Summer Admissions Webinar (June 2021)

Hello everybody, good morning or good evening wherever you might be.

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Glad to have many of you here.

Great, glad you can hear.

So while we wait for some people to get connected, I you know we can go over some housekeeping items first of all, hopefully you can continue to hear me. Well, I am. This is not a zoom filter behind me. I am actually sitting outdoors in my apartment complex in hand, in a little town north, just north of New Haven. We're still working from home and I just thought I'd check it up a little bit.

We I know many of you. This is probably your first Jackson webinars. Sometimes we get repeat visitors and but for me it's like my I've done a dozen since we've been home, so I thought rather than sitting in my spare room, I would go ahead and shake it up a little bit. So hopefully the birds won't be too loud and you know, I thought this might also show you a little little.

Place of beautiful New England. We have a humid day. So far it's only 8:00 AM here and the rain is holding off until hopefully after this webinar and little tree behind me that a week ago you'll see the branches down that a black bear kind of wanted through here and decided he wanted some of the tree berries. So he took some of those branches down. So just an FYI, this this webinar will come to a complete halt if he shows up again.

So anyway, just wanted to make sure. If you can obviously hear me, you found the chat. Hopefully the neighbors.

Air conditioning unit won't won't overcrowd my voice because I just want this to be a resource for you to learn about Jackson a little bit about our graduate programs.

If you have any technical difficulties, this webinar is being recorded, you'll get an email with the link in a couple days after the webinar.

And if you want closed captioning, there's a little CC button you can click on. You can also maximize the screen if you want to see the slides a little bit better, and we will just go forward and we can get started. I think we've got a good batch of people here, so let's officially get started.

So first I did not even introduce myself, yet I wanted to formally do that. My name is Melissa McGinnis and I'm the assistant director of admissions at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Soon to become the Jackson School for Global Affairs. We're really, really excited about this time. We are slated to launch officially in the fall of 2022, so this has been in the works for a while. As I mentioned, we are in New Haven, CT, beautiful New England, and a great.

Northeast corridor between New York City and Boston, so we're in sort of a great area and we have the best of both worlds, and I believe we have this great New England vibe and we also have that small city field so we're looking forward to getting back to New Haven and we should be back on campus. Hopefully in soon after our Labor Day holiday in September, so we'll see if anybody is nearby or local.

Uhm?

We may have visit days. Currently visitors are still not allowed on campus so we will see how that goes this fall.

And like I said, some of you have found that out already. But one of my favorite things about doing these webinars is seeing people from all over the world. We had registrants from from India, Malaysia, Indonesia all over Asia, and I I'd love to give shout out. You want to sort of put in the chat where you're logging in from. I would love to see where y'all are are connecting from because I think that just is.

Is just great to model the great. I had some needed a friend who did missions there. That's great. We had a bunch of registrants from the West Coast, but I don't know if they realized the time zone 'cause it really early in the West blue West Coast. So really great to see all our people from me from tomorrow.

So 30 tomorrow. Well, just going shout out to Berkeley. Good morning. What is it? 5:00 AM.

Port it's 165 AM in Berkeley. Wow, well we're really glad you're here so.

Let's make this as worthwhile for you all as possible, so thanks for being here for either waking up early or staying up late, and we will hopefully answer some of your questions. Feel free to use the chat as we go along. If I say anything that you know you don't want to forget the question, feel free to post it. I may or may not get to it. I may be on a rant about something. Will definitely get to them at the end.

But as well will go along and talk through some of these things. So as I mentioned, you know where we're becoming a school and had really hoped that this would be the webinar where I'd be able to give you some major announcements. You know, part of us becoming a school. There are some changes happening and we are looking at a degree name change and it's almost official. It's almost official that will be changing RMA or Master of Arts to a Masters in public policy.

Not fully prepared to announce it yet. Follow us our website. I'm assuming will post it on social media and all of those things so I can talk about it in general and maybe give you some overviews, but until it's announced officially have to be a little ambiguous about it, but we're really excited about some of the real positive changes. A lot of people ask. Well, what does this mean? You know Jackson is new. Well, we're new.

We're new in name, right? We're going to be new and named coming this fall. Again, make dumb in the Jackson School next fall, becoming the Jackson School.

And you know, we've been the Jackson Institute for about 11 years now, but prior to that, we were the very well known yeisley. Our program. The IR program, was a founding member of Epsio, which, if you are interested in IR, you should be following that organization. I will type their address in the chat, so you have that because I think they're they're great resource, they're great.

Resource for.

Events from Jackson and our colleagues as well as funding resources. How to apply to grad school. So there are great resources to follow. So yes, IR program was a founding member of Axia 40 some odd years ago, so it's we're not new and we have and will talk about this later, but you know, we have an alumni network that is beyond just the last 10 years. So good. So the my neighbors.

