Summer Admissions Webinar (June 2022)

Hello hello.

Before I say too much, I love to start out with making sure you can hear me.

If you've been reading through some of the logistics, you can see that there is a chat box. Would love to have you post in where you are logging in from this morning. That assures me that you can hear me and presumably see me and I love to know where people are signing in from. It's it's amazing we've got Palm Beach, Florida Atlanta, Paris, France, Ghana, DC. This is amazing.

I love.

This one little event has bringing together people from all over the world. So gosh, Panama Central America, Thailand, good morning, good evening, good afternoon wherever you are. So thank you for that. You found the chat that's great and this is a one-way webinar. I almost.

Dare I say, Miss zoom? It's my first webinar in I think, seven months we take a hiatus when we're reviewing applications and doing admissions season and and all of that we need to take a a break from.

Doing the ******** recruiting so we can focus on those admissions efforts so I might be a little rusty.

But if anything happens, this is recorded, so you will be able to find a link to it later, and there is a close captioning and you can do a large screen if you'd like so.

You've already told me a little bit about you. It's great seeing, Oh my goodness, I Azerbaijan, Morocco, Boston up the road, LA good morning La La. Or is that Louisiana? Because LA what is this like 5 in the morning there something like that so I'm good on all of you so all right? Well let me get started my name is Melissa McGinnis and I am the assistant director.

As of this moment, for less than 24 hours of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, we will be flipping the switch tomorrow to becoming the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale. Really big deal, really exciting times. We'll talk about it a little bit as we go forward.

I think this, I think because I'm Rusty and also forgive me, I am actually home with COVID so I you know we got back on the road and was out there in the world recruiting and after 2 1/2 years it finally got me. So forgive me if I I'm literally a little rusty and bear with me if I have to stop for a moment. It's it's nothing terrible so I know it's touched. A lot of people and hopefully.

You are doing well during this pretty much ongoing global pandemic, so I'm glad to have you here. And again, forgive me, I might take the occasional break for for drinks so I don't hack up a lung in front of you.

So, and we're also working from home in this hybrid summer just to try out the hybrid situation with. You know that the the pandemic has has shown us that we can do and it's quiet and and yales campus. Jackson doesn't have any summer programs, so we are able to to to be able to be working from home most of the summer, so I'm grateful for that. So I do feel like this will be more like a conversation than a formal presentation. I just basically.

Very basically doctored up last year's.

Slides just to give you so you're not just staring at my face and we'll have new slides with new logos in the coming coming days and weeks. So again, exciting times. So anyway, as I mentioned, we are going to become the Jackson School of Global Affairs, which is the first time Yale has founded a school. The last time was the School of Management.

In 1976, so it's been an amazing journey. Jackson is not new, Jackson is new in name only.

We started as the international relations program at Yale, which is a founding member of APSIA, which is an organization you should follow if you are interested in international policy, international relations, international affairs, all of the things and you know, with a tremendous amount of of money from the Jackson family, we became the Jackson Institute in the fall of 2010. And so really even being.

The Jackson Institute and part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. We really have operated and been developing ourselves as a school with hopes that it would be approved by the the the powers that be.

Excuse me

and so that did happen, and you know it's been coming in the last few years and July 1, 2022 is finally here. And yeah, so we'll talk about some of the things. The biggest question as I go through.

You know, sort of the the things over the last. My last few years at Yale Jackson, where I've really come to come up with what I like to call the 5F's and forgive me if any of you are repeat visitors. This won't be anything new and that's that's the one nice thing about this process is and again, but probably one of the number one questions I get when we talk about becoming a school and what that means is we're not planning on changing.

All that much, yes, it's a big deal. A lot is changing in the background. Our director. Our presumptive Dean is basically says we're just changing the logo. It it is more than that. But at the same time we're not changing who we are. OK, so these these 5F that I've come up with over the last few years is I've developed the relationship with the Jackson and and started to realizing it is about family and flexibility and and the faculty which are part of the family of course.

Funding and future. All of those things the core of who we are is not really changing. We can talk a little bit later about.

What some of the things are that that will be changing?

But why don't we blow through some of these so I can give you a picture if you're new to Jackson, just give you a picture of who we are and some of our core requirements and what we're looking for and then open it up to questions.

OK, I hope that sounds OK.

Hmm, excuse me.

So our first FI like to call family as as we talk about our size and our location and what student life at Jackson looks like.

It's it's definitely a community feel. Our program is only about 30 to 35 students in our our two year MPP. We also one year MAS for mid career professionals if anybody's here interested in the MAS, please hang on most of what we're talking about will be about the MP, because that's sort of the flagship program and it has all of these kinds of requirements and and. But the MAS is even smaller.

Because maybe about sometimes only two to three people to a cohort, but they are also part of the Jackson family as well, so we can talk about that a little bit in the flexibility. But the the the MP is only about 30 to 35. We are located in a beautiful mansion on Hill House Ave in central campus in in New Haven, CT. Partway through between New York City and Boston, right on the Northeast Corridor.

Line.

And just that great New England feel. So it's and and again greener than you would expect for a city. Of course, a lot of people from the the larger cities out there, you Californians, and LA and and New York City and Boston probably laugh when we call New Haven a city. It's a very small city, but it is is it is a city. And it's. But it's very residential and a lot of our graduate students choose to live in the within biking distance. Residential neighborhoods in in the area.

