Is she trying to intimidate me?

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At one of my class we were told to work in groups. I choose to work with this girl who said she was going into Nursing as well, at the beginning of classes. Anyways, we were talking about the program and she "informed me" that "according to her friend it's a easy program but hard to get in because you need A's and B's ONLY but that I could go to the next town over and their easy to get into but a hard program." I didn't discuss grades with her at all, so I almost feel like she was trying to intimidate me from applying the the program since we'd be going against each other. I really do hate petty BS and it seems as if it's "already begun" *sigh*

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Specializes in Emergency, ICU.

I would say thank you for the information and apply to the harder program. In nursing education you want harder, not easy!

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I would take her comments as just being insecure about her own ability to enter the program. *rolls her eyes* Girls like that make me sick.

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Specializes in Maternity.

I would just ignore her and move on. Don't dwell on petty BS since that can be worse than the person giving you BS.Good luck!

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Specializes in STICU, MICU.

Apply to both. It's hard to get in everywhere, better to have a choice than wait another year.

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She probably sees you as competition, which is actually flattering for you. Don't let her get into your head.

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She probably sees you as competition, which is actually flattering for you. Don't let her get into your head.

THIS. Believe me, from experience. When I was taking AP1, there was five or six girls that were planning on transferring to another school (the school I'm in now) for nursing. Had I stuck with it (kids came along, things went down hill), I would have been competing for a position against all of them.

Now that I'm at the university that has the actual BSN program, I am in classes (AP2, N&D) with probably 40 girls that will be applying for the program for next fall, same time as me. I've heard it all already. "They don't accept guys into the nursing program here [bear in mind that I am male]." "You're not going to have the grades to get accepted." "Have you even taken the TEAS V yet? You have no idea how hard it is to get a good score on that."

Specifically, in my AP2 class, there is a girl that will be applying for the program the same time as me that is trying to psyche me out. Everytime I answer a question from the teacher (which I seem to be the only one answering his questions), she looks back at me and shakes her head. I don't talk very loud and he is hard of hearing, so he doesn't always hear me. It's funny to watch her cocky smile fade when he says exactly what I just said. I have lab with the same girl (lab is available two days a week, half on Tuesdays, half on Thursdays), and she was talking smack to her lab partner about me. I have extremely sensitive hearing, and while she was whispering 15 feet away from me, I heard everything she said. "He's stupid if he thinks he's going to be a nurse. He'll never get into the program. There is no way he'll have a good grade in this class. He doesn't know how Mr. Daniels does class." We were going over the anatmoy of the eye and the teacher got up in front of the class with a model of the eye after giving each of us a copy of the vocabulary. He would point to each anatmoical feature and ask what it was. Every time, I would be the only one to answer. Didn't miss a one.

Okay, long explanation to get to a point. DO NOT let ANYONE intimidate you into not applying for the program where you are if that's where you want to be. Chances are this girl is just self-conscious of her ability to get into the program. HOWEVER, if the program in the next town over is "harder," THAT is the one you need to be applying for. There are three BSN programs within 60 miles of where I live. Two of them have a pass rate of 100%. One has a 25% wash-out rate because the students can't hack it. The teachers are tougher, more demanding, and clinical time is supposedly killer. Take one guess as to which one I am applying for. I WANT my teachers to give me hell. I WANT to get the experince I'll need in clinicals. Yes, the other two programs turn out fine nurses. The DON where I'm working now was hired fresh out of one of these programs. But the nurses that come out of the college I'm in now get hired immediately all over the state. The local medical school offers tuition assistance for nursing students anywhere in the state in exchange for a six-month contract for each semester paid for. I plan on applying for this tuition assistance because that is the hospital I want to work for, assuming I stay in this state. I'll have a better idea of where I'm going this time next year (my gf lives in another state and if we get any more serious, I'll likely be moving there when I graduate).

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well first of all, i wouldn't take no advice from anyone that says the program is not hard! lol is that a joke.....stick with what you know and forget all that she says.

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