Yale GEPN 2023

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Hello everyone! This thread is for folks applying to Yale's GEPN program for the fall 2023 start.

Feel free to introduce yourself, ask questions and offer guidance and support to other candidates. Please be respectful and kind and remember that this is a long, exhausting, expensive, stressful journey for lots of people. Let's do our best to uplift and help each other. Good luck!

Specializes in Hopeful future nurse.

Me too!

How are you doing on your essays? I've been working at mine a little bit each day.

Best of luck to you!

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Me too, just trying to chip  away at it. It’s a lot. Good luck to you! 

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I'm mostly done with my essays, but am still finishing the short one on Personal Characteristics. 

Anyone else feel like 600 words was WAY too little space to address all the questions for the main essay!?!? That was some brutal editing work. There's so much more I would like to tell them!

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For sure, 600 words seemed like too little space! 

For Johns Hopkins, they wanted a 300-word essay, so even less space to write...? It feels like I always have too much to say, but I've got to shorten things down haha

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Does anyone know when they aim to release decisions by?

Thank you.

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I went to an information session and they provided us with a timeline:

Mid-december-ish, they will send out interview invitations for some of us.

Interviews will take place from Jan.3 - Jan.14

After that, final decisions will be posted on Feb.1 ! 

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Thank you. Did they give any insight in who they choose to interview?

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I don't think so, they didn't really comment on who they choose to interview. 

Although they did mention that they prefer candidates that knew what they wanted to do, and preferred essays that reflected that persons' aspirations and goals of what they wanted to accomplish. (Ex. If you stated that you wanted to become a FNP, you would write about this, but some people apparently wrote about working in the pediatric field, why they wanted to work with kids, etc. so things that weren't quite relevant to the field they wanted to go in). 

But this was more on terms of the essays, not necessarily who they choose for the interviews. I believe that they look at their applicants rather holistically, so it's a fair game for everyone! 

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Thanks!

I applied to Yale, Penn, CWRU, Vanderbilt and Emory. I received an acceptance to Emory (for Adult NP), but the other schools are on a later timetable.

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That's wonderful! I applied to Columbia, Yale, and Johns Hopkins for the FNP specialty. I was thinking about applying to Emory as well, but ended up holding it off for this cycle, but it's so exciting that you've already received your acceptance from them! 

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1 minute ago, eden17 said:

That's wonderful! I applied to Columbia, Yale, and Johns Hopkins for the FNP specialty. I was thinking about applying to Emory as well, but ended up holding it off for this cycle, but it's so exciting that you've already received your acceptance from them! 

Yes, Emory is the furthest from home, but as it was the #2 ranked program, I was very interested in it.

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Specializes in Hopeful future nurse.
1 hour ago, MTroup said:

Does anyone know when they aim to release decisions by?

Thank you.

After reading the past year's forums, decisions seem to go out on December 22nd! 

Is anyone applying for the scholarship?

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