MUSC ABSN Spring 2015

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Hi everyone!!!

I wanted to go ahead and make a thread for MUSC's Spring 2015 hopefuls. I know it is a little bit early to start this thread, but I am just so excited. I am looking forward to everyone stats and encouragement for each other. Looking forward to the results!!!

Student loans are so difficult to understand because you have doctors and dentist who have bachelor degree loans and then they take out loans for over 100k to pay for medical school so I am hoping they would give out a small loan for a second bachelors?

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I know there is a limit on federal loans, but I am pretty sure you can get as many private loans as you want. I went to the South Carolina student loans website and was approved in a day for the amount I requested.

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I don't think borrowing the money will be a problem since you are going in to a highly sought after occupation.

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I know there is a limit on federal loans, but I am pretty sure you can get as many private loans as you want. I went to the South Carolina student loans website and was approved in a day for the amount I requested.

That is good to know! I will have to visit that site and check it out. Thanks for sharing.

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Student loans are so difficult to understand because you have doctors and dentist who have bachelor degree loans and then they take out loans for over 100k to pay for medical school so I am hoping they would give out a small loan for a second bachelors?

That is SO true!!

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Here's the link if you are interested...South Carolina Student Loan - Making Higher Education Possible. It was the first one I chose off the MUSC website. Also there is a Health and Human Services loan that you can get too, which the FA dept told me about today.

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Please let me know if anyone finds a roommate on here and how they did it. I have looked at MUSC's site and craigslist and am turning up nothing. I know it is still a couple months off, so not really worried. Just curious. I am sure we may find out more about each other and what everyone is looking at the orientation too.

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Here's the link if you are interested...South Carolina Student Loan - Making Higher Education Possible. It was the first one I chose off the MUSC website. Also there is a Health and Human Services loan that you can get too, which the FA dept told me about today.

Thank you!

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Specializes in BLS/ACLS/PALS/PEARS/NRP Instructor.

TEAM, jump on top of your financial aid NOW! We had a few students that had to drop out just prior to school starting because they couldn't secure financial aid. Keep in mind, if you have a previous degree, it will be a little trickier to get financed, but not impossible. I'll ask my classmates to see how they did it? Also, MUSC has a lot of scholarships; however, initially you won't be eligible for many of them. They typically go to 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semester students. Lastly, if you're an employee of MUSC you'll be able to compete for a $15,000 scholarship that I just won today. It pays $5000 for your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semesters.

I know school's expensive, but stay positive; there is money out there.

I hope to see everyone next week

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Joseph

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TEAM, jump on top of your financial aid NOW! We had a few students that had to drop out just prior to school starting because they couldn't secure financial aid. Keep in mind, if you have a previous degree, it will be a little trickier to get financed, but not impossible. I'll ask my classmates to see how they did it? Also, MUSC has a lot of scholarships; however, initially you won't be eligible for many of them. They typically go to 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semester students. Lastly, if you're an employee of MUSC you'll be able to compete for a $15,000 scholarship that I just won today. It pays $5000 for your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semesters.

I know school's expensive, but stay positive; there is money out there.

I hope to see everyone next week

V/r,

Joseph

Hey Joseph, what's the name of the MUSC scholarship that you just won? Congratulations by the way. I know you are super excited to get that!!

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Third semester student here, chiming in on a few things!

1) Location: It is absolutely cheaper to live outside of the Charleston area (i.e.-n.chas, ladson, summerville, park circle etc). However, if you plan to be involved in anything outside of school you will be making trips back and forth the campus, often for just 2 or 3 hours at a time. The class schedule is so different and varied, so even if you aren't doing things outside of school you should plan to be in the car a lot if you don't live nearby. For me, living in Mt. Pleasant has been great and has made it easy to say YES to all kinds of volunteer opportunities and extra learning opportunities. Traffic from Summerville in the AM is literally the worst. It's a bottleneck situation getting into Chas. every morning from 1-26

2) You all will get lots of financial aid information on your mini-orientation. They will have someone there to talk to you about it and answer some main questions. I am working on my second bachelor's degree, and getting approved for a loan was not a problem at all. If you do your FAFSA (which is required, so do it), you will automatically be considered for the Stafford Loan and some other government loan, which totals 12,500 per year (two semesters). Any amount over that that you need in loans you will have to get in a private loan form. I went with PAL (palmetto assistance loan) but I recently learned USAA does them too, so I'll probably consolidate when I'm done. The College of Nursing will give out loans as well, but you have to pretend like you aren't getting anything extra and just ask out for what you need. If you end up getting scholarships or loans from MUSC, etc, they will reduce the amount of your private loan. Does that make sense? It's sortof confusing to explain. Anyway, get started on all of this but I haven't had a problem. One of my friends did hers at the last possible second and had no trouble at all. You will probably need a cosigner though. It would be safe to wait until your mini-orientation if you are not sure what you're doing, because a lot of stuff will get sorted out there. Also, MUSC financial aid will meet with you and you can discuss your options with them, which is helpful to some.

3) Clinicals: For your first semester you have 2 days of classes and two days of simulation/clinical. If the schedule is still set up the same, you will all have either Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday off. If you are military and you need Friday's off for special military things, email them NOW and let them know. Changing the schedule after it's made is nearly impossible. However, if you don't have a good reason to have Friday's off it won't happen. I actually like having a day off in the middle of the week; it's a nice break. Simulation is USUALLY on the same day as your Health Assessment lab, and that day will go from about 9-3 with lunch at 12. A few unlucky souls will have no day off and health assessment and sim lab will be on different days (there are so many of you now!) Hospital clinicals are from 6:45-1:00 first semester at either MUSC, Roper or VA. If you want VA specifically you can request it. You won't do 12 hour shifts until 4th semester.

You probably will only need one pair of scrubs for first semester. I got a second pair for 2nd semester and I have done well with 2. If you bring cash to the mini orientation they might be selling old scrubs there. I have no insider info on that but the graduating class was doing that when I had mine so it's worth a shot ;)

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Wow! Thank you for sharing. Great info

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