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Scheduling: The program runs 5 days/week. Lectures are 2 days/week on Mon/Thurs from 9-4. Clinicals are 2 days/week from 6:30-3ish. It's rare but some placements alternate between AM and PM shifts. In term 1, clinicals are Tues/Wed and Sat/Sun. I was lucky with Tues/Wed so maintaining my family and social life outside nursing was easy, but most are weekends so be prepared to lose those. Labs and simulations (3h each) are scheduled based on clinical days, they run most weeks but not all. There is so much variability in schedules and days off. Some get Sat/Sun off but others get Tues/Wed, Tue/Fri Wed/Fri... It's random and it depends on how they place you. Workload: It is pretty demanding and intense (as all nursing programs are) but it's fine if you have good time management skills and can balance school/personal/social life well. It's way heavier/stressful than my undergrad but I was used to keeping myself busy outside school so the adjustment wasn't terrible. Clinicals are exhausting because of its hands-on nature including running around and direct patient interaction/care. It also depends on how much you enjoy and how comfortable you feel with A+P. Pathophysiology is the foundation/backbone of everything we learn in all the sciencey courses while clinicals/nursing in general is a real-life application of it, so we rely on it heavily and need to understand it well to keep up. I'm not sure what your background is but I was in a health-related program and loved all my physiology prereqs so this made my transition bearable. Specialties are competitive so some ESN after term 3 or take BCIT courses if they are interested in a specific area. You should consider educational commitments outside school if you plan to specialize beyond med-surg (emerg, ICU, OR, mental health, mat/peds). Nursing school isn't financially friendly but having a job is possible if you have good time-management skills. Given that the program releases schedules last min and there's so much variety, it helps to have a flexible jobs that lets you pick up shifts casually. Hope that answers your questions!

Thank you! My deadline was July 4th. I called them again after I filled out the surveys to let them know they were completed and they booked me in for August!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to provide a waitlist update! I received an offer yesterday at 1:45pm and I was #59. So excited to meet everybody in September and good luck to those who are still waiting ?

Congratulations! May I ask when the deadline is to accept your offer?

I'm pretty sure other undergrad programs like art and sciences have online deferral applications but I'm not too sure if nursing would do that. Maybe email them to confirm

For those of you who got in, when is the deadline to accept your offer?

A part of me is still hopeful that we'd get a few more offers tomorrow. Since they are being sent out manually by real people this year, I'm not sure if a ~2 hour period was enough for them to send out all 150 offers. I have a 3.85 (83%) GPA and 4th quartile (top 25%) in CASPER which seems alright, so finger crossed that my supplemental is good enough to get me accepted/waitlisted with a low number tomorrow. I'm so happy for all of you that got in and I'm praying for all of us who are still waiting ♥️

I don't necessarily think it's purely by GPA. Someone here got accepted today with an 83% which I also have (I haven't received anything yet) so I think it has more to do with each applicant's overall application than just their grades. I also saw somewhere here that they may be going in alphabetical order which I would normally find odd, but this year seems to be different. Since offers are being emailed manually by the advisors/student services manager instead of it being automated like it usually is, this could be possible as they would want to send out offers in some sort of orderly fashion. Now the real question is whether they're sending more acceptances tomorrow or if they were all sent out today. Has anybody at the end of the alphabet heard back yet?

Congrats to those who have received offers! Did all of you receive emails from advisors?

Do they usually go by last name? My last name is near the end of the alphabet so if this is the case, I still have hope ahhh

I think their office closes at 4:00 or 4:30 so they should be going out soon ahhhh

Ahhh I thought that they'd be out by now but I guess not. I think this may be the latest they've released their results. I hope it's either today or tomorrow so we don't have to worry about this over the weekend!

Ahhhh I'm so nervous as well. It could be any day now!

These are the dates that UBC released results in previous cycles (based on past allnurses pages) - 2017: Thursday, April 27th - 2018: Monday, May 7th - 2019: Wednesday, May 2nd - 2020: Friday, May 1st - 2021: Friday, April 30th - 2022: Wednesday, May 11th The wait time increased noticeably in 2022 when they expanded the program from 120 seats to 150 seats, so I am assuming it'll come out around the same time this year. However, I am optimistic that it could come out slightly earlier because I think there may have been fewer applicants this year. This thread has been pretty inactive compared to previous years and I saw somewhere on here that schools like Douglas and BCIT extended their deadlines. My prediction is that they'll come out sometime between May 5th and May 10th.

Your Casper score is sent to schools two weeks after your exam date and the quartile you scored in is available for you to see available four weeks after your exam date. If you took yours on Jan. 19th, you should be getting yours any day now. They will email you when it's uploaded on your Altus!