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Fall Admissions Webinar (September 2023)
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So, greetings from Qatar and India and Claremont CA and Java with Texas, yay, Colombia. Very exciting. I assume this means that you can also hear me and see me.
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Netra E.
12:01:50 PM
Yale College!
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12:01:52 PM
Hello from Ann Arbor, MI!
So looking forward to having a chat with you all to teach you a little bit about Jackson and Yale while we wait for people to get logged in. Ohh, we have a somebody living in New Haven working for Canada from Peru. Gotta love these very.
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Haoyang Z.
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12:02:00 PM
Hello Melissa, hi everyone! This is Ritwija dialing in from New Delhi!
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12:02:00 PM
Colorado, USA
People from all over. Very exciting, so.
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Hello from Ghana
Alright, hello, your college, right?
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Parth Shah from Washington DC
Lovely to see everyone. I will go through some of the logistics while we wait for more people to get.
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Connected This webinar is being recorded and so if you have any trouble with it, or if you have to bounce early, it will be available at a later time. You'll probably get an e-mail link to it in about 24 hours or so, so you can always come back to it if you want to review anything. As we go, I'll be putting lots of links in the chat so you'll have access to those links as well, so you don't have to necessarily keep track of them.
As we go, this is an audio presentation so it is me talking to you and unfortunately you can only talk to me through chat, but I will do my best to keep an eye on the chat box as we go.
And obviously most of you have found the chat box, so that's where you can post questions and we can try to blow through an overview of Yale Jackson and then leave time for some Q&A. Towards the end, if you do need closed captioning, you can turn it on. There should be a CC in the top right hand corner of your window and you can turn that on to have live closed captioning.
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12:03:40 PM
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12:04:19 PM
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Unthanks with my actual voice, and sometimes I know when that happens, when I'm attending things, that weirds me out a little bit so you can always refresh your browser. But again, this is being recorded and you'll have access to it later. So again, lots of you are introducing yourselves. We have people from Goodness all over. We have London and Colombia and DC, Colorado and China and Michigan. This is amazing. I love this. I love seeing people from all over the world.
Menia C.
12:04:28 PM
Hello from Malawi
Hopefully this is a a decent time. We try to do these in like the morning and the midday and the evenings throughout the summer and fall, so everybody has an opportunity to sign on with all of the time zone issues and but again you can always bounce back to the.
Hamed N.
12:04:42 PM
Hello!! Hamed here from New York City! Happy to be here!
Recordings if need be. Some of you may be repeat visitors, but some you know. You'll hear some of the same things if you've attended one of these before. But what I like to say is that you or attending often drive How? These go by your questions. But with that let's sort of get to.
Gaurav K.
12:05:29 PM
Hi! Gaurav from Chicago here.
A little overview. So you've you've sort of told us all about who you all are from all over the world and all over the this country and everywhere else and in between it's amazing. I'm now seeing San Francisco and Malawi and New York City. Very, very exciting. So greetings everyone. My name is Melissa McGinnis and I'm the Assistant Director of Admissions here at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University in New Haven, CT, where we are experiencing our first.
Heat wave of the summer. We managed to get through July and June and July without too terrible of a heat wave, but we're hitting 90 degree Fahrenheit all this week, so it's pretty steamy and miserable. It's kind of weird to have it this late in the season, but here we are. So yeah, so many of you might have been following us for the last number of years, but it's super exciting that we.
Are Yale's newest professional school and what that means is last year we separated from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. So the Jackson at Jackson has been around in various iterations for quite a long time. We were the Jackson Institute for about a dozen or so years. Prior to that we will we were Yale's international relations program which had been around for many decades and but it is really an exciting time. What it means becoming a school is that.
Have a lot of resources.
And we have control over our own faculty and how we fund our students and all of those things. So not a lot has changed if you followed us the last number of years and on the back end, it has changed a lot. It means that we in the admissions office have had to do all of our own stuff. So some of you may have applied in the past. Now we have our own application and we are working on trying to improve that.
And exciting news, we finally went live to soft launch. Right now we haven't told anybody yet because we still want to test it a little bit, but it happened yesterday. So if some of you were trying to log in and had issues, it's because the application form was not live. But if you go in and we'll talk about that later, but if you go in now, it should be good to go. We'll talk about that a little later. Like I said, So QR code there for New Haven because a lot of people from around the world might be like new.
Even, you know, DC, you know, New York City, maybe Boston, Philly and the like, but people are like, well, what about New Haven? So we're a small town, big city, big city, small town. No, I'm not saying that right. We have a lot to offer for being a small city. I think is what I'm trying to say. That QR code links to our website that has information about all the food and the culture and the arts and everything that happens.
Area. So if you wanna research that, feel free to do so. I'm going to get moving more about Yale Jacksons program and I like to call these the five apps. Just something to help you sort of maybe remember some of the features that we offer here at the Jackson School. So we're going to talk a little bit about flexibility, flexibility of the program family, meaning the different types of staff, faculty, staff and students that we have here and then funding.
Is an very important aspect of Graduate School and also future. Presume that many of you here are thinking about your future and maybe future work and careers and that's why you were thinking about grad school. So that's sort of how the structure that we're going to go through. Again, I would probably try to blow through all of these and then look at the chat for questions at the end, but do keep keep an eye on the chat as I have links prepared to go through.
And post in the chat as we.
Which hopefully will round out all of this. Alright. So flexibility, so we have two degree programs, technically three. I know there's a Yale College student on here. So for for Yale College students we have 3 degrees that I can say we offer because we do have our traditional two year MPP and we also have a one year mid career program and then these slides don't incorporate the five year program that we do offer now last year was the first year for offering.
BS, BA MPP program for Yale College undergrad students, so we can talk about that offline. FYI, we're going to have a A an information session sometime this fall, probably in November. So we're working on that application as well. So this is going to talk about the culture of Jackson and mostly the two year MP because of any of you here are interested in the one year MAS. It's pretty straightforward, very, very small cohort about 2:00 to 5:00.
People.
And no core, no required summer internships because there is no summer because it's just one year and it requires a minimum of seven years of post grad work experience. So when I'm talking about requirements and joint degrees and languages and and all of the things, those are all about the two year MP. So hopefully that makes sense and I'm going to place my first link in the chat, so this link here.
