GI Bill, Green to Gold, and Other Education Opportunities

Hmmm... I was ineligible for the MGIB because I went to college on an ROTC scholarship, but I'm fully eligible for the 9/11 benefits. Try Googling "SLRP and Post 9/11 GI Bill" and see if that helps.

lol, no not at all. No lesson here, just trying to help get a guy pointed in the right direction. I know how frustrating it can be to try to find stuff out when it comes to the military.

This was sent to me by a friend of mine here at school who happens to also be a former Ranger. If you young hooahs are getting out of the service and are looking at going to college fulltime, you really need to think about Yale. Between the Yellow Ribbon Program, GI Bill, and Yale's Eli Whitney program, if you have the grades, the motivation, and the life experiences, going to Yale is a no-brainer.

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All,

Today, Yale signed a new contract with the US Government that significantly
increases Yale's contribution to the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

The Yellow Ribbon Program is a way that private universities can make their
schools more affordable under the Post-9/11 GI Bill by making a contribution to
an individual veteran that is matched by the government 1:1 (Public schools
are,
basically, tuition free for veterans who are on 100% the GI Bill).

Every veteran who is 100% on the Post-9/11 GI Bill is eligible for the Yellow
Ribbon Program. Some veterans are on a less than 100% GI Bill stipend, or no GI
Bill at all, primarily because full funding on the Post-9/11 GI Bill requires 36
months of service after one "pays back" the five years of service incurred after
attending a service academy (West Point, Annapolis, etc.) or the four years of
service one incurs for taking a ROTC scholarship. So, if a veteran serves less
than 36 months they receive a percentage of GI Bill benefits (90%, 80%, etc.)
with no Yellow Ribbon.

Before today, Yale offered 50 Yellow Ribbon slots at $5,000 a piece. So,
veterans who were 100% on the Post-9/11 GI Bill received a base payment of
$17,500, plus $5,000 from Yale, plus $5,000 in matching funds from the US
Government for a total of $27,500 against the cost of Yale's tuition. Veterans
on who are %100 on the GI Bill receive 36 months (4 academic years) of funding.
In many schools at Yale, this did not cover the total cost of tuition, and the
number of veterans eligible for the Yellow Ribbon was capped, Yale wide, at 50.
Meaning, the 51st veteran would not recieve Yellow Ribbon funding.

The Yellow Ribbon numbers are an important signaling device to veterans who
intend to apply to a school, because a veteran who is 100% on the GI Bill looks
at the Yellow Ribbon numbers on the Department of Veterans Affairs website to
see what schools will cause them to incur the lowest amount of debt. The better
the
Yellow Ribbon numbers, the more visible a school's commitment to veterans.

So,

Yale had 50 Yellow Ribbon slots in a university-wide pot at $5,000 a piece.

School Amount Number of Slots
Yale University $5,000 50

Now, the Yellow Ribbon slots have been broken up over the specific Yale schools
and some Yellow Ribbon contributions have been increased to meet the full cost
of tution:

School Amount Number of Slots
Yale College $5,000 Unlimited Number
Architecture $5,000 5
Art $5,000 5
Divinity $99,999 (=Full Tuition) 3
Drama $5,000 5
Engineering/App. Sci Same as College/GSAS -
GSAS $9,000 (=Full Tuition) Unlimited Number
Forestry $7,500 3
Law $5,000 Unlimited Number
Management $10,000 Unlimited Number
Medicine $5,000 Unlimited Number
Music $5,000 5
Nursing $5,000 5
Public Health $5,000 2

As I said, the numbers are a signaling device and, with hope, they will signal
that a veteran should strongly consider applying to Yale. That being said,
Yale, circa 2012, is a special place for veterans. The community that exists
here, across the schools, is a tight, well-supported network. Within that
community, veterans are known by their names, their interests and, most
importantly, their contributions to Yale. At Yale, no one is a number, and
veterans are swept into a vital conversation. The conversation, in substance,
is about the future of this republic (artistic, political, economic,
academic...). I think that this conversation is interdisciplinary and
inter-professional and, while it might be occurring at other institutions, I
think it is most robust, here and now, at Yale.

Thank you for your support. John Perez (President of the Yale Veterans
Association), Josh Ray (VP, Yale Veterans Association), Andrew Crawford
(Co-President Yale Law Veterans) and I (Representative, Graduate Student
Assembly 2011-2012) are happy to share the good news, and single out the
contributions and consideration of Rich Jacob, Kara Haas, Deputy Provost J.
Lloyd Suttle and Caesar Storlazzi.