Fall Admissions Webinar (October 2023)

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This webinar is being recorded so you will have access to it within about 24 hours. So if there's ever any glitches or you have to bounce off early, you will have access to this at a later date. I'll be posting links in the chat and you should be able to have access to those as well. Obviously this is an audio presentation so make sure you can hear and please you know if you need to reset.

Things you can always refresh your browser. Sometimes the voice doesn't line up with the video and I know that makes me a little weirded out when I attend things. Obviously you have access to the chat so you can ask me questions that way and I will keep my eye on the chat. Sometimes I do these you know I answer as I go or I wait till the end. But if you are having any trouble hearing you can also use the little closed captioning. It's a little CC, should be on the top right of your screen.

If you want to enable the closed captioning, there's a little the the four way arrow can make this larger. If you have any trouble seeing any of these slides. Alright, well we have a good group here and a good chat going. Holo Mexico, Mexico if anyone where you are. It's still tentative but likely to be there in early November, so Apsia will be hosting a reception there.

And if you're not following Apsia, please do. I will put their website into the chat. They're an amazing there are professional organization that we're a member of and they do many, many events and we're hoping that they finalize Mexico soon so we can get that booked and get some alumni to join us and maybe see some of y'all in person.

All right, so who are we? You have all been telling us, telling me, all of us, where you are from? Well, I am Melissa McGinnis, and I am the assistant director of admissions here at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. It is night time here in New Haven. It's only 7:00 PM, but our seasons are changing and it's dark. It's been unusually warm for this time of year. It's getting a little cooler this evening.

But it's been great. The students had a pizza party with the Dean this afternoon. We had bagels outside this morning. So it's been beautiful weather here. If any of you are unfamiliar with how how the weather goes, some of you may know that we were the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs until last year. So we are Jax. We are Yales newest professional schools since 1976. So not a lot.

Has changed and in some ways a lot has changed. But the core of who we are has not changed that much. But we did change a name and becoming a new school. What that means is we have a lot more control over our faculty and we are taking some of yields very globally related centers under our purview. And hopefully we're supposed to be getting a few new buildings. We've got one already that one of our centers.

Has moved into and so there's there's been a lot of changes. But then again the core of who we are hasn't really changed and some of you I mentioned you know we are here in New Haven, may not even be familiar with New Haven. I mean if you're popping in from New Zealand or South Africa, you may not be familiar with New Haven. So I just posted a link in the chat gives you a little bit of overview. We are a small city, we're located about halfway between.

Boston and New York City, and we are, it's funny to call it a city. I think a lot of people from like your typical like London, New York, DC, you're like New Heaven's not a city, but we are. We do consider as a small city a residential city as well, but for its small size, we actually have quite a lot of things. You'll see when you, if you have a chance to look at that website, we're definitely a foodie town. We clearly have motorcycles. If you could hear those we have.

A lot of museums and a lot of shopping and it's more affordable place to live than some of our peers. So it's, yeah, check it out. There's also a community called East Rock which is a a neighborhood where a lot of our graduate students end up living, end up living. And it also has what's called East Rock Park, which is a giant. It's a park, but it also has this big.

Call it a mountain, but like the people here who like Colorado and places like that, it's not a mountain. It's a big giant hill here in in downtown New Haven. And a lot of people go hiking and biking up through there. So it's a great little way to feel like you're in the city but also have a little respite from the city. So that's me and that's who we are. I actually have been here at the Jackson School since 2018. So prior to that I was actually at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

For about 20 years, or 22 years actually. So I've been in this public and international affairs space for quite a long time, so I'm happy to answer your questions primarily about Jackson, but we can also talk in general about applying to Graduate School in Global Affairs.

As needed. All right, some of you may be repeats. I know a lot of people attend these again and again, which is a little intimidating to me because often they're very, very, very much the same and I wonder what I say. But I've been told they're useful. So if some of you have attended, you might know I've kind of come up with this 5F's that helps me remember what I want to talk to you about and hopefully gives you a trigger of how we want you to remember.

What Jackson is about So we like to talk about their flexibility in our program and our curriculums. And we I like the Word family. When we talk about community, whether it's students, faculty, staff or other constituents that are related to Jackson, including faculty and funding. Obviously a lot of people are concerned about how they can afford their graduate education and then future. Obviously this is the reason you probably want to do a graduate degree is to take.

The next step in your career trajectory. So that's kind of what we're going to blow through today and I wanna tonight or today wherever you might be depending on what time of day it is for you. I see Greece and Ghana have joined us as well in Atlanta. So great welcome. I will probably try to blow through these quickly and then get to the chat later. And again as I mentioned, I will keep pasting relevant links in as we go. So first thing to talk about.

