For what its worth, I went to a no-name state school and I'm currently an anesthesia student at University of Pittsburgh. It seems like many students in my class also chose an undergrad program based on practical factors such as cost, not on prestige...
adamrj8282 replied to 2007graduate's topic in SRNA
For what it is worth, I have worked at four different hospitals and only once was I at a hospital for more than a year. I got into University of Pittsburgh. I don't think they care too much.
Definitely don't retake the GRE -- that's a great score. I would say your weakest point is your lack of adult critical care experience. Most schools I looked at wanted adult ICU. Apply now, but if you don't get in, you should probably get into an adu...
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I applied to University of Pittsburgh and I live in Arizona. I didn't apply to Midwestern because they have clinicals in like four states! When I approached my supervisor about the reference, I made it clear that school wasn't going to start until w...
I was in this same exact position. I had planned on waiting another year but three months after getting a new job I got the sudden uncontrollable urge to apply. I had to awkwardly approach one of the clinical leaders (supervisor) and ask for a refere...
Well first of all, your GPA should end up pretty decent. If you read on the forums, there are plenty of people with ~3.4 GPA that get accepted. If I were you I wouldn't just take any old graduate sciences, I would look at some schools I was intereste...
I knew right after starting nursing school because that's when I really started researching the CRNA profession. From that point on I was always up front about my career goal. During school, some nursing professors frowned heavily upon CRNAs because ...
(repeating my post to add my stats) Applied to one school, Pitt, and got accepted for Fall 09 BSN GPA 3.97 7 months mixed ICU 9 months medical ICU 7 months Trauma/Surgical ICU 1260 GRE 3.5 verbal ACLS, no PALS, no CCRN or any other initials -Adam
adamrj8282 replied to JJRBuckeyeRN's topic in SRNA
What areas should I avoid? I have been looking on Craigslist for places to live and it seems like extremely few of the places near the university allow pets. I have a little dog that will be assisting me in my studies but it seems no one wants to we...
What chem class are you looking to take? If you're looking for organic chem take chem 1120 which is organic/bio chem. I took it last semester and they just mail you a CD with pictures on it and you fill in the blanks on a web page using info from tho...