Anyone applying to Yale GEPN program for Fall 2009?

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Hi,

Since there was a very extensive thread last year about application process to Yale, I thought I would start a new thread for 2009 hopefuls. I am working on my application and wanted to know who else chose Yale as one of their options. What program? How is the application process going? Essay writing? Any anxieties? I am applying to the Adult Advanced Practice Nursing but still deciding on the specialty. The hardest part for me is the essay writing as English is not my first language, but I have been working on it for some time now and getting close to finishing the final version. Anyone else wants to share?

hey there!

i unfortunately haven't started my essay yet. my task today on this lovely fall saturday is to blockade myself and finish the essay..

good luck to all of you

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hello everyone,

i'm applying to the gepn program.... i'm excited and nervous. i work for two nps and one went to yale for her np, but she was an rn before she went to get here master's.

i've started working on the essays which are overhelming and a lot. i'm also applying to upenn, columbia, ucla, usd and csu long in hopes of getting in somewhere.

i take my gre at the end of the month i'm nervous. tom will be 30days until the test. i spoke with the admissions counselor and she said if you get above a 1000 your goo to go.

my top choice is yale since they do a lot of community work. i've done hiv and std testing and research. my work experience and letters will be great, but my gpa sucks bad! so i'm hoping my gres will help me.

i'm glad i found a forum to talk about these things because most of my friends just tell me it's going to be alright with out knowing how much work it really is to get things done doing tons of stuff.

i will cotinue to get up this posting and seeing how everyone is doing in their process. i wish the best of luck to everyone!!!!!! i hope alll of us get in!!!!:yeah:

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welcome to the forum!

I'm glad there's another user sharing in my GRE frustrations. My gpa isn't the greatest and I'm hoping this will be a booster too. I'm trying to figure out the best way to study. It's stressing me out while I'm taking classes...

We all feel your frustration here! :banghead:

How long have you been working for NPs? What's your position there?

Also,

how many schools are you all planing to apply for?

I want to have a back up plan but want to stay local, but the only other options do not offer direct entry masters...

Best of luck to all of you.

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i'm also taking classes too which is soo freak'n crazy. i've been working with them since june not long. i work in the anesthesiology dept doing reserach. i'm in the same boat!!! i took a cheap gre prep course which has helped me to get my stuff together. i love this icon :banghead: becuase this is exactly how i feel. we will get through it. just do at least a practice test a day and voca voca voca i get new word texted to me and sometimes that helps.

cindy

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Specializes in Gastroenterology.

Welcome Cindy!

Glad to meet another applicant! I too hope we can all meet up at that interview potluck dinner in January.

What specialty track are you going for then?

I am on a bit of high right now because I think I might be done with my essay and may submit my app on Friday and also because in two weeks I will be visiting Yale to see it all in person!! Sweet! Of course I'm not taking classes or applying to a load of schools like you guys are so I have it easier, but I'm still psyched.

Good luck on the GREs - I'm sure it will go better than you think!

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thank you for welcoming me! he he he he yah i'm a bit out of control with what i'm doing. i live in los angeles.. wondering if anyone is on the west coast??

i plan on going for pediatric nurse practioner. i work doing research with kids so i've come to love being here, but i also want to work with hiv patients a bit on the other side. someone how some way i will work it out to work with both populations.

i like yale not because big ticketed name... but they do community work that to me that's all i want to do. i want to gain this degree to go work in low-income underserved :redbeathecommunities. at one point i wanted to go medical school at times i do debt on medical school. working in a hospital changes my view. if one day i do deciede to go back then i will but for now i want to be in the field making a difference not waiting 7 to 10 years to make rounds esp. that i'm in my mid-twenties...so i tell myself if i still want this in my 40 or 50s then we will go to medical school. my big thing is traveling. a dream of mine is to go to central & south america and africa to provide care a couple of months out of the year.

life happens now... that's how i got on this journery to be in np. a lot of my pre-med and medical students call me crazy :eek:and have discourge to go to np school and to still keep on the track to medical school. i want to be practicing medicine than doing residency.

i am applying to yale's gepn and mph programs. i want to put both degrees together. it's a tad a pain:no: since it's two completely different application processes. in order to do both you have to apply to both schools and get accepted to two to do that... which adds a bit more stress. i really hope i get to both.