Most common is a town, a neighborhood called East Rock.

So it's definitely a close knit community. We have numerous.

And forgive me to my I do have some COVID brain. It's real. I lose my words sometimes all of a sudden I just draw blank on my words so forgive me again and and hopefully this recording won't be going down in perpetuity. But I did want to. I'll provide some links as we go and I see a question came in what I might do is.

Get through some of the presentation 1st and then or if I need a break from talking maybe we'll read some questions as we go. So I wanted to.

Paste the link in for the student BIOS. They are still in progress. It's not any of our incoming students yet because we got to get them there. We got to get them here. They're on their way, get their photos taken, and and do all of the things to get that worked out. But this should give you a good example of just the type of student that we enroll at Jackson and I, I really encourage you to take time to peruse.

For some of those, because it really is the greatest resource. When people ask, well, what kind of student do you enroll at Jackson? And really, if anything, they all have this commitment to the greater good. That's the one thing that's the thread through all of them. They may come from different backgrounds and you know, different studying different things, but they all have that that commitment and are all part of the the small Jackson community.

So the second F.

Excuse me, is the flexibility so this I would say is probably one of the number one things that a lot of alumni and current students talk about that that you only have in the two year MP. You only have 4 core classes that are required and the rest you can take at Jackson or anywhere else at Yale's professional schools. You don't have to be a joint degree student to be taking classes at those other professional.

Schools, that's the beauty of the program. Majority of Jackson students take classes at the School of Management at the Law school. The School of the Environment and and others. And so that's really something that excites a lot of people. So when we say why Jackson? It's not just so much about what.

You need to get out of the program, but you need to tell us what it is you want to get out of the program. We don't have prescribed areas of study. We don't have certificates or fields like many programs have, because you can do just about anything at Jackson. And here's where I like to paste in the the Yale Course database, which is kind of buried on our website, but it's a helpful resource.

It can also be very overwhelming, right? Because if you take that course database and you do a keyword search on there, say development for example, hundreds of classes across Yale might come up and that just shows you the kinds of resources that are available and and it's how you build your path and and what you want to do when you're education.

And that gets down to our profile. Like what we're looking for. The MAS is completely customizable. 8 classes, no core, and so that's why we look for people with significant amount of work experience. The MAS, the one year, requires a minimum of seven years of relevant work experience. There's no minimum for the MP's but.

Our our profile, which I believe I have that link open, let me try to find that for you our profile for the MP halfway down this page shows that on average most of our admitted applicants have about three to five years of work experience prior, and I'm sure there's people here who will be asking about. Well, what if I'm still an undergrad and we can address that a little bit later?

But what it really means is it's those people I like to call it the sweet spot that it seems to be from the alumni and and from even the admissions process about three years into dabbling in this general interest in this career that people are working, and they realize, aha, this is what I want to do. And and this is the vein. Maybe the more specialized vein I want to do it in and this is what I need to.

Continue on that path and it's those people who can formulate better what they want out of such a flexible degree. They know what they're looking for, whether they're perusing the course database or they're looking at our senior fellows and our faculty and what we offer and the and the programs, the vast amount of programs that are across the greater Yale. Just why we like to call it. Yale is the academic playground, and you have access to it as a.

As a Jackson student, I mean there's that social entrepreneurship. There's size city center where there's. There's so many things you could go to, the Yale website and Google things if you'd like. There's too much to talk about here, so I'll have to say that's why people who have some work experience already actually can can put together a stronger application because not only are they telling that they're they're.

Their work experience, their education, their internships are evidence of that commitment to the global good that we talked about, but also.

Better formulate what they want out of our program, so I hope that makes sense a little bit.

Talk a little bit about the requirements. Here we have the the P has a required summer internship down between the 1st and 2nd year. We do have a language requirement that must be met before graduation. So if you are a if non native. If you are an English this is where my blame my COVID brain on this but I've never good at saying this. Anybody who speaks a native language other than English that proficiency.

It's all already met, so you but students often take additional languages that while at Yale, it becomes a little bit more difficult to.

Fulfill language proficiency. If you have only English and have not dabbled in any other language, that becomes a little bit more difficult. Having language can strengthen your application as well, but we are starting a program called Middlebury. Well, there is a program called Middlebury that we are actually partnering with, so if we feel an applicant is strong enough to get in without any languages.

The summer before enrollment we would subsidize you to or I think, fun, fully fun to take a language during the summer before enrollment so you can be a little bit ahead of the game so you're not using too many of your elective courses just to meet the language proficiency. So that's something that's one of the things that has changed with us, transitioning to become a school.

So I think those are some of the basic requirements. Let me quickly move on just the program features. I think we talked about the core a little bit.

We will be building out some.

Umm?

Some recommendations if you want to study a particular area and maybe suggesting some courses that you might take that happens with enrolled students anyway. So when I talk about the flexibility of the program, well, you need to know what you want to do so you present your best application.

Enrolled students get that one on one help, so you meet with the Student Affairs Office and the director of graduate studies. I think the title will be changing to assistant Dean of academic. Something you do get the one on one help to help you navigate all of that so you can put together a really good and strong focused curriculum so you don't have to worry about that as a current student, but I want to give you some of the resources so you can put together your strongest application.

OK, let me.

