UF Accelerated BSN - May 2010 Applicants

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:clown: WELCOME :clown:

If you're applying to the University of Florida's May 2010 accelerated BSN program in Gainesville (aka class of 2011), this thread's for you! Applicants, current students, and alumni are all welcome to the discussion!

For starters, here is the program's website:

http://con.ufl.edu/prospective/prospective_accelerated_bsn_home.shtml

Looking forward to meeting more of you on here!

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Specializes in Peds OR as RN, Peds ENT as NP.

Thank you so much for clearing everything up. I love this website!

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Always happy to help.

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Always happy to help.

Mr.Foote, can we go to your office tomorrow to pick up the letter? Next week is spring break, it will be relieved that we can get the news before the break.

Thank you!

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Blink - I know you addressed your question to Mr. Foote...but since it is 9pm I doubt he saw your question, so I am hoping that you don't mind if I answer it for you... I was at the College of Nursing today so I dropped by just to ask if picking it up tomorrow was allowed (since I am officially on spring break I didn't want to make a trip to campus tomorrow if it wasn't possible) and I was told that there will be nothing ready to be picked up tomorrow. I am sorry - because I know we are all ready to rip our hair out from stress. Anyway - just didnt want you to make an unnecessary trip to campus tomorrow.

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Blink - I know you addressed your question to Mr. Foote...but since it is 9pm I doubt he saw your question, so I am hoping that you don't mind if I answer it for you... I was at the College of Nursing today so I dropped by just to ask if picking it up tomorrow was allowed (since I am officially on spring break I didn't want to make a trip to campus tomorrow if it wasn't possible) and I was told that there will be nothing ready to be picked up tomorrow. I am sorry - because I know we are all ready to rip our hair out from stress. Anyway - just didnt want you to make an unnecessary trip to campus tomorrow.

Thank U VERY MUCH! I am starting to pack now and leave this town tomorrow morning. Have a good break, everyone.

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Does anyone know how much tuition will cost for the accelerated nursing program at UF? specifically in-state tuition? thanks!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU.

In-state tuition for the ABSN is just standard undergrad tuition (well, except for the grad credits, which are what, 15 of them?). It just went up to about $145 a credit hour for undergrad, $394 a credit hour for grad. All the ABSN pages are down from the website right now (I guess now that applications are all in, they're doing their revisions of the program for next year) but assuming 45 undergrad and 15 grad, which a lot of programs seem to be, it'd be $12,435 or somewhere in that immediate ballpark.

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i just wanted to say good luck to all the applicants!!! i'm a current absn student and remember the stress and excitement i felt a year ago waiting for my letter. i'm sorry i didn't return earlier to share some insight. however, if there are any remaining questions or if anyone will be new to town, let me know. i'd be happy to help however i can.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
In-state tuition for the ABSN is just standard undergrad tuition (well, except for the grad credits, which are what, 15 of them?). It just went up to about $145 a credit hour for undergrad, $394 a credit hour for grad. All the ABSN pages are down from the website right now (I guess now that applications are all in, they're doing their revisions of the program for next year) but assuming 45 undergrad and 15 grad, which a lot of programs seem to be, it'd be $12,435 or somewhere in that immediate ballpark.

Might be different for you guys, but we only had to take two grad classes, I think. I think both are three credits, so only about 6 credits total. Much cheaper that way! UF's standard cost breakdown is here: http://www.sfa.ufl.edu/apply/coa.html

Good luck to everyone waiting! Less than a week til most of you find out. You'll be started and almost done before you know it.

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Specializes in Peds OR as RN, Peds ENT as NP.

I will be new to town! I look on craigslist and other websites for housing advice but I am waiting on the acceptance decision to really focus my attention on that and finding a PRN job. I was reading that some apartment complexes have frequent robberies, rapes, etc. I would like to stay away from all that even if that means it takes me forever to find a parking spot when coming to class. There is always the bus also.

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Sam - if you get in you could probably stay the night at the house of one of the other girls that gets in and that already lives here so you can look around town and make a decision actually based on seeing the place. I have lived in Gainesville for 4 years and can also help you out with information... I have never lived in an apartment complex in town though, so I can really only help you by telling you about the part of town it is in, rather than the place itself. People will probably disagree with me, but I think a general rule of a place to live that is not too far away from anything is to stay in the teens or less when looking at street and ave numbers. Then you are near midtown, downtown, campus, etc. (for example, I live on 9th and 6th, I am about a mile from downtown, two miles from midtown, and 3 miles from Shands/College of Nursing) there are a lot of places to live within those parameters that are safe to live in. Gainesville kind of just has a few random streets scattered here and there that feel a little unsafe, rather than one huge area to avoid.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
I will be new to town! I look on craigslist and other websites for housing advice but I am waiting on the acceptance decision to really focus my attention on that and finding a PRN job. I was reading that some apartment complexes have frequent robberies, rapes, etc. I would like to stay away from all that even if that means it takes me forever to find a parking spot when coming to class. There is always the bus also.

Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to find a place to couchsurf for a night or two while you're looking. I've never found anything on Craigslist, but there is a free service called Apartment Hunters that can help you find places to look. If you're in town, you might want to also wander through the nursing building/health library and look at the boards-I've seen lots of pharm/nursing/med students looking for roommates for cheap and close to campus.

My experience is that crime is really not too much of a problem in areas where students tend to live. I live a couple miles from campus on the 35 bus route (straight to school/Shands), and pretty much all of the complexes on this route are nice but inexpensive student places.

I would really recommend against driving to campus. For one, the farther away you are from campus, the easier it is to confuse the cheap student apartments with the cheap sketchy apartments. For another, parking is really bad. REALLY. And we don't qualify for any of the good parking lots; you would probably end up in the Park and Ride lot....which is quite far and quite a pain. Much better just to be on one of the bus routes and take the bus to campus if you can!

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