Winter Admissions Webinar (December 2022)

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We have about a dozen or so people and I think we should go ahead and get started.

If I'm assuming many of you might be repeat webinar attendees, we have promoted this webinar as one geared towards applicants. But if you are a prospective student and are not applying this year, hang on, you might actually get some helpful information for the future.

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My name is Melissa McGinnis and I am the assistant director of admissions here at the Jackson School of Global Affairs.

And.

I am, for better or worse, terribly sick, so I want to put that out there in case I have a coughing fit in the middle of this webinar.

I apologize in advance, but that just shows the heart and the and the commitment to wanting to get all of your questions answered as we go into our winter recess. We want to make sure you have everything that you need and it helps us as well as we.

Um, get lots and lots of questions and don't necessarily have the time to answer all of them individually. So this will hopefully, hopefully be a mutually beneficial webinar for applicants and the admissions office. Thankfully, it is not COVID that I have, but we forget that there are other illnesses out there. So again, apologies, I have my hot tea here as we go, so.

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As I mentioned, love to know where you're logging in from. I am working from home, hopefully my Internet holds on. You should hold on if there's any glitches this will be.

Recorded um, feel free to refresh your screen if there's any issues.

And I love seeing where people are logging on from. That means you can hear me, which is great. Hello to India, Ethiopia, Nevada or oh, Tanzania. Wow, Taiwan. So all over the world. Which is great. Just to think if if you all are current applicants, then these could be your potential future classmates, which is super exciting. So hello to Los Angeles.

And anyway.

As I mentioned, for those who are just signing on now, my name is Melissa McGinnis. I'm the assistant director of admissions here at the Jackson School of Global Affairs under the weather. But I'm going to push through this webinar. But really this webinar is all about you. We did a version of this last month, but even for those who might have attended last month, you might have new questions as you've really dove into your application. So there might be new questions.

So I I want to make sure we get a chance to answer some of those. So unlike traditional webinars where I give a big spiel about Jackson and Yale, I want this you to drive this.

I want to start this with you asking your questions and the though I will a disclaimer I there are a few questions that we are getting.

Very, very regularly, and I thought I would address those first if you have patience with me. But I want to make sure there's time for any individual questions. And please, please, please don't be shy.

Many people think their question is only applies to them, but often it is a common question and I reiterate that in the chat you should only be identified by your first name and last initial, so don't be shy about any of that.

OK, so one of the main things, and if if you've gotten any of our e-mail blasts, there was a login issue for many, many people and I'll spare you the technical details, but something happened when we started loading test scores, standardized test scores in and when they were matched to your application portal.

If you took your test with a different e-mail than the, then you had started your application with.

It it didn't overwrite it, it prioritized that test.

E-mail address and that caused a lot of people having like an error that you cannot access your application. It doesn't exist. So a couple things.

It there's two, there's two options. You can e-mail us if you are continuing to have that problem, but do it ASAP because it takes time. It might take a little time to fix.

I am technically on a sick day, sick time for the rest of this week, and our office is closed for recess. Let me actually put my new slide up which has all of our dates. So.

That's something to keep in mind. So for those who were starting their application should have gotten our e-mail about that to check. So hopefully since we only heard from one or two more people, hopefully most of those are resolved.

The alternative if.

You don't have time to do that, or you don't hear from us, or if you are watching a recording of this later and we are smack in the middle of winter recess.

Try the e-mail. Try to log into your application portal with the e-mail address that you used to take your test.

That should do it, and you can go in and then you can change your e-mail back to the one you want it to be when you log in. So hopefully that makes sense. I'll check questions in a little bit to see if there's any clarification on that. That's the one main thing.

That's been, uh, problematic. The let me check my notes here. The second thing is Speaking of test scores.

You don't need to e-mail us saying your test scores are missing. They're not there yet.

For a couple of reasons. One, it takes a considerable amount of time. This is our first year. As many of you might know, this is our first year on our own, the Jackson Admissions Office and not part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. So we're working on lots of glitches, but we've been pulling all of this together from scratch and that means test score integration.

And so it is manual, so that means it could take.

