Yale GEPN Applicants 2011

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It didn't look like there was a thread for 2011 Yale GEPN applicants. Since the application recently opened, I thought I'd start a thread to see if anyone else is starting to work on their application.

Anyone else out there?

Are you aware of the Yale GEPN 2011 thread in the Regional Connecticut forum?

I wouldn't want you guys to miss each other. You're the only people who understand how this feels right now.

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Are you aware of the Yale GEPN 2011 thread in the Regional Connecticut forum?

I wouldn't want you guys to miss each other. You're the only people who understand how this feels right now.

Hey Abby

How do we access this? I can't locate it.

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If you go up to the Region tab, select United States.

Then go down to Connecticut, and it's under Connecticut Nursing Programs (or similar phrasing).

You can also just go up to the search bar and search for Yale to get all Yale entries.

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Thank you! I had no idea, this provides me another thread to bide my time.

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Hi all,

I just wanted to give a shout out to everyone whos applied the GEPN program, I'm among the applications too. I live/lived in New Haven. My undergrad major was in Maternal Child Health with a focus in Evidence Based Lactation Consulting. I don't actually graduate until April but I applied anyway. My program makes me a non-nurse IBCLC (provided I pass the boards). I say live/lived because I've subleted my apt in CT to a friend in the Yale forestry school and this yr I'm an Americorps volunteer birth doula at a freestand BC here on the border. I'm a doula (both labor and pp) by trade (for the past 5 and half yrs) and I do the bulk of my work in the labor area with women who can't afford to hire a doula, basically I do it probono. I'm wicked, wicked scared about this application process. My GPA is okay, not great (3.65), and my GRE's were average as well. I feel like the only thing I've got going for my app. is the experience factor. I also studied direct entry midwifery for a while in SC so I'm hoping all that combined will help. I'm so, so nervous but I know it's out of my hands now. Anyone who wants to contact me (and please, please feel free, particularly when those calls for interviews start coming) my email is [email protected]. There's a prayer at the begining of Varney's Midwifery, the Nurse-midwife text put out by Yale, there's a line it it "a prayer for us the midwives and the almost midwives", I actually repeat that along with many other lines from that poem daily. Anyway, I hope we all find what we're looking for. :) K

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Kerry- Your experience seems really similar to mine. I have studied homebirth/direct-entry midwifery off and on. I just passed my IBCLC exam and work as a doula/breastfeeding educator for the last four years solidly (though a few years of random doulaing before that). I was just offered an interview at UCSF (who I think has the smallest acceptance rate of all the programs), so I'm feeling a little better about my chances of getting an interview other places.

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Yes, but my GPA will only put me in the second teir in my mind, I don't have the credentials (and won't until after they accept/deny me). I'd feel a whole lot better if I had gotten this degree 5 yrs ago, I don't know, I'm just super super anxious. So funny in labor rooms I am serene and feel totally peaceful most of the time. Then something like the application process comes into play and fear enters my heart. Ty though for the morale booster :)

K

BTW- What's your undergrad in?

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I think they look at a combination of things so if the other parts of your application (letter of rec, experience, essays) are strong, the grades won't matter as much. I have a strong gpa (3.9), but one of my few B's was actually in a female physiology course I took, which worries me. My professor and I butted heads over a lot of things (her dad was Dr Zavinelli if that means anything to you...) and I was young and didn't really think through using my tests as a place to make political points to her!

My undergraduate was in Women's Studies and Anthropology with an emphasis on women's health.

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Also, my GRE scores were really weak in my mind (somewhere around a 1200, and a 4.5). I really think they are looking for a whole package, and not just GPA or scores or whatever.

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Thank you for being so nice, you should feel very confident about getting in, I'm sure you'll be one of the first selected. I still though am counting it a success if I get an intial interview. Good luck in school!

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Hey Everyone, I've been reading these GEPN threads for a while now and thought I'd finally get involved! I applied this past Fall as well and would love to confirm the time-line: are final decisions made December 10? and then we get an email or wait for snail mail? While originally from CT, I'm now in the Bay Area and it can take up to a week for mail to get here, so I'd love to know what to expect.

Many thanks, and good luck to everyone!

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