Is our flexibility. So our main flagship program is our two year MPP. It's an MP in global affairs. It's a very, very small cohort. It's usually only about 30 to 35, maybe 40 students. Very flexible, 16 courses, only four core your stats, your econ, your history and your comparative politics. And then the rest of the classes you can take at Jackson or anywhere else across yields, professional schools so amazing that you have.

Access to this academic playground that is Yale and we also have a one year Master of Advanced Studies in Global Affairs which is again one year only eight courses, no core. So you actually have 100% flexibility. That cohort is also very very small usually about two to five students also know funding is available for that program. So most of our students in the MAS are sponsored usually by their employers. So if you ever get a chance to look at our.

Student files, you'll see they're they're typically international government or international or U.S. military. They do require a minimum of seven years of relevant work experience, and most on average have 7 to 10 or 12 or more, so definitely are on the rise in their careers. So there are options to do joint degrees. We do have a language requirement for the two year MP that you must meet.

By the time you graduate from Yale, so many people who come with another different than English native language usually meet that requirement. Or you can take classes from Yales very robust language opportunities. Let me make sure you have access. So I have like the academic links. So the first one is the MP, which talks a little bit. Actually I think I wanted to put the courses and curriculum.

Think in there, but you can drill down to these. I just want you to not lose track of these because I know sometimes things are a little bit hard to find on our website. But that course is link actually describes the four core that we have for the MPTP and it talks about some of the other opportunities like our leadership and ethics and professional writing workshops. And the in case anybody is on here interested in the Ms. here is a little bit of an overview of that as well.

Pretty straightforward. Again, because it's just the 8th courses and no requirements, so I wanted to make sure we have that. But the one really, really important link that is on those pages but is a little bit buried and kind of hard to find is the Yale Course Database.

OK. So as I mentioned we you have 100% flexibility for the animals. You have 12 courses that you can choose from for the MPP on top of the four core. And when I mentioned that you can choose from Jackson classes or all across Yale, you have access to this course database. You can do a keyword search on an area of interest or region, you can do GSLB L which will show you all of the Jackson.

Classes that are specifically Jackson offered classes.

And what our perspectives, what our students do is sort of build their curriculum. Unlike many of our peers, we don't have fields of study or certificates or regional studies or area studies. You actually design it. You build it, you tell us what you want to do and then you tell us how you're qualified to do that. So it's more of a twofold application. You are telling us what you want to do here, not just applying to like international relations or international.

Development or whatever type of specific.

Um, research you want to do or particular area of study. So it you need to design that. And this is a resource I want you to have because it will help you in planning your application. And that's why most of our students have about three to five years of work experience because they usually end up in the field and they have that epiphany. And like, ah, this is what I want to do in my career and this is what I know.

They need from Graduate School to get there and so if we can help you do that, that was great. And once because our program is so very small, you do get individual one-on-one help from from the academic services and student services offices so you do not have to navigate again the academic playground all by yourself. But that's for enrolled students. So my job is here to tell you how to find the resources that are available to you.

So you can put together the strongest application possible, so I hope that explains the sort of flexibility nature of the program. I'll quickly move on.

I wanted to talk about family. With family, I really mean students, staff, faculty, the different levels of faculty. And one thing that makes Jackson really, really, really unique from our peers are our integration of senior fellows into the program. So that is, they are usually a dozen or more people who are.

Have, you know, reached the pinnacle of their career. Some of them are retired, some of them are still active. They may be ambassadors, they may be former military generals, CEO's, run International Development organizations. They come to Jackson to teach and informally mentor and to bring in their networks. So I think again, what makes Jackson unique is, you know, all of our peers have people like this.

In in their programs and we all like to promote that but given my 20 plus year history and and traveling with our peers in the Apsia cohort and others.

I definitely think that Jackson's integration of these senior fellows into the program is is is bar none. As they say, they actually are here for not just a semester, sometimes, maybe a semester, but usually a year or two or three. Some of the senior fellows have been here longer than I have. They just love being a part of this community. And again, they're required to teach and they give talks.

And now with the virtual life that came out of COVID, they bring their networks in from the outside as well. So they might have their in person class and they might bring in their networks virtually into a class and it's just an amazing opportunity. And some of our students actually work with them whether they be TA's or research assistants. So there are lots of opportunities to interact with them. They were invited.

Do the the pizza party I mentioned today and they're usually mingling around when events and programming are happening so they really really not just being such a small cohort and our location and the beautiful tree lined St. of of central campus here in New Haven. We you know we're we're located in a big giant mansion and we're getting three more mansions across the street as that's going to be our little.

Global Affairs campus here at the the top of Hill House Ave. So it definitely adds to that sort of family feel so wanted to just reiterate that and and also before I forget is the the world fellows as well. You'll find them in the meet us list that I just sent to you. World fellows are an amazing group of usually 16 international. I call them students but they're not here seeking a degree but they do take classes while they're here in the fall semester.

