Master's and Ed.D. Application Webinar

Greetings everyone, I'm very delighted to see that there are many People, adding adding as the SEC fly by here in our guest list, which is awesome. My name is Rena lectin felled on the assistant Dean of our moment management here at Peabody and I am joined by Kim Brazzle Hello. I am the director of graduate admissions and you get lots of emails from me and I think we email quite a bit so yeah, I'm glad you're here today.

And we are delighted to also have in the room with us Brian Smokler, who is our director of Education technology and he helps us out with these webinars and is always a great resource for us to have right here in the room. So our plan today is to share with you little bit of information very high level. Overview of Peabody. The programs that we offer a little bit about our location in Nashville bit about.

Lots of other things that we will share with you today and then of course. We want to leave plenty of time for you to ask questions that might be on your mind about anything that we review or things that we haven't reviewed. I would also encourage you to keep in mind that we do have other topic specific webinars that are planned throughout the rest of the fall term and so I would encourage you to take a look at our event calendar and see what might Pique your interest, particularly after we review today.

At the end when we do go into question and answer. We will be taking your questions in our chat box and at this time just to make sure that it's working which I see lots of highs and Hellos wonderful we would love to see.

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More in your in the chat as far as where we can where you're coming in from where what location of the world or within the United States. Are you coming in from so it would be great to see everyone.

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Love, it. I see lots of Nashville's, which is wonderful so we're very excited to have our regional neighbours, but also our international once we are going to think in many regions of the world. This is an awkward time to have a webinar and you'll note that throughout the year when we do offer other webinars. We do offer them at different times and we always ricord them and make them available to you as well. That way so welcome everybody and we

We would love to see that list continue to grow as we progress on with our our chat. So we love. This this little picture here from our campus that our beloved campus right now. Those building that's in the background is actually currently under construction, but this isn't your grandmother School of Education. So what does that mean we are a lot more than teacher education? There are things like leadership polisy psychology?

Counseling special education everything related to education and we have a very rich history here and we're not going to review the history, but we are. We want you to know we've been around for a long time and we've been in the quote Unquote business for awhile more about a little bit about Music City or Nashville. It's located in the centre part N central part of the state of Tennessee.

And we are known as Music City and there is lots of music to be had. But there's also lots of other arts and entertainment. It's a an urban city, but it's also one that is.

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We also have many sports teams many of you may know that we are home to the Titans football team. We also have a major NHL program here with the national predators. We have a minor League team with the sound. The Sound Skews me and we also have soccer team on M LS team. There's also lots of greenways. An places to bike. There are lakes around so we have lots of activities going on that our students can participate.

In the local area.

And we're still working on our technical issues, but I'll talk to you, a little bit about our campus and we will follow up with some I see something on the screen. That's good news maybe.

So the Peabody campus is actually adjacent to Vanderbilt University's campus. We are about a 50 acre campus in what has been described as a beautiful wooded Oasis and if you could see the screen right now, you see some beautiful shots of our campus. That's just unique to Peabody. It is as I mentioned before a bit under construction right now.

The beautiful Esplanade is is being worked on so that we can get some new pipes in here. The pipes are over 100 years old. So we're working on making sure that this is a safe and beautiful place for you to study the renovations that are happening within 2 of our buildings are getting facelifts, but there's also a new brand new building that she made as an ageis so that they are.

Jason creating brand new state of the art learning facilities as well as other spaces for students to join together in collaborative space is so we're going to welcome you to visit campus and to learn more about what's coming. In what's going to be available to you as potential student here in the coming months and years to come.

The campus visits are available. Also on our website and there's more to come on, as the month of the weeks progress here, so that we can get your campus visits in our system and customize a visit for you when it's convenient. We have a lot of visitors that come to Nashville for one reason or another, sometimes specifically to come visit campus for Peabody. But other times, they happen to be in town because a sibling is looking at the undergraduate program.

Or they're here for music concert or their hair from Bachelorette Party, which we have lots of those years, so we encourage you to come and visit if you are at all able to.

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So we've got.

4 degree pro degrees offered here there's 2 Masters Masters of Education Masters of public policy. a PhD and an EBD within those different degree programs. We offer 25 different programs. They are dispersed among 5 different departments, which we will talk about in a moment somehow. It went back to the former slide and we we are educating over 1100 students.

With that we are actually able to place over 97% of our students within 4 months of graduation. We're going to go a little bit more in depth onto the career services here in a little bit when we get to that next part. I'll also tell you a little bit about our incoming class profile. We have just over 400 students, joining our incoming class of 2019. The majority of those are master students as you can imagine, we have handfuls of PhD.