10 I think ETS says 10 to 14 days before they notify schools of reported test scores and then when we get notified.

They get buried and when we have the time to get to them, we get to them. We don't do them one at a time obviously, but we you know maybe a couple times a week try to do those and get them matched. And sometimes it takes time to match. As I mentioned if it if if all of the data points don't match up to your application then.

We might have to manually consolidate those records so it can be a time consuming process until in the future when maybe we can somehow get that a little bit more automated, but we wanted to rush to get the application ready this fall for you.

So please, please, please have patience. The more emails you send, the longer it takes for us to respond to emails. So if you can, have patience, but remember, your test scores do not need to be part of your application.

By January 2nd, do not do not wait for your test scores to show up in your status portal to submit your application. You can submit your application without the official test scores.

Yes, you have to self report test scores.

And that means a future date. And you might have to put in dummy scores if you don't know your raw scores or your percentiles. We're recommending zeros so you don't look like you're putting in really fake scores and looking disingenuous. So do keep that in mind. You have to self report something to submit your application, but don't wait to submit your application for official test scores. We will be loading more in the new year so they should show up within a couple weeks.

Um, don't worry. We do start reading right away, but there's a lot of you, so we can't read all of your applications all within a week or two time. So please have patience. So that's that's one thing. One more thing also, in light of test scores, we do not. We're getting a lot of questions about waiving test scores, waiving juries for the MP. I'm assuming we have both MP and Ms applicants.

On this call on this webinar so.

Cherries are not required for mass, but this applies to.

English language tests as well, but the GRE.

Our standardized tests cannot be waived. They are not formally waived for any reason. We get lots of questions about cost, access, timing just found out etcetera, etcetera, etcetera and we feel your pain and we unfortunately this is the way it is and and many of our peers are still requiring them. I know that my former employer down in New Jersey is still requiring the Jerry as is the our friends up to the north in Massachusetts.

And a number of other schools, many have gone GRE optional. But there's a handful of us, a good number of us, who have not. So the recommendation that we are giving.

Is.

Excuse me?

There's the cough that I warned you might happen.

Thankfully, that wasn't too long. Anyway, the recommendation that we are giving, whether it's you already know you're taking scores in the future.

Or if you absolutely won't be taking test scores.

You need to include a note about that in your application, like any other application requirement. Why are you not submitting it right, like an explanation? So if you like, why are you not doing a certain type of recommendation or why are you not submitting something that's a requirement of the application? You should explain to the admissions committee why. So that can be an additional document and I think it's the additional questions section of the application.

And you can provide that explanation there. Keep in mind that your application portal will continue to look incomplete.

And I know that makes a lot of you nervous, but we don't just cut off incomplete applicants. We do eventually review all incomplete applicants. I know we say that everywhere in our emails.

It's true. We promise it does happen later. For efficiency, obviously we need to focus on complete applications 1st and then that obviously buys a little bit of time for those who are still incomplete, but you should not wait. And then it remains up to the admissions committee if they will consider an application that is missing, whatever the material might be. But in this case Jerry's for MP's, so hopefully.

That makes sense. Um.

Two more things that I wanted to mention.

Well, I think we've revolved resolved this in instructions, but we're getting a lot of questions about what to do with your miscellaneous transcripts. Um, we're happy with our application portal. We set it all up that you could upload study abroad and associates and Community College transcripts.

But then what we realized is we're still requiring Gpas graduation dates and that is really confusing a lot of people, which makes sense. We will revisit that for future application cycles, but for this year, you have two options.

You can combine your transcripts into one document, right? Hopefully all of you know how to do that through PDF, Adobe.

So you have your degree seeking transcript, just append any necessary study, broad transcript, Community College and you can append it all in one or you can add them in the additional documentation that I mentioned earlier which I believe is in the additional questions section. So you can upload them as supplemental materials. They all show up in your application that we read.

Presumably all of that stuff will be explained on your like the education section of your resume anyway, so don't worry too much about the dates. It's really the degree granting dates that are essential to us, if that makes sense.

Um, I think that's, I think I will stop there. Those are the main points that we're getting and I think I'm seeing potentially some questions popping in. So I will stop talking because I did mention that this is about you and I want to make sure you have a chance to answer to ask your questions.

