I'm looking for information on Graduate entry Nursing schools without GRE requirements. I am a Senior in college and my Major is Bachelor of Arts in History & social Science with a Double Minor in Public Health and Asian Studies. I am looking for a Graduate entry Nurse Practitioner school that dose not Require GRE exam. I'm due to Graduate in May of 2016. I am looking for in the East Coast no further than Texas.
About myself, I am a practicing EMT and have been an EMT since 1998. I'm also an Intersex/DSD person who has Kallmann's syndrome and is being taken cared of by a Nurse Practitioner. I'm from Connecticut as well.
If you have less than a 3.2, you will have to take the GRE...there's pretty much no way around not having a BSN either...that's a requirement for their MSN programs.
Sounds like you have great ideas and goals in mind. I would suggest writing them out and figuring out how to achieve each goal and in which order. I believe taking the GRE will only minorly compare to the workload and tests in a master's program. I can only cringe at the amount of pharmacology involved. Eek.
If you have less than a 3.2, you will have to take the GRE...there's pretty much no way around not having a BSN either...that's a requirement for their MSN programs.
Their New Program at Thomas Jefferson University is called FACT - 1 year & FACT - 2 year.
Sounds like you have great ideas and goals in mind. I would suggest writing them out and figuring out how to achieve each goal and in which order. I believe taking the GRE will only minorly compare to the workload and tests in a master's program. I can only cringe at the amount of pharmacology involved. Eek.
For me, I'm not that great at taking timed test. Most of my exams in college were research papers and very few test. Even those were not timed and I can take as much time I needed. My last Math class was a Stats class. I know I can take the GRE, but i'm just scared of the GRE. I can deal with an EMT exam no problem.
I have no idea why you're scared of the GRE. Didn't you have to take PSATs, SATs, and other standardized tests as you came along? I certainly did, and I found that my scores were about the same in all of them, all the way through the GREs. It's not a lot different.
Go down to the bookstore and pick up a few of those big fat review books, look through them, and stop telling yourself you're scared. You don't have to be, you know.
I have no idea why you're scared of the GRE. Didn't you have to take PSATs, SATs, and other standardized tests as you came along? I certainly did, and I found that my scores were about the same in all of them, all the way through the GREs. It's not a lot different.
Go down to the bookstore and pick up a few of those big fat review books, look through them, and stop telling yourself you're scared. You don't have to be, you know.
I never took the SAT. I took the ACT and scored a 21 on the ACT. I simply have test anxiety.
I never took the SAT. I took the ACT and scored a 21 on the ACT. I simply have test anxiety.
Nursing has all kinds of scary milestones and challenges to meet. The first year out of nursing school, I did a critical care internship and was eventually thrown out of the nest to practice on my own. I felt sick to my stomach every day for a year, terrified of my own incompetence. But I met the challenges and became quite a good nurse. You can master that exam. If you do, a world of possibilities opens up. If you don't, you're not in any different position than you are right now. What do you have to lose?
For me, I'm not that great at taking timed test. Most of my exams in college were research papers and very few test. Even those were not timed and I can take as much time I needed. My last Math class was a Stats class. I know I can take the GRE, but i'm just scared of the GRE. I can deal with an EMT exam no problem.
Nursing school is a lot of tests. And all of them are timed. We are given 4 exams plus a final in the first theory class. 50 question - 65 minutes. I think you need to re evaluate your plans if you don't wanna take tests. Nursing isn't liberal arts.
Nursing school is a lot of tests. And all of them are timed. We are given 4 exams plus a final in the first theory class. 50 question - 65 minutes. I think you need to re evaluate your plans if you don't wanna take tests. Nursing isn't liberal arts.
I agree. Nursing school involves a LOT of timed tests. If avoiding these is a top factor for a person, nursing school is just not the right path.
Being an EMT gives you some skills. Being a patient at NIH gives you perspective. Both will give you adequate material to write a good admissions essay.
I have a Nurse Practitioner who is also a clinical instructor for Yale Univ school of Nursing. She told me because of my Rare genetic Medical condition, being and EMT and have been a Patient at the National Institutes of health. That I stand a good chance of getting an Interview for Nursing school because the fact that I have a rare genetic medical condition, being a practicing EMT, I go to NIH in Bethesda, MD alot and Mass General Hospital. I get used alot as a lab rat by my Nurse Practitioner cause of my rare genetic condition.
I have seen Nurse's at NIH, who would make Nurse look like an amateur. The Nurse's at NIH that I worked and taught me alot about nursing are those who have NP, CNL degrees and some are from the Dept of Defense & US Public Health Service. Those Nurse's told me which schools they prefer such as Thomas Jefferson University, University of Maryland & even Georgetown Univ.
LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN
8,429 Posts
TJU allows students whose GPA is 3.2 and above to not take the GRE:
Graduate Nursing Admission Requirements - Thomas Jefferson University - Thomas Jefferson University
If you have less than a 3.2, you will have to take the GRE...there's pretty much no way around not having a BSN either...that's a requirement for their MSN programs.