So they come to Yale just for the fall, but they attend lots of leadership programming. They attend, they take classes, and they also give events and talks and bring their networks in as well. They are an amazing group of people. We utilize them for recruitment purposes because they often know people like yourselves who are, you know, ready to pursue Graduate School. So these are people who are.

On the rise in their careers and some of my favorite examples are Nigerian Olympian and an Iraqi comedian that we had in the last few years. And we have a this year we have a UK jockey who I believe is a veteran and does disability things and it's just they're amazing, they're absolutely amazing and so they are part of your network as well. So keep them in mind.

Currently in this building they are. They're lounges across the hall from our students lounge, so there's a lot of organic things that happen between them, so you need to think about them as part of your alumni network as well.

OK. So Ohh, I skipped over funding. We don't want to do that. So I wanted to mention funding as I mentioned at the beginning, currently we do not fund our mid career program. So our one year program is not funded, which is why and I'll mention again in case somebody popped on late that is interested in the one year program, many of them are externally funded or sponsored by their employers and we usually only have.

About two to five anyway. We do have a a group of five or six that we call them perks or they're part of the MAS, but they're a little bit separate, not separate but they're they're they're part of a special fellowship program and their US and international military and they have, they've run a soft con conference and they do lots of things through our international leadership center that we host here at Jackson so.

A lot of interesting people. But again they're funded but for two year MPP we actually provide pretty decent funding and maybe there's. I know there's a number of international students here but and and they may not realize that most masters degrees in the US are not funded PHD's. Yes, Jackson currently does not have a PhD, but masters programs know you usually have to cobble.

Together funding from various places and and things to to get your funds for Graduate School. But we are very lucky here that we have been able the last few years to provide full tuition to all of our admitted students. So our funding is merit based. Did I put that link in? Yes, I put the link in already. Our funding is is merit based. So we don't.

Do the the need based thing, but all you need to do to ask for funding is check the box within the Jackson School application saying you would like to be considered for funding and that you need funding. This does not affect your admissions decision so it would be sort of need blind in that regard but because we like to make funding offers within 24 or 48 hours or so of admissions decisions we need all of that information sort of upfront and.

Yeah. So and also about, you know, we can't guarantee this, but in the last couple years at least a third or closer to 1/2 of the class have received stipends, living stipends as well. So we're getting there. We're not, my former employer down in New Jersey has the mic drop on funding as they say, but we're we're getting there, we're getting close and we want to be able to.

Have people go into their career, you know in in the global goods without having to take on a significant amount of debt. So you can just follow your passion. So pretty straightforward. Hopefully that makes sense. We can address questions as we go. Now to future. So again I mentioned the am I in the right place so.

We have a dedicated career development office here at the Jackson School and they again I mentioned before they meet one-on-one with enrolled students and help them navigate.

That what the summer internship requirement is going to look like and also help them navigate pursuing their first jobs. So we actually have some really decent data on our website. So on this link here the summer experiences not just the you know the overview of the percentages on regions and types, but if you look down at the bottom you can actually see the locations and the organizations where our students.

And pursued their summer internships. So you get an idea of how everyone here is pursuing very different things going back to the flexibility, interdisciplinary, interdisciplinary nature of the program and with our goal with such a small cohort as have everybody approaching global affairs from very different things and from very different.

You know I are relevant but very different aspects of things, so you can see that through this summer experiences and also the first jobs which I will paste in as well.

So you have record of this if you come back to this or if you want to bookmark these things or whatever, however you want to keep track of these. And again, they are all on our website at the bottom of that page, it also lists, I think it's like 4 like five or six years of first jobs of our graduates. So again, I think it just reiterates what everybody's doing. People are in course DC in New York and people are working.

Ministries in the UN and the World Bank and State departments and USAID and they're working in NATO and Brussels and on and on and on and on. So you can take a look at those for yourself. But it really is we want to be able to help you do what you want to do and follow your passion and make a difference in the world. So that's that's basically an overview of our, the future and our and our career development office.

And so that, that's it with the five FFS. So how to apply this page, this QR code actually goes to our MPP application process page and it goes over all of the requirements and it links to some pages.

We are the for better or worse for the two year MP. We are still a GRE required school so we do require that. Not for the one year mid career program. We require 3 letters of recommendation ideally one is an academic focus, one is a professional focus and then third is sort of your choice. You we have actually 3 deadlines so the MAS the mid career deadline is November 1st.

So that is earlier than last year. So if you're reapplying. If you've been here before and want to reapply, and you're interested in the MAS, the deadline is now November 1st, which is less than a month away.

For the two year MPP, the final deadline is January 2nd, but you can apply by December 1 and automatically have your application fee waived. Big thing to keep in mind because we still require the genres.

Keep in mind that even if you want to apply by December 1 to have your fee waived, the test scores and even your recommendations, the things that are outside of your control a little bit can come in by the January 2nd deadline. So your application does not have to be complete by December 1st with all of its components, Your portion of the application, the form and the personal statements and resumes, etcetera, need to be submitted by December 1 to get that fee waiver.

