Summer Admissions Webinar (August 2023)

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Welcome, welcome. Glad to have everyone. Well, I might, while we wait for people to get connected, maybe I will get started on some of the logistics. I don't want to take too much time because there are potentially going to be a lot of you joining and I want to make sure I have time to get to your questions. So obviously this is a webinar. That is an audio presentation. You all can see me. I can't see you, but I can see your chats.

So please feel free to use that as we go. You want to make sure your speakers are turned on and.

You will be able to ask questions. I might save them till the end. We'll see how that goes, or I'll keep an eye on it. I don't it's not moderated so I'm keeping an eye on it myself, but please feel free to post questions in there. You can. If you need closed captioning, there's a little CC on the top right of your screen and you can utilize that if you do want to use the closed captioning function. And you can use full screen if maybe you have trouble seeing some of the slides and the little arrows will give you a full screen.

Feel free to refresh if things are not synced, just refresh your browser. That might help. And if you are having any technical difficulties, this is being recorded and if you did register for this, I'm just going to call it a fair this webinar. Then in the next day or two you will receive a link to the recording. So if you do have to bow out for either other scheduled reasons or technical issues, rest assured you will be able to see this later.

So here we are. All right, Well, you all have been telling me where you're from, and I think that's wonderful. I love how seeing all of these.

People from all over the world just as just a great experience to know that this is what the Yale Jackson community is all about too. So what about me? Hello, I my name is Melissa McGinnis, and I'm the Assistant Director of Admissions here at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. I've been here at at Yale for a little over four years now, and prior to coming to Yale Jackson, I was down at our friendly neighbors down in Princeton.

And I worked there at the School of Public and International Affairs for 20 plus years. So I've been in this public and international affairs space for quite a while. So I'm happy to help navigate you, especially about what the Jackson School is about, but also happy to chat about what this public and international affairs space is like and maybe some tips on how to apply if we have time for that. So if you're not familiar with the Jackson School, we have been around in various iterations for very long.

Time. So we are new in name. We just became the Jackson School of Global Affairs as of last July 1 and that's so it's sort of really exciting time. We've just completed our first year as the Jackson School prior to that where the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences here at Yale. So it's a really big deal for Yale and for us that we are separating from the Graduate School. So we have had to build our application ourselves and all of those things.

So if anybody's applying this year, please bear with us. You know we're working on getting that live as soon as possible, but we are also not new. As I mentioned, we have been around as the international relations program at at Yale for many, many years prior to that. But the creation of the school, this is the first time Yale has created a professional school since 1976 with the School of Management. So if any of you have your phones available, I do have a little.

QR code there that will link you to a website that on the Jackson School website that talks a little bit about me anyway, because I think a lot of people, especially international students, have no idea where we're located. We are halfway between New York City and Boston, right on the Northeast Corridor, Easy trip on the train to DC and New York and Boston and a lot of major airports in the area. New Haven is a small city.

And people in like New York and London in larger places like that in New Haven is not a city. We're definitely a resident more of a residential city, but we have a lot to offer for the the tiny place that we are. So and we're we're still in summer here and it's nice to have the daylight out. It's it's 6:07 PM. So I know a lot of you are joining from all different time zones and we'll be doing a couple more of these webinars pretty similar at different times of the day.

For your fellow interested in international policy, prospective students who might be able to join us, so I'm happy to try to do these at times that might be helpful for some of you. So that's a little bit an overview about us and I was thinking I would try something a little bit different tonight. Sometimes we have a lot of repeat webinar attendees or have attended other events and I was thinking in addition to our slides.

They often paste links into the chat so you have them if you wanna come back and watch this. Or you can click on the link from the chat and it opens up browser windows that you can save and check back there. Most of the things all of the things you can find on the website but sometimes I know the website can be hard to navigate so I am going to try the share screen function this evening and.

Maybe sort of show you the links that I am putting in the chat as well, because I think that might be useful to you. And maybe those of you who are more visual than audible, maybe that will be a good thing for you, so hopefully it won't be too crazy. So if it is, feel free to stop me. I thought I'd like to try something different like that. So anyway, if you've attended a previous webinar or if you're new, hopefully this will be a little thing that will help you kind of remember what.

Makes Jackson unique and over the years of being here, I've sort of dubbed these things as the what I like to call the 5F's.

It's really about our flexibility, the flexibility of our curriculum family, which is our students and our senior fellows and the world fellows and all of the the different groups that make Jackson the community that it is. Of course faculty are part of that as well, but they're the ones teaching the courses and so they're obviously an important part of why you're looking at grad school and of course funding. A lot of people want to know if they can afford to go to grad school and then future.

Is obviously you probably want to go to grad school because you are thinking about your future and what long term career goals are ahead of you. So those are the 5F that we will go through this evening and I want to try to blow through them very, very quickly because I do want to allow time for questions. And again, I think there's a lot of you here. I think I see close to 70 people online. So that's amazing. That's great you.

Might have broken a record here for how many people we have joining, so let's get to it. So flexibility. So we have two graduate degree programs here at Yale, Jackson. We have our two year traditional MPP, a Masters in Public Policy and Global Affairs. It's very, very small. Our cohorts are usually about 30 to 35 students and the flexible curriculum is we have 4 core classes and the rest of the classes.

You can take at Jackson or anywhere else across Yale. We also have a one year mid career program which is 8 courses, usually only two to five students and completely flexible with no minimum with no core requirement. Many of the things that we're going to talk about today are about the two year MPP because that's the program that has all of the things and all of the requirements. But if there is anybody in here on here who are is interested in the.

