Hi guys! Interviews started today for the May 2011 cohort, and I think I was one of the first few to interview. I know we can't talk about specific questions that were asked during the interview, but I just wanted to see if anyone would like to share their reactions/experience here.
I personally felt pretty good, I did get one "I love your answer!" so that made me feel a little more secure:D since I felt like I stumbled on this one other question. I did feel a little rushed since they told me the interview would be super short right in the beginning (did anyone else feel that way?) I didn't get a clear answer on where we will be having clinicals/classes though....
I'm sure it will be another month after interviews end until we all get mailed acceptance letters.
AdamsMaMi, thanks! I went to UDM for my law degree and I was really hoping to avoid private school tuition. Plus, I would have to retake some of my classes because they are older than 7 years. However, it is an option for me. :)
I am sorry that you did not get in. I am not interviewing until next spring, but I do keep up with all of your posts, in the hopes that I can gleen some sort of information on what did and didn't work in the interview process, along with what type of background the panel is looking for.
For all of you currently interviewing (whether you get in or not), would you be willing to share some info with the rest of us future interviewee's? Such as:
1. What type of core class GPA did you have?
2. Do you have prior healthcare experience (either professionally, personally or as a volunteer)?
3. What main reason did you give the interview panel for choosing nursing as a career choice?
4. What was your first degree/ professional background?
5. Where there any other significant items related to your experience/ background that the panel focused on?
6. Leaving the interview, what was your gut feel on how the interview went?
Hopefully your feedback will help out future classes :)
No letter again today. Geez, talk about dragging it out. I am pretty sure it will be a rejection since the deposit to hold a seat is due Friday, but still. I just want the letter so I can be disappointed and get over it.
Wow, I've been away from this thread for a minute!! Well I haven't heard back yet either... I'm currently impatiently waiting for the mail to arrive. Congrats to those that already heard back! I interviewed on July 12th....... so I'm getting nervous
well...another long day for me too! Nothing in the mailbox....I just want to get this over with as well now. I'm with you evansmom - just let me down already!
I am so very sorry Ebledsoe. I have not received anything in today's mail and have gone this past week from eating everything in sight to having no appetite at all. May I ask if your advisor was at all positive on you getting in. My advisor never even mentioned that I may not get in so I assumed that the interview was mostly a formality. It looks like I was so wrong in my thinking. Best of luck.
My advisor didn't give me that impression at OU, but the advisor at EMU certainly did. I was put on the alternate list there, only to eventually receive a rejection letter. This sucks. BIG. I hope we all get letters tomorrow, good or bad, just to put an end to this.
Good luck everyone! I think we are going to need it. Maybe we should all go for drinks regardless of our acceptance status. Boy, oh, boy.
Hi everyone. I am so sorry that you guys still have not received your letters. My letter was dated August 23, 2010, so it seems like they already knew, at least a week before, who was going to be in the program (i.e., all letters did not go out at the same time). I had ------- as my advisor and, honestly, I only spoke to her once. So, I have no idea how she felt about my chances of getting in. Whenever I called her, she was always so busy. I thought my interview went really well, and I related well to the interviewers (or so I thought).
Continued best wishes to everyone still waiting! We can always reapply!
I have been following this thread every since I interviewed for Oakland mid-July but just now decided to join Allnurses. Anyway, I too had the same experiences some of you had with the short interviews and feeling rushed. I received my rejection letter yesterday and this is the only school I have applied to so far:crying2:. Now I am looking into other schools and was wondering if anybody on here are thinking of reapplying or if they know someone who has already:confused:? I hope everyone who is still waiting the best of luck and to the others to keep pursuing your dreams don't let 1 or 2 schools hold you down. The road to success is almost never easy;).
(did anyone else feel that way?) I didn't get a clear answer on where we will be having clinicals/classes though.... 
Congrats to those who got in. I wish you all the best whether you got in or not.
ebledsoe
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AdamsMaMi, thanks! I went to UDM for my law degree and I was really hoping to avoid private school tuition. Plus, I would have to retake some of my classes because they are older than 7 years. However, it is an option for me. :)