BSHP San Antonio: Spring 2020 (baptist school of health professions)

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Anyone applying to BSHP San Antonio for Spring 2020? I'm already nervous waiting for acceptance emails to go out & the deadline hasn't even passed lol

Any idea on how willing they are to extend the deadline to accept or decline admission?

9 minutes ago, Cmac17 said:

Any idea on how willing they are to extend the deadline to accept or decline admission?

Zero willingness lol If you miss the deadline, your application will not be considered. They get 250+ applicants each cycle and only accept about 75-90 seats. I mean, possibly if they didn’t have enough applicants to fill seats for a given cycle. But that’s unlikely.

17 minutes ago, Cmac17 said:

Any idea on how willing they are to extend the deadline to accept or decline admission?

They also have a summer 2020 start date. That deadline is February 1

Sorry, I meant like letting them know if you are planning on attending or not. I’m still waiting on another program but most likely won’t hear back until after Oct 10th which is the deadline they gave me to accept my offer or not.

13 minutes ago, Cmac17 said:

Sorry, I meant like letting them know if you are planning on attending or not. I’m still waiting on another program but most likely won’t hear back until after Oct 10th which is the deadline they gave me to accept my offer or not. It’s a tough one, because if you decline and don’t get into the other program, it’s a loss. But if you accept, but get into the other program, then you are potentially taking a seat from someone else.

Ohhh, okay! Honestly, I’m not sure. They have an alternate list, which is why they want to know who accepts/declines, so they can extend offers for whatever seats they have left! You should definitely email Nancy and ask her. I think she will tell you that you have to give an answer by that date though, just so they can get back to the alternates.

I would imagine you can accept your position but then decline at a later time..... I’m not sure. That’s a good question for Nancy

Did they reply to anyone after y’all accepted your spot??

i replied to the email saying I accept but never got a response saying they received it.

I replied with my acceptance but I didn’t receive any correspondence back.

22 hours ago, apompa said:

I got my acceptance email !!

YAY!!! CONGRATS! i cant wait to start ?

Anyone know where to Buy books needed for a cheaper Price? Currently searching since ill be starting this Summer! ill appreciate a reply.

How is Spring 2020 going due to this pandemic? How much is the RN program? Was it easy to get into the program? How has your first semester been so far? Are you going fulltime or part-time?

Why did you choose this school specifically?

1 hour ago, PrismovingUp said:

How is Spring 2020 going due to this pandemic? How much is the RN program? Was it easy to get into the program? How has your first semester been so far? Are you going fulltime or part-time?

Why did you choose this school specifically?

It's going LOL... we are doing everything online for Commons (med surg 1), which is difficult. They are uploading lectures for us. We use Respondus Lockdown for exams, which is a software that requires a webcam and records you the whole time you take the exam while the professors watch, as well as locks you onto the exam page screen & you are required to show your environment so not cheating can occur. We have been pulled out the hospitals, and are doing vitural simulations online for clinicals. They do not anticipate us going back to campus or into hospitals at all this semester which ends on May 1. We will have to makeup some clinical hours because only 50% of clinical hours can be online. Not sure how that will work because I was accepted to accelerate through the Summer, which starts May 4th. There is talk that they possibly may not allow Summer courses, so that all of the students can catch up on their clinical hour for Spring. But nothing is set in stone yet. They will do everything they can to continue with things as planned, but it really depends on what happens with COVID.

Aside from that, Foundations went well for me. It's very difficult at first as they throw so much at you at once. Exam content is crazy, each exam covers so much. Passing is a 76, not a 70, It requires a lot of dedication and studying. It is also a completely different type of learning, NCLEX style questions are terrible as you have to adapt to the application based questions where every answer is correct, but which is MOST correct, as well as select all that apply questions. So yeah, a lot of people cry over exams LOL . I forgot to include that you are pretty much only graded on exams, so you will have about 5 exams each weighing about 20ish% of your grade, give or take a few points because of ATI. For commons we have 4 at 21% and ATI is 16%. In foundations, you have 4 at 24% and 2 projects at 2% each that make up the remaining 4%. You also have a dosage calculations exam every class and you must score a 92% or higher on that. Commons is even worse as far as content. But you just kind of learn to deal with being overwhelmed LOL

The cost of the program is posted on their website, and it depends on what courses you are transferring in. It's 20-30k. I was accepted into the program my first time applying, but I also had a high GPA and good TEAS scores. They told us that they get anywhere from 300-500 applicants each semester, and they generally accept 90 (except in Summer, which is 30). I know several people who applied and did not get in, so just be sure you stand out as an applicant as you are competing with a lot of others. I applied to baptist because

1. Baptist truly offers to best experiences for clinicals. We go to every Baptist hospital in SA and surrounding areas and have "first pick" due to it being directly affiliated with Baptist Health System. I have heard clinical can be a hot mess or a huge miss with a lot of the other schools. Also, they recruit directly from within their program- so you can expect to have a job lined up even before you graduate (obviously dependent upon your own efforts and impressions)

2. It was recommended by several friends who are currently at or have graduated from the program.

3 . I missed the deadline for UTH and I didn't want to wait almost a whole year to start nursing school LOL ideally I wanted to attend a BSN program, but I already have my core classes so I will bridge over once I complete the ADN program.

The RN program is full time only, they do not offer part time. Schedules vary for each class. Usually you will have lecture 2-3 days a week, and then you have clinical either 2 days a week for 6 hours, or 1 day for 12 hours (clinical hours are 6:45-6:45 or 6:45 or 6:45-1:45, though instructors generally require you to be on the floor by 6:15am) We take 4 Classes per semester, except for semesters 2 & 3, because you have to take pharmacology and adaptations. Each class & clinical is 8 weeks, so we have 2, 8 week flex turns per semester- things move very quickly. Each class has 5 exams including ATI, so you can expect to be taking an exam basically every week. And of course you have the clinical course, which includes lots of lab time and skill check offs. You are required to go to your clinal site the afternoon before your shift to get your patient assignment and do your prep work. So I honestly don't see how they could even offer the program part time because it is just a lot.

Hopefully I answered all of your questions!

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