Ontario Second Entry Nursing Fall 2020

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Hey, I used to creep these forums for the past few years and they helped affirm my decision to apply to nursing school for Fall 2020. I didn't see one started for next year so I thought, why not start one?

I graduated a while back so I'm a bit older, but my top three choices are:

1. Queen's

2. McMaster

3. York

4. Humber-UNB

6 minutes ago, me.water said:

Hey everyone!

For those who haven't heard back from Toronto yet, what does it say your status is on Join? Mine only says "Application Received," is that what others have too?

Thanks!

Yes, it still says Application Received for me!

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2 minutes ago, nursing0593 said:

Yes, it still says Application Received for me!

I know when I applied to U of T from high school to undergrad the portal went from Application Received -> Application Under Review -> Admitted but for nursing it never changed to 'under review' it went straight from received to admitted (I was nervously checking pretty often)

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17 hours ago, Redrose11 said:

Hi everyone,

I been creeping this forum for the past 2 years and I just got my acceptance to UofT. I am still in shock right now and thankful (I am still unsure if I will be accepting my offer but thought I had share my experience). I wanted to share a bit about myself and my application to give hopes to those still waiting. I am currently a 5th year at UofT and my transcript is not the greatest. After my co-op work term (after 2nd year), I never took a full course load. I am not sure how they calculated my last 5.0 FCEs as I did not take full course load since the end of 2nd year. But I am going to assume its somewhere in the 3.85-3.90. Also, I have had a late withdrawal (LWD - apparently this looks bad on grad/prof school application but can't confirm) on my transcript and had CR/NCR a physiology course (I repeated this course and did well so I guess they looked at the repeated one). So my overall transcript isn't the greatest. A lot of my recent experience was research (undergrad thesis, Summer student, research co-op student) and the little healthcare experience I had was mainly from highschool (hospital volunteering) and was part of a club at Uni. I had good experience but no publications etc. I didn't think I would make it. I think what helped was my reference letters (I had 2 profs and my co-op supervisor and my thesis supervisor). For those of you waiting, I just want let you know (as others have said above) that UofT does not just look at your grades and they accept people with a wide range of experience. I hope you all get into your first choice and regardless of where you go, you will make a great nurse. If you don't get in this year, apply next year (I know someone who applied with the same GPA but more experience and got in after 2 years).

I hope you are all staying safe and please take care of yourselves and if you are still finishing up exams, good luck!

Congratulations, and enjoy the feeling of happiness, make it last!

I really hope to be in the same boat as you this time next year ?

How did you format your statement of interest?

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1 hour ago, me.water said:

Hey everyone!

For those who haven't heard back from Toronto yet, what does it say your status is on Join? Mine only says "Application Received," is that what others have too?

Thanks!

Mine does too

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18 hours ago, Redrose11 said:

Hi everyone,

I been creeping this forum for the past 2 years and I just got my acceptance to UofT. I am still in shock right now and thankful (I am still unsure if I will be accepting my offer but thought I had share my experience). I wanted to share a bit about myself and my application to give hopes to those still waiting. I am currently a 5th year at UofT and my transcript is not the greatest. After my co-op work term (after 2nd year), I never took a full course load. I am not sure how they calculated my last 5.0 FCEs as I did not take full course load since the end of 2nd year. But I am going to assume its somewhere in the 3.85-3.90. Also, I have had a late withdrawal (LWD - apparently this looks bad on grad/prof school application but can't confirm) on my transcript and had CR/NCR a physiology course (I repeated this course and did well so I guess they looked at the repeated one). So my overall transcript isn't the greatest. A lot of my recent experience was research (undergrad thesis, Summer student, research co-op student) and the little healthcare experience I had was mainly from highschool (hospital volunteering) and was part of a club at Uni. I had good experience but no publications etc. I didn't think I would make it. I think what helped was my reference letters (I had 2 profs and my co-op supervisor and my thesis supervisor). For those of you waiting, I just want let you know (as others have said above) that UofT does not just look at your grades and they accept people with a wide range of experience. I hope you all get into your first choice and regardless of where you go, you will make a great nurse. If you don't get in this year, apply next year (I know someone who applied with the same GPA but more experience and got in after 2 years).

I hope you are all staying safe and please take care of yourselves and if you are still finishing up exams, good luck!

Congratulations! It's such an exciting moment!

What format did you follow for your statement of interest? Also, how long was it?

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Congratulations! It's such an exciting moment!

What format did you follow for your statement of interest? Also, how long was it?

 

I didn't really work on my statement too much. I just talked about my experience and tried to relate it to how it might help me in the field. I did go into some details for the part that asked about leadership/extracurricular activities.

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Hello house , anyone here applied to trent university compressed nursing 2020 program and was offered honors science program? Does this mean one didn't get compressed nursing? However I'm still completing some prerequisites. Anyone ever been in this same predicament?

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23 minutes ago, Samuel Nsi said:

Hello house , anyone here applied to trent university compressed nursing 2020 program and was offered honors science program? Does this mean one didn't get compressed nursing? However I'm still completing some prerequisites. Anyone ever been in this same predicament?

Yes unfortunately it means they gave you an alternative offer, this happened to me when I applied to trent when I was in second year. They didn't offer me admission to the nursing program that year!

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7 hours ago, Keke98 said:

Yes unfortunately it means they gave you an alternative offer, this happened to me when I applied to trent when I was in second year. They didn't offer me admission to the nursing program that year!

Oooh my, thanks for the response, the nursing is showing alternate final offer though. Does that count for anything?I already got lakehead university. Should I still hope on trent university or just accept lakehead university and move on?

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6 hours ago, Samuel Nsi said:

Oooh my, thanks for the response, the nursing is showing alternate final offer though. Does that count for anything?I already got lakehead university. Should I still hope on trent university or just accept lakehead university and move on?

I'm not sure what you mean by nursing showing an alternate final offer, if you are unsure I would call them and ask for clarification. As for your other acceptances you can always accept Lakehead and then change it if you get accepted into Trent later!

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30 minutes ago, Keke98 said:

I'm not sure what you mean by nursing showing an alternate final offer, if you are unsure I would call them and ask for clarification. As for your other acceptances you can always accept Lakehead and then change it if you get accepted into Trent later!

Thanks for the response. I appreciate. Yeah on my admission status page the compressed nursing shows final alternate offer in the status. Yeah I've sent the nursing department an email hopefully they ll reply in the new week.

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16 hours ago, Samuel Nsi said:

Hello house , anyone here applied to trent university compressed nursing 2020 program and was offered honors science program? Does this mean one didn't get compressed nursing? However I'm still completing some prerequisites. Anyone ever been in this same predicament?

hi Samuel, I also got an alternate offer to the honours program, but on the website it says you are gonna get an alternate offer if your prerequisites are not yet complete. I don't know if they will re evaluate it when I get my final grades and prereqs done.

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