MPP&EDD students as well, and I'm not going to go through everything on that slide. But just as a point of interest. There are over 184 faculty that are with us here on this campus educating.

Group says you can imagine class sizes are fairly small there's lots of access to faculty. There's plenty of research opportunities and we encourage students who are interested in research along with their academic studies do really strongly consider Peabody.

The types of disciplinary breath that we have, we are a lot more than just education as we mentioned before. This is one of the distinguishing characteristics that we have a wide breadth of disciplines.

Um if you could see the screen, but we have everything from as you would imagine education diversity and Urban Studies, Sociology Economics. Quantitative methods folks interested in anthropology or definitely integrated into things like our community development action program and the list goes on. So we are definitely in about the interdisciplinary aspect of education here Peabody.

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Difficult to see and I apologize for that. But we have by Department. We have a Department of human human and organizational development where we are offering a number of programs, including school counseling. Clinical clinical counseling community development action. We do have a Department of leadership policy in organization where we have a number of different policy programs, including a traditional education policy, which is an MPP Degree International Education Policy Management.

We have E DDS in K through 12 leadership and policy as well as higher. Ed leadership and policy leadership and organizational performance, a PhD in leadership and Policy Studies and then in our Department of psychology and human development. We offer a number of other programs and child studies special. Ed obviously has special Ed Department is offering special Ed an in the Department of teaching and Learning Elementary Secondary.

Reading Education English language learners and our very popular learning diversity. An Urban Studies program are offered as well. So as you can see, those programs that 25 mentioned before are dispersed among these different Department. So we have a wide array of offerings of programs going to hang out handed off to you at this point well. I do apologize for the slide issues. I think it's safe to say that if you are interested in getting this slide deck.

Why don't you send us an email to peabody.admissions@vanderbilt.edu and that information is all over the website it's also it will also be on the last slide. But if you're interested in getting this slide deck because it does have some really interesting facts and just images of the campus so I'm going to talk about peabodys vision.

And I don't know why it keeps want to go back to that campus slide.

Slide but I'm talking about the Peabody Vision typically. I don't like to read. These things because we're having issues with the slides. I am going to read this. Peabody is a place that creates leaders for the nation in the world conducts world class research translates it into practice and influences polisy tackles. Large society old problems enhances opportunity and increase linked verse Global society so with the developing leaders. We have a few just a few examples of touch on these 4 points and give you a few examples of what we do.

One is the governor's Academy Academy, which is a partnership with the Tennessee governor's office. The Department of Education. Local schools in Peabody. It's a one year leadership development experience for local local school leaders. We also have an Independent School Leadership Academy. I think that's pretty straightforward with what that is, we work with Independent School leaders to help with professional development and our faculty participate in professional development programs.

Literally not just locally, but worldwide. We do engage locally and regionally with the Metro. Nashville public school systems. We have the Susan Gray School, which if you're not familiar with the Susan Grayskul. It serves young children with developmental disabilities, young children who are at risk for developmental delay. An also typically developing children developing children. It's the 1st nationally recognized inclusive preschool in the nation. We also work with the Tennessee Education Research Alliance.

And that's an organization that helps bridge the gap between research policy and practice.

Globally, just a couple of things that I'll mention we have our Hubert H Humphrey. Scholars are Fellows. The Humphrey Fellows. They are accomplished education leaders from developing nations who come to the US for a year of professional development and we have one of those programs on our campus and they're basically just like students, but they have professional programming. They participate in our activities and it's actually a lot of fun, helping him around where we have orientation on Monday and will get to meet our new Humphrey.

Close group.

We're also very active in Abu Dhabi, helping them improve an influence their education system. So now we're going to talk about peabodys connective tissue if we could go to the next slide.

Um and what the Peabody connective tissue is it's the things at the core of what we do the things that are ingrained in Peabody from the day, it started. It's in our roots. It's stuff that really binds us together as a college and Speaking of the college is a very interdisciplinary curriculum, especially at the master's and doctoral levels were pretty flexible with what you can do what you would want to do the goal is of course, there is a set curriculum.

But if it makes sense for you to take courses in the law school or in the Business School or in the College of Arts and science.

That we can typically work that out, so not just the colleges interdisciplinary, but the University of as a whole is interdisciplinary. The next slide. Hopefully you can see it again. I told you we can get you the slide deck. If you want to. I'm so sorry about this we're going to talk about the Peabody offices of professional and graduate education around here, we refer to them as Pop G. It is 3 offices that really support. Every aspect of the student engagement or the student life. There's the office of Student Engagement Office of equity diversity and inclusion.

