our peers have is we only have 4 core classes that are required as part of the curriculum, which I believe is one of the most flexible. There might be a DC school that's a little bit more, has less core requirements than that, but we are.

Known to be one of the most flexible, not only do we have just the four core classes and I think that we have a link.

So you have some basic information about those. It's your it's your statistics, it's your economics, it is your history. We have a history class, and we have a comparative politics class. Then the rest of the classes, the 16 total classes out of the two years you can take.

Not just at Jackson, but anywhere across Yale and Yale is known for having that. I think we made the make the 14th professional school here at Yale. So you have access to Yale Business School and school management. You have access to Yale Law School, which is the number one law school in the country and near impossible to get into as a Jackson student. You have access to those courses and.

I will paste that link. The Yale course database is a public link. You might not have access to the syllabi and and some of the details, but if you utilize this course database.

You do a keyword search.

You hundreds of classes may come up all across Yale. The GLBL are the Jackson classes and.

You might if you choose. Of course I'm drawing the line. There's thousands of things you can choose, right? I I don't like to use development as an example because you also might bring up like development, fundraising, development, type courses. But if you choose a language like Russian for example, you might have classes that come up in languages you might have classes that come up in.

The anthropology department and history department or any number of things. And so basically what you do is you create your curriculum. You build your curriculum based on what our Dean likes to call the the academic playground, that is Yale. So I'm here to sort of provide you the resources and directions to do that. But the idea that we are so flexible and so small allows for individualized attention once you get admitted and enrolled so.

You have academic affairs staff and student affairs staff and career services staff who help you and work one-on-one with you to, you know, pull all of that together. But you do need to get in the door and that's where when I'm here for trying to help you and again with the resources. So and one thing to keep in mind too is that.

You might even have access to some of the higher level undergrad classes that are available. All language classes are undergrad level, but.

There are, if there is not a graduate level class in a certain, in a certain course that you really believe you need to get where you're going in your career, you may be able to petition the faculty member who's teaching the higher level underground class and get our Jackson staff on board. And if you can do the extra work to make it a graduate level class, you might even be able to do that. So there are so, so, so many opportunities to do that so.

That that interdisciplinary nature and that that flexibility is, is really one of the main things that we're known for and that makes us stand out from a lot of our peers. We do have joint degree options for the two year MPP. Most students we have, I think the most common is with the School of Management, but we have students who do joint in the law school, the School of Public Health and the the Yale School of the Environment.

Those are the most common. You don't have to be a joint degree student to take those classes, so I want to make sure you're clear on that. The joint degree you would have an additional part of your application to explain why you need both degrees versus having access to the classes and Depending on what your career goal is, you may want or need both both degrees. And keep in mind if you want to do a joint degree, you do you apply.

To each program completely separately. We're very siloed in that regard. From the admissions perspective, there's no overlap in that We may share who's enrolling after the fact. So we know obviously who are joint degrees are because you actually each program agrees to count a semester towards the other program and that's how you actually end up shortening your degree. So a joint degree options are there, but you do not need to be a joint degree to access all of the programs that are.

So that's that's a a really, really important part of of who we are and the flexibility to talk a little bit. I think this slide just really sort of goes over things that I really just talked about. And we also have as we grow we've been introducing based on feedback from you know former alum and and students about integrating more writing programs we have, we're introducing.

Some more skills based things that are.

Students are asking for and.

Potentially looking into some certificates in various ways and in various things.

I don't have all the details on those. So it's on sort of having high a little bit, but there we are. I think that's the nice thing about being small and very intimate is that we listen and we want to do what we can to make this experience as.

As you know, it is.

Fulfilling as possible and giving you what you need to go on and do great things in in global affairs.

All right. So that's the first step. Second family life family. I think reiterating the small size, we are a tight knit community.

Giant mansion on Hill House Ave. in downtown Central campus.

With multiple authors have deemed one of the most beautiful streets in America, we will soon be acquiring couple more mansions across the street. So I think having even just big inventions I think adds to that homey atmosphere. But our size the student lounges in the buildings.

