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hi guys,

this is my first time posting a thread to this website although it is not my first reading some of the various posts on this website. i love the topics of discussion and i think that it's time i start a discussion.I am a pre-nursing student and i am almost through with most of my pre-reqs for the Adn program at two schools. I applied to two programs for Fall '06 and i just found out that at one of them i didn't get in. I am still waiting to hear from the other one. At the one that i was rejected, they accepted all of the flex applicants regardless of their rank. BTW-the flex program is a program where people who work fulltime can do there nursing lectures online and can do there clinicals on the weekend or in the evening. Anyway--the program ranks you on your HESI scores, GPA, # of pre-reqs. Well even though I got a higher ranking than somebody else, if they applied for the flex program, they got in no questions asked. In the beginning of the application process they did not say that this was going to happen. I don't think that it was fair to the rest of the students including me, who worked hard and got high scores and had to be put on the waiting list. They should have told us right up front that this may happen. Don't get me wrong-- I'm not upset about not getting in b/c i had it already resolved it in my mind that if i didn't get into that school that i'm still waiting to hear from the other one, and if i still don't get into to that one, I'll just take classes towards my bsn and reapply for the spring. It just irks me that they accepted people whose rank was way lower than mine as well as other students. Am i wrong for feeling this way or should i just suck it up and move on. I want your honest opinions and similar stories about what happened to you when you applied to nursing school. thanks in advance for your posts!!

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I had to write an essay about why I wanted to be in nursing school when I applied. I know that the dean weighted the letter heavily in the application process.

I acuatally had a scary experience when I applied. I am in the top 10% at my college and my teachers had pretty much told me I was a shoo in. I even had recommendations from some of the nursing faculty! Mistakes happened, and the office never disbursed my application to the faculty to review! One of my friends happened to work in the office and saw my name on the rejection list. He delicately brought up the subject with one of my teachers. The teacher remembered me from class (I also work with his wife) and asked to see my folder. NO ONE had ever looked at it. SO on the last day they were considering applicants, I got in.

Talk about lucky

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Specializes in ICU, CVICU.

I think that is really crummy! But sometimes the online programs can be a bit more lenient with who they let in because they aren't taking up physical space in the lecture hall. If its any consolation (and I know it is probably not), most of those people probably won't last- online coursework is VERY demanding.

I hope you get into your other program. Good luck :)

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i had to wait 17 months after i was accepted before i could start. i am starting my first semester in May . my wife is finishing up her prereqs but the wait has reached 24 to 32 months:o ! it looks like the best option for her is to commute 136 miles to school. :crying2: the school in a rural area of the state is hurting for applicants but you have to get there to apply. it has gotten ludicrous. there are two schools in my city. the public school is the one with the long wait. the private school has an average of 200 applicants a semester. they take 42!:eek: the lowest GPA of the last J1 class was 3.8! 14 of the accepted applicants had a 4.0 GPA. with the shortage reaching catastrophic levels why cant this problem be solved? we have lots of money to go to war... but now money to train people to take care of the wounded. what a country!:nono:

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Specializes in ICU, CVICU.
we have lots of money to go to war... but now money to train people to take care of the wounded. what a country!:nono:

No need to get self-righteous. If you wanted to do military nursing you would probably have an easier time of it. Just guessing though- you'd have to ask around.

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hi guys,

. Am i wrong for feeling this way or should i just suck it up and move on.:

You are not wrong for being frustrated ... but you should just suck it up and move on.

Life isn't always fair ... and you said yourself that you would have turned down this school if they had accepted you. In the grand scheme of life, it is not worth wasting time or energy over. Save your energy for the things in life that really matter. Learning how to prioritize is one of the things you'll need in a nursing career. I suggest you start with this situation.

llg

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You are not wrong for being frustrated ... but you should just suck it up and move on.

Exactly. Keep trying, no matter what though. You'll get in when and where it's meant to be. :D

ABQGRANT: The other alternative is to move out of the country that one despises so much. I thank God I live in America, even it does take me a while to get into nursing school. :)

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ABQGRANT: The other alternative is to move out of the country that one despises so much. I thank God I live in America, even it does take me a while to get into nursing school. :)

No it isn't. The government and military wastes money on random, unneeded crap everyday. How do I know? I used to spend it (and used to "supervise" the mandated spending of it by our commander... on communications and networking equipment). ;) In fact, two years ago I "wasted" $100,000+ of the government's defense money on a classified system I was forced to purchase by my old commander that he decided he didn't want anymore shortly after all the equipment arrived... and then he made me buy a completely different set of equipment (more similar to the setup I originally told him to get in the first place). That's a lot of frikking money. We ended up just dividing the equipment between squadrons in our group because we didn't want the money to go to too much waste.

If Abqgrant feels that money is being misspent, he or she has every right to voice that opinion. It's a part of being American and exercising his/her American rights. Just because he/she thinks that the government isn't spending its money correctly doesn't mean that he/she is unamerican or despises the country. It just means that he/she thinks money isn't being spent efficiently or well.

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I wonder why you are upset. Would have wanted to be in the flex program? If so, you should have applied for that one instead (or for both programs if allowed).

It seems to me that the school is just trying to educate as many nurses as they can. I am guessing that they are running the flex program because they don't have the space on campus or the necessary staff. I am also guessing that the flex program is less desirable, which is why the admission standards are lower.

So, I wouldn't feel resentful that you didn't get in while other students did. These are two separate programs. That's how I would look at it.

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"The other alternative is to move out of the country that one despises so much."

Hallelujah on that, mam. One of the reasons I am going to nursing school is to get the heck out of W's America. This country is becoming a nightmare! We pollute more than anyone has any conceivable right to, the middle class is disappearing, and we're not taking care of our sick and our poor. The war with Iraq was the last straw for me. Is it any surprise that the entire world hates us?

I am hoping that my nursing degree will enable me to get a job as a nurse's aid/home health care worker in Denmark. I'll probably be paid crap but at least I'll have the satisfaction on no longer living in the evilest country in the world.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

I didn't say it was the only other alternative. :uhoh3: Please do not turn this thread into a Governmental Debate!

Jeesh.....I'm getting that enough in my GOV class! :uhoh3:

To the OP....I'm very sorry for what you're going through.

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Specializes in ICU, CVICU.

I swear Mi'shelle- every time I see your posts I think "If she doesn't get in this semester there is no justice in the world"

:)

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