Before I dive in the faculty, maybe I will take a little break and look at some of the questions before they get too too buried.

I see, I think the first question that came in was natika I think. Thank you for your kind words about feeling better.

You're asking about courses in the flexibility. I think maybe that popped in before I started talking about the flexibility.

Excuse me, the opportunity to borrow courses from different schools and programs.

Are these taught to Jackson students at a masters level? How does Jackson bring these borrowed courses to parity at the masters level? They're taking OK, great question. So numerous courses are crosslisted and are Jackson courses already, even though they might be crosslisted and being school management courses, so they count for requirements in both of those schools or programs.

But also you can just take courses that are graduate level courses in any of the other departments. There's some matrices pretty buried on our website, so let me see if I can find it. Academics under academics under MPP courses and curriculum.

And the bottom of this page.

There are sample matrices of what some students have commonly done in the last few years and courses they've taken, and if you click on those, you'll see people take classes in the Anthropology department. They'll be taking someone even got approved to take a documentary film class out of the School of Drama. I mean, there are many, many opportunities. If you can make your case for it, and this is, you know what.

You want to do and you need this class to go where you want to go in your career. Then chances are it can be approved unless it's completely out there.

You mentioned undergrad courses, so if there is an undergrad course, the higher level undergrad course is not your 100 level, obviously, but if you are, if there are, you know three. I don't know if 300 account 400 level classes that are.

Super interesting to you and you cannot find a graduate level equivalent. And if you speak to the professor and they're willing to put in the extra work that you would have to do besides just an undergrad lecture class and also the approval of the assistant Dean.

Then you might be able to take an undergrad level course as part of your electives that count torture Jackson degree. So that's all he and Melania case by case basis. But it does happen. You didn't ask this, but we're a professional program and we consider this a terminal degree, not a stepping stone to PhD. But there are people who some small number of people who don't necessarily want to rule that out in the future. And so I know there's been current students who've taken.

PhD level classes like heavy duty research type classes, so to dabble in that is possible as well. So there are many many opportunities and that's what I mean by the tremendous amount of flexibility. If you want to do it, you probably can. You just need to work one on one with the you know assistant Dean and the Student Affairs Office and navigate all of that and get all of that approved. Hopefully that answers your question.

Oh, Emmanuel is asking for a language explanation. I know I didn't do a very good job explaining that so.

For the language proficiency, you need to meet. I think I can go back on my slides. What is L4 level 4 or equivalent? OK, so that can be done through your native language. If it's not English, so it needs to be proficiency in a non English language. So either your native language is not English or all of your education was done, not in English.

And or you've taken courses on your transcripts that you can show on your transcripts that you've completed the equivalent to L4.

That meets the proficiency. If there's question about any question about your language proficiency, usually something around now. I think sometime during the summer, the Jackson registrars Office reaches out to enrolling students and you. They they do the testing to it may just be you have a virtual meeting with a Yale language professor or or the like.

And they determine where your level is and which and how many classes you may need to take some time in the two years before graduation. I hope that clarifies, and Yale itself has a tremendous like a very robust language program. They're very intense. They're they're taught technically at the undergrad level, and they're the language labs. They're usually daily, and they can conflict time wise with some of your graduate level courses, so that's why you don't want to be taking too too many.

During your during your two years, because you presumably want to be taking mostly your global affairs or related classes, so I hope that clarifies and manual.

Tabby is also asking about the language explanation.

And proof yes, so hopefully that helped. A little bit that that happens after enrollment. So again, I think between the.

We're still navigating the well.

Somebody knows this? I just don't know how to formulate all of the details myself there is if you show it through your transcripts, but if you only have English, all your if you're English is your native language. If English, what you were taught only in English and you've not taken any other language classes you are eligible for the summer language immersion.

So that's.

That's right up front. Otherwise there is testing to determine your level and if you need to take it any before enrollment, so hopefully that helps a little bit.

There's if there's not already. There'll be more information on the website going forward. We're building out some of those things in the application.

So I hope that helps, and I really apologize. I'm gonna keep blaming it on my COVID brain, but it may just be like still learning some of these new changes and new opportunities. And Rebecca know there is no language proficiency requirement for the Ms.

So that's an easy. That's an easy one, and I'm OK. You're welcome to kita. I'm glad I answered that.

Of language not English.

So Kagan is asking about the Masters degree from the US. If your native language is not English, that takes care of the language proficiency. Now this is the language proficiency from the flexibility of the program. So just to clarify, this is not the English language proficiency requirements that you need for applying, so anybody whose language is native language is not English.

And has not done their undergraduate degree from an English speaking institution. Must be undergrad, not masters or pH level.

You would have to take the TOEFL or the IELTS as and we are going to start to offer the Cambridge English. It's very new. We're still working out those details but you would have to take the English language proficiency as separate.

From the language proficiency, that's part of the academic program.

That makes sense. Hopefully I've made sure those two things are separate, so one is the application requirement for English language proficiency. One is the non English.

Requirement for.

Graduation hopefully that clarifies and I hope that answers kaylan's question and I'm glad I think it answered tabbies, so that's great.

All right, so Josh is asking you about quantitative requirements so I can talk about that here with the flexibility as well.

How we doing on time? It's about almost 830 here so we do have some time.

Pardon me again.

So.