Really brings people together. We have a lot of student activities and student life programs and the nice thing about again separating from the Graduate School and that has allowed us to be able to build a lot of things from start to build our own student government and own different organizations and and I did not think to place those links in. Again, these are all on our website.

But sometimes they're hard to find and a little fairy. So let me really quickly.

Get the student life link for you because it's it's always changing and again, we we have a.

FAIRS Journal.

Jackson women, you know, they started Jackson, you know, Jackson, Latino, American. So there's a whole lot of things going on and I think people who do this type of work and this type of career.

Really excited actually about helping build things even from the ground up. So a lot of opportunities to stay connected and even on some questions we get often in these more than ours. But if I'm taking classes across Yale, will that mean I feel a little bit disconnected? And from my experience from hearing the student and one of my stories is that's absolutely not true, even when joint degree students are technically in the leave of absence from Jackson.

Because they're in residence of the other program, officially. Welcome back. I hope it's not just for the free coffee that we have, but or or the bagel days that we have. But it's definitely very much a community atmosphere. And you know, I even want to just sort of.

He's right into talking about the faculty because they definitely add to that as well. One thing that is really, really.

Again, really unique about Jackson is how we integrate senior fellows into our curriculum. So I'm going to piece those BIOS in them. These will update we often. They're like secret throughout the summer and we won't know who the new ones are going to be until sometime closer to the fall. But one thing to keep in mind is, you know, we know that you're looking a lot of programs like.

With a lot of our peers, you're applying to a bunch of us and something I always encourage people to do is.

You know, we all promote having these high end people, these former ambassadors and military generals and CEOs. We all promote having them as part of our programs. But drill down when you're doing your research to see how integrated they actually are. When I got here a few years ago, I was shocked at how actually.

Around they were unlike some programs where maybe they have like diplomats and residents for a week or people who come regularly to do lectures, like public lectures, you know, throughout the year. But here and there, our senior fellows are with Jackson usually for one to two to three years. A couple of them have been here a lot longer than I have. Even so they may stick around for a long time. That's, you know.

All that's above my pay grade on how how that's all negotiated, But they're an amazing group of people who teach at Jackson. It's a requirement that they teach a course at Jackson. So they may teach in the fall or the spring or both. A lot of them come up from DC, Some of them are local, but it's if you don't know where we're actually located. I should have talked about this before. We're halfway between Boston and New York City, so we're an easy ride on the Amtrak train down to DC. I do that.

I'm in a whole lot more comfortable than even trying to fly a little regional airport, which is nearby as well. So they'll come up, they come up for a couple of days, they stay in hotel, they teach their class and then they do informal mentoring. You can take them to lunch or coffee.

They bring their networks in, so and for better or worse things that we learned through COVID is.

Even though we are full time residential again, back in person now, even when you're in the classroom, they can zoom in networks that they have maybe all over the world and have guest speakers that way. So we've had many people who are interested in Jackson, you know, like and I feel like I have to be in DC, I have to be in DC or you know, or you know, maybe New York or wherever they feel like they need to be to be part of that culture.

There have been people who do not feel like they're missing that culture at all. It's actually enhanced because they're away from sort of maybe the the, if you want to call it the rat race or or the competitiveness of that culture, which you're not going to get it, Jackson.

Because of the small size as well, because that means everybody is here at Jackson doing and studying different things. They're approaching global affairs from completely different perspectives. And I didn't include the student BIOS, but in summer it's a little tricky. So when you're looking at this in BIOS, if you look at them now or soon, do keep in mind that all of the graduates have been removed and there's no MAS because there are only one year and sometimes the.

Answer.

We're not allowed to use their bias because they're special forces or CIA or all of the things. So those are, you know, get a good picture. But the new enrolling students don't show up yet. So they won't show up until really closer to the fall. So keep that in mind when you are, you know, perusing the BIOS. But I think even in one like the second year or third year you could say for joint degrees, I think even just looking at the the one year cohort.

You'll see the depth and breadth of experiences where our our students come from and what they're planning to do in their long term career and how they want to utilize this Jackson degree. So everybody is maybe they need languages, maybe they need some of the the skills we talked about, maybe they want to take more econ or quant classes through the School of Management, maybe they want to do more regional studies and maybe they want to approach it from theoretical and take some more classes out of history.

