i applied to Baylor, TWU, Midwestern State, Stephen F. Austin, and Tvcc. what about you? how are you feeling about not receiving a letter.

Hey there!I am also new to this forum. I am VERY surprised to hear that someone said that about UTA grads. They must have had a bad experience with one or something because generally UTA grads are well prepared nurses. For example, I work with a nurse in one of the busiest top trauma ICUs in Texas who graduated from UTA just last spring. I was talking to her one day asking her about the residency and she told me that it was mostly review because at UTA our critical care class at least mentions just about everything you learn in critical care. I and most other people I hear from think that UTA is a great program that is constantly figuring out ways to make it better. TWU on the other hand from what I hear from the nurses that went there is not very student friendly...meaning they dont go out of thier way to help students succeed. Ive also heard from some of the black nurses that I work with that TWU has instructors who were treated them very unfairly. Ive never heard anything like this from the ethnic minorities in my program. Not to mention that TWU doesnt have a class set apart for critical care any longer...now they have just "integrated" it into the rest of the program. Which also means that you dont have a clinical rotation for critical care. They will probably just have a day in each rotation where they get to go observe. To me that is not good enough. Critical care takes a while to get used to and to learn about and needs to have some more attention than that. But thats just my opinion. TWU puts out good nurses too, but from what Ive seen I dont think they get quite as much clinical practice as we do. They dont even get to start IV's and other basic skills until the second semester. But nonetheless their grads are good too. It is a BSN program and is better than the ADN programs at least and it does have a good reputation among the community. A lot of the nurses do say they would never go back there for school again though. Take that as you wish. UTA instructors do ALL they can to help prepare the students for NCLEX and for the real world and in general has a pretty darn good success rate.

Hi! As far as gpa is concerned, you need a 2.5 to get in. HOWEVER, I applied with a 2.49 (spent 3 yrs as an english major before I decided on nursing) and just had to write a letter for exception, which basically said why i thought I should get an exception to that rule. Well, I didn't get in initially, but I got on the waiting list and they actually called me the day before classes started and said someone had dropped and asked if I wanted the spot, so I took it! As far as the program goes, it has its good points and its bad points, like all nursing programs. I dont have any complaints as far as level one goes, I think they do a good job. Level 2 was a little different, but it was also more vigorous coursework. I just felt like a lot of the instructors were less than encouraging, and flip-flopped a lot. Ive only been in level 3 for a few weeks now and i LOVE it! I think TCC as a whole is a good program and a lot of the nurses I have worked with have told me that they have been most impressed with students from TCC. Hope that helps, I'll be more than happy to answer anymore questions you have!