UIC BSN for Fall 2013 applicants...

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Hello all,

I applied to UIC for their BSN program for fall 2013. SUPER stressed about it. If anyone else has applied, you know they have very specific pre reqs, so if I don't get in here, I will have taken a ton of classes for nothing :( I've been reading some posts from this time last year, and it sounds like the most important things are your GPA, essays, and letters of recommendation. My GPA is only a 3.54. I think my essays were pretty good- I have quite a bit of experience in hospitals, as a patient and employee, and I did well with writing papers in the past. I had a professor from UIC (who is also a professor at City Colleges of Chicago that taught my Microbio class) write one of my letters of recommendation, and my CNA instructor from Truman write the other. I got my CNA certification over this past summer, specifically to help with my application to UIC. So I work in a hospital now. I was hoping to have been able to keep my 4.0 GPA, becuase with my work experience I figured they would kind of have to take me. But now with my lower GPA I'm freaking out! Anyone gone through this in the past? Any words of wisdom? Anyone not made it in, and applied the next year?

Congratulations to those who are in! :) To those who are still on the waitlist, do not give up hope. However, if you applied to other schools, accept them. It does sound frustrating that they do not give you a number on the waitlist but they look at the list up until the week before school starts. Some of my classmates were already registered in their second choice of nursing school and then withdrew even when it was like two weeks before that school's program started after receiving a call from UIC.

Thanks, Stewie! Congratulations to you as well. I wanted to know if you were also offered the seminar courses prior to starting the program?

Will anyone else attend? I've already reserved my spot.

^Thank you, Future-RN! :) Are you talking about the drug calculation/medical terminology seminar for this summer? If yes, I did go to the seminar. However, only a few of us went. It was just to brush up our math/conversion skills pretty much because you have to take a drug calculation test for clinicals. It's easy pea-sy!

The classes that are being offered now are clinicals and pathophysiology seminars. I'm sure they can't hurt. Are they actually classes with tests?

Also, is there anything you recommend I should do before the program starts?

Thanks!!!!

Hey guys! Congrats on getting in! It always warms my heart to see how excited people are about nursing because it truly is an amazing and rewarding career. I'm from the UIC Urbana regional program so if any of you guys who was accepted to that campus have questions about the program and anything pertaining in that area there feel free to message me! :)

@ Future-RN-

If that's the case, then these may be new to the curriculum so I am not sure how these classes work but these sound very helpful! In my opinion, Pathophysiology I is one of the most challenging classes that you will encounter in the first year of nursing school. It's great to know that they now offer seminars for that class and also for clinicals. Let me know how it goes. :)

Recommendation...enjoy your summer before all the craziness begins!

Hi @Future-RN- Please post your messages here because I cannot respond yet since I am short of number of posts :/ But with regards to your question about books, don't get the lab book, dictionary, and planner (If this comes with the book package. Just buy your own). Also, I don't remember using the Patho and Pharm books as much because the notes and the lectures were sufficient. I just recorded the lectures and transcribe them after class. Hope this helps!

hey, i know this thread is really old but i wanted to know what you guys' science GPAs were like? did any of you have particularly low ones (even though they reached the minimum)

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