The statement of purpose is pretty straightforward. I like to tell people that you need to connect the dots. Tell us why Jackson? Why now? What has your path been like? Your academics? Your work experience? How has that led you to this point in time? And what you want to do with Jackson and how you want to utilize that to get to the next step in your career. Don't forget to tell us what your long term career goals are, because that's what we're looking for.

And also what your unique story is again having only 30 to 35 people in our cohort, we want them to not just be unique in how they're approaching global affairs, but also in in what their voice is and what they're bringing to the table. So you that can be reiterated with through your recommendations, through your statement of purpose. There's a couple of other smaller questions within the application that are optional we also.

Require a resume. We like the standard one to two pages, but we also want to know what you did extracurricularly and what kind of volunteerism. Anything that shows evidence of your commitment to to the global good and that this is what you want to do in your career. And we do require all transcripts. Whether you've taken a class here, a class there, or a degree, you should submit unofficial versions of those with your application.

Official wouldn't be needed until admissions of offers of admission are made. All right. So that's the basic overview of the application process. And here is a lot of our contact information, our social media and I apologize, it's been very, very, very, very busy here and we're really understaffed and with it being sort of post, hopefully really post.

COVID, we're also back out on the road and doing a lot of recruiting. As I mentioned, I'm going to be in hopefully in Mexico November, but prior to that backing up, there's an event in New York City next week. We are, I'm heading to Tashkent, who's Becca Stan. So if anybody's in that region, there will be a grad fairer part of a forum there. And then we're doing an app Sea Paris. So if anybody's in Paris or nearby and want to pop over to Paris.

At the end of the month, all of these things are on our events calendar.

But I say that because.

During COVID it was great to offer like one-on-one appointments for people who didn't get their questions answered in this format. And we're really, really behind on our inbox and all of the things. So part of that reason is, and when we became a school, we used to be part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and they ran our application. So we had to build our application from scratch And so we've been doing that the last year so.

That takes up a lot of our time as well. So we really apologize for being behind on answering your questions. But that's what these are for and I'm going to get to your questions right now in a moment. But I also wanted to mention that because I can't, I don't don't have the time to do one-on-one individual appointments. I've been doing office hours, zoom office hours, they're group office hours and that's what that link and that QR code is on the bottom. So if.

We don't get to your questions today, tonight then and if you've sent an e-mail and we're behind on getting back to you on that, feel free. Hopefully you can hop on. I've scheduled them the same time next week, assuming if you're here that maybe you can attend at this time next week as well and get to some of your questions. Again, it's group style, but like the questions you're asking now, most people have very similar questions and.

Happy to get to them sort of all at once and help each other mutually. So there you have it. Half hour in, leaving 1/2 hour for questions. And why don't we get to it All right, I'm going to take a little water break.

Because it is getting warm again. Because they think I'm talking and I'm actually standing at my desk in my office trying to, trying to not sit so constantly. That flight to Tashkent is going to be something else, I think.

Anyway, let's see. Let me scroll through the chat, see what I might have missed. And those of you who haven't asked yet, feel free to pop your questions in the chat and I will do my best to get to them. All right, great people popping in late. Rod is asking about MPP, so one thing I want to note, I mentioned the app Sia. I mentioned our peers.

The degree names are all different and they're all very confusing. So our MPP is our two year program, our one year program is the mass and it was very different at my former employer down at Princeton where the MP was the mid career and their and their two year was an MPA. Of course there's other programs like MPA, ID's and MSFS and all of the things. So don't worry too much.

Weapon nomenclature, but basically make sure you drill down to the degrees that you're interested in. But so our MPP is doesn't have a minimum amount of work experience required. Most have three to five years, but we have them right from undergrad all the way to I think we had somebody who was 39 or 40 this past year. So it's definitely a range. There's no minimum, there's no maximum. But.

Average is about three to five years and actually there's there's some stats, I'll put those.

In the chat as well.

So you have them. We don't do stats like this for the mass because it is far too small and you would be able to know who's.

Scores and things might not be all that great, so.

Yes. So the other part of your, so I hope that answers your question. So the MAS requires a minimum of seven plus years experience. All right, Ron, I hope that helps. Alan, does the MP take undergraduates without any work experience? I guess I started touching on that. Yes, we do, but we do consider work experience as evidence of commitment to global affairs and the global good. So and again being so small, we can only have so many.

So there's no quotas, but we might have one or two or three maybe a little bit more. And we also have a five year program for Yale College students. So they're they start taking their masters classes and their senior year so they contribute to the the right from undergrad if you will.

So you'll see from the stats that are average this past year of the the new class was actually five years. So that means people had less and people had more, whereas I think last year the age range was like 21 or 22 to 40, so this year it's 23 to 36. So it depends on the applicable world. We're definitely looking for a broad range of representation and all different career paths. That being said, some of the things that we recommend is obviously.