AC just went off so hopefully that will be better for you. I know it was a lot for me, so anyway it's definitely a great time to be at Jackson were able to as we separate from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. We're building up on. Some things were able to start some initiatives on our own from student government to DI councils and whatnot, so it's a really cool time to be apart of Jackson Ann.

Even doing this during COVID and it's been crazy, but if you talk to any of our rising second year students who they're only experience with Jackson and Yale are virtual for the most part. Virtual we were hybrids, so everyone was, you know, in the area they came to, New Haven or the Greater New Haven area. So there was definitely a community developed, even if it was virtual an I think that just speaks to the.

Tight knit community and the.

Just the family atmosphere that we have at Jackson, and I think that's.

It has a lot to do with everybody really having a commitment to the global good, so we're going to talk about that. I I some of you, if you have been around and happened to have been on a web and R before, you may have heard me talk about the five F. Nothing official is just something after doing so many of these webinars that I just came up with. I started seeing the the F's come out of a lot of the.

The different unique aspects of of Jackson and I just thought this would be a great way for people to remember.

Those things that are unique about Jackson that makes it stand out from our peers and I've been around this public and international affairs space for quite awhile over 20 years, so I'm familiar with all of our friends and colleagues and competition, you know. But it's friendly competition for sure. You have no bad. You know you're not going to have bad choices out there so, but we all have those different little nuances that make our programs a little bit unique in a little bit.

Different from the other, so it's a challenge you have to get all of this information and learn about each of the programs. So when I dive into these 5F's, I'm sorry it's kind of small. You know, there's a feedback form at the end of this that we'd love you to fill out, and I'm experimenting with slides this summer. It's the first time I think, rather than just staring at my face. Maybe you'd like something to look at. So I do want to continue to enhance these, but as we wait for some of our changes

I think that's kind of when I'm waiting for it to build out the slides a little bit better. Once we have everything sort of settled, so as you can see, the 5F's that we list our family flexibility faculty funding in future. OK, so we're going to go through each of those briefly, and then I really want to save time for questions because those of you on this call this webinar may have different reasons for being here. You may have different levels of familiarity.

About Yale, about Jackson.

So I want to make sure I go over the Broadview and then we can dive in. Usually it's your questions that make me, you know, direct me into ways that answer more details about about the program. So first this family I hinted to that already with us being a.

You know a small program are our two year MA program is about 30 to 35 students. We also have a one year midcareer program which usually only has about two to five students. So primarily we're going to be talking about the MA today. The two year program happy to answer questions about the MAS. It's just the MASC is super simple. So if there's anybody here who is interested in the MASC, just know that it's one year. It's eight. Course is 100% your choice.

Currently no funding for it, so in a nutshell that is the MASC program. So all of these different details are really going to be about the MA. But when we talk about the family, the community, the people, the networking, those are completely accessible to the obviously MASC as well. So but keep in mind we're talking about the requirements it is going to be for the two year program, so both programs are small. Together, it's still small and we want to keep it that way.

So we get question. We get that question asked a lot about with us becoming a school. Do we intend to grow the program? Not really the class size we've been growing in a tiny little bit over the last few years. We do intend to grow our faculty have our own ladder faculty and they have their own F. But I also think that they are very integrated. Part of the Jackson community and I would say including the student, the senior Fellows, which we'll talk about as well. And we have world fellows. I'll talk about all those in the.

Actually component, but that's something for you to keep in mind when we talk about this sense of community. And I think we have the advantage of a small size in that you get a lot of attention, a lot of 1 on one.

Your needs are met, right? You have access to these people, so I mentioned I've been around the block. I've been around for a long time and all of these top IR programs have these people right? They have, you know, faculty experts in their field. They have practitioners coming in, but what I have found in my couple years that Jackson is that they are fully integrated. Even the senior fellows who come to Jackson for one year, two year, three years, some stay a lot longer than that.

Carries founded even an initiative that is being maintained even while he's obviously otherwise engaged.

They they are there they are. They actually read applications for us, so you might have former ambassadors and generals reading your application. Not to intimidate you, but.

You know there when we are in Hotel Hall the that's our building on Hill House Ave and Central campus. There around and they want they want to interact with the students so they do more than just teach. Classes will conduct lectures. There's opportunities to take them to lunch or for coffee. There are mentoring opportunities. Obviously it's case by case.

And some people are concerned about whether or not you know we're not in DC. If you like, I need to be in DC to to be sort of part of that hub. Well, I think we're also at the advantage of being close to New York City, where you have the UN and but also these senior fellows are really bringing their networks with them, so they'll bring their networks to speak in their classes, but also just their contacts.

