UCF Fall 2011 Hopefuls

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Hello! I am applying for the nursing program at UCF for the Fall of 2011. I am really excited and really hope that I get accepted. Is there anybody else on here that has applied yet or is planning to apply?

whoa false alarm...

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Oh well, i'm not fretting it. The chances of me not getting accepted are pretty slim anyways.

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False alarm is right! LoL

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I spoke with a nursing advisor today to ask her a few questions and one thing that she told me was that we should receive our acceptance emails by April 1st, if not earlier. That is only 10 days away!

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I spoke with a nursing advisor today to ask her a few questions and one thing that she told me was that we should receive our acceptance emails by April 1st, if not earlier. That is only 10 days away!

She didn't happen to say how large the applicant pool was, did she?

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She didn't happen to say how large the applicant pool was, did she?

No. I was just asking about orienatation when she told me about it. I didn't even think to ask her about the application pool.

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Specializes in Surgical ICU, Anesthesia.

Good luck to you all. I graduated UCF's accelerated program August 2009 then went to work in the SICU at an academic hospital in the Mid-Atlantic region. The education that you receive there is on par with very well known private and pedigree universities in the Northeast being that everyone I started with graduated from one. Anyway, good luck. I remember the anxiety surrounding applying to nursing school and I just went through it again with anesthesia school. Keep your heads up. It'll all work out.

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Good luck to you all. I graduated UCF's accelerated program August 2009 then went to work in the SICU at an academic hospital in the Mid-Atlantic region. The education that you receive there is on par with very well known private and pedigree universities in the Northeast being that everyone I started with graduated from one. Anyway, good luck. I remember the anxiety surrounding applying to nursing school and I just went through it again with anesthesia school. Keep your heads up. It'll all work out.

Thank you for the encouragement and congratulations on your graduation. Was the program as difficult as everybody says it is? How are the professors at UCF? Thank you for posting in our thread and good luck in anesthesia school.

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Specializes in Surgical ICU, Anesthesia.
Thank you for the encouragement and congratulations on your graduation. Was the program as difficult as everybody says it is? How are the professors at UCF? Thank you for posting in our thread and good luck in anesthesia school.

The program is manageable. It's difficult because there's a lot of material and it's impossible to learn it all. You'll have to prioritize and develop/enhance time management skills. I remember the first week of class the instructors had assigned a combined reading of approximately 400 pages (impossible for me to read that many pages of nursing textbooks in five days). The takeaway is to work smarter not harder. Nursing school exams don't test to memorization. They test your critical thinking skills. According to one professor, most questions fall within the application and analysis with a few more difficult (syn and eval) of Bloom's Taxonomy. For the most part, the instructors were great. I think there was one instructor who left a lot to be desired, but that's it.

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The program is manageable. It's difficult because there's a lot of material and it's impossible to learn it all. You'll have to prioritize and develop/enhance time management skills. I remember the first week of class the instructors had assigned a combined reading of approximately 400 pages (impossible for me to read that many pages of nursing textbooks in five days). The takeaway is to work smarter not harder. Nursing school exams don't test to memorization. They test your critical thinking skills. According to one professor, most questions fall within the application and analysis with a few more difficult (syn and eval) of Bloom's Taxonomy. For the most part, the instructors were great. I think there was one instructor who left a lot to be desired, but that's it.

I know it will be a lot of work. 400 pages in 5 days is a lot! I guess you just have to be very dedicated. Thank you for sharing with us.

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I am so anxious to find out...I've been totally stalking the mailman lol anyone know if we find out VIA email or regular mail?

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I am so anxious to find out...I've been totally stalking the mailman lol anyone know if we find out VIA email or regular mail?

We are suppose to find out by email. I'm not sure if they send actual letters after that too.

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