Winter Admissions Webinar (December 2023)

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Glad you're here. It looks like some more people have joined.

We are this webinar. I want to be about you.

I you know, we are days away from our final deadline, so usually the last two couple webinars of the season we do with you in charge you asking your questions rather than me giving an overview about Jackson, which hopefully we will have time to do in the end if there are any new people here. But we did one of these last month and we took the entire time by responding to your questions.

So love to see you here at whatever time it is. My name is Melissa McGinnis and I'm the Assistant Director of Admissions here at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale. I'm assuming most of you are familiar with the Yale University, which is one of the 8 Ivy League schools. We are located in New Haven, CT, where we are currently enduring massive rains.

And some flooding. So not quite winter here yet it certainly doesn't feel like it.

In any case, I want to again remind you that this is going to be about you because.

Our deadline is December or January 1st, January 2nd. I'm sorry and let me add a disclaimer. I am actually feeling pretty under the weather, so I might take a drink of tea now and again.

And it's not COVID. I've done multiple tests, but definitely rundown and all this admission season stuff I think. So please forgive me, I'm a little fuzzy. We have and also I want to get right to your questions because I am going to actually have to end before 1:00 Eastern Time, which is when this is late at 10. We actually have our first admissions meeting today at 1:00 and that this webinar was scheduled months ago.

That meeting was scheduled more recently, so I apologize for any inconvenience. So I really want to make sure we get to your application questions.

Excuse me. See, there it is. I'm sorry.

One thing I will note is there are two major questions that we get a lot of at this time and the first one is about test scores. As many of you know if you've already started your application for the MPP we are still agre required school. So the biggest issue is 1 if you have not taken your GRE's yet.

You should not wait to submit your application for those official test tours to come in. OK, there is no need. You do need to submit something in those fields. You do need a date and you need a self reported score before you can submit your application. But don't wait. We might try to do another load of scores before we leave for break, but we will not presumably be loading more scores over break and we don't come back until deadline day. So.

Don't wait to load your scores. Don't wait for your recommenders to submit their letters before you submit. That has they're submitting their recommendations for you have nothing to do with you being able to submit your application. You need to register your 3 recommenders and then in order for you to submit your application, but they do not have to submit their letters.

Their portal doesn't close. I leave that up to you. If you want to tell them that it doesn't close, you might want to give them a deadline, because we know a lot of recommenders.

Might take as long as possible. Do remind them that the final deadline is January 2nd, but as long as those those both test scores and recommendations come in within that first week or so of January, that is best. So you might want to still tell them they those letters are due by January 2nd just to to, you know, make sure that they're on top of it because once you start saying well within a week they may push that. And what happens on our end is we start reviewing applications right away.

After the deadline, but for efficiency, obviously we need to start reading complete applications. So what happens is.

We will. It's not rolling admissions. So obviously we have it's a very robust admissions committee process and review is ongoing even though we do not have rolling emissions. So what happens is we don't know how many people are going to submit their applications. We don't know how many will be complete on day one.

So once we start hunkering down and reading those, we don't know when we'll be able to get to incomplete applications. And you'd really not want your application to be incomplete by the time we have to get to those. So sooner is always better for those things, the test scores and the recommendations, but there is a little wiggle room there for your deadline.

So I think those were the two, well this sort of the second piece or part of that really part of those first pieces.

The volume of people asking about whether or not their test scores, where their test scores are, why they're not showing up on the portal. Please have a little patience with us at this point. It's really just me doing all of the imports, so it can take quite a while between when you request the scores from ETS or Ielts and when you request them. It might take them a few days or more to send them to our portal.

So from there, when we load to the portal and we have to import and match to your applications, it is not a, you know, quick snap process. So it could take a couple weeks. So actually the huge volume of emails asking about where are my scores, where are my scores, it's actually slowing us down a little bit to be able to spend the time to load the scores. So have patience. They will show up on your status portal eventually and again now that you know that it doesn't have anything to do with the deadline.

For you submitting.

If if we enter into the early days of January or mid January and you're still not seeing your scores on your status portal and you swear you sent them to the right code.

Which I think is listed on this screen. Yes, the 3388 for GRE.

And the D100 for TOEFL, as long as they were sent to that and if you feel like it's been more than a few weeks.