They're all doing it from different perspective. Maybe they're approaching it from climate issues and so want to take more classes out of the school and management.

I could go on and on. So hopefully you'll have time to look through some of the studios to give you that picture. And one final thing on the faculty slash family is our world fellows. So they are really again really unique to to Yale and to Jackson. When we became Jackson, they came up under our, I think they even before we became a school, they were sort of under our purview. But they've been around at Yale for many, many, many years. They are there's usually 16. They are here in the fall.

Semester only. They are rising. They're on the rise in their careers. They're all international. And they are.

I mean they're they come from such unique backgrounds. We've had Nigerian Olympian and Iraqi comedian, we had a.

Disabled military vet.

Jockey coming in this fall. So I mean they have really unique perspectives and so you also need to think of them as part of your community here, Jackson, because when we have alumni events.

Jackson limits their their integrated in their invited as well, so they have their networks.

Their careers and they when they're here, they give talks as well and they're here to learn. And they have their own leadership, programming and all sorts of different things. But they take classes, they're lounge.

Across the hall from the student lounge. And so a lot of things happen organically and the connections that they make, so think of them as part of your network as well and just to be able to learn from their experiences is just an amazing opportunity. So they are definitely part of the the faculty family that we have here.

And then funding. So one thing if I don't know for sure if anybody is on here interested in the one year MAS, but currently we do not fund the MAS.

Most of them are coming and again, if you could see the student BIOS, you would know that most of them are sponsored by their employers, which is why we end up having a lot of military, a lot of international governments. Like I mentioned, we've had CIA, DOJ, we've had people like that because their employers are funding them to come for a year to get some sort of skill to go back to their employers. So that's that's how that works. So currently the MSA.

The MPP however, we are doing really well with our funding. We I mentioned at the beginning that I came from from Princeton prior to coming here and everyone in this space knows that they have the mic drop as far as funding, they pretty much fund 100%. We are hot on their tails as the cliche goes, we in the last least three, at least three years if not more we've been able to give.

Everyone who asks for it and all you need to do is check a box saying you need funding from Jackson.

We will consider you for funding.

It is merit based, but we have been able to provide full tuition to everyone in the last few years, so that's a really big deal. It's not common for Masters degrees to be funded here in the US. PHD's yes, but Masters no. So you often have to cobble together different funding options.

So not only that.

Usually last year and I think the report about 1/3 of the class also ends up with full segment.

So we are becoming a becoming a school. That is one other thing that we are.

You know, hoping to grow and become better at being able to fully fund our MPP students. We're not to the point of fully funding, but even this year when the class settled and people made their decisions and we have some leftover funds available, we were able to give everyone a second. Not full, but everyone got some form of stipend.

In the enrolling in class. So we are definitely I think next in line as far as being able to provide funding. And you know the goal is we, we want you to be able to pursue these careers which many cases are not very high paying right public service, government, nonprofits, all of the things like if you can have this career without entering it without debt, that is definitely something that we hope so.

Pretty simple. We also have our our our teaching fellows and and research assistants. Course assistants are available and you can find the link in for funding. Let me put that in there so I don't forget. Something to keep in mind is again we know you're applying to all different programs and we all handle this different ways and I apologize on behalf of all of us that we all handle this differently. Some schools include their, their.

Teaching fellows as part of their missions funding. Some do not.

Some make you apply for it. We do not consider it as part of your admissions funding, but a lot of our students do do it to enhance their funding after enrollment. And again, it's it's almost even a nice networking opportunity because not only.

Are they funded? But our senior fellows might need course assistance or teaching fellows and to be able to have a job with with someone who is potentially in alignment to what your long term career goals are. It's an opportunity even to have a little bit of a closer relationship to senior fellows or faculty and Jackson students usually get priority for Jackson to staff faculty and senior fellows, but.

There are also, you might have to look for it a little bit more, but you might also have opportunities to to do that the outline. So other schools and other programs and departments also might need these. And so you can look outside of Jackson as well. Probably like us, they're all people get priority, but I know that there are students who do that. So you can enhance your funding with that and answer your networking functions. And finally, there's another F finally obviously you're wanting to pursue.