There are no formal requirements for the MPP when it comes to quantitative, but I will say that having some stats and ECON or some other quant type classes like your algebra calculus will definitely strengthen your application because that's an econ are part of our core and they are for many of our peers, so keep that in mind. We all have like the apps I mentioned. Actually I think I opened the apsia page before I started this.

To make sure you have it as a resource.

I mean, obviously we want you to, you're here and we want you to apply to Jackson, but we know you're applying to all of our peers, so epsi has a great resource because they're 30. Some odd member schools and they offer their own webinars and do all sorts of things. But there is so many subtle nuances between all of our programs and I would say that the quantitative.

Requirements and I would say recommendations for us are probably fall somewhere in the middle of our peers, so I actually worked at a different institution for 22 years before coming to Yale Jackson in a little town in New Jersey. I'll let you decide to try to figure out what that was, but I would say they have the strongest.

Again, not requirements, but strongest recommendation for the quantitative skills because of their core having four or five different types of quantitative requirements, and there are schools I want, I think a couple of the schools in DC might be a little bit more flexible than we are. Maybe having no quant core or whatnot. Or you can choose so we have the core requirements. We really encourage people to have some. It's ideal if you have some, but you know if you don't, but there's some other aspect of your.

Application, whether it's your your work experience, your leadership profile, whatever, the issue is, we may take a risk on somebody not having quantities we for better or still do require the GRE test. So if you don't have the quantitative coursework.

That GRE Quant section will weigh much more heavily. So think about your application as a.

A portfolio if you will like about a balance altogether, so it it.

Again, it's not required, but we definitely recommend it, and I think the profile shows some of the we don't have minimums. We don't have minimum GPA. We have a minimum GRE because we we do want to keep it open for whatever other unique story there might be. But again, I reiterate the small size of the program part of that.

Is part of the the disadvantage for us is we can't we have to be very careful and can't have too many people in our cohort who don't have the quantitative skills because it will become very obvious in the core classes if there are too many people who are really struggling and we we want to do everything we can to help you succeed. Whether that's you know tutoring or whatnot, those kinds of resources so.

It's we we have to think about not just a balance for you in your application, but also a balance in building the class and so making sure that there's only maybe a couple people who have a weaker academic profile but have amazing work experience. Or maybe we only have a couple people who are right from undergrad, but they have amazing internships and and solid academics, right? So that makes sense. Hopefully that makes sense as far as how we look at that that.

Balance of things, so that's the long answer for no, we don't have any quantitative requirements, but we definitely recommend them.

OK, Sheena is asking about the I. I already hinted to the straight out of undergrad. You absolutely can still apply, but like I mentioned, we usually out of a cohort of only 30 to 35 we usually only have maybe 1-2 or three. It's not a quota, so it depends on the academic. You know the applicant the applicant pool.

Excuse me

and if you actually look at.

Who they are like in the in the student BIOS that I sent there often the pickerings and wrangles. Those people are interested in the US and interest in the Foreign service might be familiar with those fellowships there on the fast track and the Foreign service. So they're right in alignment with the mission of of Jackson, and so they make sense and plus they have to come as soon as they get the fellowship they have to go to grad school right away and they get funding for that. So that completely makes sense. So it is possible.

We have a couple coming in. I know we have one non Pickering wrangle coming in this fall. I think a Navy Anson I think. Again, those BIOS won't show up, probably for another month or so, but it is possible but think about it in light of.

What you want to do? Do you really, really, really know what you want to do and what you want to get out of the program? Because that will become even more important for somebody with less work experience because we'll be concerned that you're just trying to figure it out and you could get lost in all of in the academic playground, right? We don't want to get lost in the academic playground. So again, while we provide you the resources you need to drive that right, you need to tell us what you want to do, and so there might be some.

You know, right from undergrounds or nontraditional students, right from undergrad who know exactly what they want to do and.

In your recommendations, your recommenders might even become more important. They're always important, but if they can attest to your drive and that you want to do this particular thing, whatever that is that you tell us, and if that all corroborates that could put together a strong application for somebody who is applying from right from undergrad or with only one or two years of experience. So it is possible, but just given our sheer size, I think a lot of the larger programs of our peers out there have a little bit more freedom.

With accepting more, who are right from undergrad just because of their sheer size, so you know a 30 to 35 people to a cohort feedback from current students is usually, you know if we have too many young people we hear about it, right? Because it's not just about what you need to learn from us. From Jackson from Yale, but it's also what you bring to the table and what you contribute.

So think about how you're going to to be. You know at the table with.

You know senior military officers and international. You know government staffers, and you know former Peace Corps people and.

I mean, I could go on and on, right? So think about when you're putting the other application. Think about how you.

Can contribute to that conversation. Hopefully that makes sense, and I really apologize if I'm sort of rambling on.

All right, OK, we're getting into some of the application questions more specifically, so let me quickly blow through the rest of the slides just to share a little bit more about Jackson in general. Really quickly the faculty I've mentioned, the senior fellows a couple times. They also have.

The app BIOS link new ones are usually announced sometime over the summer, so keep your eye on those, but I'm going to paste in the current BIOS. They are practitioners, senior level practitioners in their fields. Former military generals, ambassadors, CEO's.

You know all sorts of amazing people with amazing experiences, and they this is something that I tell people all the time. A perspective applicants all the time is that.

These big name people.