Feel free to ping us in January, but just keep an eye on your portal and then have patience with us. You are not going to be penalized by late scores that you had already taken but haven't been loaded because we are behind on that. So those are the sort of two or 1 1/2 ish major things that I wanted to put out there that we get a huge volume of questions on. So now why don't I get started on some of your questions?

I see a couple here.

Ashley, Now take another.

How does yield Jackson consider jury scores? I've seen that some schools are taking the highest score from each category and so recommended to submit all scores from previous tests. Is that the case with Jackson? Yes, absolutely. So we will have all the scores. Obviously they will be in the portal, the status or in the the ETS portal. But we do report on the highest score per section regardless of the test date. So if you took the test three times and scored higher and one on point and higher and another one on verbal and higher another one on the analytical writing.

We will report on those three highest scores, but again we do have access to them. So we do want to see ideally a, you know, sort of what we would like to see is a trajectory of sorts.

You know, ideally you've done a little bit better each time or there's no sudden drops or things like that. So the the.

The path of your test taking is important as well, but we definitely 100% report on the highest section and I'm assuming most of you are already aware of our stats and I can find that.

Web page for you and put the overview. This page then I'm going to put in the chat has the overview so you know that we do not have any minimum score requirements.

And we the website shows averages and medians. We definitely take the holistic approach and look at everything.

Hopefully actually that answers your questions.

Alora, if you're currently rolled in another yield grad program, should we have our academic recommender come from that grad program or from undergrad?

Great question. So it's really your choice, but I would say that we do, we do like to have someone from your current program if you're a current Yale student.

Because you're here and you're already, they'll know how you are handling sort of Yale academics, so it can be really helpful. We're also mindful you're presumably in your first year and have only known them for a couple of months, so that could be tricky. I do not like to promote that. We allow more than 3 letters of recommendation because we don't want to have to read them all.

But in really in really unique cases and maybe useful and in that this might be a case for that where.

You're it could be good to have like a Yale faculty endorsement as part of one of your letters, but they might not be your strongest letter because you haven't known them very very long. So you may want to also get one from undergrad and still utilize your two other letters for professional. Perhaps it is case by case and it's going to be dependent on your individual situation, but that's sort of my. I don't want to call it a recommendation, but it's a suggestion.

You don't have to do that way do it that way, but it could be a good practice to make sure you have somebody from your current master's program.

All right.

You're welcome.

Let me see. I'm seeing a question about only having no last name on a passport.

That is an interesting question. I might know who you are because there has been one that has been sort of messing up some of our reports and it does look a little confusing.

As long as you've been able to submit and all of that.

And it's not giving you any trouble, you know, that should be fine.

As long as all of your other contact information is correct. Dates of birth, So when we're making decisions, we're making sure they're going to the right place, I think that should be fine. Should you get admitted and enroll, we would deal with what that looks like. The Office of Visa Services, they confirm all of your passport information and we have to make changes on our end.

But apologies if if anything looks funny when you receive mailings from us.

That might mess things up a little bit, but as long as you're not having any trouble, that should be fine.

All right, Jalen, you're welcome. And if you did your bachelor's and masters at the same time and have one cumulative transcript, do we upload the same transcript to both entries for degrees in the academic history section? That's a great question. Yeah, I know that gets a little technologically weird in there. We ideally only want degrees listed in those.

The different academic history sections and sometimes people load individual courses and all of the things, but then it looks on our end, it looks like.

Years of graduation and degrees received and it gets a little messy on our end, but in certain unique cases like yours and in other cases it can get a little confusing. So I think because they are two different degrees like names of bachelors and masters, you can 100% go ahead and add them as separate.

Entities, presumably with the same year of graduation, and I think it's totally fine to.

Load the reload the transcripts twice. I think there's there's no problem with that unless you also have like a diploma page or something that you could add in the second one. I think that's totally fine to do it that way.

And additionally, if your master's program doesn't operate on ABCDF, doesn't yield AGPA, can we include a statement on letterhead from our university that a test or a cumulative GPA between undergrads and graduate grades? Yeah, that's great. We we feel you here at Yale that has high and high pass and all of those unusual grades. So that's totally fine. You might be required to put some sort of GPA, but I think you can for those in the UK and other places that.

Don't provide Gpas or standard grading. You can if you require. I can't remember it requires something in the field, but you can actually.

Umm, I think put in a zero. That might work.

Alright, looks like I answered Ashley's question David. I saw the application for the January 2nd set of Lankford. Any additional documents. Would uploading the documents which is NBA Math certificate proving my quantity of sales strengthen my application? That's a great question. The application portal. So January 2nd is a deadline for your application, but you actually have access to.

