Fall 2017:UT Health Science Center Houston

ldickerson · Jun 1, 2017

You're right, Brandon. For me, I think that being able to see that others' stats are all over the spectrum whether waitlisted, accepted, or denied kind of helps solidify the fact that everything is random, and that actually makes me feel a lot better about it - as weird as it may sound. But you make a good point - none of it matters.

Carmona, it focused MAINLY on A&P, but a small portion of it was focused on scientific reasoning (know the steps), chemical equations and the types (decomp, redox, etc), triple-balance-beam and how to read it and why it's used (which I've actually never learned...), definitely know organelles and their functions, know genes vs genotype vs phenotype and punnett squares and Mendelian genetics. If you do the practice tests on the ati test, they very much cover almost everything on the test. The practice tests in the books go over anything they may have missed. I pretty much just read all of the science practice questions everywhere and that really helped me prepare for that portion.

ldickerson · Jun 1, 2017

Also! If you google "TEAS 6 Advice (Questions Welcome)" on allnurses, someone has put up a great list of what to study. That helped me a lot, too!

rnstudentcarmona · Jun 1, 2017

Also! If you google "TEAS 6 Advice (Questions Welcome)" on allnurses, someone has put up a great list of what to study. That helped me a lot, too!

Thank you both for the info. Shooting for that 97!

CesarJunior23 · Jun 1, 2017

Hey y'all, new to the forum but I've been reading since the beginning. I was also waitlisted and I'm just wondering if anybody has heard anything back?

A.mariiieee · Jun 1, 2017

Can those that have been waitlisted share their stats please

rnhopeful22 · Jun 2, 2017

Hello everyone,

I officially just got denied at 5:30 pm. My overall undergraduate GPA is a 3.9, my nursing prerequisite GPA is a 3.8 and my prerequisite science GPA is a 3.6.

My HESI overall was a 95 and I also have a Bachelor of Science in Health from Texas A&M. I'm honestly so shocked and in disbelief.

Congrats to everyone that got accepted!

Sarah1984 · Jun 2, 2017

Hello everyone,
I officially just got denied at 5:30 pm. My overall undergraduate GPA is a 3.9, my nursing prerequisite GPA is a 3.8 and my prerequisite science GPA is a 3.6.
My HESI overall was a 95 and I also have a Bachelor of Science in Health from Texas A&M. I'm honestly so shocked and in disbelief.
Congrats to everyone that got accepted![/QUOT
Your stats are amazing and that just shows us how they are not selecting students based on grades. It really does look like they use a lottery selection which is really unfair.

Sarah1984 · Jun 2, 2017

Hello everyone,
I officially just got denied at 5:30 pm. My overall undergraduate GPA is a 3.9, my nursing prerequisite GPA is a 3.8 and my prerequisite science GPA is a 3.6.
My HESI overall was a 95 and I also have a Bachelor of Science in Health from Texas A&M. I'm honestly so shocked and in disbelief.
Congrats to everyone that got accepted!

I also got my denial at 5:30, it seems they send out those denials the same time every time . I received my My last two denials at 5:30. Seems like an automated email is sent out to everyone that didn't get in at once

annacharris · Jun 2, 2017

This may sound crazy, but I can't help but wonder if having a previous degree does absolutely nothing because I have seen some people with incredible stats, better than mine and they did not get in and I did. I just keep noticing it come up that people with nearly perfect scores and a precious degree get denied. But I also agree with Brandon, it definitely seems more random than just grades but there has to be more to it. I cannot imagine a school would just pick names out of a hat. But anyways, I wish the best of luck to everyone and look forward to meeting some of you this semester.

rnstudentcarmona · Jun 2, 2017

In regards to seemingly randomness, I appreciated the story about the one candidate that got waitlisted one semester and then denied the next.

stacyrox1 · Jun 3, 2017

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jdskaggs88 · Jun 3, 2017

Hello everyone,
I officially just got denied at 5:30 pm. My overall undergraduate GPA is a 3.9, my nursing prerequisite GPA is a 3.8 and my prerequisite science GPA is a 3.6.
My HESI overall was a 95 and I also have a Bachelor of Science in Health from Texas A&M. I'm honestly so shocked and in disbelief.
Congrats to everyone that got accepted!

Wow, this is pretty insane. It's hard to believe that someone with these stats would get denied and people whose stats aren't nearly as impressive get in (not to take away from anyone who did get in at all). Thats good news for any of us with lower stats but discouraging for people who have higher ones. I mean, has anyone ever thought about any other aspects of the application? Like, people who may of worked full-time while going to school? Or something else? I don't know. It more than likely is a lottery system. That would make sense. You have all these people that either slightly exceed or significantly exceed the requirements which would mean we are all qualified and deserving of getting into the program. If you look at the time frame that people started seeing a change in their status (like the yellow triangle to green circle) to the time we started receiving acceptances, waitlists and denials you would notice it all happened really quickly. Maybe that's some indication on how they make their admissions decisions. Anyway, moving forward to next semester. Good luck to everyone applying for Spring 2018. At least we know what to expect (or not expect) next time.