Am Peabody career services, the programming between these offices covers 7 areas of what we call the engagement compass. I know you probably can't read that compass so the 7:00 areas that are very important to us with the student experience is the physical the intellectual Occupational Community Building spiritual emotional and cultural so at Peabody academics. Of course, are very important, but it really is important to us to maintain the whole being.

And to feed the soul to feed the body to take care of every aspect. The Office of student engagement does a few things to better fun things they are there to help support you in every way but they also try to support you with some fun during finals. We have stressed busting week where there might be goat, yoga meditation. The Jewish Student Association typically brings in lox and bagels. They also have at least 1 signature event every semester, it might be a trivia night.

Or it might be a kind of more of a formal gala.

The Office of equity diversity and inclusion. We refer to them as the edi office typically but they have all sorts of opportunities to become involved in the community learn more about diversity issues have tough conversations in formats that you can be honest. One thing that they're very proud of is a Deans diversity lecture series. They also have opportunities for students to come in and have what we call crucial conversations, OK, so now we're going to.

Talk a little bit more about our amazing career services office, which most schools don't have a career service career services office. That's dedicated to their Masters graduate professional students. It is dedicated resources to Peabody students. You get to meet 1 on one with professional staff and this really begins before you even start classes typically about a month before you start classes. You're going to hear from from that office, saying.

We need to build your LinkedIn profile if you don't have one already. We need you to start sending us resumes because you are here for a pretty short time. Most of you will be here for one or 2 years and before you know it. It will be time to start looking for that job so they do everything they can to build the resume and give you a very impressive.

Impressive resume some some quality history to go with that. They also provide peer mentors who helped serve new students just kind of get through the 1st year kind of power that you can talk with and ask questions of and how did you navigate this or how? Did you manage all of this one of the things that I would say that office that we're most proud of them for is you can see that well. Maybe you can see they have a 97% placement rate.

And what that means you'll hear a lot of schools say, Oh, we have a 97% placement rate. We have a 32% placement rate. Whatever it may be, but the question and the important thing the impressive thing with that placement rate.

Is they have? What they call a knowledge rate and their knowledge rate is like 98%? What that knowledge rate? Is it means that of the students have graduated they are still in touch with an heard from 98% of the People who graduated so it's not like they have a knowledge rate of 50% and that 50% that they've been in touch with has a 97% placement rate. They have been in touch with an know where 98% of the graduating classes.

And 97% of those People had jobs or continued on in school like PhD doctoral programs formas after graduation.

One thing to mention with the the kind of focus on career. Services is that as a Vanderbilt student. You have access to all the resources within the University so you have access to various libraries. You have access to the alumni. You have access to professional development opportunities recruitment events. Other things, they do events in activity throughout the year to support the preparation in search process integrated integrating employers on site.

And around the Greater Nashville area they have several different events where there are network opportunity to networking opportunities for you one of their kind of.

Signature things that they do our interview relays, which they laugh and joke and say, Oh, that's kind of like speed dating with interviews involved.

So again I apologize for the issues that were having with all of this. Thank you for your patience and staying with us. But I'm going to turn it back over to Renata talk about a little talk about some of our faculty and again. If you would like this slide deck just send us an email and will get it to you as quickly as possible.

Thanks Kim I'm I'm really thrilled to talk about our faculty with 184 plus full time faculty. It's impossible to talk about all of them so we've just taken a small sampling perhaps just one from each Department to talk about for example, James Booth Doctor Booth is a member of our Department of psychology. His research and advancements in educational neuroscience and mechanisms for developing reading, Math Science in a typical typical populations is.

Is world renowned doctor Marie nation? Is part of our Department of human an organizational development? He has done some amazing work and understanding and preventing violence and bullying among school age children and then we have in our Department of teaching and learning one of our fabulous faculty members. There, doctor, Richard Milner. He is also the editor in chief of the urban urban education, he's known for.

His research and teaching in particular areas of interest in effectiveness and the urban schools doctor show Cravens in our Department of leadership policy in organizations, particularly interested in international educational reform and particularly from an international context and Doctor Lynn Fuchs, who is part of our Department of special, special education and working with outcomes reading outcomes in mathematic outcomes and characteristics that are related.

In those areas and responsiveness to interventions. We have over we have 7 Peabody faculty members that are among the American Enterprise Institute's ranking of Top 200 of the most influential scholar, so to have that many that are from that population recognized nationally internationally around the world is quite impressive what I would encourage all of you to do is depending on your area of interest. Not only explore the programs that you're interested, but go a little deeper.