Supplemental uploads from your status portal once you submit.

We don't want you to use it. I mean, you need to use it very judiciously. So if you've already submitted.

You you know, if we if you still haven't heard any decisions from us and you get fall grades in like February, you should be able to load fall grades and things like that in your status portal even after the January 2nd deadline. But if you've already submitted, which it sounds like maybe you have, and you want to submit this this certificate, you absolutely can do that through your status portal.

If you haven't, for those of you who haven't submitted yet, you are welcome to upload it as additional information in your application. I think it's under additional questions. I think that's the section in the application, so you're welcome to do that.

Excuse me again. Mohammed, welcome. Sounds like you're interested in MES. There are no, there is no funding for MAS. We fund our MPP students very well, but currently our MAS is not funded.

They're typically employer sponsored, usually US international military, US international government we've had.

CIA and others like that are their employers are actually sponsoring them to come and do the program, and as you may know, you may already be an applicant. Hopefully you've already submitted because that deadline has passed.

And that was on November 1st and we are hoping to get those admissions decisions out actually before winter recess, so hopefully this week.

Excuse me again. I'm so, so sorry.

I could probably mute this while I'm having a coughing fit, but I I don't want to lose you. I'm afraid I'll like accidentally disconnect you or something. So I apologize, but at least you're not getting my my germs through this virtual world. I hope that helps. Mohammed, am I correct in understanding that uploading scan transcript is enough for me to submit my application? Yes, absolutely. We do not want official mailed emailed transcripts or anything.

Till admissions, so unofficial is fine. You must upload something with each of your academic records. You must upload transcripts or you won't be able to submit your application If you are admitted. You will be asked to submit official transcripts sometime in the spring or summer if there are questions or concerns about those and legitimacy.

There would be issues with your enrollment, but yeah, we only need unofficial at the time of application.

Sorry again. Really, really sorry.

Joseph Also Polynomials. No professional experience in IR politics as an MBA.

And.

I'll read this silently.

OK, so how do you improve your candidacy?

I I don't know if you're an application an applicant for this year already, but if you're applying in the future, it definitely is about the MAS is really very strongly about studying international politics and international policy and global affairs. Less of sort of a pivot on things.

And so I don't know if this is what you're asking, but there are some students.

You know, our program is very, very small. Our two year MPP is only about 35 to 40 students and our MAS is sometimes as few as two, maybe up to 8. So very, very small cohorts. And so we're definitely looking for those who are, you know, already on the path of global affairs.

So it depends on if you don't have professional experience and your degrees. If you don't have, I'm not sure I'm reading your question right.

The MAS does require a minimum of seven years of relevant experience as well.

Regardless of what it is, it needs to be at least seven and most of them have sort of 12 to 15. That's sort of the average and we actually were considering.

Making that the minimum requirement, but the faculty didn't approve that this year. So keep that in mind going forward that that some of those minimum work experience requirements may matter.

So it's unclear to me that you have if you have no professional experience at all, or just none in this field. But having none at all, you wouldn't be eligible for the MAS having none in this field, it would be a very tough sell.

It isn't impossible, but we've had people in the past who are interested in like data analytics, but from a global perspective.

So that I.

Feel free to send us an e-mail, assuming you're not applying for this year, if you want to e-mail the Jackson.

E-mail address and let me put on some of our contact information while we're waiting while I'm answering your questions.

All right. Sorry for.

Floating around that question, I guess I'm. I'm not sure of what how to answer. I'm not sure what your question is exactly, so hopefully whatever I rambled on about helps. You're welcome, Melora. Sorry about the inconvenience. Ah yes.

You even look different in the chat without the without having a last name.

So you're welcome. I mean, that's fine. There are lots of people across the world with only one name, so maybe not lots, but you're unique in that regard. But we'll make it work.

All right Ashley, similar question on reporting GPA. The application says do not recapitulate GPA or report if not on printed transcript.

I'm torn about that. That's our rule. It's a rule we've had for many years about recalculating the GPA.

You know, we would want them done eventually, but we can also do that ourselves, but we don't have the time to do that ourselves. It's more that you know what if as long as you put the actual scale, the system can calculate the GPA itself.

So it's more that we don't want you like.

You know, creating a document and doing all of the calculations and recalculating the GPS yourself, the GPA yourself. Some people do this through like Wes and things like that.

