After much debating with myself, I went ahead and applied for nursing school for fall semester. I have just got to take microbiology next summer.
I was wondering, how many does your program admit each year? My program (if I get in and I feel confident I will, but will know for sure by the end of next week:roll ) admits 100 in the fall. It does not admit in the spring. Last year, 150 applied, but of course only 100 got in. They go by GPA and how many coreqs completed. I know that last year they took down to a 2.2 average, and I have a 3.5.
They accept 72 a semester (up from 40 last year) and so far around 30, give or take a couple, graduate each semester! :) (in the ASN program)
Believe it or not the other university's RN program in town had empty seats last year! I know they've been advertising quite a bit so I don't know about the coming fall (too expen$ive for me-but a good school!)
My school had over 700 applicants this year for 250 openings. These were all the openings for the LPN, Associates RN, and Bachelors RN. (They had two programs this year- a new one and one they were phasing out.) This area was hit pretty heavily in the last year or two with technology layoffs, so that may have had something to do with the large number of applicants. In the old program, you were ranked based on your grades for the pre-req classes. The new one was based only on your NET score (which was meant to help students coming straight from high school, they weren't required to take any courses before beginning the nursing program.)
this year my school accepted 80 out of the 350 that applied to the BSN program.
They do not focus mainly on GPA though here- you have to have extensive volunteer health experience, multicultural experience, a letter of recommendation from an RN, a personal essay, and sit for a two hour proctored essay. This year the proctored essay question was "here are descriptions for patients a, b, and c. (All are very sick and have various social circumstances- have to be very politically correct in answering!) You can only treat one. Who do you choose and why? "
Lets just say applying was very stressful. But hey, I got in!!!
Our program accepts 160 students and we had over 3000 applicants for the Fall of 2002! My program is a hospital-based diploma program, and they have a tuition benefit reimbursement this year. If you sign a contract to work for them for two years schooling is paid for.
ohhh. I thought about UTA, but I live in N Dallas and that's a LONG drive. I'm going to Collin County. Now I'm wondering if I'll be able to buy my book for this biology class that starts Monday @8am.
I also live in N Dallas, but I'm going to move to Arlington in July. I only have the two years of nursing classes left, and then I'll probably move back to Dallas.
Small world. :) Sorry for the delay, I've been on the other side of FW all day getting my truck out of the shop...FINALLY!
I have to take the gen biol 1406, since I haven't had any bio since high school. I called PJs and the book is $79 and the lab book is about $30...I may have to withdraw for summer I and try summer II because I had to pay the deductible on my truck to get it out of the shop. I'm happy, happy, happy to have my truck back, but sad, sad, sad to postpone the class.
Our school accepts 12 RN students for the 2-year ADN program. I'm not sure how many LPN or LPN-RN transition students ... I think maybe 12 each. You had to have certain pre-reqs completed, take the NLN and score in the 50th percentile or higher (on composite of all), then they took the NLN composite and multiplied it by your GPA in order to rank the candidates.
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They accept 72 a semester (up from 40 last year) and so far around 30, give or take a couple, graduate each semester! :) (in the ASN program)
Believe it or not the other university's RN program in town had empty seats last year! I know they've been advertising quite a bit so I don't know about the coming fall (too expen$ive for me-but a good school!)