Yale GEPN Fall 2011

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i thought i'd start a thread for those of us applying to yale for the fall of 2011 :-)

KKandes: I've been reading last year's post and someone got an interview...and got it...with less than a 1000! I'm sure that you have alot of great experiences in your resume and/or essay for them to see! Don't you just hate standardized tests? My friend and I were just talking about that today....

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Allie11

I totally feel you on the standardized test, they are no bueno :(..I just feel like they really don't represent anyone's ability to succeed in school and that is what frustrates me most about the GRE. I mean really, do I need to know what the word loquacious means to be a great NP...haha :).. I do feel really good about my essay and work experience so I am hoping that over shadows my sub-par score. I am just going to be a nervous reck for the next month. I have been working for this for the past 2 years, finishing science courses along with finishing my business degree so I am just hoping all the hard work pays off :)..But good luck to you and hopefully we will get great news early december!! :)

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I know...I'm counting down the days already! The notification date should coincide with my microbiology final...I hope its good news!

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Hi all!

Chass63-(sorry so late)

I bombed mine too & i think i got around 700..:-(

The anxiety got the best of me & I'm soo angry..I think in retrospect, looking @ my

grades the admissions comittee will "notice" that I'm an A/B student..At any rate, I'm looking into other programs; the only other ABSN/MSN I've found with oncology is Duke. (i missed the December 1 date, puts me to next year for applying)

I have reluctantly decided to apply to BHSN/St. V's in terms of just getting started somewhere next fall..

Guess we'll know in 12 days!! UGH-the anticipation...

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12 days?! OMG, I didn't realize we'd know so soon. Positive thoughts to you all!

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Are you guys aware of the GEPN 2011 thread on the Postgraduate Nursing Student forum?

While I wouldn't count on 12 days, you will at least have real information in 2 weeks or so. They did their best not to have us wait over a weekend last year, did a sudden reversal and notified us by e-mail on a Friday out of the blue when they told us it would be by mail. That was kind.

(I got in last year, but ended up not attending.)

Assuming they're doing it the same way: If you are offered an interview, it will tell you the date and time, the room and the faculty member right in the e-mail or letter. It then asks you to confirm your interview if you want it (heck yes!).

Only a few of the Family NP people had to sweat it out -- assured they had an interview, but unscheduled (there are so many they have to spread them out). You can opt for a phone interview if you have a conflict or live far away.

(I do think you should make an effort, if you are seriously considering Yale, to visit the NURSING school at some point before you sigh up for 100k+ in debt and 3 years of your life or more, even if it's not at the interview. It is not on the beautiful gothic main campus. It is in part of an ugly concrete building in the middle of parking lots near the parts of New Haven that are not so nice. Talk to the faculty you will be working with, not just admissions -- there is SO much more to Yale than is on the website!. I'm not trying to dissuade you -- just check it out for yourself and don't picture what you saw on your undergrad college tour.)

If you are not offered an interview, from what I understand no single thing gets you accepted or rejected, and each application at this stage is seen by six or seven people. So don't agonize that if you had just scored 20 points higher on the GRE, or gotten that A- in Micro, everything would have been different. Which in its way can be comforting ... And people do reapply and get in.

The interviews themselves are seriously nothing to sweat. You know everything you need to know get through it from writing your essay. The rest you can't prepare for -- that's my opinion anyway. There are no standard questions -- I swear. Every interview seemed to be different when we compared notes.

I remember these weeks last year, they were so hard, being so uncertain, wondering if I would get in anywhere. Nursing school is so unlike anything else -- I had no idea what my chances were. Then I got the interview, and very quickly I found myself getting in to many highly competitive places and having my choice of schools -- as did many of the other applicants on this thread last year, trying to juggle notification dates and offers.

I hope each of you is in that same happy position a couple of months from now. Good luck and try to relax. You've done the hard part.

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Thanks Abby_Normal! I can't believe that I missed that group. I wondered why this one showed such little activity.

Also, thanks for your words of encouragement and info on the school. So are you in a program again, or did you reapply to schools?

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Maybe you'll have critical mass now -- in one place or another. You'll certainly have it once interviews are announced.

Me? I'm in a 2-year RN program at my local community college -- and I'm happy. After that? I don't know.

This is a second career for me, so my whole situation is probably different from most of you.

But it is worth mentioning (particularly since I phrased it so badly in my previous post -- sorry) that you can be an awesome NP/CNM/CNS and never go near Yale. Do not bankrupt yourself or break your heart to go there, or despair if you don't get in. It's up to you, not a school, to make you the best nurse you can be. I'm living that.

But I am definitely not knocking Yale! I kept learning cool things about the program, more things that made me excited to go there. I found the admissions live chats really helpful -- just ask good questions, not just variations on "Am I going to get in and when will you tell me?" There are, for example, many opportunities for foreign travel. They teach you to to listen to heart and lung sounds by taking you to the Yale School of Music.

Good luck everybody.

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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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Hi all,

The admissions office told me today that emails will be sent at the end of this week for those of us who will be invited to interview.

USPS will bring the bad news to those of us who do not get invited to interview.

Looks like we'll all be holding our breath for a few more days....

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@Chass - did they say anything about the letters coming around the same time as the emails? Seemed like last year that everyone got an email, then the letters came after that. I'm so anxious...last week someone said Wednesday, I hope they are on the early side of "end of the week"!

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I don't think that she specifically mentioned the timing of the rejection letters, but I got the impression that they would be sent out at the same time as the emailed invitations. So my assumption is that they will be delivered sometime next week.

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