Is, yeah, so.

Does that help? Again, it's we have, it's ideal. We'd love to have the calculated GPA, but we don't want you having to do that.

Or like making one up looking like you're making one up. So similar to a question above if your school or university has information on that.

Feel free to hopefully in their key or something they would have information about that they don't have it and how it can be calculated if that makes sense.

Apologies, I'm so fuzzy. I feel like I'm rambling a little bit. Hannah oh Hannah must be a Hannah must be a new person here. We definitely promoted this webinar as this is going to be application 1st and I hope we have time to do a little bit of overview. I do have a slide available.

There are many, many webinars archived on our website. If you are impatient about that and want to watch one of those leaders one of those later, we also do webinars. We'll do them again in the summer and next fall.

And we'll have in person events and we'll be doing all of the things. So these will be.

We do webinars all the time, so you'll have access to that. Unless of course you're wanting to apply this year and you're trying to catch up. But if that's the case, good luck to you. I mean, it's awfully late with the deadline being in like less than less than two weeks, right? Definitely less than two weeks or something like that. That's a little scary thought. But yes, hopefully we'll have time. Again, I have to cut this a little bit short today, unfortunately, because the meeting was scheduled right after this.

And I have to go prepare for that. So I will stop rambling then so we can get to that if need be. And I will keep going with hopefully the the current applicant questions so we can get them answered. Since as you can see on the slide currently showing we actually leave Friday, we're officially off starting Friday and won't be back until the day after the the day of the deadline which is January 2nd, I think it's a Tuesday maybe.

We will, you know, try to check our inbox as needed, but I would recommend sort of testing some things and making sure you don't have any major questions. Our e-mail volume is out of control and we're trying to get back to everyone, so that's what these are for. We wanted to make sure you had an opportunity to ask last minute questions so you can comfortably submit your application before or by January 2nd. I'd recommend not waiting until the last minute in case you have any technical issues on your end.

And you get locked out. Sometimes there's Wi-Fi issues, or maybe there is something you forgot or a little glitch and you have to go back. So definitely, I know it's hard to step away from your application and finally hit the submit button, but recommend you not wait until the last minute so you don't encounter any technical issues, power outages or whatever, OK?

All right. Edwin, can I please ask for students enrolled in the one year? So I'm applying the Jackson School MPP about the GMAT.

Yes. So Edwin, if your current Yale student, we do accept the GMAT. I believe the G mat category is the same as the GRE. We'll take the highest per section if you've taken it more than once.

It and you do have to submit those officially from GMAC. We don't get them from SOM so make sure you are submitting them directly to Jackson schools code which I don't know that I have in front of me. Hopefully found it. Oh I I can see it's.

It may be on this other slide, maybe we might not put it there because there's so, so, so few people who we allow that to be the G Mac 'cause it's only current El students applying to the joint degree, but actually you're in the one year program, so you're not applying to the joint degree I assume. So that might not let you. That might still require the GRE. We might have to talk about that offline, but that might mean the application form itself will require agre.

Score in order to submit.

So keep that in mind and maybe play with that you can actually import stuff and then look ahead and look at the review page of your application before you submit and it will tell you what is missing or recommended. Okay. I hope that helps Edwin.

Elizabeth, as an international student, don't have a GPA. But should I upload my first full course list or just final degree? Well, we absolutely want your full courses. We definitely need. It's not about GPA as much as it is about all courses you take in. We want to see your courses. We want to see your grades.

We want to know what classes you've taken. Are they relevant to a career in this field? So definitely we need your like some sort of unofficial transcript.

We get we understand that like, I don't know who hears from the UK, but we understand they have the unique creating system and nothing. There are no grades until you graduate.

But you.

Definitely. We need your full course list 'cause it's you're more than just your GPA. All right, Jenny, I'm gonna read this silently while I take a a drink again. I believe you can all see the chat.

Yourself to know what the question is.

And I believe in even recording when it's recorded, the people watching the recording can see the chat.

Alright, I OK. The question about work experience. We definitely value professional experience. Most of our students have around three to five years of work experience.

We're looking for a balance. We see work experience as evidence of commitment to public service and the greater good. So it is definitely very important we do have a handful of people who are coming with less than average work experience.

But they would have a tougher sell, right? They would have to convince us through other parts of their application, whether that's through their their internships, or maybe their recommenders can corroborate their stories on that. This is exactly what they want to do.