And look at the faculty and the research that they're doing notice while you're doing that, though level of interdisciplinary work. That's being done, not only with in Peabody College, but across Vanderbilt and even with other colleges and universities across the nation an internationally. It's quite impressive. Ann is one of the remarkable aspects of the Peabody education. I'll talk now about sort of an extension of that which is our numerous research and outreach centers here.

Happy body over 40 one million dollars of annual there are 41 million dollars of annual research expenditures, not just within the research centers. But on many grants that are awarded to our faculty members and it's one of the things I think that is another one of the things that is quite unique about Peabody and the level of research that's done here that again gets.

Integrated into the curriculum is shared amongst our students in terms of their level of experience and they really do get hands-on experience because along with those research dollars comes opportunities for research assistantships for students who are working directly with faculty in those research opportunities, many have publishing.

Accolades because they get that experience while their their students here and Speaking of our students and the successes that brings us to the next slide.

We are going to be able to share the slides with you, um, if you email that address. It's in the chat box. I know we're having some issues going back and forth. But hopefully you're keeping up with what we are doing manually here and the interim. I'm not going to go through all of the students that we have listed here. It's just as very small sampling of students that we selected to highlight but there are more profiles available on our website.

In the Obama in success story area. It should not be difficult at all to navigate too. But again, it's just a small sampling of our students and the wonderful things, that they're going on to do as recent recent later alumni.

A secure and turn it back to you perfect fine. I'm back. This is Kim again real quickly. We all hear about rankings and recognition an before we get into some of the mechanics of the application process. I think the rankings reinforce the quality of the academics. The faculty research. Students support student support services and resources available to students at Vanderbilt Peabody College and I specifically say Vanderbilt because again remember you have access.

To basically all of the resources at Vanderbilt University were consistently ranked among the Top 10 right now, we're hanging at #6 but you can see our specialty rankings, yeah, I'm not going to read. Those most of you are probably looked at them or will be looking at them, but we just wanted to throw that out out there for you, because we think it is a testament to the type of education that you get here at Peabody.

So let's move on and talk a little bit about the nitty gritty of the application process. I will say it's pretty straightforward. Uhm it's nothing knew there is no fee to apply to the Masters in the GD programs. It's an on line application. You need 2:00 to 3:00 letters of recommendation. the Y DD likes 3D at most of the other Masters programs only require 2 that you will have to submit Jerry test scores transcripts and I will take a little sidebar here with Tran Scripps. We know that most of the time you have to pay.

For each transcript that is sent we will do the evaluation process with unofficial transcripts to save you that save that money but if you are admitted and choose to enroll then we will require you to send the transcripts to us, but we know you apply to more than one school are typically most of you apply to more than one school, so we don't want to waste any money if if you didn't choose us or if you weren't able to get a new mission. The statement of purpose. That's something that I will take a quick 2nd on.

It really needs to be specific and focused. I will say I've seen lots of students who had GPS and GR ES and they had a great resume and they looked like they were going to be a great fit and then the admissions committee read their statement of purpose and said this person really doesn't know what they want to do in life. They are not ready for a mouse source program. Yet we would like them. They look good, but they don't have the focus they need to go figure out what they want to do to make sure that this is the right program for them.

So that's kind of what I'm saying with the focus. You want to explain why this program is the right program for you what you want to end up doing with the program. An I also recommend seeing what you can bring to the cohort. The other thing I want to mention while we're talking about kind of.

The nitty gritty of all this is Jerry test scores there's not really a.

A minimum requirement because it's a holistic review of the application. They are going to look at your intellectual interests. Your career goals. Your academic research and experience your work in practical experience. They're going to read your letters of recommendation as I said with this holistic review process. The personal statement, the statement of purpose is very important. But I will say the average. Tre score of admitted students is right around the 3:10.

That is your quantitative in your verbal scores added together quickly about the PhD because I know some of you may also be thinking about that for the PhD. There is an application fee of $95. They want 3 letters of recommendation, they prefer to see some research experience and you do not have to have a Masters degree to apply for the pH D or to be admitted to the pH DI will say that again. You do not have to have a Masters degree to be admitted to a pH D program.

And now is what kind of getting to a point where we're going to start wrapping things up. You might want to start thinking about questions that you have and type them in the in your chat box. But I'm going to turn it back over to Renata rap it up for us. Yeah, we can't rap it up until we talk about money. I'm sure, but easy anxious to hear about what kind of what kind of funding. They can get to PhD students that are admitted are fully funded that means that their tuition.

Tuition is completely covered and there is stipend money for living expenses. You are not going to get rich being a PhD student here. But you do not have to be concerned about the tuition and fees either. So we do have various types of aid available? What we call merit based scholarships merit based scholarships are for our Masters in Ed students who are bringing.

