Hi Berkeleymom, Thanks for your info! That really helps! Did you mean 10-15 hours of study time? My classmate from Micro and Phsyio is in your class. Her initials are RF. maybe you know
Hi Nodean, I just applied to the Sacto FNP track, last minute decision. I was told I would either be considered a candidate or get wait listed. Just wondering what your first semester was like?...
Hi All, Thanks for your input. We have many expenses that I cannot keep up with. I know my last resort should be the 401K; I just have to hope that I can still attend nursing school and pay all the...
Hopefully someone can provide some info... I have credit card debt I want to pay off, so I'm thinking of cashing in my 401K, roughly 24K after the taxes are taken out. I will hopefully be attending...
I'm waiting on an answer for my 2nd choice program and will not receive it until mid-October. I haven't really thought about it much lately because when I had gotten "rejected" from a program I was...
Welcome! The best thing to do is apply to as many schools as you can. Here in the San Francisco Bay area the competition for any program is fierce. Some are on lottery system, some are admit by...
We had our second child right before I started my pre-reqs for nursing (Fall 2006). The semester started on a Thursday. I went to class Thursday night, had the baby Friday night, missed class on...
Can I just say that the first two programs I applied to: an ADN program that used the lottery system, 240 applicants, 40 spots and Sonoma State's Direct Entry Master's program, both I didn't get in to...
Hi There! Just wondering if there is anyone out there who is a nurse and has a police officer husband or husband in law enforcement, sheriff etc...i will be starting nursing school in 2008 and my...
hi ayu4, will you be able to let me know your stats for entering the program? last 60 units gpa and science gpa and net score? just wondering as i will be applying to the absn program for may 2008...
I'm taking Intro to Organic and Biochemistry and class starts Thursday. I'm so dreading it, but if I can get through Physiology with a teacher who we called "Powerpoint Boy", I can get through...
battpos, do you still regret going the BSN route? I am in a sort of similar situation where I am on a two year ADN wait list or I can start in Fall 2008 as a nursing student at a private school. I...
pug540, well good; i'm glad there are no interviews for the ABSN program; one less thing to stress off. i'm taking patho with williams and will be bidding on the textbook on ebay; cheaper way to get...
turbohound, i thought SMC doesn't do interviews for the ABSN program? Also, did you guys take Patho as an online class? I'm taking it this semester as online at Yuba College. It sounds
Hi Orindamom, Yes, I think the ABSN program is a little "easier" because there are now more spots available since they opened the SF and the peninsula locations. My former classmate got into the...
choko321, i've been asking the instructors in the classes in which i've done well in and have built a rapport with to do reference letters. i just let them know i'm applying to nursing school and...
Hi! I've applied to Samuel Merritt's transfer BSN program and will be applying to their ABSN and ELMSN program too. I am in Dominican University's pre-nursing program, but they make you wait 3-4...
Hi turbohound, You had mentioned one of the absn students said that the average in her cohort was a 3.5 gpa, do you know if that was all college gpa or just nursing pre-req's gpa? I got into...