I know this is early to make a thread for the Fall 2011 Hopkins Applicants! But still, it is better to start getting ready than waiting at the last minute! I highly suggest everyone start getting your letters of recommendations, and just hide it until you are ready to apply. I will be applying and submitting my application around September 2010 as an early decision applicant for Fall 2011.
I have to finish up Anatomy and Physiology I and II, Developmental Psychology, and one more chemistry class this coming Summer 2010. During the Fall of 2010 and Spring 2011, I will be finishing up just general requirements like history, Microbiology, English Composition, Statistics, some foreign languages, and humanities (elective classes).
I will be applying for the BSN Traditional Program considering I do not have a degree, thus, I am not qualified to apply for the accelerated program. I'm really excited about this.
I will only be applying to UPenn and Johns Hopkins University for my BSN traditional program. If I do not get accepted, I will be attending my current university's school of nursing. I am already in the university's nursing program, but I don't start clinical preceptorship until 2 years from now.
I will graduate May 2013 regardless where I go. Either JHU or UPenn or stay at my current university.
If I will be accepted at either JHU or UPenn, then definitely I will be attending those schools! I love nursing research, and I want to learn more about research and providing quality care to our patients.
We will see how it will go. I have six months until I submit my application to both schools. Remember time is running fast.
Hope everyone are doing well on their pre-requisites! Good luck to all!
Feel free to post around so we can help each other for Fall 2011! I've read the thread for the JHU Fall 2010. I've noticed everyone in that thread got accepted, and some waitlisted! Its a good sign!
You can also go the Accepted Students link on the JHU SON website and there are forums (link at bottom of page) where you can ask current students all sorts of questions. I believe someone posted questions about schedules during the first part of the program, so you might find some helpful info there!
I felt silly asking those types of questions but I was so caught off guard by the acceptance that I'm just now starting to delve in.
I think the forum on the JHU site is more suited to my needs at this point, thank you for pointing it out.
Glad to see another Californian is likely headed to Johns Hopkins! I currently live in Virginia but I lived in California for years. What brings you to Oregon?
I hope you get into all the programs you have applied for :)
Thanks! I am from Southern Cali, but lived in Santa Barbara and then San Fran for years. After Peace Corps I needed a place to stay while applying for grad school, taking pre-reqs, etc so am with my parents in Oregon. I have never lived on the east coast but am looking forward to a hot steamy summer yet scared of the winter! ha ha
And YES I did get into all the programs I applied for!! Thank you! Also you should join the Facebook group for the Acclerated class 2012. Just do a search for JOhns Hopkins ACcelerated Class 2012 and you will find it. Are you going to Accepted Students Day??
Congrats on being accepted! And for everyone who hasn't heard back, hang in there, I applied ED so I luckily heard back pretty quickly.
I am definitely getting enough sleep, although I can't say that's true for everyone. The best way to describe nursing school is, whatever kind of student you are now, is the type you will be in nursing school. If you're the type that crams and doesn't study in chunks, then chances are you'll do that in nursing school. But I promise you, you will still have time on the weekends to go out with friends, and you'll have time to see family. Everyone is different, but I've had time to enjoy being in Baltimore. I moved from California, so the move was a big change, but I've really learned to love the city.
So far, the most "difficult" semester has been the summer, but you will make it through and once the Fall semester rolls around you'll have more time. The best thing about being at Hopkins is, the professors honestly do want you to succeed. I know there are other programs that "weed out" students, or have to take the HESI between semesters, but I've never felt like an instructor didn't want me to succeed (we also don't take the HESI).
Nursing school has been pretty much everything I imagined it to be. I am getting great clinical experience...definitely sign up for a CAPP clinical rotation (you'll learn more about it during orientation). In CAPP, instead of having one clinical instructor in charge of 8 students, you are paired with a nurse preceptor and follow them around for your entire rotation. Theory courses have been interesting, and they are revamping the ABSN curriculum for my class, so my curriculum is different from previous classes, and from what it sounds like it'll be different for your class also.
If you have any more questions feel to message me, it might take me a few days to reply (I'm switching onto Peds/OB rotation which is pretty time consuming...), since I don't check this post regularly. Hopefully I've helped answer / relieve some stress! Don't worry you'll do great and you'll have fun (although you might not feel like it while you're going through it :))
Thank you so much for your thoughtful post. I don't think I'm alone in feeling excited and a little anxious about what lies in store for us. Any bit of advice or insight from someone in the trenches is always helpful. Thank you.
Even though I'm not there yet, I totally get what you mean about the faculty wanting students to succeed. I got that impression even through the application process. Everyone, from admissions staff to professors to the dean, is just so helpful and supportive. This is one of the major reasons that I'm choosing Hopkins. It's nice to know that support goes beyond the application process.
Are you going on to the MSN portion? If so, which specialty did you choose? Also, has your current vision of where you see yourself working as a nurse changed since before you started the program?
If you've been accepted to the accelerated program, please don't forget to join our facebook group for accepted accelerated students. Just search for "Johns Hopkins University *Accelerated Nursing Class of 2012*" and join the group. There's a meet and greet the evening before accepted students day. You can find details on the fb group page.
If you're still waiting to hear, best of luck! Fingers crossed!
I've been following this forum for a while now and decided to hop in. I have not received any word yet and I'd like to believe the old idiom: 'no news is better than bad news.'
I called the admissions office today and asked if all calls were made for the accepted ABSN applicants. They said about 30-40 applicants are still being discussed/reviewed.
I hope this is true and the person I spoke with just didn't want to tell me over the phone that I was denied!
I think there are quite a few of us who haven't heard either way yet. I looked at last year's thread and it seems some people were wait-listed for accelerated and offered the traditional program. They were notified late as well. This may be a possibility?
I was told that the MSN Midwifery track committee is meeting today to make decisions. So hopefully some of us will hear by Monday! Any other Midwifery applicants have their interviews with Betty and Dr. Fehr?
Still no word on the regular decision traditional BSN though. But if someone is accepted into the MSN then than MUST mean you have been accepted into the BSN too, right? It would be a waste of the committee's time to be reviewing MSN applicants who haven't been accepted to the BSN so I can't imagine they would do that.
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Hi Hollynski,
You can also go the Accepted Students link on the JHU SON website and there are forums (link at bottom of page) where you can ask current students all sorts of questions. I believe someone posted questions about schedules during the first part of the program, so you might find some helpful info there!
Congrats on your acceptance!!