Thoughts on my stats

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ccuccrnap16 · Jul 12, 2016

You will be fine. While your GPA is on the low side your experience and GRE make up for it. The make it or break it for you will be the interview so study and practice and good luck! Come back and let us know when you get in :)

wanger2525 · Jul 12, 2016

just go for it and apply to the schools you want. You got nothing to lose. Worst they can say is no. Don't doubt yourself

megrn10 · Jul 13, 2016

Thanks for the encouragement guys! Any recommendations on preparing for interviews?

ccuccrnap16 · Jul 13, 2016

CCRN material and hemodynamics. Know your typical patient upside down. Know frequently used gtts on your unit and mechanism of action. Know all your ventilator settings and peep pressure support etc.

jj224 · Jul 16, 2016

It's hard to say for sure. Really it depends on the other people applying to the program. Schools typically offer x number of interviews so it depends on your competition really. If you contact the school, or sometimes it's on the website, they'll describe the typical student that's admitted. You have great experience, but if someone has the same experience but better grades, the interview would go to them. The only way to tell is to apply and apply to a bunch of different programs. Good luck! I'm sure you'll do great, but just saying it's hard to say for sure because each school weighs different aspects of a candidate differently.

BigPappaCRNA · Jul 17, 2016

Your stats overall, are right in the cusp. They could go either way. The simple fact that you are posting them here and asking, means even you have some doubts.

If if you are planning on applying to one of the smaller schools, you likely will not be invited for an interview. If you are applying to one of the 100+ students a class puppy mills, you may do just fine. The irony here is that the larger schools have a much wider bell curve students, and yet because they are so large, cannot offer those students on the far left of the bell curve, the proper support with which to be successful.

I would wait wait one more year, take a grad level course in either pharmacology, physiology, or statistics, and do well in the class. This will do several things for you. 1. More experience simply makes you a better and stronger candidate. 2. Doing well in a grad level class makes you a better and stronger candidate. 3. If you do well, there are far, far more schools open to you as viable options. 4. If you do poorly, you have saved yourself 100K in debt, and quitting a job, and possibly moving all for no good reason.

Good Luck.

ccuccrnap16 · Jul 17, 2016

Your stats overall, are right in the cusp. They could go either way. The simple fact that you are posting them here and asking, means even you have some doubts.
If if you are planning on applying to one of the smaller schools, you likely will not be invited for an interview. If you are applying to one of the 100+ students a class puppy mills, you may do just fine. The irony here is that the larger schools have a much wider bell curve students, and yet because they are so large, cannot offer those students on the far left of the bell curve, the proper support with which to be successful.
I would wait wait one more year, take a grad level course in either pharmacology, physiology, or statistics, and do well in the class. This will do several things for you. 1. More experience simply makes you a better and stronger candidate. 2. Doing well in a grad level class makes you a better and stronger candidate. 3. If you do well, there are far, far more schools open to you as viable options. 4. If you do poorly, you have saved yourself 100K in debt, and quitting a job, and possibly moving all for no good reason.
Good Luck.

This is not necessarily true and I would just apply and see. All that can happen is you not get an interview this time and do like the above poster stated for next year. I had similar stats but I interview extremely well and was offered a spot in my interview for a school with high board pass rates and small class size. I say go for it...you have nothing to lose.

murse619 · Jul 18, 2016

I know somebody who had similar stats to you and got into school this past year.. Trust me, where there is a will, there is definitely a way! Good luck!