EMORY ABSN+MSN 2018

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So I decided to start a thread for the Fall 2018. Any current/prospective student on here? What GPA did you have when you applied and how competitive is the selection process? If you don't mind sharing your work experience and GRE score, that will be awesome. For those who are enrolled, do you mind sharing your experience?

Thanks guys! I applied for Pediatrics. I was really surprised when I got the call I figured they were going to say there was something I had not completed or something!

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Yay!! Congrats!

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Did anyone from FNP specialty get their accepetence letter? And don't you have to take an interview before you are accepted? I am so confused

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Did anyone from FNP specialty get their accepetence letter? And don't you have to take an interview before you are accepted? I am so confused

Hey @kevinm23,

From my understanding there are no formal interviews unless the admissions committe requests one from you. I believe the same goes for recommendations.

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Agree with nurseB_2NP about no interviews

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Congratulations!

Does anyone know if you're still a competitive applicant if your prereqs are still in progress but will be done by May?

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
Congratulations!

Does anyone know if you're still a competitive applicant if your prereqs are still in progress but will be done by May?

I'm not sure about Emory but other schools have told me that having your pre-reqs in progress doesn't affect your competitiveness as a candidate. The only difference is that your acceptance is conditional until you send them updated transcripts showing that you have passed your outstanding courses.

The only other thing that might make people more competitive is if you are from the same state as the school you are applying for since nursing schools want to graduate students that will practice in the state where they went for their nursing degree and hopefully stay in the area. Probably not true for all schools but there is a preference given for those students.

From my understanding, most schools will accept students by specialty and you can get an earlier admittance if the selection committee for the specialty that you applied to has started to meet and started to accept applicants. My pre-reqs haven't even been checked off yet so I assume that my specialty hasn't met and hasn't reviewed my application yet. I believe higher priority is also given to students who graduated from Emory as well as those that have already gone through their BSN program. My best guess is that the people that were already accepted had a combination of some of the above points that were in their favor since officially the notification of acceptance is Nov 15th for the ABSN/MSN program according to their website.

I probably got a few things wrong so please help to add any points of clarification if I made to many assumptions. Always open to hearing another point of view.

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Thanks for that quick response. I'm local to ATL, so we'll see. Just anxious to know!

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
Thanks for that quick response. I'm local to ATL, so we'll see. Just anxious to know!

No problem! Which specialty did you apply for?

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FNP. You?

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
FNP. You?

Then you probably will find out earlier then me. Just from looking at the 2017 threads, FNP acceptances by students were earlier then the ones for CNM. I didn't even see any CNM acceptance announcements from the applicants until end of Oct so I expect I need to wait longer before I know whether I was accepted or not.

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i got the call on friday, and was accepted for FNP!

What were your stats?

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