We are not a, you know, research focus. You can do research based classes and students do Ras for faculty sometimes.

But.

Our hope is and our goal is that you get this two year degree and you can go out graduate and get on the ground and do international policy. So that's sort of how we consider this a professional degree.

So that means like your commitment to the global affairs, those who are applying with less than average work experience almost have to compete against each other as well. We need a really unique story to make somebody stand out and what they can bring to the table given that.

We admit so few, with no, no to very limited maybe one or two years of experience.

So in that case, the unique story becomes really, really important, whether it's where and how you grew up, or or or whatever the case may be, or what you're studying, what you're researching, what your goals are.

And strong letters can be really important, I think I said that already. So it's not a, you know, we won't consider you at all.

But we need to see evidence of commitment that you actually wanted to get on the ground and do international policy sort of hands on, if that sort of makes sense.

All right, Becky, are there certain aspects of Canada's professional academics that you hope to see in letters of recommendation? It's going to depend on each applicant. You'll want them to ideally speak to your strengths and weaknesses and address those. I touched on that a little bit in the last question.

You know, we want to know that you can do a program like this.

That this is what your passion is. That ideally they're mentors of sorts who know what your long term career goals are.

And can again corroborate that story.

They can address if they can address any weaknesses you know, whether it's through. A good example is always lack of quant skills, Not on your maybe you're not a good test taker, and they're also not on your transcripts. Sometimes recommenders can can touch on those things depending on what capacity they knew you, So it's also not about who they are, but it's about how well they know you. So you want to choose recommenders who know you well.

And sometimes the academics for people who've been out of school for a while.

Are concerned about getting an academic letter and it really should be more than, oh, I remember them, they attended my class and they were on time and they got a good grade. That's not really a substantive academic letter, so.

You know, definitely, hopefully you have kept in touch with some of these people if you've been out for a while and they can sort of. If they're not, they don't have to be pure faculty members. As long as there's somebody who understands academics and academia and can speak to your sort of analytical and cognitive skills, that can be useful for sure. If if they didn't know you in a pure classroom fashion, again, that I hope that helps. I think that shows to the sort of flexibility.

And what we're looking for when you think about your applications.

Definitely holistic approach for us if that helps.

Alright, what types of supplemental materials?

Again, that's going to be case by case. We don't recommend supplemental materials. More is not necessarily better. Clear and concise is best.

I don't know that I have any additional answers. Your scores? Classes.

You know, your work experience, maybe things you've done in your. So I guess the issue maybe Becky, if the concern is you have a weakness in the quant area, how are you going to bolster that? If that's the question, then I reiterate the recommenders or touching on projects that you've done for potentially in work capacity.

But otherwise those are the pretty basic things.

Things and yeah, I mean I think, I think that answers your question. I hope Giselle University does not follow 4.0 scale. I think I probably answered this question.

Already in different ways. Well, Jackson recognized my CGPA. Yes, yes, I think I've answered that, unless you're a late attendee. But yes, we will.

You know, we look at each transcript. It's just really helpful for reporting to have 4.0 scale Gpas. But if you don't have that, that's fine. We work around that and when you understand you've not been admitted. But can I ask a minor question for a language from undergrad?

Our registrar's office handles all of the language requirements stuff, and I I never remember it really well. You have to have the equivalent of.

I think L4 level.

To wave out of the language requirement from Yale. So as long as that's met through transcript or a native language.

I think that's fine if if, if you fall into a Gray area and you're admitted sometime over the summer, you would, somebody would be in touch with you from either registrar, academic affairs about a diagnostic test, usually somebody at Yale.

Through different programs, since language requirement language courses are so robust here at Yale. So you would have a diagnostic, whether it's a conversation or a test or whatever the case may be. It's probably different depending on the language and the faculty in that language, and they would tell you where you land and if you have to take language courses.

Upon enrollment that you need to complete before graduation or if you wave out of that.

So L4 or testing later. Hopefully that's the short answer to your question.

Ashley courses Great. You found out? Yeah. Hey Ashley. Bonus points for Ashley finding the course database.

So yes, 500 and and above courses are grad classes. But keep in mind that if there is a course of interest at the undergrad level, higher level, undergrad level that you can't find anywhere in the 500 and above graduate level courses, you may be able to get permission to take that course.

It will involve talking to the faculty who teaches the course.