Melissa McGinnis
12:10:46 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/academics/mas/
Melissa McGinnis
12:11:00 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/academics/mpp/courses-and-curriculum/
Really is pretty basic and straightforward. So if there are any MAS it just shows how. Basically you have 8 courses and you get to choose what those are and the MPP curriculum is here. So this site and I'll let you look at that on your own because it kind of goes into the four core which is your stats, your Recon and your history and your politics courses and then some of the about our writing.
Melissa McGinnis
12:11:29 PM
https://courses.yale.edu/
Program and ethics and leadership workshops that we have. So there's some information there about the core. But what I really want to point out to you because it's sort of buried on the website is the Yale course database. That link you won't want to lose. It is a public database and it basically if you go into that and do a keyword search for example GLBL are all the global affairs classes and if you type that in there.
And you kept fall 2023, you'd see the IT looks like 95 courses available. That's because there's so many because it also includes undergrad. 500 and above are the graduate level courses. But do keep in mind that the higher level undergrad classes may be available to you as well on a case by case basis. So there is a lot available to you, but also in that keyword search if you want to type in.
Anything like a a region like Africa or if you want to study climate change, so Africa, I just did it myself, 73 courses came up across the university and that really is the beauty of the flexibility as you have access to those. So when I did the search for Africa, there are classes that came up in African Studies in Anthropology in.
Adam H.
12:12:59 PM
What does small cohort (2-5) mean? 2-5 people per class?
Of public health and in the religion department, I could go on and on and on even architecture. So really you can you build your own curriculum and I think that's really what Jackson is sort of known for is, is designing your own path and that's something that you as long as you have access to to.
Ishita G.
12:13:14 PM
Are all these courses open to the MPP students?
Md W.
12:13:37 PM
Is GRÉ required
Those resources and know exactly what you want to get out of the program that is and you are able to tell us that through your application, then you can really do just about anything. And and that's what makes this really exciting. I'll just take it. I see some things coming to chat. Yes. So Adam for small cohort, 2 to 5 people per cohort per class, for the Ms. very small, we've had as few as two.
To as many as I think 8, but it's typically around 2:00 to 5:00 are and P pico arts are only 30 to 35. So we like to keep things pretty small around here to keep the individualized attention and having access to to all of the opportunities and and keeping a smaller cohort really enables us to do that. And yes all all of these courses are open MP students. So the I think like I mentioned anything that's.
Adam H.
12:14:18 PM
How many total students in MAS graduating class?
Not global affairs and is 500 and above are pretty easily accessible. There may be case by case like law, clinic classes and different things that maybe you have.
Melissa McGinnis
12:14:52 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/about/meet-us/
To get permission to do. But generally the other professional schools at Yale really, really are eager to have Jackson students in their classes. So that's I'm going to keep moving a little bit and we'll get back to the questions later. So I wanted to move on. We've talked about flexibility and when I mentioned family, I really want you to keep track of the the Jackson community section of the website because it you can link from that.
Ashley B.
12:14:59 PM
Is the application open yet?
To who our graduate students are and their BIOS. I don't think the new people are up quite yet.
Ohh actually they might be very exciting because when they had the last webinar they were not up. Their pictures aren't but their BIOS are. So super exciting if you click on the graduate student.
Sub link within that link you get to see who our new students are and it's easy to tell because they don't have the pictures yet and all our returning students and I think from that you can see that just sort of the diversity of of where people are coming from and what they're studying.
And I think you just see that everybody sort of has this commitment to making a difference as our little slide says, making a difference in all of the fields of global affairs. And for those who are on the Ms. you can see that the they are listed at the bottom and they are often. One thing you know we'll talk about later is funding. But the MAS currently does not offer funding. So most of our MBA students are externally sponsored. So they end up being international government.
Fritz A.
12:16:21 PM
Dear Melissa, for the MAS are the 8 courses completely free to choose or do courses have to come from certain Graduate Schools or is there a minimum number of Jackson School courses?
Or international U.S. military. We've had CIA in the past, basically employers who are sponsoring them to be here. So this year I think they all happen to be US and international military. So and I think we have.
And I think 5 in this year's cohort, but sometimes because of who they are and there is some privacy issues, so they aren't always 100% there but hopefully it gives you a good picture of that. Alright. And also be mindful as we talk not just about family but we talk about faculty. That link that I sent also goes through senior fellows which are a huge part of Jackson's community and I really like to mention those and.
And you know, a lot of us, when I say us, I mean sort of the top IR programs out there. We promote having these high level practitioners in our programs. A lot of our senior fellows are former ambassadors or former military generals or CEOs and the like. And they come to Jackson. They're not here like just for a weekend or like a diplomat in residence for a week with office hours and dinners. They actually are required to teach.
Classes, they sometimes stay for a year or two or three. Some of them keep coming back year after year and then we have new ones who rotate in and keep things very current in what they are, what their areas of expertise are and they bring that to the classroom. You would find them in the course database that I sent to you a little bit ago. But definitely check out our senior fellows because I think more in my experience and and I I worked at Princeton for 20.
Less years before coming to Yale and we recruit with apsia schools and we all know a little bits about each other schools. I think we have the corner on the market on how we integrate these practitioners, practitioners so fully into not just the curriculum but also in bringing their networks. They they hire TF's and RA's to work with them, which is more than just supplementing your funding. It really can be a networking opportunity.
They bring in their their networks and speaking in their classes they do public events, lectures in that regard, extracurricular lectures. So it's it's really amazing they they come to events and bagel days and things like that. So I ran into Harry Thomas and Howard Dean yesterday on the sidewalk and it's just really cool how they integrate. So if you're looking for.
Putting what you know and what you've done academically into practice.
I think having access to these senior fellows as part of your graduate curriculum is is a great opportunity. And also keep in mind in that like is the world fellows, they are here for their own academics, but they're here in the fall semester only. They're not degree students like MAS and MPP students are, but they are sort of on the rise in their careers. Not yet, not yet to senior fellow Stannis. But these world fellows are all international and they have amazing.
Yiqi Y.
12:19:47 PM
Hi Melissa, I'd like to know what qualities are you looking
for in applicants directly from undergraduate school? Thanks!
