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

12 minutes ago, futurenurseHB said:

Hey guys,

So what I did was I requested a transcript through OUAC again (I had to resubmit the grades for the current courses I was taking) and paid around $12 I believe. Then I submitted an online unofficial transcript that I'm provided with from my student account through my school and uploaded that onto the joinutoronto application so they had an unofficial one from my end (just in case the official my school took a while to send out the official one).

Hope this helps!

On joinutoronto, did you put your unofficial transcript under "Document Upload" and under "Copy of Official transcripts"?

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Hey guys! Finally had my status change from pending to conditional for McMaster. Does anyone know what problem-based learning is like and whether it is difficult? I went to UofT for my undergrad so we've never done it before.

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25 minutes ago, Niki03 said:

Hey guys! Finally had my status change from pending to conditional for McMaster. Does anyone know what problem-based learning is like and whether it is difficult? I went to UofT for my undergrad so we've never done it before.

Hey there! Yay, CONGRATS, mine just changed to conditional too! ?

I did my undergrad at Mac but I'll be accepting UofT this year. I knew a few nursing friends, talked to some Mac PAs, and my SO is in a PBL-heavy program. From what I heard about PBL, it's very dependent on the effort that you and your group mates put into each case and how different your learning style is. You'll get mixed reviews; some hate it, some think it's very useful. My SO makes fun of it sometimes but I think they like it and finds it very valuable.

You'll have a tutor with you during tutorials to steer you in the right direction and fill in any info that you're missing. It will take a while to get used to it and you'll worry if you're learning enough information (you will!). You and your group will be coming up with your own objectives for each tutorial/case. I'm not entirely sure how accelerated nursing PBL is different from PA/Med PBL, but the objective is not just on learning all the info you need (which is important), but focusing on acquiring/developing soft skills like self-directed learning, critical thinking, collaboration, etc--Mac's very fond of this. I used to study better individually but now love studying in groups.

Again, CONGRATS! I'm sure you'll find plenty of info on PBL online and from other students as well.

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2 hours ago, absn2020 said:

Hey there! Yay, CONGRATS, mine just changed to conditional too! ?

I did my undergrad at Mac but I'll be accepting UofT this year. I knew a few nursing friends, talked to some Mac PAs, and my SO is in a PBL-heavy program. From what I heard about PBL, it's very dependent on the effort that you and your group mates put into each case and how different your learning style is. You'll get mixed reviews; some hate it, some think it's very useful. My SO makes fun of it sometimes but I think they like it and finds it very valuable.

You'll have a tutor with you during tutorials to steer you in the right direction and fill in any info that you're missing. It will take a while to get used to it and you'll worry if you're learning enough information (you will!). You and your group will be coming up with your own objectives for each tutorial/case. I'm not entirely sure how accelerated nursing PBL is different from PA/Med PBL, but the objective is not just on learning all the info you need (which is important), but focusing on acquiring/developing soft skills like self-directed learning, critical thinking, collaboration, etc--Mac's very fond of this. I used to study better individually but now love studying in groups.

Again, CONGRATS! I'm sure you'll find plenty of info on PBL online and from other students as well.

Hey! Thanks for getting back to me about problem-based learning, it really helped. And CONGRATS on your acceptance to McMaster and UofT nursing!!

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Hey! I was wondering how you would go about completing non-academic requirements such as police record check and CPR certification prior to starting the program since everything is pretty much closed.

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Has Anyone on Humber waitlist gotten an offer yet. Previous offers expired on the 1st of May so I am assuming some offers may go out this week. All the best to everyone on the waitlist.

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4 hours ago, Niki03 said:

Hey! I was wondering how you would go about completing non-academic requirements such as police record check and CPR certification prior to starting the program since everything is pretty much closed.

Hey! I'm not sure if this is much help but I know some police departments can accept a request for a police record check online (I think thats what they told me when I went to get one last year)and most likely if your department doesn't they will now because of COVID because I know mine does!

As for CPR I'm not too sure I'm sorry!

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3 hours ago, Nursetobe2022 said:

Has Anyone on Humber waitlist gotten an offer yet. Previous offers expired on the 1st of May so I am assuming some offers may go out this week. All the best to everyone on the waitlist.

Havent recieved anything myself, but I was told previously theyd start sending out offers after May 1st. Maybe we will hear from people later this week? Hopefully we both get in!

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Hey!

Anyone who has been accepted to Trent, what is the date you have until to accept? Just curious about the potential next round of offers.
Thank you in advance!!

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I've been creeping on this forum for a while just wanted to say hi! last year was my second year in uni and I applied to a bunch of accelerated programs but didn't get into any. Trent offered me an alternate offer and I took it and have gone there for the past year. I applied again for a transfer into the accelerated nursing and am waiting for a response. I just got my grades back today and I believe I have a 3.7. CONGRATS to everyone who's gotten accepted and I'm anxiously waiting to hear back soooon :)

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3 minutes ago, myranoor said:

I've been creeping on this forum for a while just wanted to say hi! last year was my second year in uni and I applied to a bunch of accelerated programs but didn't get into any. Trent offered me an alternate offer and I took it and have gone there for the past year. I applied again for a transfer into the accelerated nursing and am waiting for a response. I just got my grades back today and I believe I have a 3.7. CONGRATS to everyone who's gotten accepted and I'm anxiously waiting to hear back soooon ?

Hello!

What was your alt offer? I have a 3.7 as well and I’m an internal student anxiously waiting to hear back!!

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1 minute ago, Mfitze_ said:

Hello!

What was your alt offer? I have a 3.7 as well and I’m an internal student anxiously waiting to hear back!!

Hey! They basically just offered me into their honors bachelors of science program, and they said to try applying again for nursing in a year. My grades were absolute *** my first two years so it totally made sense that they didn't accept me LOL so I just took the year to take easyish courses and get my grades up since I already completed all of the prerequisites at my last university and Trent accepted all of the credits I already had. I hope we get in! From what I've heard it's a lot easier as an internal applicant ?

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