Assume we assume you're wanting to pursue a graduate degree like this because you want to take it to the next level in in advancing your career.

Still thinking about your future, right? So we have the nice thing about Jackson I mentioned before about being so small, but also mentioning Ezio.

As a member institution of APSIA, we are all required to have our own dedicated career services. So we have a career development office here at Jackson. And again, you get that one-on-one help. Excuse me, pardon me for a second.

And so the two year MPP has a required summer internship and also.

Before you even get here.

The team actually tries to start finding you your first job. So they there's intake and there's resume reviews. There's all sorts of things on their website. Has stuff as well, so I mentioned the.

Summer.

So here's the link of the summer experiences.

And if you scroll in the bottom, that can see the actual locations, not the people's names for obvious reasons for privacy, but you can see where they did it and the organization that they did it with, obviously during COVID times.

There's a lot of research and assistance with book writing and things like that, but if you look through a few years you'll get a really good sample and then also the first jobs.

Are listed and they're a little bit buried. So on this website that I'm putting in now, we have to scroll all the way to the bottom where you see see a full list of job titles and locations. And that actually lists usually about five or six years of first jobs where Jackson graduates end up again. Same idea was their title, the the organization and the location. And just like looking at their BIOS, I think you'll see that our students.

Are doing things.

All over the world, all different perspectives. I see them looking randomly, looked at 2021, and I see policy analysts and CEO's, and I see people working in Power Africa and their intelligence specialists.

Secretaries and embassies like so you know, they're military company commanders. I could go on and on. So you'll you'll get a really good picture of.

Jackson community and the alumni community that you'd be a part of.

So.

That's my real quick five FI have a This is my.

It's trying to delve into QR codes here. This just goes to the page, the MPP page on how to apply because we are in the middle of updating the application, maybe changing some things or honing some things. Keep your eye on the web page in case any of these things change. The basic things probably will not. We, for better or worse, are still in GRE. Requires school for the FBI.

Not required for the one year.

It is still required.

We require three recommendations on the application form. MAS people, if you're on here, keep an eye out. We are probably changing the MAS deadline, making it earlier, and not waiving the fee.

Again, that's still in negotiation, but we're working on updating that, so keep that in mind if you're an applicant that you may want to.

Pay attention a little bit sooner maybe we're looking at a possibly November 1st deadline. But for the two year program, January 2nd is the final deadline, but if you apply by December 1st.

We have a statement of purpose. We want you to connect the dots.

Where you came from, why you want to do this degree, how this Jackson degree is going to help you get where you want to go in your career, and what is that career goal? You don't need to tell us the six, eight or 16 courses that you want to take, but we also want you to tell us what it is you want to do here at Jackson that needs to be part of your statement purpose because.

Obviously, I think I made it clear through this webinar that you actually build the curriculum and.

You define your own path and design that, so you kind of need to give us some idea of what that is when you're applying typical resume. We do want to know about your community service, all the other things that sort of corroborate your story, and why.

Affairs.

Hopefully all those thoughts are connected and we do want all the transcripts. We can go over those more, but you know FAQ's will be on the website.

I hear some of our contact information, maybe some of you've already signed up for. We're trying these virtual office hours and again with a lot of the growth and with COVID sort of being quote UN quote over.

I've been gone for like 8 weeks. I've been traveling. I've been in Africa, I've been all over California, DC, Nashville. I've been everywhere. So I don't. And I'm going to see you next week. So I unfortunately don't have time on my calendar to allow for one-on-one appointments. You can always e-mail the Jackson admissions e-mail address also listed there, but we're trying these.

Sort of office hour Q&A time. So basically if I would normally do them on the same day of the week, maybe the week later, knowing that many of you were here at this time, so maybe you could do it next week. But unfortunately I'm in DC next week, so I'm going to do this tomorrow.

So maybe you can join tomorrow. I can actually complete registration link in the chat too. I opened that.

So if when we get to the Q&A time next, if we don't answer any of your questions, feel free to hop on there. And again you can always e-mail the Jackson divisions e-mail address and I think I have covered everything that I wanted to cover and we got about 20 minutes if you would like to use that and.