Experiences within the global arena. We had disabled military jockey this year, and we've had Nigerian Olympians and Iraqi comedians. We've had so many people in there. You know, they're lounges across the hall from the graduate student lounge and there are. They also can bring in their networks and they have events and they talk to the current students and think of them as another sort of bucket of alumni.
They go, they get invited to all of the Jackson alumni events whether in DC or New York or London and so they are are integrated as well. So they are another resource of an amazing group of people. So keep an eye on that Jackson community. So that's sort of the the back to the family piece and the faculty piece and then quickly the funding piece. As I mentioned currently MAS students are not funded, but we have been doing a really good job about funding.
Melissa McGinnis
12:20:36 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/admissions/mpp/tuition-funding/
MP students the last few years pasting that link in there.
And so it's merit based funding, but all you do to apply for that is check the box in the application that says I would like to be considered for funding for Michael Jackson. And once we have the class we will determine those funding awards. It is important that if you are coming in with external funding that we know what those are and it does not affect your admission, but because we like to make our funding offers if not the same time.
Within 2448 or so hours of admissions decisions, we want to make our funding offers so you can have all of that information before you have to make a a response decision to an offer. And so you know, we have people who have done the Pickering Fellowship and the wrangle and people are Fullbrights and we've had Truman Scholars and all other things. So it's not. And for many of those types of fellowships that also offer money, it's not necessarily about the funding piece, but those are often.
They they are fellowships that are in perfect alignment with Jackson's mission of of people going into the foreign service and people wanting to you know have that commitment to public and national service in their lives and their careers. So it's it's really important that you highlight those in your applications, funding or not. But the last we're really happy to say the last, I think it's been three years now we've been able to give everybody who asks for it.
Making sure that tuition is covered. So whether you come with external funding and we top that up or you have no funding and we offer you full tuition, we've been able to do that the last few years. And I will say also the last couple of years we've been able to offer at least a third of the Class A merit based stipend funding as well. Really exciting this year we were able to rework some funding once the enrolled class got settled and.
We were able to give all enrolling students something, and I think that means if there were a bunch that had a full stipend and then the rest had have 1/2 stipend. So we're getting close to being able to.
Ideally, if we can get to the point where we can fully fully fund our students, that would be great. Do keep in mind, especially international students who aren't aware of this, most masters programs are not funded. PHD's in the states are very commonly, but masters degrees are not commonly funded. So it is a lot of work on your part to do that research. To know which masters programs provide funding in in our peers in these top IR programs, it's.
There are different ways that people handle the funding some, so I mentioned teaching fellows and research assistants when I was talking about the faculty and senior fellows.
Those.
That those that funding is not part of our admissions package. Those are jobs that people seek after they arrive and are enrolled students. Whereas other universities and similar programs they might actually include those and require you to have those to to participate to be a TF to get part of your funding so.
You know, apologies on behalf of all higher education institutions in the States. Everybody is slightly different on how we handle all of our funding and all of that. So have a nice Excel file of all the schools that you're interested in want to apply to and how that looks for us. Like I mentioned, you check a box and.
And we do our best to offer the funding. You'll know that within a week of the offer and.
You have until May 1st is our reply deadline so you can navigate.
What that offer is, but we're pretty proud of our funding. I think we come in second. My former employer down in New Jersey has the mic drop on funding. They basically fund everyone and that's completely rare. So none of the rest of us can really compete that compete with that. But we, Dale Jackson are close on their heels. So we're excited about this and hopefully we can keep offering the funding that we do. All right, future. So that is really again as I mentioned before, you're probably here.
Netra E.
12:25:21 PM
Hi Melissa, will there be a separate information session for the combined MA/JD program? Thank you!
Melissa McGinnis
12:25:22 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/careers/career-support/resources-and-programming/
Andrea S.
12:25:28 PM
The funding application is made in the same application format? or is it another process?
Because you are thinking about a career in global affairs and international policy and international relations or the like. And so the nice thing about Jackson, as I mentioned the size is that we are able to provide one-on-one help. So students, especially the MPP students who really need it usually more than the Ms. because the MAS mid career are often going back to their employers where they came from and they're just taking this, doing this.
Degree because their employers want them to gain a skill in a particular area, whether it's own language or whether it's.
Melissa McGinnis
12:26:19 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/careers/graduate-summer/overview/
A tool like stats or Recon or some quant thing or some language like Python or R or or or whatever the case may be. Whereas the MPP like We start and almost before you even arrive, the career development office works with you one-on-one to figure out first what you want to do for your summer internship and post that link in there too if you.
Melissa McGinnis
12:26:52 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/careers/jobs-after-jackson/overview/
Actually, drill down to the the student experiences. You can see the file. Let me see 566 years worth of the actual internships that people have done and where they've done them. And I mean it's for privacy. There's no names, but it has the locations and their titles and the organizations they did it. I think that's super useful information. And then the same thing for first jobs. So we have all of that data as well on our website, so.
Same thing that link. If you Scroll down to the bottom of that page, you see a full list of the job titles and locations and it looks like we have five years of those. And again, it's super exciting. So, I mean, people are working for the UN, the World Bank, different ministries of foreign affairs and different countries. They're doing digital stuff for the Economist, for working with the State Department and USAID and.
Google and Palantir and Palladium and and J Palin, IPA and all of the things that could go on and on and on, basically because we are looking for a cohort of students who are coming, all of that commitment to the global good. But with that all hopefully in the cohort of 30 to 35 people to be approaching global affairs from completely different perspectives that shows and there's summer internships and in their first.
Jobs that they're doing so so many different things across across the sectors and I think that really adds to the community here because they're not competing for the same things because they all want to approach global affairs from a different perspective. So I think those resources are tremendous for you between those and the the student BIOS I think is your best resource to see what kind of student we actually enroll here at the Jackson School. So don't lose those but you.
Melissa McGinnis
12:28:48 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/admissions/mpp/application-process/
They're on the website, so you'll be able to find those again if need be, and then finally how to apply. I haven't have I updated this yet. This links to our MP page, but we also have a page for MAS as well. So that QR code I think links to the MVP page here. But again, we also have an MAS page We are.
