Applying to Penn

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Specializes in Emergency ICU,Trauma, Burn ICU.

I'm a nurse with 3 years of trauma and critical care experience and starting burn nursing in july. I am applying to Acute Care NP/CNS programs and have narrowed my choices down to UPenn, Columbia, Yale, NYU and Hunter College (in that order). I want to go to the best program within the Northeast for this specialty.

I am taking the GRE in June to satisfy the requirements to Penn, Columbia and Yale.

My cum GPA is not too shabby (3.2+).

Is it realistic for me to think i can get into these programs? I know NYU and Hunter are a shoe in.

How competitive are ACNP programs? I know CRNA is a whole different ball game.

Any input from current grad students or anyone else applying??

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Specializes in NICU.

I applied to Penn and Columbia, out of your list, no from Penn, went to Columbia. My GPA was a just teensy tich higher than yours, I think maybe 3.3, and I kicked the butt of the GREs. So if you do well on the tests and write a great statement, I think you should at least get into one. Never really bothered to find out why I didn't get into Penn, I just took my luck with Columbia and went with it.

Ooh, I should add that I went to the COMBINED program, BS/MS. I don't know how the straight MSN program compares in terms of admissions.

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Specializes in Emergency ICU,Trauma, Burn ICU.

Thanks, I appreciate the input. I guess i really need to kick some GRE butt :) What is considered a good GRE score for these schools?

How do you like Columbia?

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