Ask questions and I am here to help answer. Don't be shy. Again, as most of you noticed, you're only identified by your first name and your last initials, so don't need to be embarrassed about anything. And trust me, a lot of people have questions and think they're the only one asking that. But it's probably a question that a lot of people might want to to hear the answer too. So don't be shy and otherwise I can either let you go or I could.

Sort of keep rambling on and on and on with maybe some of the common questions that we get.

But I really you're here, you're registered for this. And so I want you to drive the questions and so I'll give you a minute.

So think about maybe questions that you have. Anyone. Anyone.

No, no question.

That would be sort of like, did I miss anything above? Nope. Just hellos. Hello.

Bella, Bella, Rhode Island.

Great. I was just there. I attended a knee gap New England Graduate Admissions Professionals chapter.

I'm glad it was helpful you wondering about the student profile. Great coming right from undergrad or year. So after perfect question as I mentioned that.

Is one of the most common questions that we get. So I'm going to really quickly.

Peace in our actual like the profile which has not been updated yet, so we gotta wait till then.

Kids get here. So yes, now.

We don't have a minimum work experience requirement for the MP. The MAS is a minimum of seven years, but for the MP there's no minimum.

But.

You will see from the profile link that I just sent that our average number of work experience years is usually about 3:00 to 5:00.

Again, not required, but we do consider ourselves a professional program.

Excuse me and.

We.

Because you are actually building your own curriculum based on what you want to do with your career, it just couple things one.

All the alumni that I've talked to all say they sort of hit that three-year mark and it seems to be like a sweet spot where they they've been doing a job.

In this field or this field adjacent. And they have that epiphany where they're like, oh, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. But I need this, this, this to get me where I want to go. And I think I mentioned earlier that might be language, that might be skills that make me want that, maybe the regional focus, whatever the case may be so.

They are usually the ones who can build a stronger application, put together a stronger application and present their case better because.

You do have a trickier part applying to Jackson because you're not applying to like a lot of our peers through certificates and they have fields of study and you're applying International Development or you're applying to.

Certificate in Asian studies or you know, whatever the case may be.

You're not doing that at Jackson. You're saying, OK, I can do all of these things, but this is what I want to do and this is how I want to utilize the resources at Jackson.

So yes, people right from undergrad can do that.

But because we're so small, we can't have too many coming.

So that that is one of the downsides of being small, but I think it also is you'll see, I think the last year's, the age range is 21 to 38. So we have people right from undergrad. Those of you who are in the US are probably more familiar with pickerings and regals. So they're a fellowship where students are on the fast track and the foreign service, that fellowship requires students to come to Graduate School right from undergrad, but they're committed to going to the foreign service for at least three years, which is.

Perfect little in a perfect alignment with the mission of Jackson. So foreign Service and all of those things so they often get. I don't want to use the word spots because.

We don't have quotas for how many young people, but it it.

The case is sometimes a little bit harder when people are coming without work.

I will say though, then you know all things being equal on the application requirements.

At the surface, but everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, and and I often say like for people who are coming with less work experience, your recommenders might weigh a little bit more heavily because we need to.

Have your story corroborated, if you will. So we see work, experiences, evidence of commitment to the global good, and so obviously that's more obvious when people have a few years of.

Relevant work experience under their belts. So people who don't might need people to say, hey, I know this person and while they don't have.

Post grad work experience.

This is what they want to do and and the same goes for how you integrate your.

Extracurriculars and community service. That's important for everyone. We want to know that MAS and DP, regardless of number of years of work experience, those are important to us, but we might they weigh, they probably weigh more heavily, heavily your internships and whatnot that you did during undergrad if you don't have the postgrad work experience. So it's not impossible. We usually have a couple, and I know that doesn't sound like very much, but when you have 35 students.

Too many, more than a couple is obvious, right? So we want that broad range of experience, not just from the different areas of global affairs, but obviously in how much experience. And one final thing I'll say too is that think about how how you can.