Melissa McGinnis
12:28:58 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/admissions/mas/program/
Still a GRE required school for the MP. It is optional for the mid career program.
Melissa McGinnis
12:29:12 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/admissions/mas/mas-application-process/
And let's see the ohh, I wanted to give you the application process link for MAS. I gave you the wrong link there. Let me do that again for MAS on this call or video not call. So that sort of lists through lists the the different requirements that we have and another really exciting thing. So again if any of you have started the application and we're getting.
Melissa McGinnis
12:29:42 PM
https://apply.jackson.yale.edu/portal/app_mgmt_hub
Errors, we really apologize or if you've applied in the past, we have a whole new application hub that we're very excited about and here is that link. So whether you're an MPP or an MAS, if any AVL college people are interested in the five year program, that application is still not open yet. So that will loop. So you can't get to that application. But MPP and MAS are secretly live and so those of you here are getting that first announcement.
And we may make some minor tweaks to it in the coming days. We'll probably blast an e-mail and social media posts when we're more confident that it's ready to go, but feel free to check it out, log in and see what it looks like. And if you've started an application, you may have to refresh your browser and might still point to the old one. If you tried to log in before and got the old, it was an older looking link with the login, so this is.
Fancier new version of our Application Hub. So there you have it.
Really very very quickly and overview and I because completely out of bandwidth lots of things going on. I during the pandemic I was able to offer one-on-one appointments via Zoom after these webinars. But now that we're sort of coming out of it mostly.
Melissa McGinnis
12:31:34 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/jackson-events/admissions-qa-virtual-office-hours-4/
And we're traveling and recruiting and doing all of the things and doing our own application. I've just, I apologize, we've sort of run out of bandwidth until we can get some extra staff here in the office. But I've been doing these last few months, these virtual office hours. So the the, the QR code there links to that. It's a zoom meeting and this also will link to that. Basically it's it's not a webinar, it's not going to be.
Alexia B.
12:31:51 PM
Hi Melissa,
Thank you for the session! It is super useful. I have some questions:
- I am from a Spanish-speaking country, but I did an English four-year undergraduate program in Canada (including one year in exchange in Peru). Do I need to take an English Proficiency Test? I believe I don't have to based on the website, but I just want to make sure as I did an exchange during one year in a Spanish speaking country.
- Are you looking for a specific GRE grade?
- Now that the GRE is shorter and it takes a shorter time to send grades, what's the latest date we should attempt to register for an exam?
- What is the acceptance rate?
An overview of the program. It will expect you to have a background. So I would love to invite all of you here to be part of that. If there's questions that we don't get to today. And I will take the remaining time to go through and answer questions that I think have been blowing in the chat. But if you feel like there's something else, these are open office hours. There might be a group of people. I think last month we had a great time. There's like 15 people and people just like to listen to other people's questions. But it's it's really super efficient for me and I think it's really helpful.
For for a lot of people to to get their questions answered. Our e-mail inbox is is.
Wyatt T.
12:32:23 PM
On the language requirement, what rating scale is used for testing, what is the required level of proficiency and when do students take the test if they would like to test out? Using the course database, if there is a language taught, is it safe to assume that is a language eligible for credit?
Blown up as well. So we're doing our best plugging through to try to get to your questions because we don't want that to hinder any delays in your application. That's a really quick overview. And why don't I take a peek at the chat and I'm sure there'll be lots more things that we can talk about as we go and we're doing really well with time.
So let's get started. So all the hellos, hellos, hellos, I think I answered the Ms. cohort question, yes.
Hamed N.
12:33:05 PM
Hi there Melissa! I'm currently studying for the GMAT and looking closely into business school as well as the GA program. Could my GMAT score be used in place of a GRE score?
Savanah D.
12:33:12 PM
What kind of guidance is offered so students can tailor their courses to fit their goals as best as possible?
TW I'm guessing Mohammed, the GRE as I mentioned is is still required for the MP. The MAS like I mentioned is typically two to five. I think we or it's been like 2 to 8 but we have 5 this year.
And Ashley, yes, the application is open as you already know. I sent that link. Very exciting. Hopefully you don't have any errors cached in your browser.
Fritz, Dear Melissa from the Ms. Are the 8 courses completely free to choose or do courses have to come from certain Graduate School? Yes, 99.9% completely free to choose it. You do meet one-on-one. Again, enrolled, admitted, enrolled students meet one-on-one with our one of our assistant Deans in the Academic Affairs office and they help you navigate that. I should point out there is another Barry link.
Andrea S.
12:33:53 PM
Is there an application fee waiver?
Michael V.
12:33:58 PM
Thank you for this great session Melissa! As I am currently in NYC, I would be very interested in stepping by at one of the In-Person visit days. Could you give some information on how the visit days are conducted and what we can expect? Thank you!
That are have matrices available so that course database that I sent can be super overwhelming right? Like 3000 courses available to you. How do I navigate all of that? There is a resource at the bottom.
Of.
Melissa McGinnis
12:34:17 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/academics/mpp/courses-and-curriculum/
This page and while it says MAMP.
Basically it can apply to the MAS as well. What those they do open as PDFs. Don't worry, they're not spam, but they give you a picture of those particular semesters, the most common classes that Jackson students have taken, and when you click on them, you'll see the Graduate School classes. So all of the different departments at the university as well as the professional schools. As long as things make sense and are sort of cohesive, chances are you get.
Approval, I think the most unique so far that I'm aware of.
Fritz A.
12:35:06 PM
Wunderbar, thank you for answering the MAS course question and sending the helpful link!
Andrea S.
12:35:21 PM
Do you consider TOEFL - My Best Scores?
Student got permission to take a documentary film class because they were doing development work and that was sort of the direction they were wanting to go. And obviously I like to say like the next Christiane Amanpour, you know, right. Like those kinds of things. So in that person's career path, that was an important thing for them and they got permission to do that. So think that says, you know, that I forget, I don't know if that's out of the school of drama maybe.
So there really are.
Giovanni G.