And just, it's like the six degrees of separation, right? So you have access to these people an it's it's sustained access. It's not just they're coming for a few days to have office hours to talk to you about a global affairs career, so they really contribute to that family atmosphere. So the size, I think, again, our location. I think we're in a beautiful location and the picture on this slide is the we're going to be acquiring the two mansions across the street from our current mansion, so.

That might be a few years. I think there's Department's in there that need to move out and their buildings have to be finished. So there is that that might not be in your time if you're applying now, but just to show you that it really is just a beautiful. It's a beautiful area and I hope that really sort of shows you. You know about the family atmosphere and next is the flexibility. So most of you might know that I would say Jackson is probably.

There might be a couple programs out there that have a little bit more flexibility than we do, but we have the flexibility and the interdisciplinary nature. I already mentioned. The MASQ has 100% flexibility and the MA currently has only three core classes and that's where might be some of the change with us changing the degree name, we might be adding more of a policy like a comparative politics course to the requirements, but still for four classes.

Is pretty flexible among our peers, right? And that's the beauty that a lot of the current students and alumni of Jackson say is that being able to craft your own path and do it. Integrating fully with the rest of Yale's professional school. So you take your three or four core classes and the rest you can take at Jackson or anywhere else at Yale's professional schools. So a lot of students end up taking.

Classes at the law school. They take classes at the School of Management, which is eels Business School. That school of Public Health, School of the Environment. So it's very, very interdisciplinary and I wanted to I I.

Meant to be giving you links as we go so.

Why don't I give you the?

This is the course database.

And so you can do a keyword search in this database, right? So GL BL GLBL are the global affairs classes. Those are our Jackson classes and you will see if you do a keyword search, whether it be Africa or national security or whatever the case may be that are related to your interest. You do that keyword search and all the classes come up.

The universitywide and so it kind of gives you an idea of what options are available to you, and it can be sort of overwhelming, right? Because you just have this vast array of resources. We do have some sample matrices on our website.

An I will share that link with you and this is the page you'll want to pay attention to. 'cause this is where the curriculum changes will be made.

But at the bottom of this page there are some sample matrices that show what which class is a majority of people end up taking, picking and choosing right, and it needs to make sense and you get one on one help. So we can point back to the family F right that you actually have advising they sit down with you student affairs. Director of graduate studies. They sit down with you one on one to help you plan that out. But from an admissions perspective.

We do need you to have a good idea of what you want to get out of.

The Yale Jackson program, right. So in addition to your core, you don't need to tell us what the other 10 and can't do.

I'm at 12 or so classes are that you want to take? You don't need to say I want to take this this in this, but unlike other programs that give you a prescription of this particular.

The concentration or path or whatever you want to call it. You're actually in a place that you can choose that path, and that's usually if you're able to do that and give us an idea of what that path is, that really strengthens your application and that.

Really what happens is.

There is no minimum work experience requirement for coming to Jackson, but it is a professional program and it seems like there's that sweet spot of about three to five years, which is why that's sort of our average work experience of of incoming students. It's usually that sweet spot of about three years that people are out in the field doing whatever particular area of global affairs that is their passion and their interest and.

You know realizing, oh I need this, and maybe I need tools. Maybe I need the stats in the E con that we offer rejected. Maybe I need languages, heels, language.

No resources are very robust, which will be able to do a keyword search on that course database. Or maybe you need a regional study and maybe you want to take classes with ambassadors who spent their careers in a particular region of the world so.

Have making a good case for what makes sense together and how that's cohesive based on what your academics were, what your work experience has been, and what your long term career goals are, and what you want to get out of Jackson to help you sort of complete those steps. So we often use the phrase connecting the dots right? So you need to tell us up front how you want to connect those dots, so that definitely strengthens an application right? Rather than just saying I want to be able Jackson because it's inflexible.

Program and I can do whatever I want. That is true, but we need you to sort of tell us what that is and hopefully that makes sense and we can talk about that. If you have specific questions about that. But that basically gives you an idea of the flexibility of the program, and I want to clarify that we do have a lot of students who do joint degrees, and we encourage that we can't have an entire class of them, especially with being such a small program, but.

You don't have to be a joint degree student at one of the other professional schools to be able to access their classes. I hope that was clear so Jackson students do that all the time because we admit such a unique cohort, which I did not give you a link to their student BIOS, which I think is super important because not only does it should give you a picture of the actual family, I think it gives you a picture of the depth and breadth.

Of the type of students that we enroll that they're coming from all different parts of the world. They're coming with all different.

Expertise in certain areas and regions and skills and different sectors so you know, hopefully that gives you an idea of how that flexibility.

Shows in a Jackson student so.