Ms. Then feel free to post questions as we go, but the Ms. is very straightforward. It's a mid career program for people with 7 to 10, often 12 to 15 years of experience. We don't provide funding for that. So they're usually externally funded military or international government and the like. So but you'll learn about the Jackson community and hopefully you'll stick on on here for that. But do bear with us as a lot of the different requirements that we talk about.

Going to be for the two year MP, so some of the things that I mentioned was the let me try like are you willing to go with me and try the share screen function?

Let's see how this goes. OK, so.

This here is our main Jackson School website and So what I wanted to show you was through the academic section is where you will find more information.

About the courses and curriculum at Jackson, So I'm on the MPP right now. I'll put that in the chat. So you have that. But this page actually goes through before courses, the stats, the econ, the political science and the history course that are required. And then it goes and talks about all the little, the extra things that we have. We have a writing program, we have leadership and ethics workshops and they're constantly sort of renewing and looking at things.

There's even not even public yet. There is a pilot going on for a certificate in, I think it's in climate issues. So stay tuned for that. That's an exciting thing we just learned about in the last few weeks. So I have no information for you, but I know that there is a pilot going on for this two course certificate that is going to be coming up very soon. So that's pretty exciting. So that's where you can find that at the before we get to the bottom of that, there's also when I talk about the flexibility I mentioned.

That you can take the four classes at Jackson, but then you have access to all of Y'all's courses. This.

Right here, and I already did a sneak.

Keyword search here that I got set up for you with. This is the Yale course database. OK, and so you can actually do a keyword search here like you saw that I've done with gender already and it brings up over 200 courses.

Within just the fall of 2023, so.

Graduate level courses are 500 and above. GLBL courses are Jackson classes. So this is what I'm referencing when I talk about you have the four core, but then you have other courses like GLBL 7095, which is a Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights course. But there are also courses that are taught in other departments and in other schools such as Anthropology, such as Psychology, such as Religion.

Such as all of the things, right? We could go on and on, and so anything that's 500 and above is grad. But if there's a higher level underground class that you can't find that you feel like you really, really need, you would want as a Graduate School elective, you might actually be able to get credit.

For having an undergrad class as an elective, as long as the faculty member teaching it is willing to do the extra work with you and you get permission from the academic affairs staff at Jackson. So a lot of students do that. So this thing, this flexibility and interdisciplinary aspect of Jackson is really one of the.

Flagship things that make us stand out and that a lot of our students and alumni just love about the program. But obviously it can come across as very, very overwhelming if you don't know exactly what you want to do. So I want to go back to the courses and curriculum page that I showed you earlier and these, at the bottom of that, there are sample matrices. OK, now these are not exhaustive, they're just samples we sometimes hesitate.

Posting these because we don't want people to think that these are the only courses that people can take. But for example in Fall 2021, if you click on that oops, it's a PDF. Let me see. Hopefully you can see that you can still somebody willing to put in the chat that you can still see the PDF attachment.

I hope, I hope, I hope.

I got a yes, OK, looks great. Alright, looks great. It could be a little blurry for the eyes, but I really just wanted to show you very, very, very quickly that these for fall 2021, I'll make it bigger are the samples. These are just the examples of classes that Jackson students took across Yale. So you'll see up top all of the global classes. So those are all the Jackson classes that were offered in fall 2021 and then classes that students took.

Throughout the university, again through other departments like anthropology, economics, history, these are all of the Graduate School departments which we used to be a part of. And then it goes on to the professional schools which we are now one of. But there are classes at the divinity school that the divinity school offers that Jackson students used as electives as school of the environment. So the law school. So this again, hopefully these are tools.

That will help you navigate.

The academic playground, that is Yale, right? That's what our Dean likes to call it, an academic playground. That's how flexible and interdisciplinary this the curriculum can be, right? So wanted to make sure you point that out. I wanted to point that out to you so you know where to go to look for what is available to you because some people get a little bit lost. You really do have access to to all of all of those resources and all of those courses. So that's the First off, right, flexibility.

Um, And then this is a little bit about the program features, which I hit on with like some of the new things that we're doing. The next F would be there it comes family. I've actually had faculty first. I thought no family is first. When I say family, I actually.

Wanted to mention it. People are like family. What does that have to do with grad school? Well, I think the size that we mentioned really makes a big difference. I think the location we are located on a beautiful tree line St. here in Central campus in New Haven and.

It's just um.

The Ohh, you know, especially growing as a school, there's a number of student life groups that are being formed. There's even a new one this fall that I don't even think is out there yet.

And it's just a really cool time. And I think because of the size of our cohorts, that really does bond together the community that it is. And also not just about the students, but it's also about the faculty and senior fellows. So when I talk a little bit about the faculty, I'm also going to talk about the senior fellows who are practitioners who are coming to Jackson for one to three years and teaching classes and really doing some informal mentoring or organic type mentoring.

They bring in their networks from the outside and they they. So it makes, you know now for better or worse, the virtual aspect of things that we learned during the pandemic is staying with us. And so you might have your in person, senior fellow, former ambassador, teaching a class and then they can pipe in through virtual zoom or whatnot, have their networks in from anywhere across the world. So that's a huge advantage a lot of us.

These top IRR programs are going to promote having these big names at their institutions. But I have to say for us, I was shocked at how fully integrated senior fellows were here at Jackson. It isn't just like a diplomat in residence for a week or a weekend or office hours here and there, or just a public lecture. They are here for a year teaching a class. A lot of them are based in DC.

