Hi everyone! I'm applying for the NYU Spring 2015 ABSN program and haven't been able to find any threads about the program yet. Feel free to post questions you have or to share information about the program, your personal stats, advice for writing the personal statement or just to say hi. Here's to speedy acceptances and a fun future in nursing! :)
My Stats:
Just graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.S. in Psychology and an overall GPA of 3.38
Got an A in almost all the pre-reqs, don't know the pre-req GPA
Volunteered as an EMT for 4 years and worked for 2 years
Worked as a Direct Care Worker for 1 year
Volunteer in Methodist Hospital in the Stepdown Unit
I was accepted but decided to turn down my offer. I can't justify spending $90,000 + on a second degree. Good luck to the rest of you who are still waiting!
Yes, I was accepted around 730 am ET. Found out right before I was taking my A&P2 final so that was a boost! I had decided a couple of weeks ago that, accepted or denied, I would not accept the offer because I cannot afford to be in that much debt for another degree. I have another school that I just interviewed with and the prospects look good for me so I am hoping to hear soon from that school!
3.2 Undergrad GPA & 3.7 Pre-req GPA. I currently volunteer at Yale New Haven Hospital, have volunteered at another hospital for 6 mo. where I went for my undergrad degree, and shadowed clinical nurses for half a year at the same hospital. I was an athlete in college and did tons of community service. I also had a doctor/professor and my career services supervisor write me 2 awesome LORs.
Today I was rejected & am absolutely shattered. I am writing in hopes that some of you can give me some advice to guide me through this devastation. I feel lost & ready to give up on everything. This has been a journey with roadblock after roadblock, & I dont know where to turn. I know many of you are on the same path as I am, and hoping some of you can offer some insight.
Heres a little about me- I graduated from University at Buffalo in 2012 with a BS in Psych. I was then enrolled in a masters program for School Counseling back in my hometown(city) NYC, but realized I was selling my dreams short. I always wanted to be hands on in the medical field. So I dropped my Grad School & enrolled in CNA classes. How crazy is that???? I dropped a guaranteed career, and enrolled in a 2 month certification course. I feel like kicking myself in the ass- but I just wanted to obtain my dream!!! After college with a BS in psych there were no jobs. None. I swear all I did was job hunt, and all I can find was min wage jobs. Once I became a CNA, there were STILL no jobs! After a few months of searching I found a job through an agency at a nursing home for $11 an hour. It is suchhh a hard work. Especially for a young girl. I worked that for a few months before they took me on staff at $16 an hour plus union. So Ive been here now for over a year. Working this very very dirty job, which at my facility everyone makes it feel very degrading. I mean I have nurses- LPNs who went to school for 10 months, and RNs who went to school for 2 years disrespecting me, or shrugging their shoulders & pointing at me when a patient says he crapped his pants. Meanwhile here I am having finished HS with honors, and going through one hell of a time in undergrad... Taking all the strength I have in me, I do my job & I do it well, I feel for these patients. I am so compassionate & caring, my patients & my supervisors really see my potential, and all they do is ask me why I am here. & I am really starting to feel seriously depressed.
While working this job, I have taken all the prerequisites required & got A's in them while living on my own & with no financial aid from anyone. My prereq GPA is a 3.5, undergrad had a rough start & even with making the deans list I still came out with just under a 3.0. I have amazing LOR from the DNS at my facility & a professor from my undergrad.
I heard NYU is one of the most lenient schools. I have a nurse that works at our facility who finished undergrad in Russia- wasnt anywhere near a 3.0 when converted to US standards, no experience in healthcare & she got into NYU accelerated a few years ago. So if NYU doesnt take me... Where do I turn?
Forgive me for turning this into some depressing blog post- but I am hoping that someone will read this and offer me some advice. What do I do now? Where do I turn? Should i go to LPN program? Spend 14 months just to make $18 an hour? Then do an LPN-RN bridge? Then RN to BSN bridge? SHould I wait for next summer & apply to more accelerated programs knowing they probably wont take me due to my low undergrad GPA?
On a lighter note--- A big congratulations to those accepted either to NYU or any other school! I dont mean to be a buzzkill on anyones parade, but I am really distraught & begging for some guidance!
@KT724 I am sorry to hear that you were not accepted. Did you apply to any other schools? I would call NYU and ask for feedback on your application and then maybe reapply for their next cycle. What time did you hear today? For what it is worth - at least the waiting game is over and now you can make some big decisions going forward.
nelliee
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Mines says "Your NYU Admissions Decision." GOOOD LUCK! :)