If you don't have as much post grad work experience as as others, the internships and volunteerism, the things we talked about for your resume will weigh much more heavily. Those things are really important to all applicants, but they'll weigh more heavily for someone who has less postgrad experience. And I often tell the the younger crowd, if you will, that they they're they're recommenders can.

Really be useful because we need somebody to corroborate your story on. You know you haven't had the work experience, you haven't tasted what that looks like. You might have grand plans and grand ideas, and that's great. We need some of those in the class. But sometimes these fields, especially especially maybe development or other fields can be very difficult and and so if recommenders can attest to this, really being your passion.

This is what you want to do then that's that that can be really useful as well. So Alan, I hope that helps and answers your question. It's a great question. I get it every time, all the time and I'm sure there will, there will be others here who wanted to know that Alpha, hello welcome. The GRE, so I mentioned earlier, yes not required for the one year mid career program. It is still required for the two year MPP, the overview that I put in basically.

Shows that we do not have any minimum requirements. We the only minimum requirement we have is for the TOEFL test. I think it's a one O 2. I think a TOEFL or IELTS or Cambridge English, Your English language proficiency is the only thing we have a minimum on.

And but otherwise the the the overview that I showed shows shows averages and medians so hopefully that will be useful. We started putting in the range because we wanted to make sure that people didn't self select out.

Think of your application as a balance. So if you score low on, for example, the quantitative section of the GRE, then hopefully you have some quant classes that are you did really well. And think about your application as a balance and that's what that holistic approach is that we utilize. So again, no minimum requirements and alpha, I'm not sure if you heard.

The part where if you apply by December 1st.

To get the fee waiver, your application your your GRE scores can come in later, as long as they come in within a week or so of the January 2nd deadline, which is our final deadline. Let me know if you have more specific questions about the jury. If people have taken them before, they're good for five years and as long as ETS releases them, we will take them. If you take the test multiple times, we will. We'll have all the scores, but we'll report on the highest score regardless of the test date.

A high score per section regardless on the test date. So some people go up and down a little bit. So I hope that's helpful. Alright, Alright. Hi Manatt, Sorry if I don't get your name. And again, I apologize in advance if I pronounce names terribly. Admissions requirements for international students basically the same that the only differentiation is, and it's not just international students, it's actually goes by your native language. So anybody who's native language.

It is not English and did not attend an undergraduate program degree.

In English are required to take an English proficiency test as part of their application, the TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge English. Otherwise your application requirements are the same, funding consideration is all the same. Check the box there, there's otherwise no, no difference. Most of our we have usually between 40 and 50% international students. Being a global affairs program, that makes a lot of sense. A lot of our domestic students come here because of that.

As well, they watch that to see if that's the career they want to do. They love that we have such a robust international student community, so and I didn't have it available.

But we have a really, we don't handle it in the departments and in the schools at Yale. We don't handle all the visa stuff. That's handled by an office at Yale and it's OISS. So I'll post that link in for our international students. It talks about visas and all of the things, but also helps, you know, talk about student life and adjusting and all of that. So hopefully that will be useful to you. All right, Noah, how do admissions?

Requirements change. If someone's a dual degree participant, great. That is a wonderful question because there's probably a bunch of you.

Um, So at Yale, the joint degrees are handled completely separately when you apply to them. Each school has its own admissions office, own admissions committees, its own applications, very siloed as the as the saying goes. So whether it's the School of Management or the Yale Law School, you apply separately. We have a joint degree statement that's required if you want to do a joint.

Agree with any of the other Yale schools and it's it's shorter than your personal statement. But we it is a requirement if you want to pursue a joint degree. It's kind of where you flush out a little bit more maybe the sequence or how to justify the joint degree. You'll probably talk about it in your personal statement obviously if that's what you want to do. But the the statement again really fills in a lot of the gaps because don't forget our program being so flexible and so interdisciplinary that.

Most of our Jackson students take classes at the School of Management, take classes at the Law School or the School of Public Health.

So the, you know, having justifying why you need a whole extra degree is really helpful. Maybe you do just need a couple classes in in international law or human rights law or higher level econ classes or social entrepreneurship classes out of the School of Management. So think about that when you're doing the joint degrees.

Um, not discouraging. And we actually encourage them and we want joint degree candidates. They're they're amazing additions. We also can't have like the younger people, we also can't have too many of those because you usually start if you're applying at the same time you usually start at Jackson and defer the other program. So if we had too many joint degrees, we would have no second year program the following year. There is a slight difference. It sounds like you're asking if.

If you're already in your first year at and you know doing the MBA and this would be relevant to any of the other schools as well, it is another option. There are many students who do that. So you would just have to come to Jackson immediately if you got admitted. And the one advantage, well, there's probably a couple of advantages. You know, we want to we'll have a better picture of your academics because you're here at Yale, but.

