Concordia Irvine ABSN Fall 2011

SandyMickey · Jun 21, 2011

Hey guys!
I also received an email invitation to Thursday's 6/23 interview last week. If anybody knows the answer to some of these quick technical questions, please let me know! What's the format of the interview? According to CUI's website, it seems like a "group" interview, but does this mean all the interviewees are being interviewed together in the same room? Seems less personal. :/ Also, they ask you to bring a "passport-sized color picture" (with our name on the back) that's exactly 2x2? Are we just supposed to print out a 2x2 picture of our face if we don't have a passport? Never heard of this before. Hope to hear from someone soon! Thank you!!

I've also heard it is group interview, but not sure exactly how it goes. For the passport-sized color picture, you can just go to like a 1hr photo place or even like kinkos or where they process passports (even the library or post office) and have them take a picture of you that is for a passport. You don't have to actually get a passport, but just take the pictures required to get one. We did this a few years back with my little ones to get their photos. I think costco even does it in an hour. I'm sure it's just to attach a picture of us to our application? It kind of reminds me of auditions. I work at Disneyland as a parade performer and they always take a polaroid of us and attach it to our availability sheet so that when the choreographers are casting shows they can remember the face to their notes they wrote down. I can't believe the interview is in 2 days! I'm so excited yet nervous all at the same time :yeah:

dche3 · Jun 21, 2011

Does anyone know if there is only 1 interview day?? So far, everyone who has replied to this tread only mentioned that they are in the June 23rd interview.

SandyMickey · Jun 22, 2011

Does anyone know if there is only 1 interview day?? So far, everyone who has replied to this tread only mentioned that they are in the June 23rd interview.

I don't know? I know that last time they interviewed on 2 different Saturdays? When I went to their Open House they mentioned that less people apply for this term than the last one they just had. So maybe they were able to squeeze everyone into just one day? I'm curious too

LCorrea · Jun 22, 2011

Hello!
I also received an invitation for an interview this Thursday...CONGRATS to everyone else:) I was just wondering what year everyone else got their bachelor's degree?

Hi! i actually just graduated this May with a BA in human development with a concentration in Health Services... I chose to do this route rather then do a ton of internship hours for the regular nursing programs.. what about you?

Ijul · Jun 22, 2011

Hi everyone,

I wish I had found this forum before. But anyways I have been invited to the interview on June 23rd as well (tomorrow). I am so excited to meet you all guys. This is my second time applying to Concordia, so I just keep my fingers crossed. Does anyone has a foreign degree?

See you tomorrow.

Passionate-RN-to-be · Jun 23, 2011

Hi everyone,
I wish I had found this forum before. But anyways I have been invited to the interview on June 23rd as well (tomorrow). I am so excited to meet you all guys. This is my second time applying to Concordia, so I just keep my fingers crossed. Does anyone has a foreign degree?
See you tomorrow.

It was so nice to meet with you today! I wish you all the best. I would love to keep in touch irrespective of whether we both get accepted :yeah:

God bless you! Big hug :nurse:

SandyMickey · Jun 23, 2011

So I realized this morning that there were AM interviews as well as PM interviews. Mine was at 8a. What time was everyone's interview at? I was curious how late the other one was. I'm glad I got to do it in the morning so I didn't have to think about it all day in anticipation

LCorrea · Jun 25, 2011

So I realized this morning that there were AM interviews as well as PM interviews. Mine was at 8a. What time was everyone's interview at? I was curious how late the other one was. I'm glad I got to do it in the morning so I didn't have to think about it all day in anticipation

yes! i found that out the day of aswell. Mine was in the afternoon, 1:30-5:30pm. no one I spoke with was on this forum ;/ hope we all get in!

SandyMickey · Jun 25, 2011

yes! i found that out the day of aswell. Mine was in the afternoon, 1:30-5:30pm. no one I spoke with was on this forum ;/ hope we all get in!

Oh wow that was right after us then! We were done around 12:45p. So the professors barely got a chance to take a breather and then start all over. How many applicants were in the afternoon? There were 39 in the morning. Some had groups of 6 and some were 7. There were a lot of nice people and my group was fun. We were all kind of rooting for each other. :yeah:

SandyMickey · Jun 25, 2011

It was so nice to meet with you today! I wish you all the best. I would love to keep in touch irrespective of whether we both get accepted
God bless you! Big hug

What group were you in? I was only able to find one other person who was on allnurses.com? I was hoping to meet everyone who's posted on here? Hopefully we will hear soon!

Sundevil2011 · Jun 25, 2011

What group were you in? I was only able to find one other person who was on allnurses.com? I was hoping to meet everyone who's posted on here? Hopefully we will hear soon!

I was in the first group in the morning session. One of the interviewers said they were taking between 30-40 depending on one of their clinical sites. She was saying how they took 40 for the previous cohort and that it's a little overwhelming. I hope they take 40 again though!

Ijul · Jun 25, 2011

It was so nice to meet with you today! I wish you all the best. I would love to keep in touch irrespective of whether we both get accepted
God bless you! Big hug

It was very nice meeting you Passionate_RN- to- be. I wish they accept all of us, all of the applicants are great, I feel really proud that all of us are very passionate about serving others. I wish you the best too. We have our phone numbers, so we will keep in touch.

Have a great weekend!