And they come up on the train and they spend the night and they do all of their things. So it really is a neat and unique opportunity. So let me paste in the.

The link for.

Um, all the different communities and groups here at Jackson. And let me try to share the screen again, because I think that hopefully worked if it's if your Internet speeds are fast enough, which I hope they are.

And yeah, so here on the Meat Us page is where you can check out all of our community groups.

I recommend that people go to our graduate student BIOS very often because I mentioned the small size and you know, we have such an interdisciplinary program. Everyone here is approaching their interest in global affairs from a very different perspective. And that's our goal in admissions is to bring in a cohort of people who have looked at, studied, worked in all different types of.

Areas of international policy, public policy, global affairs, international relations, all of the things. And I think the the really the best way to get a picture of what that looks like is when you have time poking through some of these BIOS, you can actually go and drill down and see the individual BIOS of each of the students. You might want to wait a couple weeks or so because right now this is just our second year.

Glasses because the new students are they're slowly starting to arrive and orientation is next week, so they will eventually be populated in here and you'll see. But this is all the second year and 3rd year cohort. When I say third year, what does that mean? We didn't really touch on the joint degree possibilities as well. So there are students who apply to joint degrees and with other Yale professional schools and that means you can actually do 2 degrees in a year shorter time. So those are, those are.

Possibilities as well. So definitely check out the BIOS. I think you'll you'll be amazed at how we bring together these these, this group of students who go on and have this commitment to the global good. I mentioned the senior fellows. This is really the probably the second thing in addition to the flexibility that makes us really unique as I've already mentioned, is how integrated these senior fellows are into the curriculum. New ones haven't been announced yet, so.

Patiently or impatiently waiting to know who they are. But you, you, we usually have, you know dozen or so every year. Some of these people have been here longer than I have and I have and they've been. They keep coming back and they stay and they, you know, are really integrated and involved in the Jackson and they. So we're excited. We'll have to see who the new, the new senior fellows will be with. These are who I was talking about with that And then finally, really briefly, I want to touch on the world.

Fellows. So the world fellows are unique in that they are a group of 16 people.

All International who?

Are handled by the world Fellows office. They're here at Yale, Jackson for just the fall semester. They come. They're arriving now and they've been arriving last week and this week. And they have their own sort of programming that they do through the International Leadership Center and leadership things. They do all sorts of stuff. They not only take some classes, but they also they have liaisons who work with them and they do events and they do.

Their own talks and they do a lot of things together and they do a lot of things for our other Jackson degree students. So there are amazing cohorts. In the past we've had like a Nigerian Olympian and an Iraqi comedian and I think this year there's like a a disabled.

Jockey from the UK.

So they are definitely rising in their careers and they are, they're student lounges across the hall from our their lounges across the hall from our student lounge. So there's a lot of organic things and communications that happen. So when you think about some people ask, well ohh, the Jackson School is so small, your cohorts are so small. But not only did we adopt the decades old IR program alumni, but you also can think about the world Fellows, the 20 years of world fellows.

As part of your alumni network as well. Because when we have alumni events that are hosted in London and DC and New York and other places, the world fellows are always there and they're always invited and and I try to connect with them when I'm out recruiting wherever we may be and and meet them and they're they, they often have good networks to bring you to us, right. So maybe you've even been referred yourself by a world fellow. So definitely check those out. They've been announced.

For this fall already. So you can check those out, you can search by by year, and you can go back and look at the 20 years of the world fellows. So that's what we mean by that's what I mean anyway, by family.

So I think it's just such a tight knit community. We're in Victorian mansions like I mentioned on this beautiful tree lined St. we're going to be acquiring a couple more mansions across the street rolling out over the next couple of years. And so yeah, so it's it just really adds to the to the community with everybody approaching things from different perspectives but all with that sort of heart towards the global good faculty. Well fellows and your fellows, I was touched on those. Did I put in the link.

Yes, I did the meet us.

And next, which I'm sure everybody is wondering about, is funding. So I mentioned that the MAS does not provide funding, so those are sponsored. So this is for the MP's only. But the way we've been able to do it the last few years, all you need to do is check a box in the application indicating that you are asking for funding.

No shame in that there is no, it doesn't affect your admissions decision or anything like that. We're not looking at it from you know we're not looking at your admissions from a need based aspect. But we do need the information because when we make admissions decisions we hope that within 24 or 48 or 72 hours we will be able to pull everything together and let you know what your funding would be. But the last three years we've been able to provide everyone who needs it.

Who asked for it? And a full tuition. So, and that might mean being topped up if they've come in with fellowships like Fulbright or again international government or international military or pickerings or wrangles Trumans, all of those people who come in with funding, we've been able to top those up as well. So that's an exciting time and even the last couple years we've been able to provide.

Full stipends to at least a third of the class. We can't put all of this in writing yet, because we get our budgets right right around the time decisions are made. But do keep in mind.

That one exciting thing that I can say verbally without putting it in writing is that this year we were able to provide all enrolling students some variation of a stipend. So even those who didn't get full stipends, actually I think everybody who who needed it got half of a stipend. So pretty decent. I think it comes out to like $12,000 as this type in the top of tuition, so.

We're getting there. Um, most, many, many people don't realize that most masters programs are not funded. So we get lots of questions from all over where people are saying I need funding to do this. PHD's in the US are funded typically, but not masters program. So often you have to cobble together different resources, fellowships, scholarships, your own funds, etcetera. Well, we are. I'm trying to get to the point where we can provide as much as possible so you don't have to.