Quality to the table in terms of what we'd like to see in our class. It is again a holistic review and we do give preference to students who are applying in admitted by the priority deadline, which is as Kim already mentioned I think December 31st. You know what I messed that so sorry that's alright so it's actually on this page. So we got so you do want to apply by December 31st for PhD. You do want to apply by the deadline, which is December 1st.

After December 31st for the Masters and Ed students. We will still consider the application. And if funds are available. We will also look at merit based awards there as well. There are graduate assistantships as well. The graduate assistantship peace comes into play. A little bit later. So you won't know about graduate assistantships until either a you're admitted and then be. You apply and then see your selected so it's not like you're getting that snapshot right up front.

So we asked students to be patient but also be diligent about seeking an assistantship once students are admitted they will have access to not only the Peabody Job Board, which is where many assistantships are posted but it will also have access to what we call higher adore and in higher adore other campus based opportunities for students can find campus based work. Maybe not necessarily graduate assistantships bug campus based works.

Where are US citizen through also available federal loans and work study is also available to them and you would go through the free application for federal student aid or the Fasa when you apply and then of course, there are external scholarships and fellowships. There is an extensive list. That's available on our website of external scholarships that I would encourage you to take a look at that PDF document and search. It there are different.

Requirements different submission dates, and different eligibility requirements that are unique. So I would encourage you to look at that again. Our tips definitely apply by the recommended priority deadlines apply for federal aid simultaneous to the application for admission and then definitely research those external scholarships and fellowships.

So that pretty much concludes our presentation pisan. We are ready to take your questions in the chat and happy to to answer them, so in an arena. You were presenting so I kind of have gone back up in the list were going to try and take these questions from the Top down OK and please. Feel free to jump in where I'm starting is with Charles Parish. You wanted to know the average MAT score of accepted applicants. It's right around the 4:12.

I'm very please double check to make sure that the program to which you want to apply accepts EMET score because very few of them do it's the human development counseling program and the programs in the Department of teaching and learning. But if you were looking at say a higher Education Leadership Program Higher Education Administration. Those programs do not accept the M80.

Can you talk more specifically about the MPP in education and how that differs from an Med Masters in education policy?

Obviously it is polacy in education focus and that's a very unique program. The MPP versus the Med is really kind of boils down to the school and the degrees that can be offered. Peabody is a school that can offer a Masters of public policy since we're school of Education. We offer an education policy program.

And I know, People have asked me well. I'm looking at some kind of little side Tangent. I'm looking at Business School, but I'm really interested in your leadership and organizational performance program. But you get out within me. D instead of an MBA? How is that going to affect me it really doesn't affect you much at all it all boils down to the degrees that the school can offer so most of our students who are in the leadership and organizational performance program looked at MBA programs.

Leadership and organizational performance program is like the software side of business. So it's more of the leadership that consulting the talent management. The managerial side of things. Not so much of the financing accounting. So I run off and get on a change in with that, so let's move on, you mentioned an average Jerry score do you also have the GPA of accepted applicants at the Masters Level I would say it's typically overall about a 3.5 the application system.

Is open?

Should we submit our application before we get the Jerry score and have the score sent by ETS after the exam is taken or is it better to wait until they Jerry has been taken. I'm taking it in mid September when you're done with the application. You can go ahead and submit it. We won't review it until we get at least unofficial test scores well, I recommend for students.

Is because faculty are going to be looking at these things until closer to the December 31st deadline? what I recommend is go ahead and take your test when you get your unofficial scores enter those into your application and then hit submit you don't have to you can go ahead and submit it if you're anxious and want to get that submitted and check it off the list. And just wait until they show up there really doesn't matter much to us.

Um let's see take some of these sure is there a date that we find out will fear accepted PhD students. Find out in mid January if.

Uh it's it's really closer to, I would say probably mid February or beginning of March.

And uhm for the Masters students after priority deadline, they are finding out in the beginning part of February.

Yeah, and and then after that again applications that come in. After that are reviewed when they're complete so that it really ties to the priority deadline.

Um let's see.

I think we addressed the other question, Brianna but if not, please let us know. Then you can choose since court for school so not sure what that question really is. Active is there an early decision date for me D and how early would I think we address that one.

Um do you mentioned average Jerry squares are breakdown of averages for the individual program we do not publish the scores by program?

I would say that for some programs, the quantitative is a little bit more important for certain programs as you can imagine for like quantitative methods. Even in child studies. They maybe maybe looking a little bit more.

Intensively at your quantitative score, but in general again, I think the average 310.