Let's see, you know. I think that that covers the basics of the flexibility. I do want to touch on. Make sure I mention a couple of the requirements for the MA. We do have a language proficiency requirement. You must non non native English. Sorry the.

If you must have a language proficiency by graduation, not English, obviously, so some people meet that by being non native English speakers and you can meet that proficiency and other people do that by having had certain levels of language in their education before or through your work, or however whether Fulbright peace core. There's lots of foreign service officers have different levels of skills, so there will be testing that will be done before enrollment, so you'll know.

If you have to take any language classes while you're at Yale to fulfill that proficiency, do keep in mind that you may want to take classes anyway to keep it fresh to advance, or maybe take a different language so there is a certain number you're limited to how many language courses you can take as part of your actual electives. You can always take more that are extra, but that is something that can be met at Viagra as long as you meet that.

Efficiency in the L4. I think it is by graduation then that means that and then the second thing is we do have a required summer internship. The graduate in the summer experience we call it and I can post in.

So you know where to find them the examples.

Too many windows open here.

And let's see yes, tuition will get too.

Alright graduate summer.

Student experiences. Here we go.

Alright.

And you will find.

OK, so that gives you a head.

It's not just an example, that's actually the student experiences for the last, I think 5 or so years doesn't have the student names, but it has their the organizations and where they were. So obviously this last year you need to sort of look at that with a little bit of understanding that it was Coco times and everything was virtual things, so I think there is more research oriented things and obviously everything was virtual. I think people were helping senior fellows write books, so there was many different ways that.

You know you could make that work, so those are the requirements I see a question that's related I think to the curriculum, so I'll address that and then will pop on to the faculty. Would a joint degree required taking net more time, more classes? Overall that's a beauty. Is that no well so basically well overall, yes that you're taking 2 degrees, but each school agrees to count a semester towards the other schools requirements so it is shorter than taking.

Two consecutive degrees. So there is that advantage so many people do that it is. You do need to think about that additional time, whether it's a degree from the School of Management, or.

You know public health. We have our common and obviously the law school. So each of those will have different types requirement and we require that you come to Jackson first so you can take your core and then you can do your first year at the other school and then your final year is sort of your choice which semester you want to be in residence at which school. And yes, you're still at Yale so.

But there are certain requirements like you can only if you're in residence at the law school one particular semester. You can't. There's a cap on how many classes you can take back and exit, right? So it's just a protection of the joint degree. There's some information on our website about about that, but otherwise it's pretty flexible.

And you have access to those networks as well, so that's something to keep in mind.

I hope that answers the flexibility question.

Let me take a quick drink.

Thank you for your patience. We're at almost 8:30 so I will.

Plow through the final three apps and then get to some of your questions. So faculty I just wanted to. I think I mentioned that that's one area that we we plan to see a lot of growth with us becoming a school and I in case you haven't found them, I'll give you the link to our senior fellows. You can always keep your eye on.

That page is well. This will get new ones this fall. They haven't been announced yet.

But again, they are fully integrated. We have, you know, affiliated faculty with joint appointments, and then you know we're building our own letter tenant faculty that will have no control over hiring and so that's exciting for us. So that's one area of growth. And I did want to mention the World Fellows. They're not faculty. They're basically students, but they're rising in their careers right there. 16 professionals who are jacks their house at Jackson. They come in the fall semester.

And pre and hopefully post COVID they are around. They are there lounges across from the Graduate student Lounge, so there's a lot of.

Informal interaction in addition to them, I mean they're there to learn, right? They're taking classes as well. They might be in classes with you. They have a lot of extra programming, but they they have liaisons that get hired. Some Jackson students do that. They give lectures, you know about their professional experience, so you need to think of them as a resource as well. I didn't have their page with them up. Let me quickly.

Find that for you because they are really an unique aspect to Yale overall, will be all new sensor only there in the fall. They usually get announced sometime in the spring. Not that you should make your admissions decision on who the world fellows are, but if you're usually we know who they are before you have to make your admissions decision. So it's usually sometime in April that they are announced.

So we've had Nigerian Olympians and Iraqi comedians. And just, you know, they're they're great set of people, so they're definitely a resource in the network. Funding talk about that really quickly. Probably you want, probably want me to talk about it a little bit more than I'm going to right at this moment, but I think it's pretty straightforward. Here is the page for that.

It's straightforward in that. Again, it's for the two year program. You check a box in the application that you are applying for funding from. Jackson doesn't matter whether you're US or international.

You will be eligible.

Everybody who asks for it receives something right and historically that has been about half tuition, so that's 20, some odd $1000 and beyond that everything else is merit based. So from there we we have sort of a tier based system where we have the half tuition crowd and then we have the full tuition crowd and then we have full tuition and stipend crowd and it usually comes out to be sort of in the class of thirds right? So it does.

