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just took the nclex this morning..... had about 15 SATA, no ordered response...... 2 math questions. Got shut off at 75, tried the PVT trick and got the good pop up..... hoping for the best!

Dont worry too much about "studying" right now but do review any areas you struggled with in the past. Also, try to enjoy the free time you have cause you'll be missing it once school starts!

I have some advice as well: DONT FORGET TO HAVE FUN! Seriously, our nursing instructors try to scare us and intimidate us especially throughout the first semester. "you wont have a life, you can't work, you can't have fun" I've heard it all! It's easy to get stressed out cause of all the studying and school work that needs to be done but you need to balance your life and make time for fun activities. I've had a couple of close classmates completely burn out because they were just studying 24/7 and worrying about things that were out of their control.

Name: David Job: Receptionist at Hospital, work 40 hrs a week Family: Just me, live on my own but I help my mom out with her expenses. A little about your program: I just started the ADN program at my school. After 2 weeks we've had 2 quizzes and I've barely passed them with 80% (75% is passing) Support System: Nothing really, I'm kind of on my own when it comes to most things......

Ooooh boy, my orientation is tomorrow and school starts on Monday! I'm pretty excited about starting school but unfortunately I dont feel ready to go back to school plus I'll be working full time while attending nursing school. I think I've enjoyed my summer "too much" if there's such a thing and my mind doesnt feel ready to go to school. I've managed to cram a trip to Panama, 2 cruises, a backpacking trip, and 3 trips to vegas with one pending this weekend over the last couple of months and I'm in a total party mode.... School..... :zzzzz:zzzzz:zzzzz:zzzzz

Are you a kaiser employee? If so are you union? Check with the union to see if they have any type of forgivable loan/tuition reimbursement type program. I work for Kaiser in OC and I'm applying for 8 hour weekly stipend through my union (seiu-uhw) hope it helps.

I got in for Fall of 09! Can't wait to start!

Does Golden West accept students by lottery only?

My name is David I'm 23 years old from Long Beach, CA. I hope to be attending DSON this fall for the BSN program. I just got back from a 3 week vacation in Panama and I just read the emails about the May 23rd deadline.... hopefully my spot is still available.

I'm pretty sure the scrubs thing gets taken care of at the orientation. Does anyone know how soon we are supposed to send back our payment plans?

By the way, it looks like I'll be able to come up with the tuition money and attempt monthly. I've managed to come up with 25k so I'm hoping that I can come up with the rest while I'm in school..........

I was there on Wed April 16 sometime between 11 and 12 or maybe a little later.

So I got my acceptance letter..... or did I? It has my correct address on the letterhead but it say's "Dear Amy" on the actual letter.......

That's the way he made it seem regarding the Sallie Mae Loan. He gave me a statistic that I cant exactly remember regarding the percentage of people that pay as they go compared to people that get the Sallie Mae Loan. I believe it was something like 70% pay, 30% get the loan. You should contact him however just to make sure. I picked up a brochure on the loan itself and here's some interesting tidbits: You can apply for a Career Training Loan online at www.salliemae.com/ctl and get a credit decision usually in less than a minute. Actually I was going to type out the whole thing but it is a bit time consuming. If anyone is interested I can make a copy of the brochure and fax it to you.

thanks, from what I understand they do not accept stafford loans due to the accreditation issue. In a way though its a blessing in disguise because if they did have regular student loans then there would be a long wait list at this school (just like all the other schools) and we probably wouldn't even be talking about this school.