Alright. Hello Argentina DC. I see some familiar names, so glad to have you back. Let's see Kiki is joining from Greater Boston. I'm wondering if there is a one time fee waiver deadline extension for those attending today's last webinar. Kiki, sorry we the we had a December 1 fee waiver deadline for everyone because of certain fellowships we extended.

The deadline for certain fellowships to excuse me.

December 15th. So that December 15th deadline has passed. A lot of this has to do with having to process all of those again are manual. So we don't have the capacity to do that before winter recess and also because we had the December 1 deadline.

For everyone already. So unfortunately that has passed. Um, that's a great question and maybe in the future we will consider something different, but this is.

You know how we have the application set up this year and hopefully that works for most people and we apologize if everyone wasn't able to sort of take advantage of that. We hope you will still consider applying.

Right. Hopefully that that was actually I had that on my list because we're getting a lot of questions about that as well.

Um, Joseph, I took a gap year after high school. Is this something I need to comment on as part of the application or should I add this to your resume? That's a great question. I mean, it's after high school, so it is very early, but if you, you know, don't have significant postgrad work experience, or if it's super relevant to the mission of Jackson and your commitment to global affairs and you feel like it should be used, it could be useful.

There's no harm including that, but typically we're looking at mostly stuff done through college and post college.

Alright, next I see. Christina, what are the faculty student relationships like at Yale Jackson School? Well, I will say from an application standpoint since I want to make sure this is.

Initially prioritized with that, um, once students get admitted to Jackson during our period of middle of March when the decisions go out and may one when you have to make a decision whether or not to accept the offer, we actually put you in touch with current faculty and students and we're going to try getting more formal alum involved in the process as well this year. So they're, they're very involved.

Well, actually we have faculty and senior fellows who are on the admissions committees, so.

They are very invested in in this process, and it's going to be case by case. Obviously every faculty member has.

Variations of their schedules, but with Jackson's class size, cohort size of you know, the MP's are about 30 to 35 and the MAS are usually about two to five, very small, very one-on-one attention. Obviously the core classes are going to have more people in them, but a majority of the elective classes are could be as few as six.

I mean, you're going to have a considerable amount of attention. Hopefully you can still hear me. I accidentally hit something on my keyboard and I think you're still there, so.

Thank you again for your patience.

I am medicated, so we I can't believe I'm putting that on a public webinar, but yes, here we are.

I'm happy to be here to help.

Alright Christina, I hope that helps. This is going to be one of those embarrassing moments that I can't believe that people watch this. Me and this webinar. Anyway, hopefully this is being useful. Natika, hello. On the academic history section of the application we are asked about our class, rank and credit hours. This information is unfortunately not available.

If they're not required fields, don't worry about it you it's fine to leave them blank if they're not required. If it, I don't think those are required fields.

Um, if they are.

I don't remember if I've tested this.

You could do DNA if it doesn't accept a character instead of a number.

I think you're always safe with zeros, because I think zeros.

You know, aren't you trying to, you know, make something up? So hopefully that helps and if you have clarification on that as we go forward, I'm happy to answer as we still have a good number of a good amount of time left for the webinar.

All right. Ross, great question. I understand Yale Jackson is relatively young IR focus program and the cohort size is relatively small. Could you speak to how Jackson compares and or distinguishes from the longer standing IR programs and how the small cohort sizes are in advantage for Jackson?

Ross, I am. Please don't let me forget. I wanna hold that question because that's a great question. But I want to make sure we get to some of the technical stuff for the people who are applying this year, which you might be. But I'm more concerned about the technical issues that I might not have a chance to answer, if you don't mind. And I'm sorry if that. I just want to be mindful of everybody. I think we'll have plenty of time, so.

I will get back to that. Ping me again if I miss it. Joseph, I do not have a certificate to prove prove my foreign language skills. Spanish. Is this OK? Yes. We do not require the language proficiency, we ask for it. Obviously we consider it as part of your application review.

It for those students who are admitted or all students who enroll MPV students. Sorry, the MPP students do have to meet a language proficiency requirement before graduation.

So if you do get admitted, the registrar and Academic Affairs Office will reach out sometime in late spring, summer about.