You know those data points? Those typical standard admissions data points will come into more play when we're considering funding, so that's where the merit based comes in. So that's where your your jury scores your GPA, your your work experience, all of those things that you can see on the student profile, which in case you've missed it.

I will post that in as well.

The irony is, I think my Internet is stronger out here, 'cause I'm closer to my Wi-Fi then I am in my spare room. All right so that that has, you know the link for that and also on the tuition page. Something to keep in mind is is we also have opportunities to be course assistants, research assistants, teaching fellows all different things which can be used to supplement your income while you're at Yale but.

They also go beyond that. They really do become an additional networking opportunity. So my favorite story is one of the first alumni I met a few years ago and she had was a course assistant for one of our senior fellows who was a retired general and after doing that for a year with him, she ended up getting her first job out of Jackson with him down in DC. So there are opportunities like that again. I'll just re emphasize the networking of that so.

There are ways to supplement the funding. I I really appreciate the New Haven area for also resources for students to get involved. Sometimes it's volunteer not paid, but you know there are opportunities to do things unlike some of the programs. Actually, a program that I worked for previously for 22 years before coming, Dale Jackson did not allow you to work so, but they also fully funded so that was maybe part of it, but we do allow you to work, I mean you.

I can't work full time. Obviously this is a full time residential program, but.

It you know, having these additional resources is definitely there, but that's again one more aspect that we hope increases the best. Becoming a school that we'd like to increase the funding and fingers crossed that that works by the time all of you are applying, right? That will be able to provide even more than half tuition, and we can actually say that I, I think all of this incoming class not be admit class with the incoming class all ended up with full tuition.

So and then there was a bunch of that have a statement as well. So Jackson has pretty decent funding compared to a lot of our peers, so do keep that in mind and then finally future. I think I assume that most of you are here looking at graduate schools.

Because you realize you want to do this as your career, hopefully you're doing it already and you know you need grad school to advance in that career. So that's you know you're going to get again one on one help with our director of the Career Development Office. There's resources, virtual and in person, and hopefully again everything post COVID right will be coming networking events in New York and DC and sometimes London.

With alumni and that includes the World fellow alumni, so they provide those opportunities. Weekly newsletters and job opportunities and are constantly pushing that out so that those resources are there. And I have the link again. In case you can't easily find it, the job, the jobs after Jackson.

Copy that link for you.

So you have that or not, again, just like the summer experiences gives you the actual location and the titles and the organization names. And again, I think it shows you the depth and breadth of things that people do following Jackson, and you know hopefully all with that that underlying commitment to the global good. 'cause that's really what we're looking for, is that commitment to the global good. So I could really sort of wrap this up by saying that.

You know I don't have an informal admission slide, and maybe those are some of your questions that it looks like we'll have some time to get to, but what are we looking for? We're looking for commitment to the global gun we're looking for. Hopefully a little bit of quantitative skill. Not required, but definitely recommended. And ideally some work experience. Those who have less work experience. I think you know. Again, connecting the dots, so hopefully what you undergraduate internships.

Volunteerism, community service, etc etc will all come into play in in. Sort of, you know we see those experiences as evidence of commitment to global affairs so.

We look at that.

Keep in touch with your recommenders. If you're not applying right now, you know build those relationships. Hopefully they'll be mentors to you who will know your journey, who can follow your career, and not just be a plain academic reference with somebody who knows about your passions so.

That's my presentation in a very big nutshell.

Why don't I have some time? Let me see if I can go back through and make sure I didn't miss any questions and I will plow through those and see what we have. Alright so sure he is asking if age is a factor Jackson looks at while reviewing. Halftime 20 would be 21 admitted relevant. Have relevant experience to my field. So with that strengthen my application. Age doesn't matter really. It really is about the experience.

And again, we don't have minimum work experience requirements, you'll just see from our profile that averages about three to five years people coming lesson that often are sponsored fellowships who are neither on the fast track in the Foreign Service or sponsored by their governments. That's not saying that that's a requirement, but again, being a small program of 30 to 35 people with a professional focus, we can't have too many who are coming right from undergrad, so that's.

You know it, you know it's almost like you have a double.

Double Hill to climb if you will. You're competing with the entire applicant pool, but you're also competing with this group of people. Who are, you know.

Fresh, strong academic, ready to take on the global goods, right? But we can only have a few of those, and there's again no quota. But usually it only ends up being about 1234 maybe so.

That would be the other component that I hadn't mentioned. It was that we look for is a unique story. So what is your story? And hopefully as you peruse the student BIOS, you'll see that everybody really looks different from each other and that just adds to the beauty of the program where you're not. You know, 300 people competing for the same internship. You all have different ideas or some great quotes in our view book that is digitally online and will be updated soon. So keep your eye out for that.