Incur incur debt and you can go and and do all of the the meaningful things that you want to want to do. So that is our second to last F probably the one that you were really most excited to hear about. But finally let me talk about future. Future is obviously careers like we talked about. So let me.

Share my screen really quickly again because this one is also.

Share that A.

Something that's hard to find. So we have an overview. We have a career development office dedicated here at Jackson. We are a member of APSIA, the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs and.

We part of being an APSIA member is having our own career development office, so that's.

That in addition, with being such a small cohort, everyone gets the one-on-one attention. Not only do you get it back when we're talking about classes, you actually get one-on-one attention for helping you choose the classes and navigate the classes once you're in enrolling student. Same thing goes for career development. The the career development team meets with people, starts doing things even before they arrive in the fall, and then has all sorts of things that they do intake for and what you want to do for your required summer.

Internship. What you want to do is your first job, and they help provide you all the resources. They have newsletters and all of the things. So what do people do right? That's really a big question. So on the careers site, you'll probably want to look at jobs after Jackson. Now. These are the stats that were on the slide, so an overview of the sectors where Jackson students typically go. This is on average for the last few years.

But what you may really want to know, and this is what gets lost sometimes, is if you Scroll down to the bottom of that page, you can actually see.

The literal job titles, locations and organizations where Jackson students have gotten their first jobs for the last was, I think it was five years. So I think this is super useful because this shows you where our Jackson students are going. And you can see just like once you get a chance to look at the student BIOS, they're coming from all over, they're going all over as well. So we have people at the UN, at the World Bank, the Economist.

They're working in Ministry of Foreign Affairs there, so they're in at the, in international and U.S. government, the State Department, USAID, they're at Google doing policy work. So they're private sectors, often doing public sector work.

That you know you've been going on and on and on. There's people that care. There's people. It's just amazing and I find it mind boggling how everybody is doing different things and if you can keep going and.

Back and see samples 2020 is probably really unique, right because of we're in the middle of COVID so but people are again military. They're working for global funds and banks and embassies, all of the things. So really exciting stuff if you have a chance to poke around and the same actually goes. I mentioned we have a required summer internship and I didn't mention this when we talked about funding, but if you're summer internship that you find that you want to.

DO isn't funded. There's also additional funding available from that the career development office works with you on to to acquire. So that's possible as well. So this student experiences for the summer are the same thing. You have access to all of the last six years of data. So what people were doing this summer, their internships, they're working at the State Department, at the UN and they're all over there in Paris, Pretoria, Geneva, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

So they're doing all of the things and so hopefully you have a chance to go through. Ohh somebody, ohh. I haven't been paying attention to the chat and plus I'm probably scrolling very, very quickly. Let me see can I zoom in on a web page? I knew I could do it.

Ohh, here we go.

For the PDF.

How's that a little bit better?

Is that good?

All right, great. Sorry about that. And then again, I'm just trying to give you a little sample of mostly how to find things, but hopefully you're you're able to see.

All of the variation of things and this I will actually say one thing too is that these differences and and everybody approaching these things from from different perspectives and different interests, this contributes to that community, family feel that we talked about before because you're not competing with each other for the same internships or the same first jobs because you're all doing different things. So this that's another beauty of the the interdisciplinary nature of this.

Program and how it really aids and collaboration and all of the things. So yeah, So hopefully you got a good picture there of what that's all about. And I'll stop screening for a minute and I think I had. That was my last official slide. This QR code here takes you to a web page that I'm happy to show you in a minute, but it really just goes through.

What some of the actual requirements are the actual admissions requirements like your personal statement resume. We are still a GRE required school for the MP. It is not required for the MAS on here we do not have the disclaimer, we are. If you are interested in the one year MAS, keep in mind we have changed the application deadline for that. It's November 1st I believe. Again, the application will go live at ASAP, hopefully in the next.

Couple few weeks, but the that has proven better for a lot of the MAS who have employers that they need to report back to and decisions to make and all of that. So we're we're moving that back to November 1st that's not on this slide.

And there is no fee waiver for the MAS and part of that is because we don't provide funding for the MAS. So if you can't afford the fee waiver then it could be a problem to do grad school for the Ms. but the MP's. Our final deadline is January 2nd, but if you apply by December 1st, you automatically get the fee waived. So that's important to remember. And the biggest take away with that is you can apply by December 1st, get your fee waived.

But your recommenders and your test scores, your recommendations and your test scores can come in later by the January deadline. So you still have time to navigate that. If you want to retake a test, for example, you can do that. You want to hound your recommenders a little bit. They have some time. So again, there's your QR code. I'll put the link.

In the chat. So you have that, um, this is funny, I know you're not seeing it right at this moment, but that my website is really, really big.

Um, and so there's the link for the application process. And last but not least, learn more. All right, so this is our typical.

All of our contact information, and I will. If you're here, chances are you've already found our events page, but I'll put that in because.

Given that we're trying to get the application live that I'm I'm we're a little understaffed as we continue to grow. So I'm you know, I can't offer one-on-one appointments like I did like during the two years of the pandemic I was able to do one on ones for people who had a lot of questions that weren't answered here, but what I've done to try to hopefully streamline that but still offer those services is create office hours, so the QR code.

For next weeks office hours, the way I did that was it. Same time, same day. Hopefully that means most of you here can actually attend. Again, those will be zoom, so you know, interaction like that. Don't be shy. And we'll get to your questions here in a minute too, but.