12:35:30 PM
Dear Melissa
You know, very few limits. It's going to be not by school, but it's going to be like by faculty. Like you might need faculty permission for certain courses in higher level undergrad courses. Like a faculty member has to be willing to put, you know, make you be willing to put in the extra work to make it a graduate level class, whether it's an additional paper or research paper or, you know, precepts or whatnot. So there are there are many, many options. There's also directed readings where you can design.
Course, if you work with a faculty member and a senior fellow, you basically design your own class, and you might be able to do that with other students as well. But it's the options are almost limitless, Which, again, is what we are.
Makes us, I think really unique. And the current students and alumni who choose this say it's their favorite piece. But if you're not sure what you want to do, it can be very, very overwhelming. And I think that's why most of our students, when you look at the BIOS, you see that most of our students have about three to five years of work experience for the P And most of our MAS are usually, even though it's only 7 year requirement, 11:50, because they really know exactly what how they want to design their curriculum and those are the people that might build the stronger.
Application when they know exactly what they want to get out of limitless options. Hopefully that makes sense a little bit. I'm hopefully I didn't digress too too much and that it answers your question.
Um, Yuki Ichi. Sorry I'm and I apologize in advance if I'm really being terrible with names, but you'd like to know what qualities are you looking for in the applicants directly from undergrads. So as I just mentioned that we have very few people coming from undergrad, we might have one or two or three, there's no quotas. It might be a few or so at most. And that's in addition to the the five year BA BSP that.
Job for Yale College students, but.
What the way I like to address the undergrad, current undergrad population who don't have significant postgrad. Or maybe they're not. There are non traditional students who work before undergrad.
Is think about not just what you need to learn from this program, but what you can contribute to the classroom. And so when I'm talking about what we're looking for, we're looking for a commitment to the global good. We're looking for some decent academics and we're looking for a unique story. And the unique story is going to depend on the year to year depending what the applicant pool looks like and when we're building that cohort of approximately 50 or so students.
To get our yield of our class of about 30 to 35, we're trying to pull together people from different regions, from different sectors from who who want to get out of Jackson different things. Like I mentioned before, maybe it's tools, maybe it's languages, maybe it's regional areas. So people are coming at this from all different ways. So when back to the sort of when people are coming with less work experience.
Keep in mind you are in the classroom with people who have maybe served in the Peace Corps already and know they want to go into development. Or we have people who are mid level military officers who are you know going to be career military, keep going in their career as career military officers, international government staying in the government, right. Or we have people who?
Have been working in embassies.
You know US and international embassies here and there. So maybe they're doing basic things and they've learned that they want to do this and and they need certain classes to do that, so.
Stella T.
12:39:53 PM
Hello. I'm Stella from Cameroon. Happy to be here
We like having some young people who are still in, and maybe some of the people who worked for a while can can appreciate this. But you're not yet jaded right by like of of of all the things out there, and you still feel like you can change the world with everything that you've learned. But those for people who have less postgrad experience, the the summer internships that you've done throughout your undergrad career will weigh much more heavily. They're important.
Giovanni G.
12:40:16 PM
I would ask , if admitted to som , is it possible to choose electives from jackson institute ? Can you suggest a typical course chosen from som students . How can delve into the
For all applicants, but I think those who are with less work experience that the weight of those ideally will be sort of relevant to your career goals. So I like to say is things should sort of you should connect the dots like this was your academic background, these are your internships and these are my your first jobs. And This is why I want to do Jackson, because this is my long term career goals that needs to make sense and those dots need to be connected. Does it need to be linear? No it.
Doesn't need to be this obvious path. For many. It is like, you know, I've studied economics, I I wanna be an economist and I'm gonna do all the things and, you know, gonna work for the World Bank and do you know there are many like that. But there are some people who also dabbles in private sector and was like, oh, I don't want to do that or you know, whatever the case may be. So however you connect those dots, as long as the path sort of makes sense on why grad school, why at Jackson and why now.
Haoyang Z.
12:41:33 PM
Hello, Melissa, I am a PhD student in STEM area, so how do you encourage me to apply for the MAS or the MPP program? ,
Those are super important things. So if you can formulate those then you you have a shot. I hope that makes sense. I do get sometimes a little too philosophical in these and I hope that's OK All right. I will come. Keep going. Natra, will there be separate information session for a combined MA JD? Not really. Sometimes we do them internally for Yale students. We've I think during the pandemic.
We did a couple sessions with the school of the environment, but basically for people who are interested in joint degree, you have to apply completely separately. So there is one additional statement that you need where obviously you'll be talking about it presumably in a Broadway in your personal statement. But we want you to flesh out the details a little bit more in the, what we call the joint degree statement. But otherwise you're in the traditional MPP applicant pool along with everybody.
Else we do encourage joint degrees. We can't have too many. Similar to like having how many undergrad recent undergrads do we have? We can't have too many because.
Ritwija D.
12:42:25 PM
Thank you very much for this presentation! I just tried to create my account through the link shared and I get an error message "Forbidden". Also, for the MAS program, I do have clarity around the academic themes I want to pursue but wondering to what extent my course selection needs to be finalized at the time of application. Would these identified courses need to mentioned categorically in the statement of purpose?
If we had a whole class of joint degrees, we wouldn't have a second year class because they'd be at Jackson in their first year and then they'd be at the other professional school in their second year. So we we usually have maybe a dozen or so any given year. And that's a mix of, like most commonly, excuse me, most commonly in school management. We've got a few finally, joint law students this year. We usually have a couple this YSE, the school environment and public health.
Um.
So there you hopefully you get in there and you get in here and everything works out symbiotically. You start at Jackson and then your second year is at the other school and your third is split. Obviously it was an extra year for law school.
Let.
Otherwise you're just applying like anything else, so there's not really going to be separate sessions, but I hope there's probably a longer answer than you wanted, but I I'm assuming you're not the only one who might be interested in joint degrees, so hopefully that answers encompasses maybe other questions as well that haven't been actually asked yet.
And the final piece was, you know, you need to also make a good case for it needs to be a strong case because going back to the flexibility piece that you can take classes at the law school without being a law school student, you can take classes at the school and management. Most people do. Again, going back to the matrices that I pointed out, those PDF's on our website shows like students take international law class or human rights and there's there's various things that people do.