Are at all of these institutions right like the absea schools or other schools that you're interested in? We all have them right, So what your job is when you're researching Graduate School is to see.

How they're integrated into the programs into this curriculums into the schools?

And and what you want out of them? And if that's important to you, because like I mentioned, I was somewhere else for 22 years. I've done recruiting all over the world with a lot of our peers, so I know that these people are everywhere and we all have different variations of who and how many and how they're utilized.

I was so pleasantly surprised and shocked at how very integrated the senior fellows are in the Jackson student experience, so they're not there for a weekend. They're not there just to give a talk or, and there are there's visiting fellows and there's all sorts of events where people do that. They do that and they bring their colleagues in to do that, but they are.

Usually a poignant for one 2-3 years contracts they teach. They'll do informal mentoring, they give talks. They have people over to their homes. I think David Brooks we got to our admitted student program in the spring. He meandered by and they got to meet him very informally. It wasn't planned. He has Kurt, his current students in his class come over to his house with him. His wife. All the time. I think that's common. I think. Robert Ford.

It was the same thing, so it's it's.

It's really amazing how integrated they are. They'll read your applications. Yes, yes they will. Senior fellows are part of the admissions Committee, so number of them participate and maybe you might. So you might be having you know, a Howard Dean reading your application or a former CEO or former ambassador reading your applications. So keep that in mind. So it's not just the admissions Office, crew services, and faculty members.

It is actually practitioners in the field, so they're looking at your application from a very different perspective, so that's really important. So they are and and it's been a while since we've been pre and hopefully post COVID era, but they they hold office hours in the building. Hopefully they'll bring our coffee machines back and you know often running into them just sharing the same.

Space and the same coffee area and so staff and faculty and students and senior fellows are interacting and I think that's why that could go back even to I think why I mentioned on the the family F but they fall under that as well. I mean, Harry Thomas has helped me with recruiting events for Pickering and Rangles, so they're an amazing amazing resource. OK funding. Let's quickly talk about funding.

And future, and then we'll get to some of your questions because we are starting to run out of time because I am rambling. I go from like hitting a wall to high energy. It's again, COVID. Brayden, it's weird.

Funding is simple.

For Mas mid career. Unfortunately for now we do not provide Jackson funding for mass students, which is. You'll see that when you look at the student BIOS there's none there right? Because again, this this doesn't have the current students and and they haven't started yet, so they're usually externally funded, sponsored by their employers, military, international governments, or self funded. That does happen. Believe it or not, so for right now Ms you have to.

Not listen.

For the MP.

It's really straightforward.

To request funding from Jackson, you will check a box in the application requesting funding. If you don't need funding, you might want to tell us why? Because we want to make sure you really know that you're not applying for funding.

A lot of people do come externally funded the last few years.

We've been able to continue to increase the amount of funding that we provide for the MPP students.

And that I mentioned, there's just a couple things that we hope will change with becoming a school, 1 being the logo, 2 being funding. It might take some time to roll this out as we continue to fundraise and all of that kind of thing and and and all the things with what becoming a school looks like.

So the last this so the last two years this current enrolling class and last year's class all were able to receive full tuition. OK, so I think that's a pretty good big deal again. My previous employer down in New Jersey had the mic drop on funding. Most Masters programs are not funded or there's limited funding. You'll find that with our peers or their variations of funding, our funding at Jackson is merit based, so it's not need based.

Something so it's merit based. So at this point.

We can't guarantee isn't there. Whatever the clarification they used for, like investing, right? Like the history can't prove the future or whatever. Something like that. Please don't quote me on that.

But our hope is that we will be able to continue to increase that, so we have been able to provide full tuition to everybody who.

I say needs it, but who asks for it? I say need it because there are people who are externally funded and obviously we we incorporate that funding and I would say I think in the last couple years about a third of the class also gets full sequence again, merit based, so there's I can't tell you how that's done. We have to admit the class, and that's where that profile of what your work experience is, what your unique story is. Your test, scores, genres, you know, Gpas, all of those things come into play.

More so when we do look at that additional funding. So pretty straightforward.

I don't have much to add. There's probably questions about that which I will answer, but finally future, because presumably that's why you're going to grad school. You're thinking about your future. You are thinking about what you want to do after grad school.

Why do you need a degree? Why do you need to subsidize the funding?

To get this degree so you want to make sure it's worth it, right? Obviously so this again, forgive me. I didn't bother updating all of this right now until we get all our new logo situated and going forward.

There's much more updated information on the website. I'll paste those links in the thing about this link that I just gave you. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, this is what I think you really want all the way to the bottom of that page, and I'll find that link because there is a direct link to it. Hold on to that because you'll see about five or six years of actual statistics of first jobs taken by Jackson graduates. You obviously have to take the last couple of years of the little grand slot.

Because it was COVID times, most of them were remote. Perhaps more research type things than would be normal so.

Do dig down a little bit deeper, but these are. This is kind of what you want. Basically if you look through some of these things, you'll see that people do. Jackson grads do just about anything they're working in in foreign affairs. They're working in the military. They're working at Google. They're working in.

I be insight all of the UN orgs they'll be doing. You know, policy work at McKinsey. They do fellowships. You know the list goes on, so you can kind of look for yourself, so I think that's what you're really looking for, and there's a number of resources. Again, you get the one on one help with career services. Again, just like you do with the student affairs for your academics, sometimes career services and sit in on your academic conversations as well so they know.