If you think you have a unique question, it may not be as unique as you think, but often a lot of the questions are the same. So please pop on. It'll be Open office hour format. People might come and go or some people just like to listen in and other people's questions. But you can always contact us via e-mail here as you see that if you have something that's really personal and you think is really super unique. So that's basically it, I'm probably left.

Lot out. I will now I'll leave that open and I will see how many questions I may have missed and then feel free to ask questions. We have about 20 minutes and I will do my best to answer them. So let me see here.

There's all the hollows. All right, get make sure there's no questions that I'm missing. Ohh, look, there is one buried in the hellos. Will there be a capstone project? There is not a capstone project for the graduate students. Capstone projects are for undergrads at Jackson the the undergrad majors. But there is. This may or may not be Giovanni what you're asking about, but there is an optional thesis that is new last year and we had two students choose to do it.

Um, it's it's more common for those who want to go into academia, which most of our students don't do, where we consider this a professional degree in a terminal degree that you get this two year MP and you get on the ground and you can do international policy. So. But there are a handful of students who do like to keep their options open. So there is an optional thesis that you can do. I don't know that there's a lot of information on the website about it. You get an advisor once you're here and navigate.

That in your through your second year and I think it's like 2 credits I think. And then you do a defense and we all got invited to last year's to these. I didn't get to go, but you know some of the Jackson community staff included went to the defenses of the two students. So that's an option if that's helpful either to answer your question, Giovanni, or maybe answer future questions that people are thinking about. All right. A couple of people joining from Ukraine. Great. I hope you are well.

And safe, um.

Let's see. Do we have an underground program? Immaculately, yes. And if there are international students here, we just did a bunch of emails today and maybe that's why you're here. A lot of people might be joining because they they got an e-mail from us today about all about Jackson. And I was just in a lot of my international travels.

Yale structure. A lot of US student schools are are, are unique in this regard, but Yale structure is and for instance was as well.

If you're interested in an undergraduate degree, a bachelor's degree from Yale.

But you think you want to do a global affairs major. I can't help you. So how it works is you must apply to Yale College. So Yale College handles the admissions for all of the bachelors degrees, and you do your two years of your general education courses. You do all of the things you're part of a residential college. And then in your sophomore year, that's when you apply to your major, so and when you apply.

To your major, it's not through admissions, it's done through Usually Student Affairs and Academic Affairs offices handle that with the undergrad studies, Dean of undergrad studies, or whatever their actual title is. So those are we do have a global affairs major and I can show you very, very quickly, very quickly, and I want to spend too too much time on this because I don't really know have anything to do with underground.

Maybe I'll go back to the website. You'll see under academics there's BA. So the BA here, which you see there is BA in admissions, but I don't know what that is this talks about.

Um.

The different courses and advising structure and the major requirements, but again, that's all handled through a completely different office here at Jackson. And I'm assuming the Admissions BA site tells you you need to go to Yale College.

Maybe I'll ships.

Ohh pairs ohh OK but no it is admissions but it it's it is admissions for Global affairs but it that is for the major. But let me show you really quickly.

If you go to the Yale website.

That's right here, Admissions undergraduate.

Anybody wants to do a bachelors at Yale, that's where you need to go. That's the admissions office at Yale. They handle all of the things that make Yale famous in that regard.

All right, I hope that helps. Um, alright, let's see. Let's keep going. Is it possible? Ohh, I zoomed in a little bit, Hopefully I zoomed in early enough. But again, hopefully you have some of the links. Or you can check the recording and find those sites for yourself. I saw some students do a research project for their summer internship. Sure, Could you talk more about that? Yes, Kirsten, some people did that more, did that during the pandemic because there really wasn't. You couldn't go anywhere in person.

Um, a handful of people do do research projects. They are case by case. It's as needed based on faculty or you know, wherever the research is needed. And again, it's more of those who may want to keep their options open for wanting to do maybe little more traditional.

Like research maybe want to go into think tanks rather than doing the actual on the ground informing and developing policy. So it definitely is a possibility and you're not asking this, but while I think of it, the course database that I mentioned to you.

There are some Jackson students in the past that have actually taken PhD courses as one of their electives. So if it was in an area that they had serious interest in, all they need to do is get permission on both sides from that faculty member and then from the Jackson Academic Affairs staff because they want to keep their options open, to keep fresh, unresearched depending what their career or academic goals are. So that's also another possibility as a course, not just as a.

Hired researcher. So I hope that helps and actually let me there is a little bit of information about the research assistance that are done.

Um.

With like during the year as jobs. There's actually a website and I'm finding that link for you.

And I'll paste that in the chat. We recently removed course assistance off of that because we're gonna move away from those, but then we might actually be bringing them back. So we still have teaching fellows, but the course assistants we're going to phase out, but now we might actually bring them back a little bit, so.

If you're interested in.

Making copies for senior fellows. That's what that's about. So alright, keep going. Why it Will you accept the new shorter GRE starting in September and as the older one no longer valid. Great question. I've been trying to attend webinars. I'm figuring that figuring that out absolutely we will because that's actually replacing the test. So it's not like it's going to be an either or. But if you take it the old one, we will still accept them. They they're telling us that the score structure is going to be.

The same. So yes, we will take the shorter GRE. Well, no, it's the shorter one just by the date. Otherwise, I think everything else is pretty much staying the same.

I didn't pull up anything on this, but if you check out ETS, if you actually register for the new shorter test early.