But you know the quotes of, you know you have like military officers next to pacifists and bankers. You know in the same classroom an becoming dear friends and creating, you know student groups together. And so it's really it's. It's also about your unique story and what you bring to the table. So I was like to say it's not just about what you need to learn from us, but what do you bring to the table. So keep that in mind when you're.

Building out your application that you need to also tell us how you could you know how you would fare among you. Know people 2627 thirty plus years you know working in all these different sectors, so that's that's kind of what we want to know. If that hopefully that helps.

Let's see loop. I'm interested in the ma great done yell and I have done graduation in Masters economics from India and have nine years of work and I plus years of work experience in the public space. Just being an experienced candidate put me at a disadvantage.

Or in this multi part question. So let me try to get to those. No more work experience doesn't put you at a disadvantage. We don't have a minimum for the two year MA. Three to five is the average, which means we have people who have more than that. We've had people with 6789, so you can be eligible for the MAS. But if you believe that you actually need the ma, just make sure that's clear. Make it clear that you don't want our admission RMA admissions committee to.

Think well, why aren't they applying to the MASC, right? So keep that in mind if you're applying, you could be eligible for the MASC, but make sure you that we know.

Again, why Jackson? Why this degree and why would somebody with nine plus years of work experience want to do a required summer internship? Or maybe the language? So think about that when you're putting together your application.

Our recommendations, we require three recommendations. We prefer at least one academic and one professional, and a third is up to you and that gets into philosophical, subjective things right. So think about your application is a portfolio and how you want to strengthen your application. So maybe you've been working for awhile, so it makes sense to have the balance higher in the professional recommendations, but.

Maybe you have some academic weaknesses, and so maybe you need somebody to attest to your academic skill those who've been out of work for awhile. We still do like an academic program. This is Yale. You're going to have access to the number one law school in the country. You know, we still need to have pretty solid academics. Ideally, we're willing to take some risk. Some people with may be riskier academic backgrounds, but there needs to be something that balances that out an.

Typically that is like this. Excuse me Rockstar Karere and things like that. So think about how all the components fit together right, and so that's how you might want to choose who your recommenders are. So I'm getting a frog. It's probably the humidity morning.

I don't have allergies, but maybe it's bad enough.

Excuse me, thank you, sorry, so hopefully that makes sense about the not just the recommended about the recommendations, but giving you sort of a big picture idea of the application also is full scholarship available. I think I touched on that. Yes it is. It is merit based. Full scholarships are merit based. Let's see. So many will said thank you. You're welcome, not they recall exactly what your question was. Will we be notified of our financial aid package at the time of admission? Yes, usually it's within 2448.

Maybe 72 hours? We tried to do that as quickly as possible. We are still part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for this year, right? So keep that in mind when you're applying as well, because the application is very Jesus focused, which is mostly PhD programs. So I think even the prompt for the recommended recommendations is like we want three academic record recommendations. Jackson doesn't want three, so you can sort of ignore some of those kinds of prompts.

I think even the personal statement prompt is all about your research and what you want to do. And working with what faculty we want to know what your professional career goals and background were.

So that's what's important to us, so think about Jackson when you're using, you're still using the Jesus application, so they send out the notifications and then we send out the funding stuff. So we have to determine all of that. They still have to approve all of our admissions decisions and stuff, so we try to get things out in the middle of March.

We we promise we do it as early as possible. We don't sit on it and make you like two of all your nails. It is not. That's not our goal. We are working very hard to get them out as soon as possible. If there are any masp here on this call today they are separate admissions committees.

Handled a sort of different times 'cause we have to sort of pace ourselves, so sometimes the MASC decisions go out a little bit later. So just keep that in mind. You know, we know you talk to each other, so when admissions decisions go out for one degree, typically our email blows up and it's like, why didn't I get my admissions decision? Might be a different degree, so keep that in mind that we are working as hard as possible and I you should know within.

At least 72 hours which are funding is and we do take into account external funding, so that's really important to include in your package. If you have external fellowships or you're funded by governments or your employers, that documentation is really important to us. When we're determining that financial aid. So if you can keep that updated in your application, that's important. You know Fulbright Pickerings Wrangells people winning those fellowships keep us updated. I think you can go into your application.

Portal and update those things because when we are doing financial aid.

That's important military as well. You know, there's GI funding, yellow ribbon funding. There's all that kind of funding, and sometimes you don't know that. But the more you know, the sooner you know it, the more helpful it is that you'll have a more accurate package within those few days following your admissions decision, and then you have until May 1st to accept, decline, or defer the offer. Typically we don't do defers. We will allow deferrals for the one year program. We have been allowing deferrals for the MA.