They know what you want to do.

So you again, because of our size, you get that hands on help. They do all of the things right the the resume workshops and the mock interviews and all of that. But they also bring in, you know, alumni and employers and and obviously virtual is here to stay because that just broadens things right? So you'll have even more opportunities. So definitely I'll stop there because I think that's pretty straightforward.

This is where we sort of shift to a little bit of the application stuff which I will talk about for a minute or two.

You can't apply now because the applications are open and actually the application isn't even built yet, so that's one of the other things that's a big difference about becoming a school is. We've been part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for so long. They ran our application well. Now we have to build our own, so we're in the process of that. Applications usually don't go live until August September anyway. I would say anybody applying this year please bear with us on when that goes live. We have testing to do we have.

All sorts of background stuff to do. We've tried. We're trying to build out our FAQ so you know you know what to expect and what to look for and the application questions. The application form itself really is just a form couple little questions about diversity and and how you hear about us, but it's really your personal statement and your letters and recommendation and your resume. Those pieces that you can begin working on now, right? Even though you can't upload them yet, you can work on those now.

Test scores all of those things, so hopefully there's enough resources on our transition website that.

Give you the information you need to start thinking about applying for when the application goes live. If you're on this webinar and you don't opt out of getting spam from us, hopefully you don't think it's spam. You know we'll probably blast you with the application as live. The application is live so, but again, we'll want to do a lot of testing because we're on our own. We have actually decided to reduce the application fee. We really hope that that provides more access to people who the fee itself is just a struggle.

Right, if you're from a developing country, even just that application fee, it can become problematic. So we've we've made the decision at Jackson to decrease it considerably from what it was from the Graduate School, but we also have if you apply by December 1st, so our deadline is January 2nd. Our final deadline is January 2nd, but if you apply by December 1st, you get an automatic fee waiver.

Just just apply by December 1st before midnight and your application fee will be waived as long as we can figure out that logic and the application. No, I'm sure we will. It's been working for years so we just have to build it ourselves. So it's as simple as that. So maybe think about it as our deadline is actually your summer 1st and then you know that's taken care of. So if you want the extra time you do have the opportunity to pay the application fee during the month of December.

We do not have rolling admissions. There's not an advantage, not an admissions advantage to get your application in early. It's really it does help us, sort of.

You know, get an idea of what's coming and if we can start reviewing applications we do, because obviously we can't read the applications all at one time and it is a rolling review, but we do we make. We have admissions committee meetings, you know, usually at least six people are reading your application. It's a very robust process. Meetings in late February decisions go out in March, so it's it's a very robust process, so it's not rolling admissions, but so the early deadline is really for your financial advantage and.

Nice to get it out of the way.

I, and just because it's a common question, I will say that.

If you apply by December 1st, your test scores and your letters of recommendation can still come in by the January 2nd deadline, right? Again, it's your piece of the application that's that, gets you the fee waiver by December 1. So that's a very common question, so you don't have to worry about taking your test early, and your recommenders will still have that time. Those should be in very, very close to the to January 2nd deadline. I think that's it. This is all our social media.

Some of it's updated already with Jackson School. I did put in a calendar link there, but you'll have to forgive me. I cannot. There's a lot going on. There's a whole lot going on and we have lots of deadlines for all the technical stuff that I've talked to you about, so I just cannot open hours in in July.

Normally after webinars I give my calendar and I have hours and hours, many, many meetings of people who attend these webinars and I'm very happy to have them, but I needed to block out the July calendar. Otherwise your application might not be ready in time, right? So you want me to block out time and again, there's no advantage to meeting with me earlier. You don't even have to meet with me. Hopefully this webinar is enough, but sometimes people have specific questions and don't feel comfortable asking them, but.

Hopefully I think I will stop there. Hopefully the fact that we've sort of put it all. Your first name only that you do feel comfortable asking your questions here because I will say that usually you're not the only one who wants to ask a particular question. So we have 10 minutes.

Let me see what kinds of questions are there.

And if I can plow through some of them, so feel free to start asking them if I forget and I should have mentioned this in the beginning your question. Oh no, no, that's right. I didn't moderate the questions so they are all showing up so you can see if your questions been posted and I will try to answer them. So I think I stopped at the guidelines right for the admissions stuff. So guidelines for the letters of REC. There you know we don't have any.

Substantive letters are great. I mean, they probably shouldn't be like 7 pages, but.

You know a letter of recommendation. That's a paragraph or two is not necessarily a strong letter. More is not necessarily better, but you. I mean, somebody might be able to say something super substantive in in a short letter, so it's really what the substance of the letter is. Your recommenders should know you. Well. Common is sort of like 2 pages, right?

But

if you need to give your recommenders recommendations, you could sort of stay in that like 1-2 or so pages. There's no limits for them, though, because if they have information that they can share about you and corroborate who you are and what your passions and goals are, then that's great.

Uh Murray is asking about the MAS. OK, so there might be a handful of you on here, so I'll quickly say again, it's pretty straightforward A1 year program.

There are no core classes, so you choose the eight classes from the same course database that I link that I sent earlier. You're going to choose the eight classes.

