Yale GEPN 2021

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Hey all! I am reapplying and wanted to create this for everyone applying. I won't be as involved as I was last year, but good luck to everyone! I know they're having seminars and allowing people to schedule one on one consultations for applications.

Financial aid just emailed me back confirming the letters we got are what we are getting (aka, merit scholarship would have been in there if we were getting any). So it's zero for me. Sigh. 

Hopefully there will be another small trickle in a few weeks like gymnasticsprincess said.

Honestly, I was only expecting a marginal amount, so it doesn't change anything for me from a practical perspective. I'm still waiting to hear from Vanderbilt (on the 15th-ish). If I get in and get a substantial scholarship from them, I'll have to take it. But I think the odds on that scenario are extremely long. And absent that, I'm accepting Yale's admissions offer. I could not be more confident that this career is worth the cost to me, and that Yale would be one of the best possible places to get started. I'm not minimizing the debt. I just know for me personally, given how badly I want to work in this field, I will regret it forever if I don't make this happen. And I want to serve in high-needs areas, so I feel good about the potential for loan repayment help. 

2 minutes ago, wp650 said:

Good morning. Does anyone know if the aid applies to second and third year as well, or just the first? Thanks.

Anything merit based is automatically renewed as long as you mantain a 3.0, full time, in good standing. Federal loans are stable throughout.

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It would be cheaper for me to go to med school in state 

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So many things to think of, confusedog.

I want to share with you that I have considered Med school too.

As an aspiring NM, the competing option for me would be Family Medicine and a residency that is OB heavy (I didn't really feel attracted to an OB residency which is just so surgically-minded) but these are hard to find except in the Midwest. Ultimately the difference for me would have been the ability to conduct complicated deliveries (instrumental and c/s) as opposed to low risk deliveries and being a surgical first assist at c/s when needed (which I think is amazing for continuity of care, how cool to not have to "abandon" patients when complications arise).

Ultimately my goal is to reach the majority of low risk women (and keep patients as low risk as possible when they are higher risk and co-managed with an OB) and offer them as many respectful options as possible. The scope of practice for a NM is so wide that I can do homebirths or co-manage higher risk women if needed, and that will be it given where I am in life, but sometimes I think if I had been younger (in my 20ies) and American (with access to fin help that green card holders can't access sadly), I might have gone the OB way within a Family Medicine framework. So I hear you!

Do you have all your prereqs? If you do, that might be an option. I have a friend who is a physician, she initially completed her prereqs thinking she'd go the PA way but ended up applying to MS instead.

The cost of studies in the US is truly sobering.(end of my rant:))

 

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I’m 21 and have all of the pre-reqs for both medical and nursing school. But it would be hard on my significant other, which is what is holding me back from MD?

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13 hours ago, secondtimer14 said:

Thanks so much for sharing this! There is some hope for a little scholarship. 
 

One question - if you do get an eligible job for repayment, does the employer automatically put through the loan repayment as part of your work contract, or do you have to apply for the repayment separately? Because in the link I posted above for loan repayment through nursing corps, it looked like only 10% of applications are selected for relief. 

This would totally depend on the job. It's usually for shortage areas and from public institutions. Private hospitals wouldn't be eligible. 

4 hours ago, wp650 said:

Good morning. Does anyone know if the aid applies to second and third year as well, or just the first? Thanks.

Merit based aid requires a maintenance of a 3.5 GPA or higher and would recur each year. YSN will tell you that they "do not track grades", "do not list grades on transcripts", "do not calculate grades", etc. This is 100% false. Grades are tracked, GPAs are calculated, and they are published on official transcripts.

Need based aid is re-evaluated each year.

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13 hours ago, kc_FNPtobe said:

Well said, friend. Good to know about changes in aid/scholarship once reallocation occurs. See you in the am ?

you're my favorite ❤️ 

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The GEPN year gives our RN, not BSN right?

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Thanks so much secondtimer for posting the news about financial help. Well, this is it then. I am crossing my fingers that more will trickle down once ppl start declining offers. What a bummer. 

GymnasticsPrincess this is really useful info, thank you!

Confused dog, if I may ask, have you also looked at DO schools? I didn't know about the DO route until I started working on research on physician identity and it's a more holistic route, and there are lots of schools, so maybe there's one that would be compatible with your significant other. And good for you for having completed all of your prereqs!

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Does anyone know anything about deferrals? 

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1 hour ago, confuseddog said:

The GEPN year gives our RN, not BSN right?

Yes this is a certificate program that allows you to sit for the NCLEX after year 1, but you will not receive a BSN. You will receive an MSN after completing years 2 and 3.

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In our acceptance letters, it said that we would be receiving more information and the RSVP for the Admitted Students Days today. Has anyone gotten anything yet? 

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TellmeSomethingGood, I haven't received anything yet.

In fact, I haven't received anything new since the YSN email letting me know I needed to check my email on Feb. 1st.

Has anyone received anything?

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