Yale University GEPN 2024

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Hello allnurses community!

This thread is for those applying to Yale's GEPN (Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing) Program for the Fall 2024 start.

It might be a little early as deadlines haven't been announced yet, but given all of the questions that many of us might already have, one can never be too early!

Good luck to everyone!

great, thank you. and January is when decisions come out or decisions pertaining to the scholarship application?

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Bernadette Valenzano said:

great, thank you. and January is when decisions come out or decisions pertaining to the scholarship application?

I believe both because the application said we will receive notice of the scholarship along with an offer of admission if we get one

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We get the notification of our acceptance along with our financial aid offer (including if you got the scholarship). Since we applied by priority we will get notifications both before Christmas like they mentioned in the information session.  @Bernadette Valenzano

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Flower.1 said:

We get the notification of our acceptance along with our financial aid offer (including if you got the scholarship). Since we applied by priority we will get notifications both before Christmas like they mentioned in the information session.  @Bernadette Valenzano

thats weird when I finished the scholarship application it say we will hear in January 

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Hm... They mentioned that we would get our financial aid offer together with our admission decision. They mentioned this several times and I met with admissions via zoom. Unless they just changed it (which would be odd), we should be getting both at the same time. @nurse061401

@nurse061401 Unless they want to separate our financial aid offer from this scholarship, but that is strange.  

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That's why I was confused because I had thought it was December initially. 

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@Bernadette Valenzano Yeah, well maybe we will just get notified about the scholarship in Jan... at least we will know if we get accepted before then!

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willyoo said:

Hello, the link was sent to my email this morning. My understanding Is that it was only sent to people who made the priority deadline. If you made the priority deadline and did not receive the link by email you should probably contact Yale about it. Have a great night.

So my application finally got verified by NursingCAS last night and about 7 hours later I got a Community Scholars Application link which I'll fill out within a day or two (and I didn't make the priority deadline). I wonder if Yale does the same thing Vanderbilt does---which is award their biggest scholarship offerings only under the pretense that you've already accepted enrollment into their program. If it's true, I think that is incredibly dismissive of the economic reality that most of their applicants cannot actually afford their program without taking on serious debt, but I guess I do understand the rationale: They only really want to bestow their most generous scholarships to people whose absolute first choice was Yale no matter what.

The fact that YSN's endowment is very likely a huge sum makes the cost of their program that much more baffling to ask your students to take on such a debt, and then expect them someday to donate even more: https://news.yale.edu/2022/02/24/yale-invest-future-leaders-medicine-nursing-and-public-health
 

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And given that the Community Scholars program application is all about demonstrating your commitment and describing your goals/experience serving underserved communities and addressing system health disparities---the knowledge that only 8 students in their cohort are getting a full-ride while the rest are either from wealthy families or will be languishing in debt for years is deeply ironic. Sorry I'll get off my soapbox now.

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@DonKlonopin No, I totally understand how you feel. I wish that they could pay for at least 10-12 students, but to my understanding the program does not have that many students. My friend is currently in the program.

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I submitted my application for the scholarship. I was so stressed out that I wouldn't have it done in time. Although I completed it before the deadline, it would have been nice to have at least 2 weeks. 

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For decisions released in December - are there interviews prior? has anyone had one from this admission cycle? I haven't heard anything regarding an interview so just curious if it's indicative of my acceptance/rejection?

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