Ideally, we'd like you to take some medicine, but you can take just like the MPP. You can take them anywhere across Yale. You also sit down one on one with the the director of graduate studies or Sistant Dean and plan that curriculum, but same way as the MP's you need to tell us why you want to be at Jackson for this particular year. Most people in the MIS are in that sort of mid career minimum seven years but.

Average is about 10/11/12, right? So that just shows you it's it really is that mid career and usually already in the global affairs arena. And again you'll be able to see that from the student BIOS, new ones going live this summer.

And pivots are difficult for the mmas, because again, there's so much freedom, so that's why it usually is. People who are already in the global affairs pocket, and they just need. Maybe it's language, maybe it's regional studies. Maybe it's some serious networking that they want common. We have a lot of military people in the MAS. I mean, we have the likes of General McChrystal and and General Petraeus, who are part of our program.

And there's conferences and so many things that go on in the mass students and MPP as well, but the MAS students are often really involved in pulling those together and being part of those, and so the networking opportunities are amazing, so I hope that helps a little bit. It's really pretty straightforward, which is why we don't do like a separate have done a webinar on for just the MAS, but it's it's so basic and pretty simple. Hopefully that's not too complicated.

Under what circumstances can generally be waived? That's a question it's not technically waived if it's not offered in the country where you reside. That might be a circumstance, but COVID has changed things and there's some tests and all sorts of various opportunities, so it's not like I remember many years ago where somebody was trying to figure how to take a helicopter out of their country to another country to take the test. I mean, we, we really don't want you to have to do that, but.

If we really recommend that you take it, unfortunately it still is the recommended requirement. If you choose not to be advised that you should provide an explanation, so there's usually additional document sections in the application. You should have provide an explanation whether it's that or anything right, gaps and resumes, and you're welcome to utilize that for your application. Anything that we would ask, well why? Why don't you have this or?

So definitely explain why you're not submitting something that's required. Your application will be incomplete even if you submit something like that. We do eventually review all incomplete applications, so it's not like you're just thrown out because you didn't submit anything. But we do focus on the complete for efficiency. Obviously, in time we do focus on complete applications first, so you'll see your application portal and you'll see where you are, not just the GRE question, but if you're waiting for your recommendations.

And whatnot you'll be able to follow that. Or if you have geries and you're waiting for your scores to be uploaded, you'll be able to see that all in your application portal. But we and we promise we do eventually get to incomplete applications, but there needs to be something completely outstanding really outstanding about your application. If the admissions committee is going to take a risk on somebody who submitted an incomplete application, I'm not saying it's not possible, but it's incredibly rare. I hope that makes sense and wasn't too too harsh.

Damian is having Internet issues. How open is the MPP to people with non international relations, non politics, professional or academic background, econ undergrad with two years experience in consulting private sector? That's a great question.

I think I used my little one of my little tag lines a little bit earlier is that we see work experience as evidence of commitment to global affairs, right? So at the same time.

All of these things are part of global affairs, right? So more so at Jackson than some of my previous employers of some of our peers is that we're a little bit more open to private sector because you really need an because we have the relationship with the school and management, and again, the the the social entrepreneurship Lab at Yale and and there's, I think, size city like helps people who are going into.

And my brain's not going to work. And I don't want to waste too much time trying to find my words, but.

We're a little bit more open to that because and I will say that the app the alumni and current students who take classes, whether it's the law school or the school management.

The most important thing in in the global arena, or if you want to go work in government or do international policy is to be able to speak the language of all of the sectors.

Right, so you're going to be interacting with all these people, so having some of that experience is really important. So maybe people who don't come from that. Actually, the field that you do Damien that may actually take some classes in those areas because they just need to speak the language, and it's really important in this, you know, global arena, right? So? But yes, we are looking for that commitment to the global good. If people are in investing and different things like that like we hope that people aren't going into like that.

They were, you know, money making thing, but you know people do go into consulting and if you can it doesn't matter what your major was. It really matters. You know your work, that's why your work experience is so important. We want to see like and I don't think I've said this yet, but connecting the dots right we want to see how you connect the dots with what your academics were, what your internships.

What your internships were and what your postgrad experience has been. Why Jackson and how Jackson is going to help you get to that career goal that you want, ideally in the global good, right? So it's not as cut and dry like we wouldn't admit. Somebody from consulting background. And again, it depends on the applicant pool. How many people are going to be applying with your similar background? We probably wouldn't take too. Too many people from that particular sector, so that goes back to building the class.

And that's important to us as well. OK, so I hope that that makes some sense. How we doing shout out to David Brooks?

Explanation and joint degrees. OK, that's a great question because I kind of just skirted by that it is 9. I don't think I get completely cut off. Maybe you all need to bounce. I still have a voice so that'll work. I'm happy to keep chatting and answering your questions for at least a couple minutes.

But let me really quickly touch on the joint degrees. It's pretty simple. Completely separate admissions processes you apply to the. For example, the School of Management and Jackson separately. We don't talk to each. I mean we do talk to each other, but not when we're making admissions decisions. So you apply to both. There is a website, it's you. You'll be able to find it, but it's it doesn't have a lot of information because it's pretty straightforward. What happens if you have to get admitted to both and you usually you defer the other program because we want you to start at Jackson.

1st.

And you do your first year of Jackson your second year in the other program, and then third year you split right different semesters. The biggest question is probably the funding piece. You only get funding for the time that you're in Jackson, so that third year is the trickiest year. So because you're only in residence for one semester, if you get full tuition, a full tuition award from us, be advised. You're only getting half tuition, right? Half of the amount.

