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The only downside with starting early is the cost. If cost is not prohibitive, then yes, the earlier the better. I started UWorld right after graduation. I probably should have started earlier, but I didn't know what our scheduling would be like due to COVID. I studied for a month, and I really feel like it was not enough. I'd say diligent studying for 2 months should be good. Obviously, it really depends on how prepared you were when you graduated. I still passed with 75 questions. I was confident with only ONE answer. Not an exaggeration. The other 74, I felt like I was guessing.

PASS: If you get the "good pop-up" then you definitely passed. THIS is the Pearson Vue Trick (PVT). There has never been a false positive. FAIL: There is no definitive way of knowing if you failed. PVT does not reliably cover failure. If they successfully charge the $200 fee on your CC, then most likely (>90%) you failed, but supposedly there have been instances where someone was charged $200 but still passed. People sometimes say that PVT does not work because they ended up passing even though they did not get the "good pop-up." Yes, this can happen, but this is not the PVT.

It is true that there will be fewer spots left in the last wave of acceptances. And since there are fewer spots, getting in at the last minute would pose a greater challenge than having everything in before the priority deadline. Although, from chatting with others, there were 5+ people who were accepted in mid June (I believe this was the final wave for Fall 2019), plus at least 1 person dropped out after the last wave creating 1 additional spot. As for the rant, that's funny and understandable. And I can totally relate. I felt super "ranty" as well for the past 12 months because I was working 50+ hours a week (marketing analytics) while going to school full time: Micro, Anatomy, and Chem (Gen/Org/Bio) in the Fall; Physio, Stats, Psych, and Speech in the Spring. Plus my wife was in a dental residency working 80+ hour weeks, so I cooked 90% of the time, did laundry & cleaned the house 99.9% of the time (for 3 years, she did laundry twice and only because I was out of town for work and she ran out of scrubs). On top of that, it had been 22 years since I got my first Bachelors so my brain was rusty, and I had to re-learn how to study. It felt like such a disadvantage, yet I worked my butt off, slept very little, and got straight A's. And yes, I got in at the last wave with an evaluation score of 42. So it's not always "someone who does nothing but go to school and probably lives at home."

Maybe? I never uploaded anything in the application form for TEAS. The TEAS score was sent directly to CSUSM, and I don't recall doing anything on my end other than to include CSUSM as the school to send the scores to when applying for TEAS. But I was swamped with so much stuff, I may be wrong.

Hi polyacik: adding to what SurfCA40 wrote, I would say apply right now. When you submit your app and your transcript(s), CSUSM will evaluate everything you have up to that point and tell you what's completed and what's missing. This way you know for sure that the prerequisites that you have already taken will suffice. Then when you finish your summer term and send in your updated transcript, it will be that much quicker to finish your evaluations. That's what I did when I applied for the Fall 2018 cohort. I submitted everything in February even though I was still taking Physiology. It took them a couple of weeks to return my evaluation showing what was completed and what was still in progress. Then when I finished my spring term, I sent them the updated transcript, and the new evaluation came back really quickly since they had already done most of the evaluation months earlier.

I considered few of the Entry Level Masters programs, and most of them have too many "requirements" that I do not meet. I put "requirements" in quotes because many are unwritten requirements, such as having previous healthcare experiences or speaking specific foreign languages. Plus I hear GREAT things about the program at San Marcos from many healthcare professionals, so CSUSM was my first choice.

I'm going to the Information Session tomorrow in Temecula. I'll ask what the "next step" is in this process.

Evaluation Total Points = 42 I agree. Had I known about this website or this thread before I paid my deposit, then I would have waited. But I think/hope it will be okay. Anyway, looking forward to meeting all of you soon, including those who already started or who are starting in the Spring.

Hello everyone. I didn't get my acceptance letter yet, but when I logged into myCSUSM and viewed the Admissions section, it showed Accepted and had a link to pay my Enrollment Deposit. So I paid it. And I'm slightly freaking out. I guess I'm gonna be a nurse! BTW, I had submitted my application before the priority deadline, but they couldn't do the full evaluation until I finished spring semester (had Physiology left). I submitted the new transcript at the end of May, and I'm finally in. Again, still freaking out a little. ALSO: I will be commuting from Anaheim Hills (next to Yorba Linda). If anyone wants to carpool.