Uh, proof. And if you don't have proof, it will be through testing, and there will be testing done over the summer to find out where you stand, which level one through 4 you meet, and if you're eligible for the Middlebury language program over the summer. So you don't have to worry about that at this time. Obviously on our system. And in that you are saying that you have since you managed knowledge, but you don't need the proof at this time. So if you do get admitted, there will be.

Proof or testing? OK, hopefully that helps. Alright, I answered Christina's last question. I don't remember what it was, but it's good. Thank you Uma for your feel better wishes. Me too. Santiago is confirming it's not a required field. I'm assuming you're referring to the class rank.

Issues and whatnot that Natika was asking. So if that's the case, thank you Santiago. Ohh yes. And you clarify that yourself. Great. I love it when you're answering each other's questions.

This is you know again, this is what Jackson is all about right? It's all about collaboration and and helping each other out. Ohh and thank you Ross for your patience. Kiki is asking about Jerry's scores. I'm planning to retake shortly after the new year. Would you recommend sharing official test scores now anyways and then just sharing the updated score report after sitting for the exam again or waiting until retaking and temporarily leaving the self reported application incomplete? OK, that's a loaded question. So.

If you're unhappy with your test scores and you submit the official test scores.

And that completes your application. You will end up in the queue, right? And we will, it's random how we review. There's lots of admissions committee members, but your application could will be potentially reviewed.

In the time that we're waiting for new scores to arrive and if you're OK with that.

That's fine. And if you haven't submitted your application yet and want to tell us somewhere in the application, this is ideal that you are like there's whether it's the additional information, uploads or there's a question, anything else we want that we should know.

You can.

Tell us, hey, I'm taking. I'm retaking the juries On this date. I'm submitting my official scores, but I'm retaking them On this date.

And just so we know to expect new scores, scores are not a make or break decision usually on whether somebody is going to be admitted or not. It's not based on just test scores.

But it can be helpful to know if there are new ones coming up if you're on the fence about something. So it will be up to the Admissions Committee readers if they want to wait. How long we can wait, we have no idea, obviously. That's why we say as soon as possible within a week after the deadline. As I mentioned before, we can't read all the applications.

In a short period of time.

But we don't know how many applications we're going to receive. We don't know how many are going to be complete right away. We don't know how many of us are going to remain sick through the new year. So we you know we just reading is ongoing all throughout January. So if you're retaking them soon in the new year, the new ones might very well arrive before we even get to your application. So that's a long answer and a non answer to your question. I would say it's your choice.

Have the risk to have your application remain incomplete while we wait for all of your test scores, or you can submit your existing verified scores.

Potentially being reviewed with those and may or may not get the new scores in time to be reviewed. I hope, I hope I explained that properly.

Phoenix clarification give a shout out Mushfiqur I hope I'm not butchering your name for summer programs and other institutions. I critical language. How do we put that in our academic history, particularly if required major artery I think I mentioned that before.

If if you have documentation, the documentation can be added to your degree.

Um, documentation, right? The transcripts can be mushed together in one document and uploaded. There's no harm in that. Obviously you won't be.

Able to input that, but if you inputted them separately, it will require documentation for each one. And a lot of people are feeling disingenuous when they are including major and degree and graduation date when they don't have those for summer programs. That's a I wouldn't call it a glitch, but that's something that we need to think about how to better do in the next application cycle.

But I again, I reiterate, if you weren't on earlier or if you asked this question before, I answered it before that presumably that information will be somewhere else in your application whether it's the education section of your resume or you can add it in the additional questions section. You know anything else we need to know about your application. There are multiple ways to to answer those questions. So hopefully that will help. Oh and thank you for.

You'll feel better wishes as well. Daniel, what were your advice for someone who applied for MPB but have not taken the Jerry test yet? I think I answered that already.

It's I I did. If I'm going to skip it because I did answer it. But if you didn't hear it, I'll repeat it. But let me keep moving.

To make sure we get new questions answered um thank, Natika is asking. Thanks for answering your previous question. I had another one. The additional question section of the application has two questions related to keywords for academic interests and description of public service. Could you help me please giving examples of what these could include, sure.

After I have about of coughing.

