Yale GEPN 2018

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Hey everyone! Now that applications have been out for a while, has anyone started the process of applying for the Yale GEPN program? I hope that your applications are going well if you have! Also, if there are any current GEPN students that happen across this thread, if you have time, feel free to share your experiences in the program and any tips you may have :) Thanks!

Thank you so much for so much detail!! I'm curious why you ended up choosing Yale over the other programs?

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I applied to Columbia, UPenn, Case Western, Oregon Health and Science University, MGH, Northeastern, Yale, Vanderbilt and a couple others that I'm not remembering right now. I am now attending Columbia's MDE/DNP program

Trying this again:) sorry pretty new to these threads

Why did you end up choosing Yale's program over the others?

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Hey! I'm a current GEPN! I'm from Ohio, and moved to CT specifically for this program (...obviously). I love living in CT. It was an adjustment, but I really do enjoy it.. our program is somewhere around 89k per year.. it's expensive.....very expensive.. you get a lot for your money though. YSN doesn't cut corners on things for the students. Additionally, the education you'll receive is incredible.

I truly wish all of you the best of luck!! I know you'll be great.. I remember being in your position last year and current GEPNs telling me to not stress (& how impossible that seemed at the time)...but truly, don't stress. Each and every one of you are incredibly intelligent based upon the academic demographics you've shared.. regardless of the outcome with Yale, you'll go on to do great things! Stay positive :)

I'd be happy to answer any questions!

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Hey! I'm a current GEPN! I'm from Ohio, and moved to CT specifically for this program (...obviously). I love living in CT. It was an adjustment, but I really do enjoy it.. our program is somewhere around 89k per year.. it's expensive.....very expensive.. you get a lot for your money though. YSN doesn't cut corners on things for the students. Additionally, the education you'll receive is incredible.

I truly wish all of you the best of luck!! I know you'll be great.. I remember being in your position last year and current GEPNs telling me to not stress (& how impossible that seemed at the time)...but truly, don't stress. Each and every one of you are incredibly intelligent based upon the academic demographics you've shared.. regardless of the outcome with Yale, you'll go on to do great things! Stay positive :)

I'd be happy to answer any questions!

Thank you!! Do you know what the total cost for the whole program ends up being? I'm struggling with the per year breakdown knowing that summer likely isn't included. Also, large most students able to get funding?

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I am a current applicant for the AGANP program, I am so glad I found this thread! You all have such impressive backgrounds, I hope I can measure up! Though it is relieving to hear that not everyone has amazing GRE scores and that Yale does not focus on those too much (thank you Yale2020PsychNP for commenting on that).

Anxiously waiting for the "mid-December" interview decisions... :/

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Hey everyone! I'm a current AG-ACNP specialty student.

I know you're probably stressing about the if/ when about interviews and looking at each others' post here about GPA/GRE/experiences.... keep in mind that they're looking at you as a whole person and not just your stats. Try not to stress about stats and focus on keeping yourself busy during these wait periods. Interviews vary person to person and specialty to specialty. Think about questions you'd ask someone if you were asking; that's exactly what will happen. Mine was a very casual conversation. You're all going to do great! If I can help with any nervous questions let me know.

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It seems, at least to me, as though they don't have very many applicants, or at least not as many as they'd like. They not only extended their deadline, but they also just called me to make sure my application was coming along well. I actually decided against applying to this program and haven't even opened my application for months. Hopefully that is good news for those of you who did apply! Good luck.

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hey y'all! Check your emails, we got an update!

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Hey! Do you happen to know how many people get interviewed/accepted?

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
Hey! Do you happen to know how many people get interviewed/accepted?

I wanted to put this information on our current thread and consolidate it into one place since there will probably be more questions about this in the future. Hopefully this will be helpful to everyone.

Reading the old posts (specifically the 2015 thread), the breakdown is as follows (current GEPNs following this thread please chime in if I got anything wrong since this was from 2 years ago but it still gives us a rough estimate):

Number of Applications - between 400-500

Number of People Interviewed - 200 (50 for Midwifery, 50 for FNP, 30 for PMHNP, and between 20 and 25 for the others (PNP, AG, Acute))

Number of People Admitted from the 200 above - Between 130-140 people (there are some that will turn down admission to attend another university which is why the numbers are larger then the final cohort)

Final Cohort Size (approx) - between 90 - 100

If my math is correct then the admit rate is around 26 - 28% depending on which numbers you use.

Overall GEPN Breakdown by specialty 2015 - Psych, Midwifery and Family have approximately 20 students each. Peds will have between 10-12 and Acute Care and Adult-Gero have around 5 students each.

Overall GEPN 2014 entering class breakdown was ROUGHLY (again taken from the 2015 thread)

21 AG and Acute, 20 FNP, 18 CMN/WH, 15 PNP, 14 PMHNP

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I'm super stressed. I submitted my application right on November 30 (applied for PNP which had its deadline extended) and my GRE scores still haven't arrived. It's super weird because I submitted my scores to three schools on the same day and the other two updated my applications with the scores on November 30, and now it's December 4th and Yale still hasn't put them up. Should I be concerned that my application will be disqualified for not having everything in by the deadline? I have everything else in and already paid the fee, and I got the same email about interviews that everyone else got. Ahhh I'm so stressed!!

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Brand new to allnurses but I got so nervous/excited after today's email that I created an account so that I could have people to talk with about it! Anyone else holding their breath until 12/18?

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