Very, very commonly, just as they're electives at the Jackson school without being a joint degree. Now if you feel like in your career you need both degrees, that's great. But keep in mind some people just want to take a couple classes so they know how to speak the language of the sector. That's a common thing that I hear from the alumni in the program is that taking a law class, even though they had no interest in law, like, was really important in the world of international policy that they could.
Andrea S.
12:44:41 PM
Is there any center/initiative for gender studies at Jackson School?
Speak legalese and understand legally same thing with maybe taking SOM school management which is Yale Business School if you're not aware, you know being able to speak the language of private sector if you haven't had any experience in that. So there's various reasons, but that's again the beauty of just the the two year MPP. So super long answer that hopefully answered like 6 different questions that haven't been asked. So natural. I hope that was helpful Andrea. Andrea, the funding.
Application is made in the same application format or another process. Yes, there's nothing separate for the funding. Again, there's a box that you check saying you want to be considered for funding.
It's again the so one thing we've noticed, there's a lot of people who say they don't want funding from Jackson, it's merit based, it's not need based. So it's not going to harm your application to ask for it. So I think maybe some people think ohh, I'd better not ask for it if I have need.
That might harm my admission. Our our funding is merit based, so you don't need to worry about that. So, so.
Yeah. I mean, unless you are completely independently wealthy, which some people are. Yeah, you just check that box. There's only one. There's one special fellowship that requires an extra step, and that is because it's called the Michael Scott, I think. It's not additional money. It's just where the bucket of money comes from should you enroll. And it's the only fellowship that we need information to determine if you're eligible. Most of our.
Fellowships are based on maybe you're studying climate change, or you're from Africa or Hong Kong or, you know, whatever the case may be. But this, Michael Scott, it's about your parental background, so whether your parents were in the, I think, military.
Or U.S. government, so we need some information on that. But otherwise everything else you just say yes, I'd like some money. Pretty straightforward.
Alright, let's keep going.
I am talking too much today. I'm highly caffeinated. On this hump day Wednesday, there's a bunch of my links. Alright, let's Alexia ohh long one. All right. You're welcome. I'm glad this is useful. Questions. You're from a Spanish speaking country. Did English for your undergrad program in Canada. Do I need to take English proficiency test? That is correct. You do not. So what waves the TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge?
Is if English is your native language, or if you did your undergraduate degree in an English speaking institution.
Those are the only two things. Masters degrees in English don't wave. Masters or PhD don't wave the.
Melissa McGinnis
12:48:05 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/admissions/mpp/
The English proficiency requirement, it's just based on your native language and your undergraduate language of instruction is what would do that. So we do not have minimums. I did not post that link in. We have an overview of our current class, and of course this ebbs and flows a little bit on this page. I'm sorry I didn't have that in here. It's shorter.
That goes through sort of the averages and medians because we don't have any minimums. We do have a minimum total. It's 102 I believe and everything else is.
You know, think about how you were.
Just sort of the balance of like we talked about with the I, I'm not sure if I mentioned this now in this webinar on a phone call this morning. But so if you don't have quantitative skill classes on your transcript, the quant section of the GRE will weigh much more heavily. Whereas if you were like stats major, you don't do as well on the comment section of the GRE. That might not be as much of A concern if you've done really well in all of your.
Want related classes so think about that. I I like to think about the application pieces as a portfolio and everybody starts equal but then everybody has their own strengths and weaknesses and it's how you balance those out. So hopefully that answers the rest of the questions specific Jerry Green Ohh, the Jerry Shorter. Yeah we have no control over that. The shortness of the GRE that they're we're hoping for the best. I've attended webinars on that.
They're all it's, it's 100%. It's not going to be an option. I think September 21st I think is the date there's shifting to the shorter test. They're offering discounts if you take it earlier as long as you take the GRE usually by the end of December that is fine. Let me go back to the sort of how to apply page. So the other thing to keep in mind is for the two year MPP the there is an early deadline of December 1st.
Do you get a fee waiver?
Ishita G.
12:50:02 PM
Hi Melissa, thanks for such a detailed overview! I wanted to ask a follow up to your explanation of the ideal Jackson candidate-- could you give some examples on how people demonstrated their public service? and what would you describe as commitment to global good?
But the test scores and recommenders, the things that are sort of outside of your control a little bit, can come in by the January 2nd deadline. So as long as your pieces of the application are submitted by December 1st, you can get that waiver. But so even if you apply by December 1, if you take the tests, whether English language tests or the GRE, if you take those by the end of December, they should be in by that first week of January and that should be fine.
Immaculeé N.
12:50:38 PM
Is the application link for the undergraduate program open?
Alright, I accept it's right. I think Alexa you're covering a lot of questions in one. Hopefully I'm catching them all is again it's usually in the teens somewhere. We don't post them because we just don't want people to self select out by seeing that you know it is usually like 1213, fourteen, 15% because you just you really never know.
And we we again, we don't want people to self select out of applying because they don't think they have a chance. So again I think if you look at some of our student BIOS, you'll see they they obviously don't say that in their BIOS. I can't believe I got in here, but students often say like ohh my gosh, I look at my classmates and they're amazing. How did I get in here? Because you're amazing too. So definitely, I'm sure the fact that all of you are here and even genuinely interested, you're all amazing in your own way, so.
Give it a shot. Can't hurt it. Which reminds me too. I'll quickly say that reapplying, there's no shame in reapplying. It's a whole new ball game. You never know year to year what the applicant pool is going to look like, what it you know, whether people are interested in certain things based on what's going on in the world or maybe more of a particular region. And you know, just the combination is going to look different from year to year. So reapplying is people do it all the time because.
Alexia B.
12:52:12 PM
thank you!
There are many, many, many qualified applicants that we just can't admit because of sheer numbers. So do keep that in mind. Alright, let me keep going. Hamed, Hello. You're currently studying for the GMAT, closely looking into Business School.
Hamed N.
12:52:20 PM
Hi!
Giovanni G.
12:52:25 PM
Thank you
We do not accept the GMAT score unless you are a current SOM student at Yale. So still just the GRE, but yeah, the.
Stella T.
