Holy Family University Spring 2019

[Dkg818]

I haven't seen a thread for the Holy Family University Spring 2019 cohort yet, so I wanted to make one! Has anyone applied and been accepted yet? Or waiting to hear back? This is for the fast-track 2nd degree program!

[alyssawentz33]

Thank you!! I appreciate your help!

[rinrin13, BSN, RN]

On 3/7/2019 at 4:45 PM, alyssawentz33 said:

@rinrin13 sorry for all the questions, but can you possibly estimate how much you spent on books+other supplies needed?

Hi, no worries, I don't mind the questions! I bought all used books except for one for the course Medical-Surgical Nursing since we had 3 semesters of this class which was like $130 when I bought it but all my used books were like $10 each so I spent max $200 for all my textbooks. Honestly some textbooks weren't even opened since the exams go off the powerpoints more. I didn't read out of the textbook much, only for classes where I didn't understand something. Most professors also allowed the use of older editions as well

[rinrin13, BSN, RN]

Also, I really want to emphasize the extraneous cost of compliance which is basically background checks, vaccinations, and titers. They make you pay for it all yourself and don't tell you about it until orientation! It was a surprise to me when I already budgeted my tuition to have this extraneous fee thrown at me. And again when you're 2 months away from graduating they make you re-fingerprint and redo your background check and pay for it all again. It was ridiculous and all those expenses came out to $500.

[Future RN1]

Hello everyone,

Can someone create a Facebook group for the the class starting April 2019?

I think it will be very helpful to share class work and get to know each other.

[MariaT423]

On 3/7/2019 at 6:13 PM, Msjj said:

The email from @rinrin13 is below with details regarding Holy Family. I hope this answers everyone questions ?

The true cost of this program comes out to around 35k in tuition. Obviously, you have to pay for all books etc yourself and background checks/fingerprinting/titers you have to pay yourself as well, so I would say extra expenses came out to $1000 extra.

The schedule keeps changing for classes, in the beginning, I had class Mon-Wednesday and lab for 4 hours Thursday and Friday and no clinical (in the first block). The MedSurg II block had class Monday & Tuesday (8am-4pm) and clinical Wednesday & Thursday for 12 hours each day. And most of the blocks after MedSurg were class Monday & Tuesday 8am-4pm and clinical any of day of the week for 12 hours.

When I applied, I had a science GPA of 3.70 and an overall 3.80, but there were a lot of students in my class who got in with lower GPAs around 3.2-3.3.

Just to go off this it really depends on each semester. My cohort had med surg 2 clinicals Saturday Sunday 12h each. Basically your clinical day can be any day of the week besides Monday and Tuesday which is when you have class. Our community rotation was also two days but only for 6 hours.