I think they have like a lot of discount, like there's a lot of discounts that they're providing now to get people to take the shorter tests as early as possible. So check out ets.org for those who don't know what I'm talking about. ets.org is the organization that administers the GRE and one of our language acceptable language tests, which is total. So that's the ETS site where you can actually register, but definitely check out.

When you want to take that test, so you if you want to get the discount for the registration.

All right. Ohh. Look, Ellie asked the same question. Yeah, so you've got two down. Emma, are there resources for applicants applying with the covered up fellows? Yeah, there is. There's only one change to the.

To the application for people who are interested in Coverdell, and for those of you who are joining in, and I have no idea what she's talking about, Coverdell is a fellowship that's partnered with the returning Peace Corps volunteers. So the US Peace Corps has a fellowship. We have lots of Peace Corps people. I mean, the Peace Corps is in perfect alignment with Jackson's mission, and we love having our PC's. We usually have more, more Peace Corps people than we have covered.

But our our funding is pretty decent. Let me really quickly and I'm hoping we'll be able to find some time to do a an RPCV specific webinar. Not a webinar, but actually a Zoom Info session this fall. So if you're on a list somewhere, keep an eye out for that. I want to show those of you are Peace Corps.

That where to find that if you go to an admissions.

You go to MPP.

You go to tuition and funding. It's buried in tuition and funding. Off the record, I don't like that, but because I know it's hard to find. And if you Scroll down through our fellowships.

These are named fellowships that you don't need to apply anything special for. They are automatically considered this little blurb here.

Um gives you a little bit more about what we're looking for in that additional statement that's that would be required if you want to be considered for the cover doll. And we actually, and we also list, pull out who our current fellows are. And again our new ones aren't there yet. They will be there hopefully in a few weeks. So hopefully Emma. I think it was Emma, right, Emma, hopefully that helps. All right. Anna used to MP students typically have prior work experience or did they enroll directly? Great question.

Uh, I always get frustrated running out of time. There's so, so, so many things we can talk about. Yes, we have, and we'll save time by not sharing my screen. But the overview is on this page that shows that these are our typical data points. Shows that most of our students have about three to five years of work experience prior to applying to Jackson. Not required.

But strongly recommended to have at least one or two years, some have many more than that. Again, it goes back to us being a professional program and it's not just about what you need to get from us, but also what you bring to the table and how you can contribute to the conversation in the classroom. So that's really important. So we're looking for that experience and that unique story and obviously work experience is kind of the best evidence of commitment to the global good and that the evidence that this is a career that you plan to do.

Especially if we're going to invest in you in time and obviously some pretty decent money as well. So we want to make sure that this is actually something that you would definitely want to do. So it seems to be the stories that we hear from alumni and students is that they have their epiphany 3 years into whatever job they have and they realize ohh, this is what I want to do and this is what I need out of grad school and this is what I want to do with grad school to continue my career. So it just.

Seems to be that that three to five years is when those people are putting together a stronger application, which for Yale Jackson is a little bit more complicated than a lot of our peers because we do not have prescribed areas studies as we've talked about. We don't have certificates per se.

Don't have fields of study. You basically design your curriculum based on all the courses that are available. So you are cobbling together what you what your passion is and the fact that you have access to the law school, the school and the environment, the School of public health, the School of Management, which is Yale Business School. You can really put together exactly what you want to do and the skills you want to learn and whether it's languages or regional areas or some more languages like R and Python And those kinds of things.

Those are all the various reasons that people come to Jackson. So you need to make that really clear. And so through your application, those who are coming with less than one or two years, I would say your recommenders will probably weigh more heavily because we'll want them to sort of corroborate your story. People who know you well and can attest that really this is what they want to do. So hopefully that helps.

It's only 10 minutes.

All right, let's see. Marly's, I think I apologize for any names that I'm like really messing up. Great question about if we accept macro and micro cost courses. There are, I don't know much about straight line, but when you say accept, so let me back up a little bit.

Because stats in econ are part of our core, we're looking for evidence of quantitative skill. We do not have prerequisites, however, so it just depends on what you want to do, what your again what your long term career goals are. If you want to be an economist, we'll probably expect you to have a lot more econ type classes before applying. If you want to go work on the ground and development, we may not need as many quant classes.

But we want you to do well in our core, so the more you have the better. So if you are asking if straight line is OK for strengthening your application, absolutely anything that you do, all of those little, whether it's community colleges or now all of the online things are coming, that shows your commitment to doing this, hopefully skill with your grades. So totally fine.

As far as we don't accept those as courses, if you've taken those, you can't wave out of the core classes. So those are that's I'm assuming you're asking from an admissions perspective, but those things don't count because you still have to do all of the core here at Jackson. So it's really just about preparation and anything you do is really strengthening since we don't have actual prerequisites. Hopefully that helps. I always get faster and faster and towards the end.

Trying to get everything IELTS, Phisai, Phrasal. Yes, IELTS, it's IELTS. Let me really quickly find that page for you. IELTS TOEFL and we last year started accepting Cambridge as well. So on our admissions page we have under the application process.

Which I think I pasted in earlier or that QR code. Let me back that on this page here on that page.

There is another page.

Doctor.

Location, where is it? Standardized testing requirements page. Alright, and this will have more information about the English language proficiency, about the GRE and all of those things, so that should be useful to everyone. And again, it's kind of buried. I don't love that these things are buried, but hopefully in a please you will get.