What you can bring to the table So it's not just what you need from us, the courses you need, the skills you need, the networks you need. But it's also what you bring to the table, so that is important as well. So when you're applying, especially with limited work experience.

Keep in mind you're going to be at the table with, you know people who've done Peace Corps, people who are military officers, people who are maybe mid level international government, you know, already started and ran run and NGO's. These are the people who are going to be, you're going to be in the classroom with. So when you're applying you know we want to know how you can hold up with them and what you can contribute. And so I've been saying, you know, when people say what are you looking for obviously some.

Some decent academics, ideally. Some point skills. We want to know why you want to do this degree, why taxing, but also what is your unique story. So don't forget that unique story that really, really matters. And I think you'll see that when you look at the student BIOS. So there's a really long answer, Bella, I hope it helped. But I hope I also answered like seven other questions by answering that way. Christopher. Alright.

Would like to turn on white paper in. Alright, great.

The.

There's additional information sections of the application where you can upload things like that. They're not required. That's one change from a.

From having the graduate schools application, the Graduate School, because most PHD's wanted their research papers and master species and things like that. We don't need those being the professional program that they are. But if you really, really feel like it will contribute to your application and the why Jackson piece and what your career goals are, you can absolutely submit those. Usually as as part of the additional information if that's what you're asking from an application, if it's or if. I don't know if you're asking from.

The application piece or if it's somehow part of the Ms. But keep in mind when it comes to the MSP program academically.

That the eight courses are your choice. So it how you want to utilize that as part of your academic program. That would be determined after the fact. Again, you meet one-on-one with the assistant Dean for graduate education and they help you navigate what that those eight courses will look like and how you want to put those together. So they would help you with that.

Yeah.

Um, Taryn. Hi. Hello, DC No apologies.

Those interested in policy and concentration are tracks grad students can choose to focus on. There, I talked about it briefly. We do not you choose it yourself, but there is talk among the academic.

Affairs people about maybe having certificates. I don't know that they're ready to roll out this fall. I do know that this past year they rolled out a thesis, an optional thesis option.

Because I do know of two students who had a piece of defense.

So I there might be details on it on our website, probably under academics.

Um.

But I don't know for certain professional writing.

I don't see anything about the pieces, so there are things like that. There's also, I hate to bring this up because this could take years.

But there's talk of a possible STEM option because Global Affairs is not a STEM degree and I know some of our peers can pull it off because of how they work, their quant and that stuff, but we currently do not. There are talks about that because that is being asked about so.

There are talks about, but right now it is really about you building that.

So I hope that answers the question. We don't have any to choose from, but there there might be some coming that.

Whether or not it will be this year, not Stefan, Hello from India. Would you like to know if the academic recommendations isn't necessary that the recommender should be presently working in academia?

Questions. So this is very relevant because we do require 3 letters of recommendation. We want one to be professional, one to be academic, and the third your choice. Either of those based on your individual experience and where you think your strengths and weaknesses are and how you want to build up your application.

The, the, the farther. I know it's difficult but the farther out you get it is hard to get an academic letter. So I will one talk to all the young people here. Stay in touch with your faculty members. Find someone who can be a mentor who who will be willing to follow your career and will be able to stay in touch because it is. Yes it is about the academics. You know we're professional program but we're still yeah we're we're still in I mean in school it's a rigorous.

Program have access to, you know, top faculty in the world, and again at the law school in various places. And so we need evidence that you could do really well. And this is so important for the MAS too, because we no longer require the juries for the Ms. The academic recommendation might become more important depending on your transcript, so if you have a weaker transcript.

That may make an academic letter.

You weigh more heavily, whereas maybe you could get away with that one if you have stellar academics and amazing juries. So think about the balance, think about the big picture. I like to think about your application. That's like a portfolio. So that's the the the non answer of it doesn't have to be necessarily faculty member, especially the longer you've been out. It could be somebody maybe who's an academic Dean. Maybe it's somebody you work for, somebody who needs to can can speak to your your analytic skill.

Your, your cognitive abilities like those kinds of things, so they can touch on those if they weren't like a traditional faculty member. Because we want you to choose strong letters. We want you to put together the best application you can. And if you choose a faculty member who you took a class and they're like, Oh yeah, I remember them, They got an A in my class. They showed up on time. That's not a solid butter. We really need somebody who knows you well and knows that what your strengths are and what your weaknesses.