And if they're willing to do the extra work with you, and have you do, maybe it's a research paper, maybe it's an additional project.

Times with the TA it's it's going to be case by case. But if if you get their permission and the permission of the Jackson Academic Affairs office staff, then you may be able to even take an underground level. It has to be the higher level, so you're you know, you're talking like 400, maybe 3, not the lower level, except for languages, right? The language levels are all the different numbers because all the languages are undergrad level, but otherwise?

Yeah, and I think a lot of the Jackson classes have 4 digits. So you know, and you can do little search and I think those of you on can see the link that actually put in. But this is really important, especially to what was her name Hannah, the new person. She'll want to know this.

That use the Yale course database, since you actually, this will be super useful to you on your application. Since we don't have prescribed areas of interest, you don't need to tell us what the 16 courses are that you're planning on taking.

But you do need to make sure you have an idea of what we offer and what you plan to take in general and and sort of defining your own path and your own curriculum. So that is the tremendous resource for you as you as you sort of build your application. But again, if you're admitted, you get one-on-one help with this. The Academic Affairs and even Career services sometimes sits in on those you get hands on help.

To help navigate the academic playground that is Yale. So don't worry about getting lost too much as long as you know what you want to study while you're here. So, Ashley, I hope that helps. Jalen, if we haven't taken an econ courses, should we try to enroll? That's a great question, I think.

That can be super useful. I can't tell you yes do it because it's not a prerequisite.

So you have to use your judgment, but.

Anything that you take?

Beyond your undergraduate degree or any other academic programs.

Is it shows your commitment that you want to do this. You know if you're we assume you're applying to many programs and many of us sort of in apsia, the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, the top IR programs, we all usually want some variation of quantitative skills. Most of us have some sort of stats and econ and quant stuff in our core.

So it's going to be important for all of us. So definitely it's a good signal to have those even though you won't have the grades. So and again, you can submit the grades through your portal later, but it's definitely useful if you register for something before you submit, upload it, make sure we know that in your application or you can add it in your portal later.

All right. Oh, oh. But there's also the economics piece, so.

There, they made a change a couple years ago when we launched as a school.

That this was feedback from the students that they actually wanted. They moved the core econ class to the spring.

So enrolled students can take a diagnostic econ test and if need be, take a prerequisite in the fall. So there is.

A prerequisite course held in the fall, now an Econ class.

That some Jackson students take in order to get them up to where they should be at a comfortable level to be able to sort of fully understand the econ core that's now offered in the spring. So that's an option as well.

So which you could potentially wave out of if you take something beforehand.

But that's just something to keep in mind, it is an option.

All right. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. Thank you for the get well wishes, Humsa, what's the balance of personal flair background storytelling versus more single minded professional summary? That's a great question. I love the way you say that flair, personal flair is perfect storytelling.

Yeah, great. What is the balance? You tell us what that balance is. We want to know who you are and we don't do interviews or anything like that. So it's through your application where you need to tell us who you are, what you want to do with Jackson and what you want to do in your long term career goals. And how are you unique among this large applicant pool where we admit maybe 50 or so students to get our cohort.

How do you stand now? So that for some that may be a storytelling flair, right? That may be something really unique in your background or maybe through your unique professional experience or her professional goals, it's going to be different from for everybody. So, but you really do. I really like the way you say that.

It's.

You need to connect the dots. That's something I say in almost all the webinars. Connect the dots between who you are, your academic background, your professional work goals, and how. Why Jackson? Why now? Why do you need this graduate degree specifically to get to those professional goals based on where you've come up from so far?

All right. Does that help? I have no other questions at this moment. I blew through some slides and I know somebody on here was asking about Jackson in general they they stumbled across unfortunately a an application related webinar, but.

Also, one other thing, make sure you check our FAQs. I think some of you may have found this. We just did a blast this morning with the link of FAQ, especially if you're not getting an answer and it feels like an emergency.

Check the epic use first. This QR code should go there, but it's in the e-mail we sent if you are have started your application.

And we.

Yeah, so you can find that on our website. It's not a secret link.

These are our contact information. Again, be mindful that we will officially be on break. I probably won't have a student worker helping during this time, so we will be very, very, very slow to respond.

The apply now, I think most of you here have already sort of checked things out and started so and you know, watch this recording back if you have questions. I know I was a little rambly and I really apologize that I'm not feeling well, but when you schedule these things a few months in advance, there's not much you can do pushing through. I do have to.

