New Grad looking for advice

Abik I have not applied and IF I do and that is a huge IF it will be for fall 2010 entry. I got extremely discouraged when people didn't reply to emails or return calls. I had sent emails to at least 5 different people and never ever received a response.

I had spoken to one person in admissions who told me to fax all my transcripts and she would evaluate them to see what additional classes I needed. She told me to follow up in a week or so. She said she was doing me a big favor by doing this. When I called her back she told me that she never would have said this and she will not evaluate my transcripts?!?!?! What are these people crazy!

I decided against applying after this type of behavior. I would be scared to attend a school like this. I can just imagine the professors loosing exams and telling you that you never took it.

Several weeks after I sent the 5 emails I called a couple people that had helped me in the past. Both those people said they forwarded my email to someone else. It has been a couple months and I have yet to receive an email response or a reply call.

They are EXTREMELY disorganized.

Let me know if you ever hear anything.

Chanelcinq, thank you for your answer, I am experiencing the same situation. I can't seem to ever get someone to give me a consistent answer about any of the questions I ask. I understand they are busy and I'm just giving them the benefit of the doubt. I really don't have a choice, I am here now, will be here for 3 years and really want to get this degree, I am really looking forward to start school and I am trying to stay positive. One thing that will completely discourage me from starting the program will be if I have to retake Math and Statistics, other than that, I guess I just have to do it.
thanks,

abik you have mail

Thank you so much for all the info you posted, I just joined and saw the postings. I had all the same difficulties in trying to call Interamericana and kept getting thrown around and still did not really get the answers I needed. I recently found out I got accepted to the program and I live in Maryland, so this is a big problem for me. That means I have to leave my job really soon and get ready to go to PR. My general orientation is next week and I called the school today to get clarification, they said I also have to meet with someone in the Nursing dept so they can evaluate my transcripts to see if i can get into the accelerated program, so that confused me. So that means I am not for sure accepted?? I also couldn't find tuition info on their website, so I am going by what you stated, I will hopefully clarify that when I get to PR. I'm still not sure if this is what I should do since it's so short notice. I am working right now so that means I have to take of work to go there next week and based on what I find out when I'm there I will make my final decision. Please give me any information that you think might help me on this decision and flying there next week. Thanks for all the info.

Morellan keep us updated. Schools usually tell the applicants months in advance if they are accepted or not. They are giving you a month? More and more I am deciding I will not be applying to this school.

I will try keep you updated on this adventure. I told my boss today, luckily she is understanding and knows this is important for my future and I'm not getting any younger. So I will be flying out there next Wednesday and hopefully will get all my questions answered. By the way I speak Spanish and maybe that's why I was able to get some information when I called the many times I tried. I can imagine how much more frustrating it is for the ones who don't speak Spanish. I hope it goes well.

Morellan please post here after your visit to the school this week. Thanks!

Hi, It has been a hectic two weeks but I finally got my Interamericana Acceptance letter. I will go to the Nursing dept. tomorrow morning to meet with my advisor to go over what classes I will take. According to my admissions letter, it appears to me that they have accepted all of my prerequisites and I have met the RN prerequisites. The letter is a bit hard to understand so I am not getting my hopes to high. I will know for sure after tomorrow. School starts on Aug. 1st here and I can't wait to start. I am still going back and forth with the student loan issue. Does anyone there know of any student Aid for Nursing students. I have a BA already and I don't qualify for FAFSA pell grant. I talked to the RN dept. here but they don't help with financial aid questions. I will keep you posted on how my Advising session goes.

Hi Morellan, Did you make it to PR? I am here already, arrived in June, and I will be having orientation tomorrow. I am also supposed to meet and advisor to help me pick my classes. Quick question, do you know of any student loans for Nursing students? I already have a BA and I don't qualify for the FAFSA pell grant?
Please keep me posted on how your registration process goes.
Good luck,

I am so incredibly frustrated with Universidad Interamericana at this moment and reading this just scares me even more. My husband and I came over here in June because we want to become RNs and this seemed like the best option because his parents live here and it's an accelerated program with no waiting list. Puerto Rico is beautiful and all, but I'm ready to go back home so I want to get school over with fast and it seems like it will take FOREVER with the way people at this university work.

My husband started this Monday with some of the general studies classes because he has to raise his GPA (goofed off in high school) and out of 4 classes, one has been canceled and the professor of the other class didn't show up Tuesday or today but supposedly the class isn't being canceled. Also, we are receiving the full Pell Grant, but supposedly we have to buy the books. What the heck is that about?! We're poor enough to receive a Pell Grant but we can't charge those books to the Pell Grant, we have to come up with money somehow for the books up front and then get reimbursed. In Florida all I had to do was show my ID at the bookstore and they charged it to my account and took it out of my Pell Grant.

Yeah, that and the university charges you a ton of money on top of the credits and one of the things that they charge you for is for maintenance. Um...have they SEEN the college? Do they really do maintenance there because the building is falling apart?! And don't even get me started on calling them because they never answer the phone and when they do they're not helpful at all. I'm just getting very discouraged at this point. With the way they're canceling classes, the professors not caring to show up, and all the other crap I'm just wondering if I'll end up going to school for 10 years instead of 3. Ugh, someone please tell me that they were able to finish in 3 years without that many problems. I'm ready to get my BSN and get on with my life....in the States!!! I wish I could PM some of you guys that are here in PR right now because it would be nice to have friends that are going to the same college so we can share tips/tricks but I can't PM yet