Are and again can ideally speak to the Y Jackson piece as well, so I hope that helps. So it's a long answer because it's not like a.

Brendan, you're welcome. What opportunities are there for research during the P For example, you have flexibility to choose a reduced second year course load. I don't believe you can reduce the course load. The research that is done, research assistants are and that was back in the.

Kind of buried on the tuition page. Let's see if I can get a.

Deeper dive for you. Here you go, teacher teaching and research positions.

All right, yes, it is possible. There's a link which goes into it a little bit more. It's really based on need and what faculty might need or senior fellows might need.

You don't usually know what those are until the semester begins and they get settled and they.

Except for regulars who might come back and always know they need somebody. So it's it's definitely handled on, you know, on a case by case basis.

It's not part of the admissions process, but there are numerous things that people have done as you can maybe can see, it's maybe based on research. We have new centers. That's one other thing that we're growing in is.

Introducing more and more centers. So centers and research often means.

More research. So there may be more opportunities going forward. Here's the centers and research links. It's not we're we're going to when we're updating our Viewbook and all of the things this summer, we're going to try to include a little bit more information about those in our new book so we can explain those a little bit more.

Alright, I hope it helps. I gotta thank you. So I'm glad I answered your question. Bella Quant formal requirements. Great. OK, good. Asking about Quant. So similar to the work experience levels, we do not require quant or Econ or steps as a prerequisite to our program. But if you have it, that definitely strengthens an application. So we are looking for evidence of that type of skill.

So you know some people if they don't have it in their transcript.

They might take a class in a local Community College or not. Now again with COVID, there's opportunities to do virtual things there and whatnot. So those things, I can't tell you to do them because they're not a requirement or a specific prerequisite, but having them certainly helps. But with a lot of the growth and the change and becoming a school, one thing that we did, I think based on feedback.

Was we have.

Created I think just last year was I think the first year.

We did it for sure. Is having a prerequisite course, so there is will be a.

If you think you're on the fence, there'll be a diagnostic test. And for Econ specifically, there's talk of maybe doing it that's, But right now it's only for Econ where many people may. I know I need to do a prerequisite class. You can do that here at Jackson. So they moved the Econ 4 class to the spring semester or the 2nd year.

Either way, they moved it to allow for people to take a prerequisite class if they didn't feel comfortable with the Econ core or if they.

Couldn't test out of it, right. So if you can't test out of it or you know you are not even going to bother trying to test out of it. There is an option to take a prerequisite class your first semester here at Jackson, so that that's a new thing. So that is possible here and that was some feedback that we got. So that's why we shifted the econ class. So hopefully that helps a little bit and hopefully I answered your question. Steven. Good afternoon.

Yes, a combination of academic professional recommendations preferred. Ohh, I think I answered that maybe that came in while.

Maybe I didn't see anything answer that maybe that question was already there for answered. But yeah, definitely mix. The mix is your choice depending on your strengths and weaknesses and applications open as soon as we get it updated and reactivated. And so a lot of that's on me and I have a consultant helping. So another reason why unfortunately I can't like allow for dozens and dozens of one-on-one appointments because I need to get that application updated. We hopefully it will go live.

By no later than September, if we can do end of August, we will but with summer vacations and people and all of the things that were made difficult. So usually it goes live in September.

The application doesn't form itself. There's various questions about.

You know why? How did you hear about us? Diversity, things, and different things like that. But otherwise, the form itself is straightforward. So if you check out the and I can go back to the, you know the how to apply RAGE and the FAQ's that you can find, which again some of them may need to be updated, but I think you'll get tips and tricks. You can even start reaching out to your recommenders and letting them know that you want them to be recommenders.

Let's start.

Practicing your GRE test practices are you. Practice tests are free. You can take the GRE multiple times. We will accept the highest section regardless of the testing. So if you take it more than once for veteran, one in one section and the other another section, we will report on the highest regardless of the test date. So.