Because of Kovid because of visa issues and travel restrictions, but typically we don't, so a lot of unknowns for this coming year. Weather will have more deferrals or not. OK, let's keep going here. 'cause we only have about 10 minutes. Hello Harris from New Delhi currently pursuing through your undergraduate degree, BA wanted to ask injection require four year. It's not the the length, it's the equivalent of the degree. So I think India. I think France. I think there's a couple of places that do have three year degrees. As long as the equivalent to a bachelors degree.

That's typically fine.

Is the intention to roll out the MPP program before the next ignition cycle Ma? Ha yes, that is the intention. So if all goes according to plan, those of you enrolling now would be graduating, not now. 'cause that would be that it wouldn't count. I think for this year's incoming class, so those evil applying now to enroll in fall 2022 when we become a school, that's when we will be able to award the MPP degrees 'cause the Graduate School does not offer an MPP degree, so we can't do it.

You know, while we're under their purview, so that is that is the plan. Again, keep your eye on the website and the particulars of how that rules out. But that is the plan.

You're welcome for taking. I'm happy to take that. I'm glad to do this. You know, morning hour two, I wanted to make sure that people in your time many of your time zones, had the opportunity. I'm still amazed by the California no.

How does school typically respond to major world events that impacted students or their multicultural global affairs? Office T offices and great questions got such a probably don't have time to talk about all of it.

We, I think one thing and I wish they weren't so buried on our website. There are archives so when COVID hit, for example, last year we dove right in and had all summer long series of COVID related. How COVID affects global affairs. You know we had health Vanessa Carey. We had, you know.

Military guy, it probably take me too long to find the link 'cause it's really not easily findable.

I think we have a Venmo account. Or maybe you could search Venmo and find them. Maybe search Jackson, but you know a lot of our public events, which is that's easy to find. You can follow. You can even subscribe. You don't have to be.

You know part of the community to get our newsletter and the overall Jackson events. This events page right now has only our admissions stuff because most of the regular events are on hold for the summer. Again, like I said, unless something happens like yeah, like like you mentioned in the world where we had COVID events all last summer, so definitely respond pretty quickly if you know because we have immediate access to the senior fellows and what not, but hopefully you can find.

From the archives. To get a good idea of the kinds of things that we do and anet maybe.

You know panels and whatnot that we have. We are an exciting thing and Yale has a ton of resources that you'll have access to. But the nice thing is, and I think I mentioned this that with us becoming a school worse, branching out and starting a lot of our own things like we are starting at the Eye Council and you know the students are creating student more student groups. So I think you know the students who are at Jackson now. I've been, I think, really excited. Being able to sort of build a lot of these things from the ground up.

So we can actually do it right, right? So yeah, so definitely there are these things to support, support various groups and then again yell itself has tremendous resources that all Yale students have access to.

But again, Jackson is is working on having our own little subsets of those things too.

Kind of help our own community.

In, in in.

Additional ways than you already have access to it. Yeah, hopefully I answered that. I always get a little panicky in the last. You know, 5-7 minutes like I want to answer your questions.

Do you know when the application will open to applying this fall? Usually it's around August might be as late as September. Our deadline is our final deadline is January 2nd, but you few apply by December 1st. Your application fee is automatically waived. There is no admissions advantage to applying by December 1st. It's really for your benefit and for us to get an idea of how big the applicant pool is going to be, but we don't have rolling admissions. We don't make those decisions so you don't worry bout applying early, but it does.

It will be sometime in August that it opens can be here. Great interested in the MASC. We don't hold a specific web and R maybe we could someday. That that's definitely we could potentially have a totally MASC specific Web and RI will consider that. Talk to the boss.

When I can do and before we run out of time and lose more people, 'cause I see people bouncing out already.

I am happy too, especially when we're still not in the office.

Happy to offer.

One on one meetings.

With you, those, especially those of you who stuck it out, and maybe if you have questions that I haven't been able to get to.

This is my calendar link. What it does is it sets up a 15 minute zoom meeting so I can answer specific questions.

No, but again the to MASC is so basic and so simple. You know there's I don't know that we'd have enough to talk about in a hole in a whole hour webinar, but you have the same access to the same classes you choose eight over the course of the year. Most people take for, for you can take more.

Well, you have one on one help as well with our director of graduate studies to help you.

You know, work out that that program is growing a little bit, but we're a little over enrolled this year, so we'll have to wait and see how that might affect next year's cohort. If it proves to be more than we want. We also have initiatives with other programs, like there's a special program where we have.