The other advantage is.

If you are a current student at Yale and you're in, for example the law school or the Business School, we will accept the only time we will waive if you will the Jerry. We will accept your Lsats that you submitted for the law school or your your G mats that you submitted for the School of Management. So those are the only times where we quote UN quote waive the GRE.

So that is a significant advantage, which I think I actually see a question right under there. Is there a waiver for the GRE? No, unless you are a joint degree student. Unless you're applying to the joint degree program as a Yale law student or a Yale MBA student.

I tell people that it's it's up to you if you want to, to not submit a requirement. Just keep in mind that there are requirements for a reason, and what happens is if somebody can't submit something.

Explain why. Use the additional information section of your application to say whether it's like I can't get an academic letter, I can't take the GRE's because I'm in a war zone or, you know, whatever the case may be, I can't afford them. Etcetera, etcetera. We get lots and lots of those kinds of additional information, supplemental information. It might also be like why your GRE's are so bad.

Some people like they they don't reflect my academics why You have gaps in your resume, so there's lots of reasons to use those things, so you're welcome to do that. But again, we do not grant waivers, so you just need to explain why you're not submitting something if you choose not to submit the GRE and then it becomes case by case up to the admissions committee if they're willing to consider your application without a requirement. One thing to keep in mind is your application will remain incomplete.

So you will see on your status portal that you're missing these things. I promise that we do actually review all applications in the end. We obviously need to review complete applications for efficiency. So we start with those who are complete, have all their scores and their, their test scores and all of their recommendations and then we move on to the incomplete. So it depends on the timing of of how many applications we get. Obviously we're humans who do the reading. There's always.

Technical issues and holidays in there. So we do that for the best we can, but we we do read those so you can restore it unlike other programs, maybe other professional schools like stereotypically law or business who have cut offs and matrices that you like, you know that's it. We're not considering you. We will look at all applications because we understand that a lot of you are in really unique places and situations and we want to.

Consider those, but do keep in mind this is still an academic program and while we don't have minimum GRE's we are looking for.

People who?

You know, we wanna we wanna be assured that people would do well in this program. And not to worry, we we are very knowledgeable of all the biases surrounding those test scores, and especially for international students who may have never even seen or taken a standardized test, it's often not the academic information behind it that you you have or you know that you are not lacking. It's the test format itself.

So there are many free. I think you can take free practice tests on the ETS website and you know you can do that over and over again too. That I think is useful. All right. So I hope that helps. I'll keep going. I see my bar is up. So that means there's a lot more questions potentially down. OK, David is saying. Thank you.

Alright Maheen ohh, I'm getting thank you. So I'm guessing people had to pop off. So glad you could make it.

Rod, interested in AI policy? Are there courses you know about AR technology policy? So one thing I do know is we have acquired, I don't think it's an actual center, but a program within a one of our centers.

Schmidt.

We were given a lot of money by UM.

The Schmidt.

Family I'm trying to find here. Um.

I think it's under International Security studies, I believe.

And it is focusing on.

Um.

Had data and AI and all of those types of things and I'm not finding it fast enough. I'm so sorry I I didn't have that up and ready to go.

Also I'll see if I can talk and do this at the same time. The course, the database that I mentioned before you can do keyword searches in there as well. I found it Schmidt program OK it doesn't have its own link. It's I think it's a link to an article. Yes here I'm pasting in the Schmidt.

Program on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and national power. So it is part of our International Security Studies Center, so.

So yes, there are. We have a lot of like events and programming. Again this is new in the last year or two. So we are we are getting there and.

Approaching all of the things and let me double check to the course database that I sent, which I'll paste in again in case people didn't catch it earlier.

So the course database I don't know how like again the search function if you just do AI.

OK, there's Computer science has classes. Um.

And again reminding you that there's a big data class that's actually one of our professors. So CPSC 538 is a big data class and Kendall is one of our professors. So lot of these classes are are cross listed. So there's big data, AI, digital strategy out of the School of Management. So I could go on, but hopefully that's a brief I can stop there because depending where you're interested.

Whether it's AI or other things, that's how you build your curriculum. So you can take classes out of computer science, you could take classes out of the School of Management or political science that are related to what you want to do. So that's how you build your curriculum. And that's the thing that current students and alumni are like loved about this program is, is that flexibility and that interdisciplinary nature. I think we have one of the fewest core for I mentioned four I think some schools.

About eight or nine classes that you have to take, so you can take just about anything you want. They should be graduate level courses, so 500 or above. But if there is a grade, if there is a an undergrad, a higher level undergrad class that you feel like meets a need that cannot be found in a graduate level course, and if that faculty member is willing to do the extra work with you to make it a graduate level course, you can do that. There's also directed readings where you basically have a.

