Michelle Hall

Are y'all having trouble with your Howdy Portals or A&M email accounts? I've tried setting them up but parts of the Howdy Portal aren't working correctly and it's saying I can't use my student email account...it won't even let me access it.

Hey y'all! I'm a little late in responding, but I also was accepted to the program ? Hope to connect with everyone!

Yes! My current employer didn't require vaccination records, so I have had to go through various other routes. You can contact your current doctor, they should have your immunization records. However, I've had a semi-unique situation where both my pediatrician and first GP are both now retired and hospital networks bought their private practices. Because of this, my current GP did not have my immunization records and my old doctors' offices have archived my records with third-party companies. I contacted the records department of my old doctors' offices and filled out Medical Records Release Request Forms and am now waiting for what they have (but again, I think most people won't have this problem and can just contact their doctor for their records). I also contacted my previous University's Health Services Office and requested my immunization records I had to submit to them before going to school there. Additionally, I even contacted my old high school and asked for any immunization records they might still have on file for me. You can also contact the Texas Department of State Health Services or your local county public health office, and request whichever immunization records they may have on file for you through their ImmTrac2 system (I think you can also request your GP to access that information), but it's not guaranteed that they have a complete record, especially if you're older than your mid-20s...I'm 34 and I guess when I was growing up this system didn't exist and doctors weren't required to submit this information to the state, so they weren't able to provide me much assistance when I contacted them. You can also try any local pharmacies where you might've received vaccines, but they most likely won't have records for some of the required Vaccine Series you would've received as a baby or small child. I've basically just thought of every possible person/institution I can get a hold of that might have any medical record of me and requested what they have on file still. Hopefully you won't have to contact as many people and can just get everything from your doctor! I'm also having to get some updated vaccine rounds right now because a couple of mine were out of the date range required so I needed new doses/ immunization tests. You might also need to access pediatric clinical notes for certain illnesses. Like I never got the Varicella vaccine (I don't even think it was around when I was a kid…) but I had the chickenpox so theoretically, I'm meant to have natural immunity... but now I'm having to try to access the clinical notes from my pediatrician regarding the dates and treatment for when I had the chickenpox back in like 1994. So it can get pretty complicated and time-consuming if your current doctor doesn't have everything on file for you. Sorry for such a long response, just wanted to give you all the info I've found out over the last two weeks because it's turned into a mini nightmare for me, and I'd like to help other people not have to go through this!

Hey Emma, great to hear from you! I completed my interview yesterday and got an email saying we should hear back from them in mid-March...so hopefully we'll all be receiving acceptance offers to the program soon!

Hey! So if you click the link in the acceptance offer email to the new student portal, there are all of these different options in the menu bar. If you click on the "more" option ( I think it says "more", I'm not looking at it right now) at the far right side of the menu bar, there will be a drop down menu with different links. You can go through each page and it will give you more detailed information about all of the steps and when they expect to send more emails or links for each of the next steps. The immunization requirements tab gives you detailed information as well about which records you should be collecting right now, and it has a pdf link with a document your GP has to fill out, sign, and stamp. It gives the full list of all the vaccination requirements in that pdf. Each page on the portal gives specific information about how and when they will provide us the next parts we need for each of the requirements and there is a due date at the bottom of each information page. I would really start focusing on getting all of the immunizations records now because it can be quite a long process if your doctor doesn't have all of them on file right away. I think a lot of it depends on how old you are, but I'm in my 30s so getting a hold of some of my records from childhood is becoming quite a difficult task and I'm having to fill out a bunch of different release request forms and calling the state; so it's taking some time. Hopefully no one else will have similar issues but I would recommend reading those pages and getting on the parts that we can actually work on now, asap.

Yeah, I've also been reading the same thing, unfortunately ? Oh that is a difficult decision since you're so close to Round Rock! I'm kind of in the same boat as you, I live in Fort Worth and it's super difficult to decide because both are far and I'll def need to start planning a move to either place.

I also applied to A&M's second degree BSN. Have you heard anything from them about the interview phase of the application? I got the email saying they were having issues with it but haven't heard anything since. I was just wondering how much later it will be before we find out if we are accepted to the program since other schools are already sending out offers.

I got accepted too! Congratulations to everyone and looking forward to meeting our new cohort! ?

I haven't heard anything from them either since I turned in my application. I called them last month and they said we'd probably hear something from them by early February, but it looks like last year's applicants got their acceptance emails around mid-February. So hopefully we'll be hearing something from them in the next week or two! I also applied to another program but haven't heard back yet. I think a lot of schools only give you a short window to give them an answer to their offer. I read some of the comments from last year's UTHSCSA ABSN applicants, and they said the school only gives you about a week to say yes or no to their offer and you also have to pay a $500 deposit at the time of acceptance ? I don't know if that's completely accurate, but that's what people from last year's class were saying in their thread forum.

I wouldn't worry, you'll get it! I submitted my NursingCAS app on January 6th, but I had applied to another program in early December so my application was already ready and verified by NursingCAS on the day my A&M app was submitted. I think that really sped up the process on my application. I was reading a thread from an A&M second degree BSN for the Spring 2025 start date and she gives a detailed breakdown of the timeline her application took to complete and for her to get accepted. She said their NursingCAS app was due like August 2nd and they got in contact with her like 2 weeks later notifying her that a part of her application was incomplete. She corrected that part and then they sent her the ApplyTexas email a couple days later. So I think it typically takes them a couple weeks to review an application before emailing about the next steps! I bet you will be getting the email in the next coming days!

I just got the email today about the ApplyTexas app with all the step-by-step info! I guess they're starting to move to the next steps since NursingCAS was due yesterday, so keep an eye out and look through all your emails! Good luck! I hope we get in!

Hey Lauren, nice to meet you too! So, I only found out about this a few weeks ago also, but apparently the application is a 3-step process. The first step is submitting the NursingCAS application. Then, A&M is apparently supposed to email you a prompt to fill out a second application called ApplyTexas. Apparently it's required of all students who are not currently enrolled at A&M; so everyone applying to the second degree BSN has to fill it out (I think it's a general application to A&M and not to the nursing school specifically). Then, I guess once they look at those two applications and they're interested, the third step is that they'll send out individual invitations to complete the online interview. I hope we hear from them soon about the next steps!

Hi! My name is Michelle and I just wanted to start a general thread for Texas A&M's Second Degree BSN program for Fall 2025 and get to know anyone else applying for this particular cohort ?. I submitted my NursingCAS application last week; but I know the application process is multi-tiered and was wondering if anyone has heard from the school regarding the ApplyTexas application or the interview invite yet? I didn't know if they wait until after the NursingCAS due date to begin the next steps, or if anyone has started the other parts of the application yet.

Hi! I also applied to the ABSN program for May 2025. I called them a few weeks ago when I turned in my application and the admissions advisor told me that we should be hearing back from them in early February. I've also read some of the previous years' program threads and they all seem to have found out whether they were accepted or not in early February. I've never seen that they offer a Fall program; I was under the impression that they only have one program cohort each year that begins in May. I am in the process of applying to two other programs that start later in the Fall. Hopefully we'll hear back from them soon!