Bounce really quickly. I do see a question from Pragati and asking about environmental policy. So yes and no and and maybe if if you need to bounce, feel free.

I'm going to maybe get into some general stuff from these last few minutes.

Maybe many of you who are already applicants know all of this. Don't worry, we don't keep track that you're leaving our webinar early. So if you need to, but if there's anybody new here?

Hopefully you've if you've hung on and you've listened to some of the way we've answered the questions, you're sort of getting a feel for what Jackson is about. So Jackson one is our two year MPP and Masters in public policy and Global Affairs.

Global Affairs is obviously very, very broad and our cohort is very small, usually about 35 to 40 students. And our hope is that those 35 students are approaching Global Affairs from many different areas that could be from national security, from environmental policy, from a law perspective, many, many, many different things. And I don't know that I have the link open, but really quickly you'll really want to check out our student BIOS. That's where you'll see.

The breadth and depth of.

Backgrounds that our students have. I'll post that into the chat.

And you'll see. But the the advantage too is the other thing besides our small size is our flexibility. I'm assuming you've caught that. We only have 4 core stats, Econ, History and Political, Political.

Not political science. Sorry, I'm getting fuzzy again compared to politics. Sorry. The four core and then the rest of the classes you can take at Jackson or anywhere else across yields, professional schools.

Or even in the Graduate School or even in Yale College, as I mentioned in a previous question.

The course database is already in there. You've seen it a couple times. You use that link. If you go to that yield course database and you type in environment, I'm sure hundreds of classes will come up. We have a world renowned climate person at Jackson Soupinias. She's a senior fellow. Senior fellows are also something that makes Jackson really, really unique.

They are practitioners in their fields and they come to Jackson not just for a week or a weekend or to give a lecture like a lot of these top programs do. They are required to teach and they come to Jackson for a year or two or three and some have been here longer than I have. So I was thinking of soupinias as the an environment person.

So these people teach classes, but again, if you go to the course database type in environment, a number of classes might come up over at the school of the environment.

And you have access to those as your electives. That's the beauty of the flexibility of the program. You do not need to be a joint degree student to take advantage of courses at the law school, at the School of the environment, at the School of Management, or anywhere.

You as a Jackson student, you have access to those courses, so Yale is definitely your academic playground, so yes.

Jackson has environmental policy, Yale has environmental policy. You have access to to those. So that's the short answer. While I'm here on this line and only have a couple minutes left, we've talked about language proficiency already and we also have a required summer internship that people do between their first and second year of the MPP program. You have one-on-one help also with career services who help you with that, and they work. They work one-on-one almost before enrolled, admitted, enrolled students get started.

So they are there to, to help you navigate that. Our website actually has links to the last five or six years of what those summer internships have been. It also shows first jobs and why don't I end by reiterating that we actually do provide really decent funding for the MPP. If you were on earlier, you know that our MAS, our mid career is not funded because most of them are externally funded by their employers or outside fellowships.

But the MPP program we've been able to give the last few years everyone tuition and it's merit based funding, so we won't know what funding is going to be until after the class is admitted.

We let you know within a few days at the OR more hopefully sooner, what your funding award would be if you were admitted, and you can utilize that to make a decision whether or not you can afford to enroll here at El Jackson. Our reply deadline is May 1st.

I blew through everything and I apologize that I have to bounce early today, but again.

Thank you. I'm, I hope those of you who are brand new to Jackson and this is the first time you're hearing about us captured a little bit about who we are based on our very technical application questions and issues.

Feel free to contact us, maybe not anytime soon. Wait until after the new year.

We get very focused on our applicants and our admissions decisions that usually go out in the middle of March. Again, MAS, we are going to do our best to get things done before recess by before the end of this week.

Otherwise, decisions will go on in the middle of March for everybody else. And again, you have until May 1st to reply. We'll have visit days for admits in April. Actually, I think we nailed those dates down, so if you want to pencil them in on your calendar, just in case.

April 3rd and 4th is going to be our admitted student program for MPP students.

And I will leave it at that. I am off to an admissions committee meeting. Thank you so much for all the get wells and I hope it didn't.

Change the flow of the webinar too much. But if you're we look forward to reading your application, whether now or in the future. All right, thanks everybody. Take care. Happy holidays. Whatever you celebrate, be safe out in the world. We know it's a crazy place these days, so be safe and and have fun.

Enjoy. OK, take care. Bye.