Faculty member and you designed your own class and it's like a one-on-one independent study. There's so, so, so many options to do that. So I hope that answers. I mean I went, I went a lot of places. I think I'm trying to answer multiple questions at the same time. So I hope that was helpful on AI policy and lots of other things. All right. Still greetings from Wisconsin. What's the general acceptance rate of the MP? It's usually in the teens. You know we.

With the school launch, not sure if our application pool is going to increase or we usually get about 500 or so. When we admit 50 or 60 to get our cohorts of about 30 to 35, we don't post those because we don't want people to select, self select out, seeing the competition because again, we're looking for that unique story. So I hope that helps, Zakian, I probably didn't get that right. If you're applying without any work experience, how disadvantaged?

Will we be and what should we highlight in our personal statement? I don't like to use the word disadvantaged, but again, think about how you can contribute to the classroom. So I put the the link to the student BIOS in earlier and you'll see again that people are, you know, they've they're already low level economists, so they've been working at the World Bank or they've been Peace Corps fellows or they.

Have, you know, been, you know, military officers and the like. So people are coming from all over and they are coming to the table. And you should think about how you can contribute in the classroom when you're with even the MAS students who might have 15 years in the, you know, Greek government, for example. So think about what your contribution is. I like to say it's not just what you need from us and your academics and.

And all the skills and tools that you want to learn, whether it's languages or regional studies or little literal tools like, you know, stats and econ, but also what you bring to the table. So that's the case for everybody. But people with less work experience might have a tougher time. So again, I don't like to use the word disadvantage, but you might have a tougher sell and convincing the admissions committee why you want to do this.

As a career, since you haven't had the experience, so yes, it relevant. Internships can be really really really useful. And I mentioned earlier recommenders corroborating your story, so I hope that answers your question. Bruce MAS in case of choosing a courses of the course link you provided in line.

Is it? Oh, I'm sorry, is it a case absolutely 100%?

There are really no restrictions. They again, they should be graduate level. You could you would have access to directed readings or making an undergrad class grad. I think if you really, really, really wanted to you could probably get permission to attend one of the core. But I think you know the MPP core but there's also other types of stats and econ out of the School of Management and yeah so it's that's literally what it is. We hope you take a number of Jackson classes and if that's why you're coming to Jackson.

I think a lot of our MAS II, I don't have data on this, but I'm assuming a lot of MAS take majority of the classes with our senior fellows because they're practitioners in the field and you know they're they're trying to build their curriculum. So I feel like and again I don't know how true that is, but it feels like that might actually be the case, you know, less so than some of them maybe theoretical classes or different types of classes or maybe they want.

Skills through the School of Public Health or School and Management. But the short answer is yes. You choose the eight courses from the course link, so hopefully that's helpful.

All right, Meg, I'm going to read this silently while I take a drink, and hopefully everybody else can read it too so they know what I'm answering.

OK, great. Great question on transcripts. Um, yes, we would love to have all of the miscellaneous especially that are relevant classes. So language and math are super relevant to a degree like this. They actually also indicate.

You know seriousness and doing this so even if they don't have grades it can be useful. One thing technologically either when you're uploading like your your bachelor's transcript, maybe just if you can like add them to the PDF so they're all together or add them as supplemental materials. We'd rather you not add them all as individual academics because that are all those are all counted as degrees and they really sort of.

You don't mess up your record. We're like, wait, what? You have a degree in which you only took two classes or or whatnot. But yeah, community colleges, college courses, You know, anything that is sort of relevant you should include as part of your application. So great question.

Ohh yeah, I read that as transcripts. So you're good. David S1. Ohh, great Peace Corps. Yes, we love our PCVS.

And I'm assuming you're asking about the Coverdell statement. So just a clarification, we love our PCB's no matter what, but there is if you want to be considered for the Coverdell, we do want you to include sort of a little bit of the why I think for us and I'm hoping that we have time to pull off a virtual RPC session later this fall. But for us it's more about your what you want your internship hours to be because most.

Jackson School students do their internships, their summer internship internationally over the Global Focus, and the Peace Corps requires applicants to.

Cover deals to do their internship with an underrepresented US community, so that kind of limits what you can do. But there's a number of local organizations here in New Haven, specifically Iris. It's the most common that a lot of our cover girls do their hours with. Some have done it with New Haven Reads. And IRIS is in International Refugee.

Something services. So for us it really is about how are you integrating a US internship into like this.

Career and global affairs, right. Obviously Peace Corps and you know we love, so that actually makes sense. So definitely you can include your description of service like as a supplemental or I think there's a fellowship section, you can upload it there. But yeah, you can submit that state. We don't award all our PCB's cover deals because we actually provide more funding than cover all requires, which is kind of ironic. I hope that helps Keep an eye out. Hopefully we'll do an RPCV session this fall.