12:52:47 PM
Hello Melissa. Thanks for this opportunity. Please I am interested in taking the MPP. Have the applications began
If you're a current SOM student at Yale and want to do the joint degree with Jackson, we will accept the GMAT. If you are a current Yale student, a Yale law student, and want to do the joint degree with Jackson, we will accept the LSAT. Those are the only two very very very rare occasions where we'll accept something. Another test in lieu of the Jerry, sorry, Savannah, we'll kind of guidance is offered to students can tailor their courses. So I mentioned with the career stuff, but it's the same.
Hamed N.
12:52:59 PM
Thank you!
Here we have an academic affairs and student affairs office. They sit down one-on-one with enrolled students and help you navigate all of those courses and all of the professional schools. You are not left alone. Technically, you're left a little bit alone on the front end to have the resources to figure out what you want to do and how you can utilize yields resources. That's what I'm here for, to point you to those resources. But if you get admitted and you choose to enroll you.
Handheld, for better or worse than we do everything we can to to help you navigate all of those things and put together a really cosy, cohesive set of courses for your time here. So no worries there. So thank you for asking that because I should have hinted to that, Andrea. Fee waiver for the MPP. Yes, if you applied by December 1st, no special form is needed. Just apply by December 1st before midnight and you automatically get the feet. Michael.
I'm I'm glad this is a great session. Sometimes I feel like I ramble on a little bit too much in New York City. Very interested in in person days. Yes, the first one is Monday. So I they anything that we have will be on our events pages. There's one in October. I'm trying to get to the events page really quickly. We have like 5 minutes left.
Admissions events.
Melissa McGinnis
12:54:34 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/event-type/graduate-admissions/
Yes, we have one on Monday and then we have one in October and November is TBD because again I mentioned trying to do all of the things might actually be in Paris. I don't know that I saw anybody in Paris, but our APSIA that organization that keep mentioning is planning some receptions in Mexico and Paris and so might be there instead of here in November. So not sure we can pull off in November, but the.
Michael V.
12:55:16 PM
Thank you very much! I appreciate it. I will look into the October one.
October one is I think it's not Columbus Day anymore. I think they call it something different now, but it may still be a holiday for many. So hopefully that October 9th people can make it if you're nearby and we are for those who don't know, we are right in between sort of New York City and Boston. So easy access. I get to DC on the Amtrak all the time and Metro north is is super easy between here and New York City. So we're on that NE corridor so.
Ian B.
12:55:36 PM
Thank you so much!
We're pretty easy to get to if you want to hunker down on public transportation. Alright. I hope that helps. Michael. Fritz. Great. I'm getting a a German. Wonderful, I think. Isn't that what Wonder Bar means? I answered the Ms. question. Good, good, good.
We do TOEFL my best scores. Is that a new test like my best scores? I don't know that I've ever heard of that, so I can't answer that question.
But we do accept the TOEFL. As long as ETS releases them to us, it will be fine. John or Giovanni, if you're admitted to SOM, is it possible to choose electors from Jackson? You would have to ask SOM that, but I think they have their core is pretty intensive in their first year, first semester. So I don't know how soon you can take Jackson classes, but I do know they have some flexibility and you can take classes back. But you'd have to ask. That's where the separateness of the.
Very siloed in our in our professional schools, so you'd have to double check with them and they're typically is a.
A a joint degree session for SOM. Again, current students, but we post those I think publicly, so you might be able to sneak in and be an external candidate to that.
Hamed N.
12:57:14 PM
If accepted into the GA program can I apply to SOM during Year two at GA?
Ardean actually does that. Jim Levinson, Hopefully that was helpful. Typical course chosen from SOM. Yeah, I I don't have those details beyond the matrices, but those are Jackson students and the classes they take. But you could reach out to SOM and see what kind of checks and classes are taken by USOM students. How Yang PhD in STEM.
Chris S.
12:57:25 PM
On the language requirement, what rating scale is used for testing, what is the required level of proficiency and when do students take the test if they would like to test out? Using the course database, if there is a language taught, is it safe to assume that is a language eligible for credit?
We are not a STEM school. Something to keep in mind Global affairs. There is talk of trying to maybe come up with a certificate program with high level, maybe some math and econ and stats that would potentially make it STEM, but that is in the works and not done yet. Having your PhD is fine, it just depends again on what you want to do with your career. So I think a lot of the people are coming from like PHD's or other masters maybe in a hard.
Science, for example, you know, we might have people who are in the sciences and they want to, you know, maybe study the sort of the climate stuff a little bit more. We have people who have been in the media. We have a medical doctor in this year's and P cohort who obviously now wants to shift new policy with that. So people are coming from particular areas and they and that's when I'm going back to like why they want to do a degree like this and they realize this is my career, this is what I've been doing.
And now I know I want to do.
Policy affect change and policy within this. We've had a couple people, maybe one or two done like cultural arts policy because that was their background and they wanted to study policy from that lens. So there's various various reasons. You just need to make the case for it. You also don't want us asking like, well why do they need another degree? They have a masters, they have a PhD. If you're not making it clear why you need a policy degree like.
Yes, that will be a concern. But otherwise, if you can make the case for how. Again, going back to connecting the dots, like how a Masters or a PhD already like gets you to the why, Jackson, that's that's really what's important.
Alright, I'll keep going. Rich. Wisha.
Haoyang Z.
12:59:25 PM
Thank you very much for your suggestion ,Melissa!
And apologize again for pronunciation. Um, you're welcome. You just tried to get ohh, no, you got it forbidden. Somebody else got that and called this morning.
Lorenzo B.
12:59:44 PM
Thanks for diving into such detail! Does the application have space for "other stuff" that might be worthy of consideration, like writing samples for example? Or is that best incorporated into another segment of the application?
Be you might have to send us an e-mail. What happened was I actually had to manually go in and reset. Enforce the reset password that sends an e-mail so you can redo your password if refreshing your browser doesn't work.
Melissa McGinnis
01:00:06 PM
jackson.admissions@yale.edu
They were trying a different browser, which should work otherwise, yeah, send, which is on this page. The send the Jackson admissions e-mail and say that's the error you're getting. Now that as of this morning, I know how to fix that. It might take a while. We'll try to keep our eye on that e-mail, but that's pretty behind. But we'll try to try to prioritize that.
Ishita G.
01:00:22 PM
You probably already mentioned this, but could you clarify if the MPP is a STEM degree?