That third year because you're only in Jackson for half the year, so that's the trickiest part. So if you don't get funding from the other school.

That becomes something you have to decide and figure out if you can can swing that so if you don't get into one and get into the other, you have a choice to make decline. Did you go somewhere else?

Enroll in one, reapply and the other program and.

Hope that you get in by reapplying which is totally possible, not guaranteed, but there are. There are many options so I hope in our lack of time. I hope that's enough overview. I already answered the GRE waiver questions. Sorry, noray. Here's some of my links. I think I answered the career services question. Yes, Oh yeah, well. You specifically asked about jobs outside the US, absolutely. I mean that's, you know, probably 50% of our jobs and they help with the summer internships which are majority outside of the US.

Or at least internationally focused. So yeah, they'll they'll utilize the resources to do whatever it is you want to do. Will there be Patrick? Will there be any in person admissions events? Probably we're hoping things will be semi normal. I mean, I got COVID from an admissions event in DC.

So we still need to be really careful. I presume we will have visit days. We tried one last year. It went very well, but we had a tent outside. Not sure we'll be having tents going forward, but so if it's safe we will have them and you just need to follow our events calendar. Usually we have maybe one a month September, October, November or November December.

You just have to wait and see we.

We obviously have a lot going on with our school launch. There's going to be a big party in October and all sorts of different things, so we hope so. But there are many virtual events listed on our calendar already, kind of separate, sponsored by different organizations that we are partnering with. I hope that helps.

I can't talk about the GRE waiver anymore than I already have.

A high GPA does not substitute the GRE requirement again, it's all a balance and it's not the GPA so much that's important to us as the the grades and sort of relevant classes. So if you're, you know, had a degree that's unrelated and you know all of your grades are really high in a particular degree.

But you did poorly in, like you failed calculus, or that the failed calculus class is going to matter more to us than you know a 39 GPA and like Med school or something like that's a terrible, rushed answer. But I I just want to emphasize the the big picture, balance it it may help having an high GPA, but we can't. I mean, we need to look at your transcripts. We need to see your recommendations and all of that kind of thing.

Miriam yes limited time briefly walk through the application process interviews faculty OK so great. Oh that's my last question so far. So for anybody who's hung on this long and a majority of you have, I think yes, so the application itself again will hopefully go live by September.

It's really not going to be all that different than it has been if anybody's reapplying or even following the Graduate School. There are no interviews. So really it's your application process, and each of our admissions pages lists the, so I'll paste the MPP one again. We've been sort of trying to make our web page a little bit more robust with information, so the requirements are listed at halfway through this page that I just gave you. The Ms has an equivalent page.

So you can start working on those things, your resume, your statement of purpose, contacting your recommenders. The application fee apply by December 1st mentioned already, but you get applied and I think I had the timeline here. We just didn't really talk about.

The decisions I mentioned are not rolling, so they go out around the middle of March. Again. This will be the first year we're releasing our own decisions. Usually it's some of the graduate schools, so bear with us. It might be a learning curve, so either it'll go out sooner because we're doing it ourselves or it'll go out later because we're trying to figure it out and don't want to do it wrong, obviously. So the decision to go out in the middle of March, and we usually have.

A visit day days in early April and admitted students need to decide by May 1 so again, no interview required. And Patrick is specifically asking about a quantitative resume, not necessarily some people submit them. It's not a requirement that would be supplemental if you feel it's needed, like if you feel like you don't have the coursework and want to emphasize your quantitative resume. Meaning maybe.

Things you've done in your work. That's totally fine.

Again, think about the OR application as a portfolio in the big picture of how everything's a balance, utilize the more is not necessarily better. So clean, concise applications are great, often stronger. But if you need to answer questions, why don't you have quantitative skills? Why aren't you providing an academic letter recommendation? Why aren't you submitting your jury? Why do you have a gap in your resume, etcetera, etcetera? Those kinds of things can be addressed in your application. We'd rather you address them then.

You don't want us making up stories about why there's gaps and things missing, so as long as you address them, that could actually help your case a little bit. Housing Emanuel was asking about housing. Yes, there is campus housing a majority of our students don't live in campus housing. They usually end up living in apartments and houses with each other, often fellow graduate student Jackson students. There's resources throughout the summer when people meet each other during our admitted student.

Program they often connect and and make those connections and start doing that process. But there is a limited number of Emmanuel. I'm not sure you were from. It sounds like maybe you're an international student. I think there are limited number of.

Furnished.

Campus apartments I think campus dorm style apartments so that could be a possibility. You apply for that all like may or so as an admitted student. Enrolled choosing to enroll student and housing has a has a pretty robust website. OK? People are still dropping out. Any final questions. I should probably call it a day. This is kind of a long webinar miraculously done with COVID.

I hope it was helpful.

Future webinars will probably be pretty similar, but we're really excited about changing that logo, and maybe we'll have more information about new senior fellows and any new changes. But again, this is Jackson. This is who we are. Tight family community with amazing academic opportunities and and networks available, so we hope you continue to follow us as we are.

On this journey, and hopefully you'll apply and again, please bear with us as we you know, workout all of the technical kinks on the back end of this of this shift to becoming the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale. All right, we hope you'll be able to join us. Thank you, bye.