Kennedy, hello, you're welcome. I wonder how admissions ways, internships and campus leadership compared to full time. I think I've touched on that and I know these are already like half hour old questions, but I think I've I probably touched on that. It depends. It's going to be different for each applicant. They're super important. They show leadership and all of the things and and they can be really relevant to connecting the dots and and what does your trajectory look like. So and they will weigh much more heavily for those who have less work experience.

So think about it as a balance. Alright, David. Number two, I spoke about electives. Does this mean I could take classes at school management, law school if I find courses relevant to the MP? Yes.

Straight and simple, As easy as that. Mag. Another question, if it's alright, absolutely. Do you consider I've got a couple minutes left, so I'm obviously blowing through these. Do you consider demonstrating interest in the admissions process?

Do you consider demonstrated an interest in the admissions process? Not Ohh, because you're like attending events? Ohh, that's a great question if I'm understanding that.

No, I mean there's we don't do interviews. Sure, we keep track of that. You're here and we might blast you about future events. Hopefully it'll make your applications stronger, but it's absolutely not required for you to attend in person. Some people like to do keep in mind we do have an admitted student program in the spring for admits which are much, much more robust. Our in person fares and 1:00 on Monday and there's going to be one in November. Sure.

Come on up. You get a chance to maybe attend a class, do a campus tour or have lunch with students. Very informal, not panels. You might get to meet one-on-one with me or my boss, or student affairs or even career services. So they're nice, but they're very casual, easygoing, not required. We don't take notes. So it's yeah, it's it's definitely not. But we we'd love to have you. If you can make it. This is really for you. These are for you to gather information.

So we can help you put together the strongest application possible. So I hope that was the right question and answer to your question Rod. Regarding the GRE clarify, you said you take high score perceptions, that mean we should send every test result. I think you have to. I thought like you pick a test date and GRE ETS sends them.

So yeah, as far as I know they they come. So if you do take multiple genres, usually we see all of the scores. I think maybe the IELTS which is an English language test like are starting to allow for section by section. I'm not sure the GR is you might actually know better than I, but we definitely will look at when we like all the data you see on the website and stuff it's reported.

From the highest per section. I hope that helps. Alright, thank you. Would 150 on verbal GRE be on the loan? You know what, I'm UE I'm gonna confess I use percentiles and I still after doing it for 20 years at Princeton, I still have percentiles in my head. So it's been a shift. I still haven't. They haven't stuck with me in that. You know when I got here to Jackson they were using the raw numbers I when using percentiles.

I would say.

70th percentile, 60th percentile, Like there's scales on the ETS website. Those are sort of your average. When you get into like you know, 40s and below, you're getting into a little bit painful territory. And again, if you go lower than that, then we'll not cut you off, but we will definitely look for something else that totally makes up for that some sort of.

Amazing life experience or work experience. Something that because we are, we want to take risks. Sometimes we're willing to take risks on just amazing stories, but we can't take risks on the entire cohort because we would want to provide, you know, tutoring and all of the things as needed to help people do well. And so, especially with having our core classes and everybody in the core classes.

We, you know, we can't have too many who are on the on who might struggle. Not saying that low scores and Gpas will mean you'll struggle, but that's what we have to think about academically. Again, really long answer, but I wish I could remember what the 150 percentile is. It does sound a little lower, but again no minimums. We do prefer hose that your GPA be in a 4.0 scale. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome.

Is the course list the full Yale Graduate catalog? Bruce yes, you can see like you can choose by school and I think if you go under you can choose Yale college for undergrad. All the grad school departments. Again 500 and above is grad, anything below that is undergrad. So thanks everybody who had to run. I'm amazed that there's you know, a handful of you who have stuck it out till 5 minutes after. Ohh I see a final question. Would you allow or recommend?

To contact faculty members.

You're welcome to, but it's not really necessary. They often are. Again, we're not research focused like a PhD is or some other types of masters. They often, if they get questions, they pass them back on to admissions.

I mean if you are have a really, really specific area of interest and you want to confirm that that's what a faculty member is doing, you could approach it that way. I wouldn't ask them admissions related questions. We have faculty and senior fellows who serve on our admissions committees. So they are, they are part of the process and they obviously teach and so they want you know, you know and we actually connect faculty with admitted students, again our admitted student.

Programming is very very robust.

Alright, I think I actually got through all the questions. Only 5 minutes over. I hope you can join next week for office hours if need be. But I also hope I answered a lot of your questions. And what else? If you're in any of the places that we're going to be, please remind me, say hey, I attended one of your webinars, it would be great to meet you again. Not required to be met, but it would be great to meet you and yeah I will.

Stop there. We'll have a couple more webinars, one in November and one in December and they will be more Q&A type. So if you are applying, we what I might do is have you drive the discussion and start with Q&A to make sure before all the holidays and stuff you have your questions answered about your applications. So there you have it. Thanks for listening and we hope to see you or your application in the very near future.

Right. So take care and good luck and be safe out there and we'll see you around. Thanks.

Bye.