All right. The keywords are really just about what do you want to study at Jackson. Obviously, you'll be talking about that in your personal statement, but sometimes when we're doing searches, keywords can be helpful. There are no prescribed descriptions for that. But if you can sort of summarize in just a few words what your particular area of interest is, since if for those of you who know, you know, Jackson is really flexible and you're designing.

Their own curriculum, so it could be general like.

Climate change or development or you can be super specific.

Don't China, Africa relationship and you know whatever, I'm just making things up on my medicated brain. So that's really it's, it's really up to you. But that's how we look at those. It's just a sort of a nutshell version of what you're presumably you'll be talking about your personal statement and the public service question. Yeah, I mean we get lots of different answers on that and I think.

I think we want to see what you will do with that. What do you consider public service or government service? People talk about what they've done and volunteerism or in their work, community service, etcetera. So talking about what that looks like and we have people who haven't had any and you know address that there. So it's, it's not really an example I can give you because it's really going to be different for every candidate if that makes sense.

Uh, you're welcome. Test Score clarification was good. Mushka, thank you so much. Yes, ohh good. I pronounced your name. I don't see any new questions. So let me bounce back to Ross's question and allow some of y'all to think about what other technical questions you might have.

As I.

I could probably mute as I coughed, but then I'd be afraid I wouldn't forget to unmute.

Yeah.

Alright, after the new Year or after this application cycle is over, I may not have this show up on our webinar archives for obvious reasons. OK, Ross, back to your question about Jackson being a young IR focus program.

So great question. I actually let me jump ahead because I've been sitting on this one slide. I did have a slide, just a one shot slide. It doesn't really talk about comparisons, but it's an overview slide that I thought I'd throw in at the end if we had time for people who were exploring Jackson and not necessarily applicants of this cycle, but I'll have that up while I ramble about drug induced ramble about their question.

So um.

We are new in name.

OK. So I think what and it's super exciting, right. We are as officially and for people who don't know you might there might be some new people on here. We are new in name. As of July one, we became the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Prior to that, we were the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, which was part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences here at Yale.

That happened around, I think, 2010, when the Jackson family gave a substantial amount of money to take what was the IR program at Yale. So we are an iteration, the newest iteration of the decades Old International relations program.

That was.

A graduate degree.

A Masters graduate degree in the in Yale University.

The IR program is a founding member of APSIA, the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, which I always recommend you follow. And those are potentially the peers that you're asking about, Ross.

There's 30 some odd member schools within Apsia and Yales IR program was one of the half dozen dozen maybe founding members of Apsia. So we are not new, we've we've adopted those alumni into our network.

Obviously we've been growing and changing over the years. I could go on.

Whether or not I should, the history that I have learned is that when the School of Management was founded back in 1976.

It's the School of Management rather than just the Business School because I think the intention was that would fill this.

Public affairs sort of space a little bit more than a traditional Business School would. And so that's why Yale School of Management, Yale Business School has that more public administration. Public service really, really ties well with Jackson's mission as well. So we have a lot of joint degree students with the two programs, but I what I understand is that it took a while.

But.

SOM, as we call it, did better when they morphed more into a traditional Business School and that left space for a hole, not space a hole, a hole for this type of public and international affairs type program slash degree that a lot of our peers had at the time.

So this is, you know, I don't know if decades ago they foresaw this moment in time, but between the IR program and the Jackson Institute and now the backing from all of Yale to separate from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which was obviously a signal to we are a professional program in international relations and a professional degree. So with the switching a couple years ago of the MA.

The MP's. So that's the a little bit of the history, and I hope you don't quote me on that. I might have gotten some of the facts not perfect, but that's my long way of saying we're not new technically and even the switch to being a school versus an institute, who we are and how we've been operating the last dozen years.

Dozen or so years is not really changing all that much. So we've been competing if you will with these peers, the princetons, the Harvards long before I got here about four or five years ago and I think we're seeing now through our recruiting, through our application process.

That we're going to encounter a considerable amount of growth and I hope that answers the new question. And you mentioned the small cohort sizes seeing it as an advantage disadvantage.

I think some would say the disadvantage would be that makes our alumni cohort smaller than usual or smaller than others.

