jpoushay

I can’t comment on the quality of the programs as I’m just entering nursing next year. But I can comment on Dal/Yarmouth. I attended Dal (in Halifax, not for nursing) and it is a fantastic school. However. Yarmouth is not Halifax. I’m not sure where you’re from, but Yarmouth is a very, very small town and it’s literally at the tip of Nova Scotia. It’s a beautiful place but it will be very isolated (you’re about 3 hours from Halifax proper; about 3.5 from the airport). From the looks of it you might not need a car to live and work at the hospital but you will need one to get anywhere else in Nova Scotia from Yarmouth. As well there has been a lot of news about Yarmouth Hospital lately. They have lost several anesthesiologists and some women have been told that they won’t be delivering babies there past May of this year (CBC did a story on this a few weeks ago). I’m not sure how Yarmouth hospital has been affected, but ER closures in rural Nova Scotia are routine. Also anything major (complicated cases, some cancer treatments, major traumas, etc.) all get airlifted to Halifax so you probably wouldn't get much of those types of experiences. My point is, I’m not sure how this will affect clinicals and your actual experience there for future job applications. That being said, my sister did rural ER nursing elsewhere in Nova Scotia for several years and loved it. I’m not trying to dissuade you from Dal/Yarmouth or say that people there aren’t getting a good experience (hopefully someone who is studying there can chime in), I’m just relaying my experience as a native Nova Scotian and what I have personally seen from the patient side of things for me and my family. I love Nova Scotia and would absolutely recommend it as a place to live, the people there are the best, you just have to know that you’re not going to have all the amenities of say downtown Toronto or even a larger city in southern Ontario if you move there ?

My letter said June 1, I got my offer April 10. So I’m not sure if everyone’s is June 1 or if they will stagger.

I believe so - there should be a PDF letter of acceptance on your join.utoronto account, and it says to do so. The OUAC offer shows up around 5 business days after your join.utoronto offer.

Same - and then don’t forget that you have to accept the offer on OUAC and that shows up a few days after the join.utoronto.ca one (this might be obvious to everyone else but I have never used OUAC before).

Haha. Yeah comp sci would have been a lot of sitting! And I agree, an accelerated degree would have been intense.

I just found this forum today - I also got an acceptance to U of T last week. I’ve been out of school for 10 years working (degree in engineering) and due to some personal reasons, decided to make a career change. My GPA was about a 3.9 on a 4.3 or an A-. I did lots of extracurriculars when I was in school (mainly surrounding the engineering society) but any volunteering I’ve done since has been related to my kid’s daycare or United Way with work. I’m also not trying to brag or make comparisons - I also want to point out that I think they want people with diverse backgrounds and I put most my my effort into my personal statements, explaining why I felt like I was a good candidate. I’m honestly intimidated now reading all the extracurriculars everyone else has been doing! But also very excited to join a class and profession of passionate, involved, and compassionate individuals ? good luck to everyone and I’ll be the old one in class in September ?