Pace University ABSN Fall 2024

stellablue · Feb 22

Hi! I applied for the Fall 2024 cohort early Jan and got accepted early February! I'm assuming they do rolling admissions - I'm super excited!! Has anyone else heard back?

ABSN- STUDENT 2024, EMT-B · Feb 23

I finished application 1st week of February and last week finally said application complete and under review!! So waiting!

Sica · Feb 23

Hi! Goodluck to you all that applied to Pace. I recently graduated from the ABSN program. If you have any question about the program please feel free to message me.

AspiringfutureNPishere · Feb 24

Sica said:

Hi! Goodluck to you all that applied to Pace. I recently graduated from the ABSN program. If you have any question about the program please feel free to message me.

Hi! Please kindly tell me more about it. What's your opinion or perspective in regards to the program? How did you find it? What are the do's and don't? What resources or what helped you ace the program? Lastly, any advice please

Sica · Feb 25

I would say it's hard but doable. But prepare to have at least one exams every week and mostly it's going to be at least two exam every week. First semester, it was more like the adjusting to the school life that was hard but not the material. We had a passing score of 80 for the exams (if you don't get 80 average for exams then you fail regardless of assignments) during our first semester which frightened us. But they changed to everything average of 80. Patho/pharm was hard but I actually did well in Patho/pharm. Psy was tricky for a lot of people bc it was differnent mindset for tests so prepare for that. And basically you have two days for school and two days of clinical/sim labs. And also many of my classmate still works.
Second semester tho, most difficult semester with med Surg, Patho/pharm 2, Peds, and Maternal. Just exams and exams back to back and with two days of clinicals (Peds and maternal switch mid semester). Definitely study a lot for this semester.

Third semester is the easiest. If you made it thru second, third is nothing compare to second semester. But you do have to do preceptorship for 120 hours and it could be nights or day shift. Try to bang it out during the beginning of the semester so you have a lot of free time at the end. And they could put you at a farrrrr clinical. My group mostly live in queens and we have to travel to Coney Island for our clinical.

For me, I don't read the textbook at all. Slides were fine for me. I usually study the slides on my own time. For peds, we can't do that because she will give you info in class and not on the slide. But I heard there is a new prof this year so maybe that will change.
Wait till the class start then buy textbook bc you might not end up needing it. I only buy the access code for assignments and try to do them as early as possible bc it might be too much while you have to study for exams and finals at the end.
I don't use much resources, the school only offered study session during second semester I think. But I didn't go to any LOL. But school doesn't have much of support according to my classmates. Just look up practice questions so do them.
Also, if one of the professor does something in favor of the class DO NOT tell other professors and ask them to do the same thing. First it will get the professor in trouble and you lose the benefit. We had one of our professor who doesn't just "drop" the question and instead give us full credit for the error questions. It def helped us and someone in our class told other professors, we end of losing that.
I would recommend do a study group because you will be in a better mood to study while seeing others study than studying alone. I didn't do that LOL. And you will cry during one point of the program, but you can make it thru!

AspiringfutureNPishere · Feb 25

Sica said:

I would say it's hard but doable. But prepare to have at least one exams every week and mostly it's going to be at least two exam every week. First semester, it was more like the adjusting to the school life that was hard but not the material. We had a passing score of 80 for the exams (if you don't get 80 average for exams then you fail regardless of assignments) during our first semester which frightened us. But they changed to everything average of 80. Patho/pharm was hard but I actually did well in Patho/pharm. Psy was tricky for a lot of people bc it was differnent mindset for tests so prepare for that. And basically you have two days for school and two days of clinical/sim labs. And also many of my classmate still works.
Second semester tho, most difficult semester with med Surg, Patho/pharm 2, Peds, and Maternal. Just exams and exams back to back and with two days of clinicals (Peds and maternal switch mid semester). Definitely study a lot for this semester.

Third semester is the easiest. If you made it thru second, third is nothing compare to second semester. But you do have to do preceptorship for 120 hours and it could be nights or day shift. Try to bang it out during the beginning of the semester so you have a lot of free time at the end. And they could put you at a farrrrr clinical. My group mostly live in queens and we have to travel to Coney Island for our clinical.

For me, I don't read the textbook at all. Slides were fine for me. I usually study the slides on my own time. For peds, we can't do that because she will give you info in class and not on the slide. But I heard there is a new prof this year so maybe that will change.
Wait till the class start then buy textbook bc you might not end up needing it. I only buy the access code for assignments and try to do them as early as possible bc it might be too much while you have to study for exams and finals at the end.
I don't use much resources, the school only offered study session during second semester I think. But I didn't go to any LOL. But school doesn't have much of support according to my classmates. Just look up practice questions so do them.
Also, if one of the professor does something in favor of the class DO NOT tell other professors and ask them to do the same thing. First it will get the professor in trouble and you lose the benefit. We had one of our professor who doesn't just "drop" the question and instead give us full credit for the error questions. It def helped us and someone in our class told other professors, we end of losing that.
I would recommend do a study group because you will be in a better mood to study while seeing others study than studying alone. I didn't do that LOL. And you will cry during one point of the program, but you can make it thru!

Aww, understood! Thank you very much for thoroughly explanation. Appreciate your recommendations as well.

Samnoelle · Feb 27

Hey I just got accepted today!! I applied on January 27th and I'm happy to share any information ab applying that anyone may need :)

ABSN- STUDENT 2024, EMT-B · Feb 27

How did you find out. Did anything change on your main page?

Samnoelle · Feb 27

ABSN- STUDENT 2024 said:

How did you find out. Did anything change on your main page?

I got an email saying that there's been an update in my admissions portal. I signed in, and checked for the update and it said I got in

ABSN- STUDENT 2024, EMT-B · Feb 27

CONGRATS!

smcavoy · Feb 28

Samnoelle said:

Hey I just got accepted today!! I applied on January 27th and I'm happy to share any information ab applying that anyone may need :)

Congratulations! That's awesome!

Would you mind sharing your stats? If not, I completely understand.