But our alumni have found that not to be an issue because that almost makes it like a tighter cohort. And if you encounter a Jackson alum, they'll typically like drop everything to help you because, you know, they really do want to help each other. And being such a small cohort, there's that bond that's developed and they, you know that is is taking off. And we're even with the growth of Jackson becoming a school, that means even though we're the student body.

Size isn't changing. The curriculum isn't changing more than it really already has in the last couple of years.

The the the growth is taking place and we have an alumni office which is now separate from the Career Office and there's, you know, trying to do a lot more with the alumni network.

And I think you know that that growth there can only enhance the, you know, the alumni network, which is really the only, I would say the only disadvantage, though, I would say another disadvantage is if you want to go to a large Graduate School and sort of get lost in the shuffle and have lots of people doing the same thing that you're doing so you can collaborate together or whatnot, you know that the small size might seem like a disadvantage.

To you but.

Most students who choose this program.

Are choosing it simply because there is likely going to be nobody at Jackson in your cohort who is like you.

And our students find that to be, um, really an super advantage because you're gaining, you're, you're, you're in a cohort with people who are approaching global affairs from their own different perspectives, from different regional or or family origins or whatever the case may be. So.

I I think.

Yeah, I I mean, I hope that answers your question. I might have answered it more than you wanted, or maybe I I missed the mark, but hopefully that helps. Let me see if there's more questions here and what I might have missed while I was rambling on.

Let's see, where did I leave off before?

Uh, additional questions. You're welcome. You're welcome.

Thank you for the get well wishes. Um, I'm glad I've been helpful. Can you speak more about Jackson students and where they end up after the program? Is there a common split between fields like research, nonprofit, public, private? Yes, Audrey, that is on our website.

Um.

And.

Actually.

This is super embarrassing, but I need to blow my nose and this one I'm not going to let you watch. So I am going to simultaneously mute, hide my video and find that link all at the same time. Please don't leave. And if new people sign on, I hope they don't think they're in the wrong place. So hold that thought. I will find that link while I take care of some personal business. Be right back.

OK, so this is going down in history as one of my most embarrassing webinars ever. Um.

But it's life, right? So here we are.

And I found the link. This is the overview of some aggregate data for the last few years, and that does show that our applicants are our graduates go into all sorts of different sectors and different places around the world. But I want to highlight one thing at the very, very bottom of the page. People often miss this because it's really hidden, but there's a link at the bottom of the page. I'll paste that in here.

That gives you actual data for the last five years of it doesn't have names for privacy, but it gives the titles, the organizations, and the locations of where our alumni have gone on to work. These are first jobs.

There is a little, let me see there is.

Also a web page.

That gives a five years out. I will find that for you because sometimes people find this more useful. It's not just about first jobs, which may not be your dream job, right? Something to keep in mind when you're thinking about grad school. Your first job out of grad school is not always going to be your dream job.

Most likely not going to be your dream job.

So the five year link might be useful to show what the class of 2017 is doing now. So I think those will be helpful resources for you to show that like the cohorts that are enrolled coming from all different backgrounds that they also go on to do lots of different things. So hopefully that's a a resource. OK, Ross, insightful, thorough.

Answered your questions? I'm glad because I have no recollection of what I said and again, I'm going to hide this webinar once you all get through this application season.

All right, Diana, you're welcome for hosting. I'm happy to do this. I wasn't anticipating being sick when I scheduled this month or two or more ago.

In the application there is a section upload additional documents. What is this section typically used for? Great question. I would say. Definitely used for clarifying statements. Don't waste your statement of purpose for explanations of things. People use it for addressing weak whatever they perceive as weaknesses.

Gaps in resumes. Um, you know.

My test scores sucked. I'm sorry. Don't, don't use those words. Um, you know, various things like that. Um, publications, yes that can be. But publications aren't really, you know, not being PhD program. Those aren't necessarily something that we're looking for or looking at. But if you really really really really feel like it's supports your application, be mine that we have mindful. We have hundreds and hundreds of applications to read and so.

