CURRY ACCEL/ tips for getting accepted

Hey Cwhowe,

Welcome to pre-nursing! I am currently a pre-nursing student myself and am waiting to receive an Acceptance/Denial letter sometime next week. It is great that you have decided to come back to school after pursuing a completely different career path initially. I am the same age myself and am also a Post-Bac student, however, I had already taken a majority of the pre-reqs from my prior degree (BS Zoology). ~ Every school's Nursing program is different in terms of what they will require in order to apply (i.e. exact pre-req courses, +/- letter of intent, +/- letters of rec, etc.). I can say that Volunteer work is a great way to show your particular school(s) that you are serious about committing to Nursing, and it shows that you have taken the initiative to get hands-on experience on your own.

At the school I've applied to, I had to first be accepted as a 'pre-nursing' student before I could apply to their BSN program. This weeds out students that have

Currently I Volunteer at 2 different hospitals, am working part time and going to school full time. It's definitely do-able!!! Let me know if you have any other questions!:)

Moved to the Massachusetts State Nursing Programs forum.

Thanks so much for the info walke274. What do you volunteer as at the hospital, I haven't researched too much about hospital volunteering yet but I would suspect they would only let qualified/certified people volunteer at in a hospital setting. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I am a 27yr old who has a double B.A. in Drama and Film/Television. Needless to say, I have to take a lot of pre-reqs before I can apply to the Accel program. For accepted students, do you have any idea what made admissions pick your application? Did you throw in some recommendation letters, do you have a lot of volunteer work?

I'm worried that I won't get accepted because when I apply I will still be working on my pre-reqs, even though they'll be done just as the program starts. Any advice would be greatly apprecieated, thanks!

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Also, any insight on how the program is. I'm not necessarily scientifcally minded but I really want to invest in this new career path. Is anyone able to work AND take classes? Thanks again!

Cwhowe, there's a discussion on the application process for the January 2014 start ACCEL program at Curry: https://allnurses.com/massachusetts-state-nursing/curry-accel-bsn-825135.html. Come to hang out with us! :)