Anonymous0987

Yes, you are. They do not try to accommodate schedules at all. They do not care.

Every school is awful in their own way. I believe State let's you choose clinical spots based on your ranking in your cohort. So you don't get choices there either unless you're the top of your class...

You'll have clinical every week. Sometimes you'll have two clinicals a week. 630am to 3-ish. You could have clinical any day, including weekends. They assign you your clinical days and sites. They will choose your theory schedule as well. You're basically at the schools mercy and whip for two years. You should get your schedule a few weeks before school.

With a 90+ you'll get in easily. The lowest score in my cohort was a 79. Mostly everyone had a TEAS score in the 80's.

I remember most people's changing around noon to 4 the year I got in. A few an hour or two earlier. I think they manually go in and do each one so 220 people... takes a bit!

90k isn't what it used to be here in Fresno. It's like the new 50k. You can find an HR based, Account management or sales based jobs that pay close to 90k a year base without getting yourself in 100k debt. I know, I had one of those jobs. If you take on 100k debt that reduces your home buying power by 100k until you pay it off. A loan payment on 100k debt is probably nearly 1k a month, minimum. My friend is paying $2200 a month on 60k debt. After taxes, you'll have very little to put in your retirement or savings and you'll end up a slave to the man for a lot longer than a city grad. Putting yourself in a mountain of debt is putting yourself in a position where you HAVE to work extra shifts versus a situation where you can choose to work extra shifts. It is a great way to burn out fast. Meanwhile docs are starting at 210k a year and will easily break 300k at some point, with the same debt as a gurnick RN. That's a big difference there. But hey, you do you.

I personally would not spend 100k at gurnick. They have a terrible NCLEX pass rate and you will graduate with the similar debt of a PA or MD grad.

Best of luck to you so who have gotten in. It's not easy. 2nd and 4th semester will kick your behind. But just keep crying and grinding. for those who haven't gotten in: look into the PA route. I am almost done with the RN program, if I did it all over again, I would go the PA route all day.

? good luck.

It's been changed for awhile. They draw preliminary lottery on merit. Lottery is drawn off of the people drawn from preliminary.

? they have a preliminary lottery that's based on merit. Then the lottery itself after the preliminary lottery is luck. Good luck

I noticed the majority of my cohort had taken their A&P pre req within two years of application. All A's and B's In A&P and Micro. No C's. At least half of them had bachelor's degrees. The ones who didn't had medical experience. Lowest TEAS in our group was a 79. Most of us scored in the 80's. GPA didn't seem to matter much if you had a stellar TEAS. I don't know if that helps anyone for your future applications if you don't get in this round but don't give up if you really want it.

They do a preliminary lottery before the lottery. Mine did the same thing. There was no method to the madness as to what the status stated. Some pending and some blank were selected and visa versa.

You guys should go get your bachelor's degrees and go to PA school. I will have much more to say in May as to why.

Yup.