You know you want to be often as clear and concise, but without gaps and holes. So it's often the gaps and holes where you know are clarifying statements anything. There's also like a box 1 little box that has a question about anything you want to add. Simple basic things can obviously be added there, but if you feel like that box is getting awfully full, feel free to upload a document. It shows up as a PDF within your application, so it's up to you. Don't feel any obligation to use it. There is no requirement to use it.

Um, it's there in case there's something that can't be answered through the restrictions of an online portal, so I hope that helps.

Audrey and other sessions I've been excited to hear about the research that students are able to engage in. Is it super concerned or super common for students to do research with a professor during the program students do that is a little bit buried as well.

It doesn't give examples, um, except for the summer internships, which are usually much less research. Let me find that link for you.

Um, the summer experiences.

Same format as the first jobs question.

Um gives an overview and then you can break it down by year. Obviously the two ish COVID years of very research heavy, but that's a summer internship we don't really track.

What kind of research people do during the academic year? I mean, our Student Affairs Office probably does internally, but that's nothing that we report on.

That how you do that and what that looks like is buried on our MPP funding page. Even though if you're an Ms here, Ms students can do that as well. But.

It's mostly MP, so here's the link to that, like the various research positions. Again, it's pretty vague because it's case by case, right? I think our registrar, academic affairs, does an outreach at the beginning of the semester asking faculty and senior fellows what kind of help they need and then work too.

You know, have students apply for those positions that might be needed.

I think a handful of people do it. Don't forget we are being that professional focused program where the program itself is less research focused, but as we continue to grow.

One of the major differences in becoming the Jackson School is hiring our own faculty and having control over all that faculty and the growth of the latter faculty. So having more faculty around obviously probably means they will want you know they will need teaching fellows and course assistants and potentially research positions. So I hope that helps. And.

Again, it's totally case by case.

I hope that helps enough though Ross asking, I assume you're the same Ross asking an application question. Thank you. Would you recommend submitting a quantitative and or language resume and the additional optional additional documents section, this would be separate from the transcripts and focus on the actual quantitative etcetera, etcetera, totally up to you not required. I know that is a requirement of my former employer. I believe they still at not a resume. What are they if anybody here?

Applying to Princeton School of Public International Affairs, where I worked for 22 years, I'm assuming they're still requiring what they call a course list where you sort of break those courses out and ECON and stats and.

Government. Maybe it's been a few years.

And we don't require anything like that. Um, they are probably the most quant heavy core of our all our peers. I would say Jackson falls somewhere in the middle. Having Quant experience is definitely, definitely will strengthen your application. It's not required. We've actually changed around our core courses a little bit, so those who aren't as prepared specifically in ECON can take a prerequisite class.

In the fall semester to get them up to speed. So they will be fine in the core, the core econ class which has been moved to the spring semester. So that's one workaround where you know unlike again Princeton having like they have the math camp in the summer. This is kind of our variation of of that a little bit. So that's the long answer, totally up to you.

If you think it benefits your application to pull all of that out, that's fine. Again, I don't think I've mentioned here the word holistic. You know, we do the holistic admissions process and so, you know, if if your GRE quant was abysmal, maybe highlighting your quant elsewhere could be helpful if it's pretty obvious on your resume or on your transcript and your jury's.

Theories are great, you may not need something like that. So again, really your choice to do something like that. But I hope the philosophy behind what we're looking for helps answer that a little bit.

Are you sure? I was wondering how accessible state government jobs are for immigrant students. Great question. That is a question for career services. I understand, I think while you are a current student. I think internships are more accessible, if I remember correctly.

First, jobs. Not as much, right? Because there's all sorts of visa issues. If you're no longer a student, you can't do student visa stuff, and I'm no expert on any of that. You could.

Reach out to.

OK, you wouldn't be able to do this now because the whole university is on break. Not just Jackson, but there is an office of international students.

Oops, should I put the right link in? Yes.

That might be able to answer some questions we had a lot of questions about.

OPT and stem we are not stem even no matter how flexible you are and and taking all of your electives and stem adjacent.

Umm.

Classes in the government, I don't think a global affairs degree will ever count as them. So if that's, if that's helpful. So I hope that gives you some resources, ayushi.

Uh, Ross, glad you understood. Nika nitika. Also a little worried about my college transcript. Some of the font on the hard copies is very small and difficult. That's a great question. Great question.