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That's a good question who led who writes letters of recommendation in general. It's a good rule of thumb to have one academic and one professional letter of recommendation, but there is no hard and fast rule on that and so, if you don't. If you been out of school for a while and you don't have connections back for that academic one. It is perfectly fine have 2 professional as an example or if you're coming straight out of college and you don't have someone who can speak on the professional piece.

But I would recommend there is if you've done any kind of work on your campus or to fill that academic slash professional that would be that would be great.

OK um is yummy D program rolling admission or decision, released in the spring. I think again. We addressed that the priority deadlines. December 31st and we will send first that priority round decisions around February and then thereafter is rolling.

How many years of work experience is recommended good question think work think of work experience is not required necessarily and certain programs have quite a diverse mix of students were coming straight from undergraduate summer more heavily where they have students in the program with more or some work experience so again. There's no requirement on work experience and each program is diverse in that way that there are.

Mix of students that have work experience I would say that students and say like the EDD programs and the PhD programs are more likely to have more work experience.

Then say someone coming into elementary education, so in that way. There is more diversity and you can think of the variability in that way as well.

Our students admitted in cap cohort or does a Berry by program.

Uhm no there, it does vary by program and there are not capped cohorts necessarily in that way now.

Um transfer credit is on my final University transcript is the original University transcript required as well. I can take that one typically not technically. I cannot say, Oh, it will never be be required, but typically I don't see that they want you to track down that other transcript as long as it shows on your final University transcript.

Uh what percentage of students particularly in the Ed potty Depala C program received the merit funding. I would say what would you think rena? I'm I'm trying to think right now but I think it about 60% of the students received some kind of Merit based funding for that particular program. It varies a little bit. The variability of that depends on the size of the program.

Quality obviously, but I would say that's probably actually probe a good average in general anyway.

I like this next question uh for the personal statement for the Med programs is it preferable to provide to have more fun. Narrative style essay or a dryer straightforward town that systematically outlines what we want to achieve through the program. I think that's a very good question.

Give me your opinion as well. I think at this level, they are wanting kind of straightforward why will you be a good student? What will you bring to the cohort your fun personality? Can show through as maybe you visit campus or you speak with a faculty member show up for our welcome weekend type of thing, but I think, to be safe. I would would be pretty straightforward your personal statement should tell a story to tell a story of why you want to.

Why you want to pursue the degree or interested in in the program you're interested in how that relates back to your past and what kind of lead, you to that point and why do you think your education at Peabody will get you to the point where you want to get too so referring back to things like the research that you read about online that assert professor had done, or that resonated with you, or something I think.

If I could take a spin on your fun narrative style and just say you if you can integrate parts of like what's gotten you to the point of being interested and making that compelling story without it being too long or too long and drawn out. I think that's probably what you want to go for in terms of achieving 'cause. I don't think anybody wants to Rita Drive essay either. But I get the point of should it be more what the tone should be like in the tone as Kim said.

Should be a professional tone, but it should also tell a story and be compelling.

Uhm OK I'll take a few of these and organize. I think we should probably we've got several and so we're trying to get through these if by chance. We don't get your question are. We accidentally miss it. Please feel free to email us at that Peabody that admissions and will respond and if we miss you. Your question, we apologize in advance class scheduling opportunities for those with full time jobs while you pursue it. The MPD it really varies. Some of the programs are more conducive to somebody holding down a full time job.

Anne doing doing the program part time if you want to email that to us and let us know which program you're talking about. We can definitely find out information for you, providing the answer. I honestly don't know what percentage of our students are employed full time we don't track that do you have to be in edgecator to apply to the EDD K12 and leadership program before you just no you at Elizabeths question. I don't know either but I will say that.

Even though we don't track it. I would say most of the students are are full time students. Although we do have some students that are also working full time so I would just reinforce the point of maybe talking to the program director or education coordinator in that Department and maybe get a sense of the workload to see if it's realistic to work full time or not if that's the reason why you ask that question, yeah, go ahead, no that's good.

You do not necessarily have to be in Edgecator to apply to the EDD K12 program. Most People are and I think the Admissions Committee. They like to see that you have at least 2 years of related work experience so you don't necessarily have to be in Edgecator, but they do like to see that you have some related experience future web and R specifically focus on the EDD. We are still working our web and our schedules out.

And that might be something that we are able to do.

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How many years is the Med for secondary teacher preparation it really depends on when you start the program if you start in the summer. I believe you can get through in a little over a year if you start in the fall. I would plan on 2 years.

