OHSU ABSN 2021

MickeyPDX · Jan 28, 2021

33 minutes ago, juliebelle234 said:

It's been silent for the ABSN DNP-FNP program in Portland, at least on my end. Anyone else got an invite on the Portland campus?

I applied for the ASBN-DNP FNP program at the Portland campus and still haven't heard anything. I will keep you guys updated, this waiting is the WORST.

juliebelle234 · Jan 28, 2021

Just now, MickeyPDX said:

I applied for the ASBN-DNP FNP program at the Portland campus and still haven't heard anything. I will keep you guys updated, this waiting is the WORST.

I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling this way! It's eating me up, and I feel like I can't do anything until I know ?

rainyday · Jan 28, 2021

I applied for ABSN -> DFNP at the Portland campus and just heard last night that I'm scheduled for an interview this coming Monday.

I think they are maybe sending interview invites in waves by interview date? Don't despair if you haven't heard yet. I had emailed them earlier asking to pretty please be interviewed Feb 1st or 2nd instead of the later dates because I have unavoidable work conflicts later, and I think they may have bumped me earlier because of that.

I also applied to the ABSN (Portland, Fall start) and haven't heard a peep from them about interviews, but I'm not expecting to for a few more weeks.

Flo1820 · Jan 29, 2021

I also applied for the ABSN->DFNP in Portland and haven't heard back !

DenielleR, CNA · Jan 29, 2021

Hello guys! Glad I found this thread. I applied for the OHSU-ABSN program in Portland. I haven’t heard anything back yet regarding interviews, but I’ve read ABSN interview invitations usually come out a bit later. Fingers crossed!

swa25227 · Jan 29, 2021

12 hours ago, iwantfreckles said:

Is yours just the DNP? I applied to the PMHNP program and haven’t heard anything! ? also, congrats!

Thank you! I applied to the ABSN-DNP. I'm sure more invites are coming!!

mayracj · Jan 30, 2021

On 1/19/2021 at 1:59 PM, iwantfreckles said:

I also applied to the PMHNP program and haven't heard anything. Fingers crossed for both of us! It's so hard to wait!

Same, anxiously waiting if anyone else has heard back for the ABSN-pmhnp ?.

Skyler_Sundberg · Jan 30, 2021

Yes I have! I received an invitation to interview this past Wednesday via email for the ABSN to PMHNP program. I believe they are sending the invites out in waves because I know there are supposed to be interviews the 2nd, 3rd, and 10th.

NewMSNCa, MSN, RN · Jan 31, 2021

6 hours ago, mayracj said:

Same, anxiously waiting if anyone else has heard back for the ABSN-pmhnp ?.

I’m in the same boat. I got the email from OHSU on Friday laying out the timeline. I have also applied to the ABS-PMHNP in Portland starting Summer 2021. Seeing the stats of people on these message threads has been very discouraging.

I’ve had a terrible experience with NursingCAS in general. They have lowballed my GPA where it would have been higher if it was actually calculated the way the school calculated it. Super frustrating. They also calculated a class I took in a cc waaaaayy before I knew I wanted to apply for nursing school. It was a German language class that I failed because I was there just for fun, and although the community college excludes the course from my overall GPA, which was a 3.8 for the prerequisites - now my GPA is much lower.

I have a good amount of experience in mental health in the abortion and domestic violence space, but it seems like direct medical experience is what they are looking for....

I also remember reading somewhere that in order to be admitted you have to be interviewed? I guess maybe not for waitlist people... but I could be imagining this entirely.

Hope we both get offered seats in this program.

Le_Chatlier · Jan 31, 2021

@sarahrebecca I had the same issue with my GPA. One F from over a decade ago that the school dropped because I repeated the course and earned an A round 2. Nursing CAS still counts both. Seems silly that mistakes from long ago would still be used as a measure of what we are capable of today. ?‍♀️

NewMSNCa, MSN, RN · Jan 31, 2021

2 minutes ago, Le_Chatlier said:

@sarahrebecca I had the same issue with my GPA. One F from over a decade ago that the school dropped because I repeated the course and earned an A round 2. Nursing CAS still counts both. Seems silly that mistakes from long ago would still be used as a measure of what we are capable of today. ?‍♀️

Thanks for letting me know your experience. When I spoke to NursingCAS on the phone, they said that the schools can still see the individual courses and how you did, like they can review all of your original transcripts in addition to the NursingCAS calculations. My thoughts on this are: people want information given to them efficiently, and with NursingCAS as a 3rd party service, they are likely using their GPA calculations as a tool to get that information efficiently. I don’t think people in admissions are really going to say, oh well because of this F she got, her GPA would have been x.

So yes, I really agree with you, they don’t seem to care about our current capabilities and I almost think they try to make me look like a bad applicant.

You were waitlisted last year though, correct? So clearly they saw through that NursingCAS calculation. I hope we both get to fulfill our goals. Sheesh my mom has been a nurse since the 1970s and she went to City College of NY in Manhattan - and was not a good student at all. Somehow this feels like I’m applying to medical school......

Le_Chatlier · Jan 31, 2021

21 minutes ago, sarahrebecca said:

Thanks for letting me know your experience. When I spoke to NursingCAS on the phone, they said that the schools can still see the individual courses and how you did, like they can review all of your original transcripts in addition to the NursingCAS calculations. My thoughts on this are: people want information given to them efficiently, and with NursingCAS as a 3rd party service, they are likely using their GPA calculations as a tool to get that information efficiently. I don’t think people in admissions are really going to say, oh well because of this F she got, her GPA would have been x.

So yes, I really agree with you, they don’t seem to care about our current capabilities and I almost think they try to make me look like a bad applicant.

You were waitlisted last year though, correct? So clearly they saw through that NursingCAS calculation. I hope we both get to fulfill our goals. Sheesh my mom has been a nurse since the 1970s and she went to City College of NY in Manhattan - and was not a good student at all. Somehow this feels like I’m applying to medical school......

Yes, I was waitlisted as "highly likely"-- many of us were-- so I do think OHSU at least attempts to look at their applicants holistically. As one of my favorite profs used to tell me: "No one knows what the committee wants; sometimes not even the committee." In other words, it's only after the interviews are over and the committee's poured over our applications a few more times before they really know what they want the cohort to look like.

I agree with you that Nursing CAS is geared toward providing info in a way that meets the demands of ALL the programs that use them, which unfortunately includes those that will exclude an applicant from consideration over one "bad" grade, regardless of how long ago it was (e.g. University of Montana). My gram was a nurse during WWII; nurses with impeccable GPAs was the least of anyone's worries. Even with the much higher bar, I'm confident we'll reach our goals, one way or another. If I've learned anything from this experience, it's patience. ?