International military fellows who are coming to be a part of the MAF so kind of yes, MASC, but a little bit sort of separate from MASC as well. Kind of doing their own additional programming so it might look like we have an extra large MASC program. They'll be in the student BIOS as well. Will be off the bottom so hopefully our new student BIOS. They usually get updated sometime. I think. In in August as well. You're welcome merriam. Is it possible to get an idea of the number of applications? Yeah, usually received. Sort of in that four or 500.

Range.

No, it's a pretty competitive pool.

You know, we usually admit 50 or 60 or so to get our class.

So that gives you an idea you're welcome with the application process change now that Jackson to school. Yes, yes and no it.

It won't change philosophically, it will change technically, and I panic a little bit about that because we're going to need extra staff because right now the Graduate School handles all the back end, right? They handle your and I apologize for a plane flight number. They handle. You're making sure your transcripts are loaded and they do all of the communications and they do all of the decisions, so we will be doing that. But we're excited on one hand because.

You won't have to navigate through those weird Jesus questions and sort of random Yale questions that aren't related to Jackson, but you still have to do this year, so it'll be probably a cleaner application for you.

So otherwise, but otherwise you probably won't notice too much.

No, it's just going to be in house stuff and you'll hearing from our senior staff instead of the dates of the Graduate School so.

And we are still requiring the Jerry for the two year program. We did waive it last year for the MASC for better works because it doubled the applicant pool. So sorry for the Ms applicants. So yeah. Anyway, let's keep going only about 5 minutes.

I just answered the Jerry requirement. Yes, for better or worse, it is still required for the two year MA, not for the MASC Anasi arrive, neuroscience, academic background, and have worked in research laboratories recently started working in social science UN. I am interested in furthering my background in global affairs, but my academic and work background allowed me to be eligible. So this is a great question and I think even if that's not specific to a lot of the people on this call, it is. It is relevant in that your major doesn't.

Matter, right? It's really what you've done. Hopefully you've taken some you know. I don't think we need to worry about the maybe the quant skills with that kind of background. But you know, ideally have taken some types of IR classes.

Pivots can be a hard sell. It is possible, but again we're looking at the connection of the dots. But what you your degree name or your major is wasn't really as important as the kinds of classes you took, and again the work experience during undergrad or sense undergrads. So definitely you know we have people who come from those kinds of backgrounds who do the joint degrees, especially right. So whether it's you know public health or whatnot or school in the environment.

A lot of people are coming in with science degrees who have those interests. 'cause there again were so interdisciplinary, inflexible that we you know, having that.

Yeah, that just that interdisciplinary nature of the program is really important. So where you're combining those different areas so I don't know if that's what your plan is, but definitely doesn't make you ineligible for sure. So as long as you just make it clear.

How what you've done has brought you to where you are, and again, I'll reiterate that we see work experience as evidence of commitment to global affairs. So people who don't have global affairs work experience, you know, we have to sort of take you at your word, and that might be a case where your recommenders can come more into play as well, and they can attest to what your those passions are. To know that this is what you want to do, so hopefully that makes sense in my rush to answer.

You're welcome style related to Charlene's point about the jury. Would you really be helpful in making up for academic weaknesses for me? As you know, it is optional.

We haven't completely, you know, where some schools don't require it at all, and some make it optional. If you have it and you want to submit it, that's fine, so you know, I think again it's. It's all about the balance, so you know we don't want people to feel like they have to submit something that's optional. That's not the reason for optional, even though sometimes it seems like it might be, but if you do have a well below average academic record, maybe no quant classes.

Right, if you have no quant classes, it could be you know the Jerry. If you can rock the Jerry Quant section, that could be helpful and that goes through the M as well. Who you know it's a balance. So if you don't have one forces and you don't do well in the con section of the Jerry like that's two strikes and that could be. And again, it's not like we're checking boxes. It is about the big picture but.

Do you think about it as a balance totally? Your call is not required, so it can't really tell you to go ahead and do that. It could be helpful, but Jerry is also not, you know, we understand its weaknesses, and it's also not usually a make or break.

Component of the application. It you know, it's all a balance of everything together, so hopefully that makes sense. Let's see. Oh, calendar link doesn't quite work and brings you to your own profile. Let me just, I'll paste it in one more time. Maybe I'll do.

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Alright.

OK, it's working for some, so hopefully you have my calendly link. Our contact information. He's here. The Jackson admissions email. Our website followers on social media. 9:00 o'clock so I will let you go. Let some of you go to bed, let along with the California, and I'll reheat my coffee.

Really thankful that you stuck it out that you're potentially interested in Jackson. Hopefully something I said made you even more interested in Jackson and that will see your application this coming fall or in the future.

Thanks, I hope you enjoyed my backyard. Glad we didn't see any bears this morning, but hopefully we'll maybe see you in person someday soon. So take care and good luck. Stay safe. OK, alright, bye.