Um Tarek is interested in the ISL program do you have specific evidence of prior leadership that you value more than others? In this program geared more towards mid career folks or anyone who's looking to move in that direction.

Um so.

Empire at leadership value more than as far as admission goes the program director for that particular program really likes to have a mixed bag of People who have different types of leadership experience different backgrounds folks who are interested who are different level areas on the spectrum of experience as well because that is a very small cohort.

And there is a lot of interaction and sharing a lot of networking with prior years of students because there are 2 core cohorts. That sort of overlap during the summers that are here, so I don't think there is a secret magic recipe. To what you should have or what you could have I think the idea is that that program director specifically is looking for that mixed bag, so to say this is what it is. Here's the recipe for success.

Successful admissions that program, it is not possible to do that. It's just not because he specifically looking for different experience and backgrounds.

I lost where we Beatrice would you say most students are full time or part time I think that we already addressed this but I would say there are more full-time students. But not for International is international students are certainly part of that merit based mix that I was speaking up before it is a.

National background blind the process so students are certainly available available have availability to do the merit based awards. An also the graduate assistantships as well. The only thing that students international students can't get are the federal student funds. We do encourage students to look at loan programs within their own countries were also exploring loan options within the United States that don't require.

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There we are of instant. I see you may have discussed this we did not discuss price and cost at the Masters level level as well as others pH. DS are fully funded and I will say as far as the Masters and the EDD programs.

It is uhm charge per credit hour.

An I would recommend because a lot of this, I would go to our website and look at the tuition and fees page is very straightforward and puts it all out there because it's the indirect cost that could really change tuition is based tuition and fees. That's going to stay the same. But the indirect costs is where it really starts to vary by individual. I can tell you that right now, just for tuition costs. The cost of tuition is 1938 dollars.

For credit and because we have 25 different programs that have 25 different ways of the total number of credits for program. I would say that's a starting place to figure out what? What costs are and then as Kim said. There are other indirect costs and fees that will also impact the total cost.

ARMED students eligible to receive full assistantships or is that something that rarely happens. I would say that something that rarely happens. I'm not going to say it never happens. But it's it's pretty rare. Ardene would rather spread. The funds out to as many as possible to make education is affordable as possible to many so full assistantships at the Masters level are pretty rare do you accept applications for spring intake that is something that?

Really depends on the program and you would need to get in touch with the program director to see if that was an option. I mean, if the only reason I don't say Oh yes? Absolutely it's it's all how the curriculum is set up in the schedule that the classes are rolled out on.

Please provide more information about the International Ed Education Policy Management degree.

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It's hard to say.

Where we yeah, I mean, we, we could?

Yeah, if I felt crested if you could email us will be happy to send you more information. I feel like we may end up talking about all the individual programs. I will say that one of the faculty members that I highlighted earlier, which is show Cravens. She's the program director for that, so little bit of the research background that I had described with her kind of associates with that program as well. I think we might have missed Julius question on doing super score Jerry scores and we do.

Um so in case they based not familiar with super scoring is is if you take the Jerry multiple times and you do better in the quant on one test and then you do better on the verbal and another we will put those 2 highest scores together.

Is there Jerry waiver for the Ed program good? Question the answer is no there are no jury waivers?

In at all, so hopefully that answers that question how many MPP students going to continue to get further education after finishing the program.

I don't we don't track that here in admissions that career office may have that, but I don't know the answer to that question I will have to ask Brianna about that.

Um how many students are generally accepted each year on average for each program.

Well, since we have so many programs. I will say Jeremiah. When did you email that Peabody Admissions Box and we can pull some data and get a more specific answer for you? Is the Jerry required for all Masters programs, yes, it is.

What states are your graduates typically higher does it mainly natural or their connections connections in other cities and states are students go literally all over the world definitely all over the country. I will say that yes, a lot of them are here in Nashville and that's because they get here and they want to stay here, it's not necessarily just because there only finding jobs in Nashville. Most People love. The city so much after their here for awhile that they want to want to be here.

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Do you have a feel for which would be the stronger degree for international work either the MPP or elective courses from the international selections or the international Ed.

Policy and management, I'm looking to work with ministries of Education internationally. I will say graduates from each of those programs have gone on to do that type of work. So I don't think one of 'em is necessarily stronger than the other. I think what I would look at is the core curriculum and see what what you think fits your interests best and then you would work with your advisor.

With your electives in courses to get the other things that you need the programs do have some overlap so and Kimberly. We can put you in touch with program directores if you want to talk with them about it. What research opportunities are available for students in the Med programs that's one of those questions. That's so big. I don't even know how to answer our students were literally all over the University and other universities, they work in hospitals around.

Around the community.