Hopefully we're shooting for September, so keep an eye out. We'll probably do an e-mail blast. Unless you opt out, we will. You'll probably get an e-mail blast that the application has gone live since you're on this one.

Alright, hold on a second. Again, do not, please don't apologize. Nobody apologize for bothering, not bothering. This is exactly what I'm here for. This is helpful to me too so we don't have to answer individual emails and phone calls. It's really great to answer one question from multiple people all at the same time. Never, never apologize for asking questions. So.

Clarifying the question, you would like to know whether a letter rack from your former professor in college, who has now shifted to government service, qualifies as an academic recommendation. You know, again, I think the the Gray vagueness of that is probably fine, as long as they can speak to speak to your academics and your the analytics and the cognitive abilities, those kinds of things. I think. I think that's fine. In this field, people are shifting all around, right? Like people go into.

End of the federal government and they come back to academia and they're coming and going. So it doesn't matter where they are now, it's how they knew.

And in what capacity?

I hope that answers Brandon. You're welcome. Follow up. You mentioned several students have chosen to do a thesis. Could you provide some elaboration on the process for proposing pieces?

Actually, no.

I I don't know if it's new enough that I'm not exactly sure how it works. I do know I'm pretty sure it's two accounts as two course credits. That's.

Again, I couldn't find a link for it, what maybe you could do, and I apologize. Until again, with the growth and the changes, I can't keep keep track of all of the new things that are happening.

Is if you want to e-mail Jackson again the e-mail address Jackson dot admissions Edu and we can find that I'm sure it's somewhere out there might be in a bulletin like a bullet you have a bulletin which I don't have that link easily which is like the official e-mail like Jackson's policies and procedures in place be listed there. So I apologize and I'm bouncing it back to you but if you want to pop an e-mail and ask you know say hey I attended this webinar and.

You know, I'd like more information on how the pieces process works and then you know our our staff can point that out for you. And I will make a note that this is becoming a more common question, so I need to find out those details.

All right. How are you doing? Did we make it, It's 1258 here, so two more minutes. Any last minute questions before I?

Cut you off and again, you may hopefully some of you can join tomorrow. It's just open office hours. You don't have to be there right at noon. It's going to be an hour. Or just hang out and I'll answer individual questions.

If one of you, if you're 12 of you, I'll be there, just hanging out.

Probably at home at that point, so.

We're doing some hybrid summer, this hybrid work this summer. So we're in, we're in New Haven.

You know, somebody has to be here and I'm here today, as are some other staff, but they're letting us do some work from home.

Which is great. So I will as long as my Wi-Fi at home works. I will see some of you tomorrow maybe.

Future webinars or drop us an e-mail.

Have it help, maybe I'll see you on the road again. DC people will be there next week. Pi Expo I should have put.

That it's on our events calendar, which obviously all of you all know how to find because you found this webinar. So yeah, so feel free to join the Pi Expo, we have some virtual fairs this summer.

Uh, Christopher campus visit. We will schedule the We don't do tours at Jackson or anything like that. We scheduled visit days, which are very specific days. We usually do one a month in the fall. We may do two and one virtual TBD on that. We have to figure out our travel travels.

Yeah, now that we're back and might be heading to Madrid and places like that, so.

And figure out the schedule, we will have them. Yale does campus tours, but again, we're hybrid this summer, so you know, we're red lit. There's usually like two people in the building. There's nothing really to see except the building. Plus, again, we're getting buildings across the street slowly over the course of the next few years. But.

So.

Yeah, so that's a non answer of how to set up a campus visit, but you can definitely do Yale tours. You can go on the yale.edu website and do campus stores.

Or hopefully you can visit us in the ball whenever we get those schedules.

Probably 1 late September and then October, November. We tried one in December last year and it was not good. It was not good because we the deadline, we were in the middle of our deadline.

Weather and all of the things so December New England's hit or miss so keep an eye out on the calendar with that is that has good we I think I don't see any more questions but maybe see you tomorrow or drop us an e-mail so all right I it sounds like you found this helpful so I hope it was and hopefully whether this year or in the future we'll see your application and at least some of you will be able to.

He joined us here. All right. Thanks so much for joining. See you around. Bye.