aaronmikey

When I interviewed, they took two of us at a time but we were interviewed separately. Two people interviewed me (one person from CCD and one from CU). I forget the questions they asked, but I do remember they asked me what my goals were. Then after we finished the interview. They brought a group of 4 of us to the writing lab to write a spontaneous essay. We had 45 minutes to write how we could bring diversity to the program. This was through the INP program, so the traditional interviews might be different.

Hey Y'all! I just wanted to jump into this discussion as I have already been accepted into this program via the Integrated Nursing Pathway route at Community College of Denver. For those of you who may not know what that is, it is a program designed to give community college students a chance to earn a 4 year degree. Community College of Aurora and Red Rocks participate as well, and there is about 60 of us altogether. Anywho, I believe you guys will be the ones my cohort merges with in June. We are entering finals week for English Comp 2, Micro, A&P1 and Nursing Professionalism 1 right now. Next semester we will be taking A&P2, Medical Anthropology, Human Growth & Development, Nursing Professionalism 2 and US History to finish out all the pre-reqs. To my knowledge, this is either the first or second year where they only look at your pre-req GPA now. They used to look at your cumulative, but not anymore. We will graduate in May with our associate's (pre-nursing) and I believe our first day at CU is June 4th, but they advised us that if we were to go on vacation we need to be back by Memorial day for orientation week. Not sure if that is the same for traditional students. Good luck to those that are applying, hopefully we will get to meet at orientation!

Hello Everybody!! This is my first post, but I have been a long time "lurker". I have found incredible amounts of information and advice from this site, so I figured it'd be worth making an actual account. Anyway, I wanted to post a question that I haven't really seen posted before in regards to my specific situation. A bit of background info: I just had my nursing school interview last week and I was super nervous about it. For my interview, I really tried to highlight my 5 years of experience as a Medical Assistant as I only have a 3.2 GPA (3.0 minimum requirement). Overall, I think they were impressed and I would probably give myself a B performance. I also had 45 minutes to write a spontaneous one page essay where I had to describe an encounter or experience that would show off the diversity I could bring to the program. I just poured my heart out into my essay and I feel really good about it. This is a highly competitive program and they only accept 15 students per year. Getting called in for an interview was a huge deal in the first place. I think they probably ended up interviewing about 50ish people, but that's just a guesstimate. So.... my question is.... should I send a thank you letter/note to the people that interviewed me? I was a bit of a creeper and looked them up in the staff directory for the school I am applying for, so I have their office addresses. I've read up on this already but it's usually for a job. I know it would make me stick out from my competition, but do I risk looking like a creeper? Sorry for the long ramble! But, I would really appreciate any input on this! I should get notification of acceptance or rejection late June/early July. Thank you!