A confidence very anonymous survey in the next day or two. Love to know if this is useful. Showing around the website. We've just gotten feedback that our website is not that great, so a lot of information is there, it's just hard to find. So do please provide feedback to let me know if this is useful to do it this way or if if you feel like, oh, I don't need all of this information, just answer my questions so would love to know that.

All right, few more minutes left. How do you help students in the visa process? Well, that's a great question. Yale has a whole office for helping with that. We just collect some of the financial certification for enrolled students, so once students actually get admitted and accept the offer.

That you get net IDs and you get all the things and then oh oh.

I hope you all are still there. I hit something.

I'm trying this and I hope you didn't go away.

Are we still in? Are we still on? Somebody said because I got my blue screen. Ohh good. There's some yeses who I'm like 2 minutes left, 5 minutes left and I didn't want to cut you off, so I've just pasted in the link to OSS, the office of international schools, students and scholars. They handle the whole I-20 process and and all of that, so.

Yeah, we we, we do our best, especially COVID times and everything there. There's been people. Normally we don't do deferrals. We can't do deferrals. Our program is much too small. But if there are visa issues, we will like visa emergencies. We will, We will. That's one of the very rare cases we will actually consider deferral for the program. So do keep that in mind, but we OS definitely helps on a case by case. All right, gotta keep going. Garrett, can you go over the different degree?

Yes, there are some standard ones and some of them are listed. They are listed on our academics page and I will paste that link in so the reporting has it and.

It's basically you apply to each school completely separately because their admissions is siloed. So you have to do both applications, whatever the other schools requirements are. Typically the most ideal situation is you get into both schools. You don't always, and if you don't you have decisions to make. Whether you want to enroll in another school and take a chance and reapply to the others, the other school as a first year student, or just decline both, go somewhere else, reapply many options but the ideal.

Situation, you get into both schools and usually you defer the other school 1st and start at Jackson and then the second year you would do with the other program. And then your third year is split obviously with the law school, there's an extra year in there, but your third year is sort of split. So we only communicate after enrollment and matriculation. So we know who are the joint degree students are And if there is an additional statement of interest, obviously you'll talk about it in your personal statement, but we want you to flush it out a little bit.

Or in like kind of like the covered on the mobile like a 500 word maybe why you want to do the joint degree, especially for a program that's already so flexible and interdisciplinary as ours, if you really need the whole additional degree or if just a few classes would suffice. So since you have access to those schools anyway as a Jackson two year MPP student, we want you to sort of really flush out how why you want to do the joint degree. So that hopefully is pretty straightforward.

Keep in mind funding. So also with funding and joint degrees if you're not funded by the other school, even though we're all Yale.

You will. You will get a tuition bill the year that you say. I point this way because school management is right that way. Like 2 minute walk if you don't get funded by the School of Management, but you get funded by Jackson.

That second year, that year at the School of Management, you get it tuition bill, even though you're fully funded by Jackson. So you need to keep those things in mind when you are navigating the joint degree. So the funding piece is a big one. So, all right, I hope that helps, Garrett.

Alright, ohh Abdul Warith, I'm sorry, probably pronouncing that terribly. Asking about IELTS and TOEFL required. It's not about Nigerian students or where you're from, it's about whether your English is your native language. So if English is not your native language, and if you did not receive your undergraduate education from an English speaking institution, then the TOEFL URL is required. And check out that. I think that's definitely laid out.

In that standardized test web page that I pasted in earlier, so hopefully you can go back and check that out. Giovanni One, is there an option to take part time classes? No full time residential, only two. Can classes be taken in the winter and summer? We only we're on, we're on A2 semester system. Winter is a break, Summer people are doing their required summer internships.

Do I apply to scholarships before or after you? There's nothing special. If you're talking about Jackson scholarships, there's no additional application. You check the box in the application and we will consider you for funding. If you're external, we want to know those as early as possible.

Ohh, I just got the alarm and it's seven. I I'm happy to stay on for a few more minutes to try to keep answering this questions. I know people are already dropping off but it it's 7:00 PM here I'm I'm willing to hang on for a few more and this will be recorded so I'm happy to do that. So but no offense, if you pop off, I won't. I won't take any offense to that but I'll keep trying to answer some of these. Is there an option to take virtual classes? Not in general, as a whole.

There may be like during the year you have a class and a faculty members traveling or get sick or something and then they may convert to virtual you know for a week or so. But typically we're we're back to to full time. This is just GL Jackson, right? This is just Jackson. So I'm sure Yale has other programs, other departments who are doing other things. So if you're interested in other things you could check that out just use the search function on the Yale website. Lydia, how do MPB students go about enrolling in non core courses at the professional.

Is each course considered on a case by case basis? Yes, it's my understanding it's like super easy. Basically you register for the class and if you have any trouble getting in, you just usually talk to the registrar here.

Chances are even if the class is closed, you might be able to still get in. Depends on what year you are. Sometimes if you're a first year, it may be.

Maybe it is too full and then if it's a class or offered the second year you might have a, you know, they'll allow you to do it again. So it's that's the one thing that student affairs, academic affairs keep saying is like the other professional schools. Because Jacksons students are so super unique and they're coming with this work experience and with these experiences already they love having Jackson students in their classes. So it's it's rare that you wouldn't get into a class in.

One of the other schools except maybe like some of your clinics classes at the law school or various things like that. But otherwise it's it's my understanding, it's pretty easy. There's a couple major major classes that are application only like the famous grand strategy which you could Google. There's a leadership class taught by John Kerry's assistant. You know that's that's a popular class So some of those classes you have to apply for but again you might get if you don't get in the first year, you might get priority the second year so.

