30 year old traditional transfer - where to go, Is NYU possible?

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So I've been checking out this board for several months and finally decided to join! I'm currently attending LIU as a nursing major doing their rather daunting list of pre-reqs since I never finished my 1st degree. I've taken most of my pre-req classes that are applicable to most schools in the NYC area (A&P I, A&P II, General Chem, Developmental Psych, Into to Psych, Nutrition, Statistics and currently I am enrolled in Microbiology). I have received A's in all of these classes. When I left college 8 years ago my GPA was around a 2.9, but these classes should help bring it up. I've applied to a bunch of schools; Pace,CNR, NYU, Wagner and St. Peter's College. On this board, I've heard so many negative things about LIU that I'm not sure I really want to do clinicals here. Do I stand a chance of getting into these other schools? I'd love to go to NYU. Would you leave LIU for all of these schools or only some? If only some, which ones? Any thoughts? Anyone else in the same or a similar position??

Thanks!

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Hi Steph!

I'm currently enrolled at NYU finishing my pre-reqs before I start the clinical sequence in the Fall and I have to say I love every minute of it! Al my professors are fantastic and overall it's really a wonderful university with a great environment. The only negative side is the price tag! If you have 20K for each semester then this is the place for you! There is financial aid and it's pretty good but still the bill is always kind of expensive.

What I love about it is that once you get accepted into the nursing program and you have done all you pre-reqs, you can choose between the traditional route or the accelerated one. It's gonna be pretty intensive to study for 15 months in a row without break but I know it's gonna be worth it once I'm done!

Feel free to ask any question and best of luck in your application.

kika

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I recently left LIU's nursing program along with a few others. I was leaving nursing all together so it wasn't the school but I think I along with a few other people would have chosen other schools over LIU. For one LIU's tuition has gotten very pricey and I for one don't think the school is worth the amount of tuition they charge. Second the program itself isn't bad, it's very rigorous, like you want a nursing program to be but there is a lot of issues with the way the program is managed. Seems a bit disorganized as far as hospital placements and some students have had problems with a few professors.

For all the schools that you listed, the only one I wouldn't take over LIU is Pace because I heard more awful things about their program than LIU. If you only get accepted into LIU then don't panic, take a deep breath and just be ready to tackle things head-on. Like I said it's not the program itself its just the people that are in charge of it can give a headache and unnecessary run around for information. There's defintely no hand holding, in fact sometimes it felt like you were left out to drown but a lot of people have passed the program and graduated even with the drama and it maintains the highest NCLEX passrate for any BSN program in the state. They accept a good number of students (around 150 a semester). The nursing labs don't have the most up-to-date equipment either which is something that disappointed me.

I've heard great things about NYU (a few people who did pre-reqs at LIU chose to transfer there) and if you can afford it then I say go for it. Only downside I've heard of is the large nursing lectures but if that's your thing then it's a plus.

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Thank you both for the information! I'd love to go to NYU - but CNR is pretty high up on my wish list too. Also Wagner - despite the horrendous commute from Manhattan. I don't even think that LIU will be much cheaper than NYU since I have to take all LIU's very specific general education courses - but I haven't really broken down the costs yet.

Interestingly, for 2010 LIU no longer has the highest NCLEX BSN pass rates in the state - Pace in NYC is now #1, followed by Wagner. I've included the link in case anyone i interested.

http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/nurse/nurseprogs-nclexrn2008-12.htm

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Thank you both for the information! I'd love to go to NYU - but CNR is pretty high up on my wish list too. Also Wagner - despite the horrendous commute from Manhattan. I don't even think that LIU will be much cheaper than NYU since I have to take all LIU's very specific general education courses - but I haven't really broken down the costs yet.

Interestingly, for 2010 LIU no longer has the highest NCLEX BSN pass rates in the state - Pace in NYC is now #1, followed by Wagner. I've included the link in case anyone i interested.

http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/nurse/nurseprogs-nclexrn2008-12.htm

Wow! That's really interesting about Pace because all I've heard were horrible things! I actually had a friend who transfered out of Pace last year because she couldn't bear it any longer. The main complaint was that the professors don't care, they just lecture reading off the book and you're left basically on your own.

I think there is no perfect school and we just have to learn how to accept and work around the flaws to make the best of it!

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