kathliz

I know that the job market for new grad RNs is extremely difficult at the moment. That said, almost everyone from my cohort (BSN/MSN) got jobs relatively easy at hospitals. I graduated in December 2010 with a BSN. I have out literally hundreds of applications which resulted in only 3 interviews! I am 52 and strongly believe that I am being discriminated against due to my age. I left a great job in finance four years ago when the schools were saying that I was "guaranteed" a job. Are there any older new grads out there who are experiencing the same thing I am?

CONGRATULATIONS!!! :cheers: I understand that last friday was the deadline for the intial acceptances to either accept or decline. I am waiting on pins and needles and checking my e-mail every 30 seconds waiting for some good news. This afternoon I sent an e-mail to nursing admissions office asking them whether they have started notifying people on the alternate list. Apparently they are. I wonder if they are notifying them enmasse or one by one. :plsebeg:

Has anyone else received any good news lately?

Hi Veruca, Thank you for the information. If you're declining admission that must mean that you accepted somewhere else. I hope that is the case for you and I wish you much success in your program and future. Kathy

I received an e-mail message on monday that I was wait-listed. I received the official letter yesterday. I should be happy, but I'm not. I have been turned down by every other program that I have applied to so CSUF is my only hope for this fall. I sent an e-mail asking them to tell me where I was on the waiting list and what the deadline was for the original acceptees to accept or decline their offers. They would not tell me the former and still haven't answered me on the latter question. They also said that last year they took everyone who was on the waiting list, but do NOT anticipate doing that this year. Does anyone know what the deadline is?

By the way NSFA08. What are your future plans?

NSFA08, Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. I will have to do what it takes to get in. I cannot give up on my dream. Being middle-aged I do not have much time left and have fewer options. I really can't spend two years in an ADN program and have nothing more to show for it. I need a minimum of a bachelor's and get my career on a fast track. If I fail to get into CSUF I will have to apply to Mt. St. Mary's accelerated BSN program for next summer. However, that is supposed to be extremely competitive also. Also, Concordia University which is only a couple of miles from my home is considering adding a spring semester accelerated BSN program. I have worked at my boring finance job for 25 years now and if I end up retiring here I will have considered my life a complete failure. I knew since I was a small child that I had a calling somewhere to work in something that would make the world a better place. I had always planned to go into medicine, but that dream ended with an F in chemistry in my first quarter at UCLA many years ago. I have been wandering aimlessly since, searching for my calling until it hit me a couple of years ago that nursing was what I was supposed to be doing. Kathy

Thank you BerryGood for the information. Unfortunately, that is very bad news for me. I have not received any phone calls. Although I haven't received a rejection letter yet if this friday is the last set of interviews then I know that I didn't make it. That makes it 0 for 4. The only hope I have left is the ME-MSN program at CSU Fullerton which I will hear by the end of the week. If I don't make it in then I am completely finished. I really am too old to wait around another year and the competition is only getting stiffer each year. I can't rot on a community college waiting list for 2-3 years either. This reminds me so much of my friends as an undergrad many years ago who were applying to medical school. From what I have seen on the posts to this forum it seems that those who were accepted were accepted by most of the programs they applied to while the rest were rejected by all of theirs. Are you sure that they were only selecting 18 each for summer and fall? Out of 300 applicants those are almost impossible odds. You would have better luck applying to medical school!

Hi Everyone, Has anyone heard any news this week? Have any of you received any phone calls for interviews? This is getting rather late into the process.

I haven't heard a thing. I wonder if that is bad news. I only applied to the fall program, however. Did anyone else get a call? Kathy

I just called them and was told that we would be contacted "toward the end of the month". I asked her whether they were going to be interviewing applicants and she said yes. She sounded a bit hesitant, however.

Hi. Who were you referring to? This wait is killing me!

As far as I know UCLA doesn't have en EL-MSN NP program. They have an EL-MSN and separate MSN for NP program. I applied for the EL-MSN program and I was given the bad news the first week of March.

700 seems way too high. Other than this program I have only applied to masters entry programs and they typically get 300-350 applications. I certainly hope that CSUN didn't get 700 applications (or even 300 for that matter!). I wouldn't stand a chance. The competition to get into ANY nursing program is now ridiculous. I think I would stand a better chance of getting into medical school!

Hi, Were you in Dr. Wickman's interview group? I was in her group. I'm Kathleen. In looking at the number of units for the graduate portion of the program it is almost the same as the pre-licensure portion. I can go 18 months without an income, but I don't think that I can go three years though. In most of the masters entry programs that I have seen the first year or so is all classroom and clinical and then you take your NCLEX. Then you are expected to work as an RN while you finish the degree program. I wish you a lot of luck in getting in.