Florida International University (FIU) CRNA Spring 2024 Start

lilit829, BSN · Feb 22, 2023

Jenna1962 said:

Hey!! What were your stats? Did you have CCRN? GPA? GRE? Thanks!

Hey, I did have ccrn. Did it in January. My GPA was 3.96 for my BSN. They recalculate your science GPA using certain courses (some don't count), I'm not even sure how much I had but probably in the 3.55 range. My GRE I did it around mid March. I was worried with the timing since it takes two weeks to deliver but you just need to do it before the application deadline. I got a 317. My letters of rec were from my manager and from one of the intensivist supervisors. The interview was honestly super chill. They did not grill me like I heard UM did to some of their applicants. Mostly personality questions and one super simple case scenario. Nothing more. Like I told someone else it's pretty down to the numbers.

twntrbo15 · Feb 23, 2023

lilit829 said:

Hi! So far it's OK. Really not as difficult as I thought (lots of reading) but we've made up a good system for dividing it amongst some of my classmates. It's pretty much busywork classes at this point—research, basic patho/pharm. patho and pharm are interesting but they're not focused towards anesthesia at all, so IDK how helpful they're going to be in the future. Right now it's all online but next semester we already start going on campus, once a week.

That's great to hear! I'm currently taking a patho refresher course since it's been awhile haha

How was the interview process?

FIUSRNA26, ASN, BSN · Feb 23, 2023

lilit829 said:

Hey, I did have ccrn. Did it in January. My GPA was 3.96 for my BSN. They recalculate your science GPA using certain courses (some don't count), I'm not even sure how much I had but probably in the 3.55 range. My GRE I did it around mid March. I was worried with the timing since it takes two weeks to deliver but you just need to do it before the application deadline. I got a 317. My letters of rec were from my manager and from one of the intensivist supervisors. The interview was honestly super chill. They did not grill me like I heard UM did to some of their applicants. Mostly personality questions and one super simple case scenario. Nothing more. Like I told someone else it's pretty down to the numbers.

Thank you so much. Do you feel like they give you enough money to be able to both pay for school and be able to maintain a life without working? That's one of my main concerns as well.

lilit829, BSN · Feb 23, 2023

Jenna1962 said:

Thank you so much. Do you feel like they give you enough money to be able to both pay for school and be able to maintain a life without working? That's one of my main concerns as well.

They let us take out the max for the direct grad loans. I think this semester it was like 22,000 and tuition was around 12,000. So you get like 10,000 for the semester if you choose to max out the loan.

twntrbo15 said:

That's great to hear! I'm currently taking a patho refresher course since it's been awhile haha

How was the interview process?

Interview was really chill. We had an info session on zoom and then broke off to different meeting rooms. It was a panel with 3 professors. Like I said before, wayyyy chiller than I expected. One case scenario and like 4/5 personality questions. Took like 10/12 minutes.

twntrbo15 · Feb 23, 2023

lilit829 said:

Interview was really chill. We had an info session on zoom and then broke off to different meeting rooms. It was a panel with 3 professors. Like I said before, wayyyy chiller than I expected. One case scenario and like 4/5 personality questions. Took like 10/12 minutes.

That's good to hear. I know a lot of interviews can be really intimidating, so this probably helps with the overall interview process and getting to know the candidate vs grilling them about clinical knowledge

lilit829, BSN · Feb 23, 2023

twntrbo15 said:

That's good to hear. I know a lot of interviews can be really intimidating, so this probably helps with the overall interview process and getting to know the candidate vs grilling them about clinical knowledge

Yeah that's their vibe. You wouldn't say the interview makes your acceptance but it can definitely make your denial. In the sense, it won't make a difference unless they see sense you really wouldn't be a good fit in the program. So just don't be too crazy and you're good. They really focus on grades, gre, ccrn etc

antsrt4, BSN · Mar 6, 2023

Hello all...I'm submitting pretty late into the cycle but received a personal email that they are waiving the GRE for this application cycle. Best of luck to everyone else. I scored a 294 and can't seem to get it past this score. Who else is applying this late into the cycle?

twntrbo15 · Mar 6, 2023

antsrt4 said:

Hello all...I'm submitting pretty late into the cycle but received a personal email that they are waiving the GRE for this application cycle. Best of luck to everyone else. I scored a 294 and can't seem to get it past this score. Who else is applying this late into the cycle?

Oh really?! I wonder if that correlates with the NursingCAS application for FIU as well.

Kyetta208 · Mar 13, 2023

Hi. Does any one know how long after application closes you hear back for an interview?

lilit829, BSN · Mar 13, 2023

Kyetta208 said:

Hi. Does any one know how long after application closes you hear back for an interview?

Hi, I think last year we did not hear back until late April, the interviews were done throughout May. Final decision was sent back to us late May (about a month after we heard about interviews).

twntrbo15 · Mar 18, 2023

Did any of you receive any type of confirmation from FIU after completing the application through NursingCAS?

FIUSRNA26, ASN, BSN · Mar 18, 2023

twntrbo15 said:

Did any of you receive any type of confirmation from FIU after completing the application through NursingCAS?

I believe that I did