i can't wait to have these in and see when we get interviews. i read last years thread that i loved how you see the process how everyone was doing and at the end go in...lets repeat that process this year!!!

is anyone else applying anywhere else?? or crazy like me :p

expathopeful can you let me know how the campus looks!!! that would be soo great!!! lucky!!! what track are you going in??

fyi the np that i work for that went to yale says that the gepn are soo close by their first year that everyone tends to do great! that they become a little family and help each other out since we are all non-:nurse:nurses!! how great!:yeah:

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http://www.freerice.com

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i love it!! this is soo great! thank you!:typing

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Specializes in Obstetrics.

Hey Lily,

I am applying to the GEPN program at Yale too. I haven't started the application yet (yikes!!). I am currently swamped by the UPenn application.

But I am going to apply for the Family NP track. I've already taken my GREs, but my scores were kinda low, so I'm going to retake it mid-November.

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hi lily and all,

just finishing up the last (and worst!) part of my application thus far: the essay! this is the only program i'm applying to right now because of the pre-requisite situation, although i'll definitely be applying to NYU for next september and columbia...well, we'll see about columbia. just graduated from college (wesleyan, double major in american studies/feminist studies in gender and sexuality), actually working for yale right now as a research assistant in nyc and hopefully going in for the WHNP specialty. so glad to have found this thread and to start making connections with all of you. good luck!!

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Specializes in Gastroenterology.

Hi All,

Just got back from my visit to New Haven and my info session at YSN. In short, I was impressed with YSN but disappointed in New Haven. YSN seems like a really intimate program where the faculty and admin go out of their way to help you acheive your goals. I got to sit in on the physiology class and thought the lecturer was terrific. Very professional and funny too. Despite their efforts to diversify, the student pop remains overwhelmingly white, upper middle class and female, but the GEPN students seem very friendly and close with one another. The admissions person told me that almost all their students are GEPN, only 8-10 RNs enter to get their MSN and they have only a handful of PhD students. She also said that they usually get around 400 applicants, invite half for interview (200) and then admit about half that (100) and end up with around 80ish GEPNs.

I can't really say that New Haven is a great town though. The area around Yale's central campus is beautiful and I looked the two "good neighborhoods" East Rock and Wooster Square, which were nice enough in a suburban kind of way, but a lot of New Haven is really deprived, poor, and crime-ridden. The area around the hotel we stayed at was so grim and depressing and the School of Nursing building itself is like a fortress with a huge fence all the way around and security guards at the entrances. I can't say I would feel safe walking alone at night anywhere in the city, even the good neighborhoods. There were some pretty aggressive panhandlers around the medical center and the admissions officer seemed to be evading my questions about crime/rape statistics. But there are enough restaurants and things to do to keep most people happy it seemed and people told me that the city had really improved from 10-20 years ago.

So, good news and bad I guess. I was visiting with my husband who was interviewing for jobs there and in New York. He got a better offer from New York and we liked it there better so we are thinking everything through now. Hard decisions to make.

Also, she gave me a bunch of advice for the essay for those of you who are still writing:

1) Follow the directions. Answer every question, in order, in essay form

2) Do not skip the research question just because you think you have no research experience. Say something.

3) Do not include too much personal information (ie. that you want to be a psych nurse because of your own suicide attempt and then give lurid details, or intimate details of your lady partsl birth when applying as a CNM.)

4) Include a personal weakness when asked for strengths/weaknesses. They want people who can honestly assess themselves.

5) Do not explain why you want to be a nurse in general, explain why you want to be an advanced practice nurse.

I think that was it...

Hope this is helpful to you and let me know if you have any other questions.

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thanks for the info expat. i had the same impression when i visited. the program seems to be very close-knit. as for new haven, well it's an urban city and i think as nurses, we'll get a better training out of an urban environment than say a school in a rural setting.

how is everyone's application going? im almost done. finished my essay. it was soo hard to write a cohesive essay while answering all the questions in order! i hope my essay is not too disjointed. anyone sent in their apps yet?

good luck! hopefully we'll all get to meet during interview time =)

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