But there's also too many options. There's lots and lots of options, if any. If there's anything negative to say, it's that the feedback is there's too much to do. There's too many classes, There's too many social events, there's too many.

You know, public events and and conferences and centers and things to do all of the things. So it's it's definitely, like I mentioned, an academic playground and people are always like 2 years is never enough. So even if you can't get into a certain classes, chances are there will be another one that might be sort of a good enough fit. All right, I hope that helps. All right, let me see. I think there might be still a bunch I'm going to.

Please don't make too much fun of me. Don't. I hope this is wrong with say that your name might be.

Jean Eaves I'm.

Gonna say that that might be what it is, or I really butchered that badly, but welcome to the MAS.

And who's in charge of the Jackson fellows? When you say that Jackson fellows, you mean the world fellows, the senior fellows, the MAS students. I might need a little bit of a question on that, but hopefully you stuck it out. Hopefully there was some tips about the community here, but Ms. is the application process is pretty much the same. Oh, Kirsten, great, you've already found that there are discounts for the GRE. Yay. All right. Got some thank yous.

Real world Fellows ohh Yes World Fellows is handled by the world Fellows office right across the hall from me. Do they have?

Contact information, let me see here.

I know, Tim.

Stump does the admissions for it.

Um they have somebody on Ohh? There's a contact site on the website.

Here I'll paste that in for you. You can fill out the little form um or contact Emma. Tim Holly is on maternity leave, but they just hired like two or three new staff, so probably best bet is to to fill out that contact.

Form would probably be your best bet. Alright. Hope that helps. Um alright. Anais, is there a minimum jury score required for admission? There is not. The profile link that I sent in earlier gave medians and averages. Happy to put that in again.

If that would be useful.

Um, I'm losing all of my pages I feel like. I hope. I'm wondering if this is more of a waste of time trying to find the pages.

And switch back and forth sharing the screen and stuff. So I'm just pasting the link in for now. But yeah, you'll see averages sort of in the I, I I like percentiles, which usually it's in those, you know, sixty 70th percentile range. This shows the raw scores. But it it it depends. It really you know if somebody has excellent quantitative courses on their academic transcript and they didn't do well on the quantitative.

Section in the GRE that might not matter as much because we see that they've done the coursework. So think about it as a balance, right? Think about your application as a big portfolio. So hopefully that helps, but no minimums. All right, Wyatt, for recommended academic recommendation letters or for over a decade from undergrad, is it smart to use faculty recommendation from someone else's company? This is a great question. Why I get that asked. You know we are still in academic programs or even from mid careers. We like to have an academic reference but we also want you to have a strong reference, so.

Rather than reaching out to somebody who may remember that you got an A in their class and attended on time in order, nice person, that's not a strong letter. We want somebody who can speak to your analytical skill, your cognitive skills. So maybe it wasn't necessarily an actual faculty member, maybe it's somebody who you know has has you've kept in touch work with and who worked with in some sort of maybe research capacity or something. So there are definitely ways to sort of get around that.

You know, I probably shouldn't say this in a recorded webinar, but you are. The application will allow you to submit more than three letters of recommendation. We don't really recommend it because we have to read them all and it's a lot to navigate. And more is not necessarily better if you want to choose the strong people to write your letters, but I often tell people that it's the mid career people when you're getting into like 12101215 unless you have kept in touch.

Somebody along the way. So the young people here are still an undergrad. Find your mentor, right. Find your faculty mentors who were willing to follow your career so you will have somebody who can do this a decade from now. But yeah, it might be that maybe you do the three professional but and you're you have the 4th as your academic letter that is not as strong. It may not matter depending on your transcript. So if an academic letter.

Though even though this is really about your career and your work experience, especially in the mid career component.

It really is about.

It's all together, right. It's all again that portfolio that I was talking about so.

Yeah, it's it's all a balance. So again, if your transcripts are weaker and academic type letter may be much more important, if that makes sense. All right, I hope that helps.

Alright, are there still more questions? Have the application process for Maya started? No, I'm sorry, still working on that. We got to get it all finalized and updated from last year. We'll we'll probably do an e-mail blast or put stuff on social media or whatever once we have that live high school TOEFL certificate tests are TOFU is only good for two years and Jerry's good for five and I can't remember how many years IELTS that might only be two as well. So as long as TOEFL.

Uh, ETS or whoever releases the official scores to us, then we'll accept them. I hope that was answered. Alright. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Some good nights. That means people signed off masters degree from the UK. Do I still need to take a language test? It depends. It's undergrad degree only that waives the language test or your native language.

Alright. Do you work with any other entities in New Haven so prospective students can get an individual tour of the environments? Yeah, the not of new him at Yale does tours Yale has through the visitor center.

Um, they also have virtual tours we we will be doing.

Trying to find the campus tour.

Link for you visitors center. So I think there's going to be.

Links to the virtual tour as well, but they they do them like 365 or 364 days a year. So absolutely all right. I think, I think that's it.

I think I answered everybody's questions and I only went 10 minutes over. I'm sorry, but I, you know, I know a lot of people popped off already and I was happy to help and so.

I hope it was useful. Please feel free to provide feedback. We look forward to seeing your application. Thanks for hanging on. Thanks for bearing with this new format. I hope it was useful. And I hope you learned how to better strengthen your application, which we hope to see either this year or in the future. All right, Thank you so much. Take care. Bye.