But you you ask a question and follow up question that yes if we have any trouble reading transcripts or anything like blank things we will reach out to you to let you know that we need something updated. So you can assume all is well. Do keep in mind though that that might be an example that happens much later so you know hopefully you will have resources available as.

Presumably when we're asking for those things, we're looking for like a few day turn around at most so.

Conveniently, this software.

We can zoom things and turn things, but if zooming things.

Distorts things and we can't read. Um, you will definitely be hearing from us if you can't access anything. Alright. How are we doing? I got some thank yous. It's 1252. We actually.

Are finishing on time. Um, that's a miracle in and of itself, especially with my coughing reiteration that.

The deadline is January 2nd.

Um, the fee waivers have been processed, so you have to expect to pay the $75 fee unless you were already granted a fee waiver prior to December 15th and you would have already been notified if that were the case. Test scores can come a little later. We've beat that to death during this webinar.

Um, ohh. You know really, really quickly. Can I show you, I say this like you can either hop off if you don't want to see this. I was going to share my screen because we have resources, a lot of the questions that we get, no judgment, but a lot of the questions that we get, I'm going to remember how to share my screen.

I'm going to share our website really quickly.

Um.

OK, I believe you can see it. I can see it. So I believe you can see it. Um, if you can't see it, can can I get a yay that you can see it?

Many of the questions, yeah, Kiki, thank you. Many of the questions that we get are already answered. They might not be in the a good search way for you depending on how you want to ask your question. So you might be not, not, might not be thinking of the question, but we have FAQ's on our website. So there are three ways to get to them.

Up at the top.

In our in our. I'm not a web person so I know I forgot what this is called, But this banner up here at the top which has FAQ's.

It could get a little confusing because it's all FAQs. It's for our undergraduate global affairs majors.

Or global health scholars which is another undergrad certificate. So but I wanted to point that out to you in case you can't find what you're looking for. Grand strategy. See there's current student FAQ. So this is all Jackson FAQ.

Um, but you will see you can drill down. But if you are, let me back up again. If you go under the admissions page for whether it's MPP.

You will see you can see my mouse. Can you see my mouse? Can I get a yay if you can see my mouse moving?

Yes, good. Thank you. Um, FAQ's for MP and also MAS. There's some of them are identical, some are slightly different obviously because of test score requirements and different types of things that are slightly different in the application. So if you go to the MP's FAQ, so if you get stuck in your application.

And we are out of touch.

You are recommended to check here. Um, there's application process things which are a little bit more general, but when we get into the application questions, we've tried to break them down. There's questions about the language requirements, how letters of recommendation work, scholarship issues, all the standardized testing questions which say things like no, we don't waive them and here's what happens.

I think we added an FAQ to the transcript section about what I mentioned earlier about combining your transcripts for study abroad and miscellaneous courses and things like that. So I wanted to make sure you knew how to find this because most of your questions are answered here that I was going to add one of the the login questions. But I don't think and I think actually our search works. Let me try this.

I don't know if I created one for the login issue. Yeah, I didn't. I was going to, but it was such a small group of people. But you should be able to, you know.

I search for recommender, you know can I delete a recommender? Can I add a recommender?

You there's there's ways to get around that so I'll stop sharing that. I just wanted to make sure you had that resource. If you have questions, please, please please don't wait till like 1158 on January 2nd to submit your application between Internet bandwidth technical issues.

You know if if your application is not submitted, you'll be stuck and we are on recess until Tuesday. We'll do our best to check in, but we can't be on all the time.

So we recommend sort of trying to submit your application as early as you can to avoid any technical issues.

And I think that's my last piece of advice. Um, thank you to the dozen or so of you that hung on to this.

And presumably won't be asking any questions. No. Shame if you have to, but do be aware that will there will be delays in any answered questions and don't.

Don't wait to submit your application if you're waiting waiting for an answer.

All right. I think with that I will sign off, hydrate some more. All of you. Please be safe out there. I know it isn't COVID that I have, but there's a lot of weird stuff still out there. It is still tis the season and you know, so be safe and stay warm or cool whatever part of the world you're in. And we look forward to reading your application. Alright, thank you. Bye.