There are lots of opportunities available, so if you're worried that you'll get here. You perhaps you're thinking about doctoral study in worried about getting research opportunity, I wouldn't worry about that. If you want a research opportunity. You can find one hear me D students from abroad international students absolutely are eligible for meritbasedscholarshipsifyouwouldlikeacopyofthisslidedeckpleaseemailthatpeabodyadmissions@vanderbilt.edu and thank you for asking I'm so sorry that we've had some issues.

How many students typically compromise comprise comprise alright no compromise comprise a cohort in the special education Masters degree? I said they usually bring in around 50 to 60 T bank, yeah, and then that's distributed among the different tracks that we have. We have the high incidents in the low incidence tracks and then some. Some years we have the vision impaired track as well so that's something to keep in mind.

There, as well, but given that it's the number one specialized program. It is fairly small. I mean that it's pretty impressive that it's pretty small and the special Ed Department. We mentioned before that. The Susan Gray School, which is a school is a has students in it is also housed within the special Ed.

Building in that Department at one Magnolia circle so it is very hands on kinda ties back to some of the practical experiences that you can get on campus? Is there are many opportunities within the season grayskul.

The Kennedy Center on the Fuchs. We mentioned lymph you earlier. The Fuchs have a special granted scholarship that many students work on actively while they're studying as well.

Uh what does the interview process look like for the Masters program specifically the HTC program there typically held there by invitation so if you make this screening. So to speak. You'll get an invitation from either the program director or person or persons who are assisting with the.

With the setting up those interviews in there done by a Skype for the most part, C comprises the admission selection board, so the program directores within each Department are responsible for determining what the selection process will look like in some of the smaller programs. It is the actual program director themselves. It's doing. The reviews and in others. It is more by committee so again and I know that we've been saying this a lot. I feel like a broken record.

But it really does depend by program how that how that process looks like. But Suffice, it to say is it's not done in admissions. It is done by the faculty within their specific programs and department's.

Let's see for those students who do not live in the area. Where do they usually live and I'm assuming like you? Don't live in?

State of Tennessee don't live in the area. Most students tend to live fairly close to campus and at this point we don't have any graduate student housing, but that is changing their in the process of building some does your PhD program offer a Masters degree is students aren't able to finish the doctoral program. We don't automatically have a Masters degree kind of in passing. I do not have a few situations where a student in a PhD program had a life situation happen.

And we worked with them to help them complete a Masters degree because the PhD just wasn't possible. What's the percentage of acceptance for each program. Taylor if you want to buy program. Please email us, but particularly Paula CEDDI would say about and I am guessing so if you want a more concrete answer, please email us.

I would say 30% I was bringing the same good ballpark would having prior research experience and having that were published. Add weight to your application absolutely Nicholas.

For financial aid purposes with the annual cost of attendance versus annual cost of tuition.

Again, it depends by program up and the federal student aid office.

I know what you're talking about in terms of the actual cost of attendance at something that's calculated into the federal.

Calculation to determine loans. I would I will have to reach out to that office to see what they are calculating as the cost of attendance so we will have to get back to you. On that one. Richard let's see well, she's taking notes I see Emma you're currently in peace peace core volunteer from Nashville interested in continuing teaching, but also working internationally? What programs lead to a teaching credential that would be special Education Secondary Education, an elementary education.

I'm interested in 2 programs you can apply to you can apply to 2 programs in one calendar year.

And I would recommend doing a very tailored personal statement for each application. You're right if your personal statements.

Are the same for each it's probably not going to be specific enough for the admissions committee?

In person interviews are not mandatory very few of our programs do in person interviews. Actually, I don't think any of them really do him because we try to be fair and the in person. Interviews tend to give that person, a leg up so I believe all of the programs now interview via Skype or something like that? Yes.

And I think that might be the last question, which is good 'cause. We're just about out of time. Thank you guys so much for hanging in there with us and for asking such great questions. We will definitely be able to respond to anybody who's asked. We just need a little bit of time to get the PowerPoint into a PDF for you so, give us a day or 2:00 or also as Kim mentioned preparing for orientation, so that keeps us busy as well so just give us a minute.

As we say down here and Nashville give us a minute. We appreciate your time and we definitely appreciate all of the questions. Thank you so much. We hope to see you at another event again keep in mind. We have lots of on campus off-campus virtual events that we, we invite you to and certainly we in purge your application. The application is open and if you have any other specific questions. We have couple. Notes I jotted down that we need to get some answers back to everyone.

And appreciated thank you. Kim thank you. Brian and have a great evening morning. Wherever you are in the world by thanks for joining us.