National University San Diego

Thank you very much for your response it was very informative Sakura, and congratulations!

Lol! Great minds think alike, hiphippo!

It's been forever since I checked out this site....Micro is kicking my butt, but I'll be finished on Saturday. Yeah!!

Congrats to all of you who applied and hope you get acceptance letters soon!!

Saturn....I know you are the one who took the ILR test....thanks for the previous info about what to study. That was super helpful! I'm really worried though because I am scheduled to take the test on November 7th but am applying for the July 2010 cohort which has the app. cutoff date of November 20th. You said it takes about 4 weeks to get a response? Yikes! Will NU allow you to have that pending when you apply or not? I'm totally freaked out that I will now have to take that ILR class this next month and pay a ton of money for such a stupid class. I have A's in all of my pre-recs and if that dang ILR class holds me back I will be so angry! Please let me know if you have any info on that or know what the nursing department says about the pending test.

Thanks so much!

Hi Ali! It's great to hear that I was able to help you out! I was in the same situation as you with the ILR exam. The deadline was very close and approaching. I asked my adviser what to do if my results did not come back before the deadline. She told me that I can make a cover letter explaining the situation. The school would most likely excuse it. For one, you already took the test...you are waiting on their people to get the results back. Heck, they will know your results before you do! I would definitely check with your adviser about it though. Good luck!

Has anyone else heard from National? I hope I get something tomorrow...I really want to get into the January cohort!

Hey Hip & Saturn,

My last name starts with a K

Thanks for the reply Sakurak! Twilight, once again I was thinking the same thing. I was about to post it too. I'm just as anxious. With Sakurak's reply, I don't know how relevant the last name is because mine starts with a B. Eek. If they are going by last names then I'm screwed. =(. I have no idea how they're doing the acceptance process. Maybe by the order of applications turned in? Other than that, I got nothing. I hope I hear something tomorrow too!! **crossing fingers**

Hey thanks Sakura! Hmm...my last name also starts with a K. That rules out alphabetically (I hope). I don't think they go by order of applications either. My adviser said they don't do a "first come, first serve" thing. They gather all of them up first then choose the best 50. My guess is that they have a pile of the best 50, close their eyes and pick them! They do this until they run out of spots to fill up the January cohort, then they email everyone else with acceptance/denial letters...:lol_hitti. That's all I got!
Hey Sakura, was your ~2.6 GPA in prerequisites or overall?

Honeybee,

Not sure if you still read these threads since you are now an RN and everything (congrats again!), but I was just wondering how you are doing with getting a job in this economy right now. I ran into a National new grad while doing my Med-Surg clinicals and she said it's so hard to get into a New Grad program right now. Is that true that you have to be in a new grad program in order to work as an RN? Well I hope everything is going great for you! I would love to hear from you...


And good luck to those waiting to get in to National!

I was curious about the same thing...hopefully the job market improves soon. I keep hearing these stories about new grads not being able to get jobs...scary stuff.

Anyhoo, another day without an acceptance email...all this waiting is making me sprout grey hairs...