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@mekatu Congratulations to you as well. Have you heard anything from anybody else who has been accepted to our cohort?

@kellyfuturebsn Thanks for your words. What particular complaints did people have, warranted or otherwise? Also, what study methods did you employ during the program? How often did you study in a group as opposed to alone? Lastly, which clinical sites would you say "weren't great"? Thanks again.

@Julian20052000 I'm just seeing this. Thanks by the way. If by stats you mean GPA, my overall GPA is 2.9 and my prerequisite GPA is 3.3.

I found out yesterday that I was accepted into Holy Family's Accelerated BSN Program for Summer 2019 (begins in late April). Is there anyone currently in the program who can shed some more light on it for me? What should I prepare for? What are some pros and cons of the program from your perspective? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the different instructors as far as you can tell? What clinical sites are typically available, and do students get to pick them or are the sites selected for them? Lastly, how would you say the program measures up to other programs in the area?

Congratulations on getting in. What was the wait period between your interview and acceptance?

I've been contacted to set up an interview. For anyone who's been interviewed already, who interviewed you and what questions were you asked? I'm probably going to have mine on the 19th by video conference. I'd appreciate a sense of what to expect.

I finished my application on 8/14. Now I just have to wait for them to receive the last of my transcripts, maybe write an extra letter explaining a prior dismissal, and complete the Theology and Philosophy requirements. How long should I expect to wait for an interview at this point, if I'm accepted?

Recently I completed my application to Villanova for the Summer of 2019. I still have Theology and Philosophy requirements left to complete by then, and as I was dismissed from a previous school, I'm considering writing a supplementary letter regarding the circumstances. Despite my dismissal, my overall GPA is still above a 3.0. Although I am leaning heavily towards Villanova at the moment, I am still keeping an eye on other schools in my area, as well as on the possibility that I might return to my original school and pick up where I left off. With those things being considered, what are my chances of acceptance to Villanova as someone with a good GPA but a prior dismissal? With my missing requirements, when can I expect to possibly be called in for an interview? How exactly would the interview go from start to finish? How much weight would it carry towards their acceptance? How would you say Villanova's accelerated program compared to others in the area, including Rutgers-Camden, in terms of rigor, difficulty, and schedule? Also, if I were accepted, it would be a half hour drive from where I live and a headache to use public transit, and I don't currently own a car. For any Villanova students who may have carpooled, was there a way for you to have gotten in touch with other accepted students to arrange rides before the program started? Also, at what point was your cohort's Facebook group created? Lastly, for current students, what do you like about the program, and what do you hate about it? What do you recommend for those interested?

I'm curious, without giving away too much, what's the origin of your name? What's it mean? Is it long or short?

emmjayy, did he file grievances pertaining to the grades he received? Or how did he go about it? Unlike what some of the other commenters seem to think, I already know where I personally came up short, and I'm already taking the steps I need towards rectifying those things. However, while I was planning on trying to find a job as a tech to gain experience in the event of my dismissal (which I should have done before Nursing school), if I can somehow remain in school, I'd probably prefer that. So any details about how he went about staying in school would be appreciated.

A few weeks ago, I was informed that I would fail Med-Surg clinical. At the time the semester was still ongoing, although clinical had ended by then. At the time, I was also passing the theory section of that same course. However, since I failed the clinical, that failure counted towards the second failure for me in that program, and the program's policy is to typically dismiss someone after two failures. I have two main gripes with clinical. First, clinical ended two days before the withdrawal deadline, and while I had struggled early on, I did improve, and my clinical instructor acknowledged as much. Apparently, however, it wasn't enough to her liking, but what I don't get is why she couldn't have given me a heads-up about my pending failure before the deadline, if I was indeed to be failed. Secondly, I disagree with the reasons she gave for failing me. She used errors I had made through the semester as reasons, although I had gone to remediation for those errors. Also, I was out of school for five months prior due to needing to retake a course which wasn't offered in the Fall, so I was rusty in some regards to clinical skills, which contributed to the errors I made. In my time off, I tried and failed to find work, and I also contacted my school to see if I could come in for some sort of remediation so that I wouldn't forget things, but that went nowhere. Continuing with my clinical experience, there were situations in which there either wasn't an ideal solution obvious to me at the time or in which unforeseen circumstances led me to ultimately look bad in front of my instructor. Also, she claimed that I didn't talk to my nurse or my peers, and while I probably could have asked more questions or interacted more in retrospect, she wasn't following me around the whole shift for her to possibly know that. She claimed that I didn't ask for help, yet I once called a tech to help me turn a patient, so maybe I didn't ask for help as much as she thought I should have. In hindsight, I know the things that I could have improved on, and interacting more with others was probably a major one, but she drew the conclusion that I wouldn't be able to do well in the next semester because of the errors I made (which were all situational, brain farts, and/or addressed by remediation). At times, it was almost like I was penalized for learning, or as if the concept of learning from one's mistakes (AS A STUDENT) was foreign to her. All in all, I feel her evaluation was subjective, and based mainly on what she saw, and on her accentuating the negative. After failing clinical, as well as having my theory instructor (who also sat in on the evaluation) suggest that maybe being a nurse wasn't for me, despite her only ever seeing me in a classroom with sixty other people, there were about five days that followed in which I was so bummed out and conflicted that I didn't study or really do anything. It was the worst time for me to fall out of the groove that I had established throughout the semester. As a result, I did significantly worse on my third Med-Surg theory exam than on my first two, and while I still managed to pass Pharmacology (which I was retaking), and while I did a little better on the Med-Surg final than I did on the third exam, it still wasn't enough to help me pass the Med-Surg theory portion (I failed it by about a percentage point). My question is, do I have a case at all for appealing my grade? If I had passed the theory portion, I would have appealed the clinical grade without question, but my failing the theory portion obviously gives me less of a leg to stand on. However, while there was no ideal time to learn that I was going to fail clinical, it also didn't seem fair for my clinical instructor to spring that on me less than a week before an exam (if only for my transcript's sake). I would have rather have found that out either after my finals or before the drop deadline (which, again, is when the last clinical day was). As it turned out, the revelation of my clinical failure, and the uncertainty that came with it, took the wind out of me in the final weeks of the semester, which left me with lower grades on the last two exams than I had on the first two, and lower than what I believe I would have had on them otherwise.