Melissa McGinnis
01:00:28 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/centers-research/
Ohh goodness, is there a center initiative for gender studies at the Jackson School? Probably at Yale. Jackson. So centers. These are the centers at Jackson. And again, we've always been part of the grad school up till last year. So all of this stuff is sort of.
Melissa McGinnis
01:00:50 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/academics/mpp/student-life/
Becoming new you. We have student groups that were constantly growing, which are a little bit buried. Let me find the student group links. We have like Jackson women. We have a new Latin American group. So that's the social stuff. There's a whole list of them there, student government, et cetera, et cetera. But Yale itself has limitless resources.
And I can't keep track of all of it. You can always go to theyale.edu website and I feel like I should know, but there's so, so, so, so much.
Chris S.
01:01:18 PM
Also, can you schedule a visit or stop by admissions aside from the scheduled visit days? (schedule conflicts)
You know that and and we're running out of time so I don't want to just take the time to just go ahead and do that that search. But if you go to yale.edu type gender studies there's probably a ridiculous amount of options. And that again is the beauty of being you're not just a Jackson school student you're part of the greater Yale community that are deemed likes to call an academic playground and center size city center which does like social entrepreneurship stuff and conferences with China and Africa and it's it's.
There's almost too much going on. So yeah, so hopefully that answers your question. Alright, I I think I see a bunch more questions and we're really kind of running out of time. I don't wanna go too long. Let me see if I can blow through a couple of these ideal Jackson candidate. I think I just sort of said that you know, commitment to the global good that it's going to be different for everybody. Why do you want to change the world and what you're doing in your career? I think that's really going to be different for everybody and we hope it's different for everybody we want.
Everybody, like I said, coming in from a different perspective. Um.
The application link for the undergrad program if you're talking about Yale College, to apply for a bachelor's degree at Yale. I have no idea. Nothing to do with that if you if, if that's what you're referring to.
Yale undergrad admissions is very, very separate.
Melissa McGinnis
01:02:48 PM
https://admissions.yale.edu/
You I can find that link. Here's the link for Yale undergrad admissions.
Melissa McGinnis
01:03:10 PM
https://jackson.yale.edu/admissions/ba-program/
If your current Yale student, you are interested in being a global affairs major, that's handled for our student affairs office and that can be done on our Jackson website where you see on the BA program that's applying for the major. Again, we need admissions office, don't have anything to do with that. That's handled through the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs offices. I hope that answers your questions.
Immaculately. Ohh that that was your question. Ohh some thank you, some thank yous. Good. You're welcome. MP applications began. I answered that already. Yes, it opened today silently. Soft launch.
Michael, hopefully see you in October.
Theo W.
01:03:49 PM
Thank you!
If accepted in the Global Affairs program, can I apply to SO well, that's a great question Hamed, Yes. So most commonly if somebody wants to do a joint degree, they apply at the same time and ideally get into both started Jackson, defer the other program and do it that way. But there are students who either they've applied and they don't get into one of the schools and they decide to come say they get into Jackson but not SOM and they come to Jackson and they retry applying to SOM.
Or vice versa. That is possible. It's in students have done it, so it is possible, It's just not the most common way. So yes.
Matthew Howard L.
01:04:30 PM
Thanks for sharing!
Alright, ohh, good, Lorenzo says. I'm going into detail. Hopefully not too much. I know we're going long. Does the application have space for other stuff? Absolutely. There's another stuff. I think it's called additional information.
But more is not necessarily better. So concise is good. We don't need really writing samples unless they're super relevant, you know? We don't need thesis things or publications again, unless it's really, really, really relevant to that connecting the dots in the Why Jackson piece.
So, but yes, there's I think for better or worse it's like limitless under opportunity to upload things. So yes, there's also like some boxes of like any other information you'd like to tell us, but there's also opportunity to upload materials, alright. I didn't mention MP is not a STEM degree, not global affairs.
Lorenzo B.
01:05:28 PM
Gotcha, thanks so much!
I mean, yes, you can do choose your curriculum and make them take lots and lots of quant courses, maybe your joint.
Environment and take a lot of science classes possibly, but if we are not currently STEM, that is a government designation. They're looking at possibly having a certificate program that allows it to be STEM for a very specific set.
Ohh, I got to the bottom alright. Yay 105 only 5 minutes over. Alright, thank you for bearing with me and my ramblings and I'm I'm highly caffeinated and sugared today as I mentioned and I apologize, but hopefully this was super useful and helpful and.
Hamed N.
01:06:09 PM
Fantastic Melissa! THANK YOU!
Brandon B.
01:06:10 PM
Thank you so much! very helpful session.
Ishita G.
01:06:12 PM
Thank you so much! This was really helpful
Hamed N.
01:06:18 PM
And good luck to everyone here!!!
Pragati S.
01:06:21 PM
It was super helpful!! Thank you !
Seón T.
01:06:22 PM
Thank you!
MaBinty B.
01:06:33 PM
Thank you very much!
Hopefully if you have additional questions, I recommend you try to make it to our office hours because again, the e-mail is completely out of control, especially my personal e-mail. But even the Jackson e-mail is out of control. We're going to try to try to answer things the best we can as quickly as we can, especially for the mass. The deadline has changed in November 1st, so your window is now very small to apply for that. So we will try to answer questions, but getting ready to go. We'll be in DC.
Um, in a couple weeks there's gonna be an alumni reception there. Anybody. I don't think I saw anybody from Madrid, but I'll be in Madrid in two weeks. I don't think I saw anybody from the stands, but I'll be in Tashkent in October, hopefully Mexico and Paris. But again, everything will be on our events page. And yeah, we'll do another two more webinars.
This fall and the last one will really be driven by applicants. So asking your questions, will there be opportunities to do that And yeah, couple visit days for those who are semi local or at least traveling through. So we look forward to seeing you or.
Michael V.
01:07:36 PM
Thank you!
Ritwija D.
01:07:45 PM
Thank you !
Whether virtually or in person and definitely your applications either this year or sometime in the future. So alright, I'll cut you off for now and I hope this is useful and we'll we'll hopefully see your application someday. Thanks for joining. Alright, take care. Bye.