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keatonhoyle

31 Posts

Specializes in Cardiac/Medical ICU.

Hey everyone!

My name is Keaton Hoyle and I am going to be in your class as well!! I grew up in Richmond and went to VCU for Nursing...let me know if you guys have questions...which I am sure are plenty.

A couple things - the best place to park for school is the 8th St. Deck. You can get a parking pass for something like $150 per semester, or pay 3.50 per day and its about a 5 -7 minute walk to class, and even a little shorter to the hospital. When we do clinicals at the local hospitals not named VCU - Henrico doctors' (where i work now), chippenham, johnston willis, etc... parking will be free and easy as those are all in the suburbs.

A little background on places to live - In the downtown area it's divided up into basically three major areas, The Fan, the Bottom, and Church Hill. Well, and Oregon Hill. You can also go a little farther west to the Museum district and the near west end.

The Fan - The Fan is west of the hospital and it's mostly really charming row houses that are built 1875-1950's. They are older, larger, and moderately priced. Best bet in the Fan is to shack up with a roomate or two because these houses are mostly 3-4 bedroom, but there are smaller ones. You're just going to have to pay for it

The Bottom - The bottom is near where all the bars are and a lot of restaurants and everything. Mostly here it's apartments and you'll pay more per square foot but the places are smaller than the Fan. A lot of it is old factories that they've converted into apartments. You may hear people talking about safety, but other than the occasional car being broke into (which still is rare anymore) it's not a bad place to live at all.

Church hill - Church Hill is going to be your cheapest downtown option, and includes really old row houses that are more wooden style 1900's whereas the fan is more brick and masonry. Church Hill became the ghetto for quite sometime but is now coming back pretty strong with VCU / MCV students and a lot of people renovating. As long as you stay south of say...clay st and no farther west than Chimborazo park. If you have kids I would not recommend this area.

Oregon hill - Oregon hill is south of the financial district (kind of in between the medical center and the fan). It is in the middle of a major renovation - lots of people renovating very old early 1900's housing. If you can find a recently renovated house for rent this is an awesome spot to live..it's near the river, a couple blocks from the recently built VCU gym (which is awesome!) on cary st, near class (you can ride your bike to class in 5-10 mins), and you can get a great deal on rent. I definitely recommend Oregon hill IF you can find a nice place. It's hit or miss.

so those are the closest places to live near school.

If you want to live in a more suburbial and cheaper area and willing to make the commute, I would recommend not going south (where i grew up ) because of toll roads and its VERY ghetto just south of the city.. I would recommend near west end, forest hill park/westover hills, lakeside/staples mill, anywhere in the west end, or mechanicsville. I don't know much about mechanicsville because I never go up that way, I've always lived in the southside or west end.

Anyway I hope you guys find this helpful and I can't wait meet everyone!

Hey keaton you found us! !! I am oh to dream on the other board.

We are looking at north chesterfield and commuting in on surface streets . They seem to have more house s avail, we were originally looking at mechanicsville but not a lot avail.

Hoping to either bus or get dropped off....

Msnurse29

2 Posts

Hello cli632, congratulations to you and all other students who were able to get into VCU 2013 CRNA program. I am also trying to get into the same program for next year. Can you all please provide little more information about how you all prepared for your GRE and also your interview experience? Did your boss create trouble giving recommendation letter? Did you have to do CCRN? Any information will be helpful to reach my goal. Thanks in advance.

Hello cli632, congratulations to you and all other students who were able to get into VCU 2013 CRNA program. I am also trying to get into the same program for next year. Can you all please provide little more information about how you all prepared for your GRE and also your interview experience? Did your boss create trouble giving recommendation letter? Did you have to do CCRN? Any information will be helpful to reach my goal. Thanks in advance.

Hi!

I bought a gre review book and studied.

I had no issues in getting letters of recommendation.

Yes I did ccrn.

Interview was great, 3 separate ones. No seriously awful grilling. They do have a test you take.

Good luck! I have a co-worker applying for next year as well

keatonhoyle

31 Posts

Specializes in Cardiac/Medical ICU.
Hello cli632, congratulations to you and all other students who were able to get into VCU 2013 CRNA program. I am also trying to get into the same program for next year. Can you all please provide little more information about how you all prepared for your GRE and also your interview experience? Did your boss create trouble giving recommendation letter? Did you have to do CCRN? Any information will be helpful to reach my goal. Thanks in advance.

I bought the Princeton Review Book and literally went through the entire thing for about 3-4 weeks of total studying. I think I ended up buying some of the other subject specific GRE books as well just for practice questions. I focused zero time on the writing section and mostly the math.

I went into the interview cold, with no preparation other than writing down questions I wanted to ask.

It was VERY relaxed, i interviewed at 2 other schools (rush and oakland) and VCU was the best interview by far. you do take a written exam but if you pass CCRN it's a lot more basic.

I did CCRN, CMC, TNCC, NRP, ACLS, PALS.

My boss is awesome and she did not give me any trouble, i also got rec's from my CNO, a co worker, and an intensivist that i work with.

Feel free to PM if you have more questions or want more details.

keatonhoyle

31 Posts

Specializes in Cardiac/Medical ICU.
Hey keaton you found us! !! I am oh to dream on the other board.

We are looking at north chesterfield and commuting in on surface streets . They seem to have more house s avail, we were originally looking at mechanicsville but not a lot avail.

Hoping to either bus or get dropped off....

What streets are you talking about when you say north chesterfield?/

What streets are you talking about when you say north chesterfield?/

Mountain pine terrace?

bellbrook drive house doesn't look good...

tower hill road in powhatan looks a little far unless I cough up money for the tolls...

thorington dr?

blind trap lane...

kempwood ct

white cedar ct

those types that I see right now...

basically anything on craigslist when I put in chesterfield that is a house...

wow I guess you might be able to scope some places out for me!!!

keatonhoyle

31 Posts

Specializes in Cardiac/Medical ICU.

those areas are fine just remember that they're a solid 25 minutes from VCU plus tolls.

Mountain pine terrace?

bellbrook drive house doesn't look good...

tower hill road in powhatan looks a little far unless I cough up money for the tolls...

thorington dr?

blind trap lane...

kempwood ct

white cedar ct

those types that I see right now...

basically anything on craigslist when I put in chesterfield that is a house...

wow I guess you might be able to scope some places out for me!!!

kelstep

4 Posts

Hi everyone, I will also be joining you this August!

- Kelly

kelstep

4 Posts

Hey, I also was at the November 1st interview! ....I was the one who was late. :( Lol.

-Kelly

those areas are fine just remember that they're a solid 25 minutes from VCU plus tolls.

I drive twice that to get to work so I thought it was decent!

How are the tolls anyway? They are bad here, 3-7 bucks each way over the lake...

hi kelstep! I was the last to arrive in my group and they were all staring at me, but I was still 5 minutes early. I had a current student pick me up and drop me at the door so it was nice.

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