I just got accepted in off the waitlist. Going to turn it down. For people who have been wondering about this sort of thing, my stats were: 3.1 GPA from BA in English from a state school. 4.0 prereq...
ISingTheBodyElectric replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing
California absolutely DOES have the money to provide 6k BSNs. Corrections and Higher Education in California If you study the graphs you'll see that over a 20 year period, the percentage of...
ISingTheBodyElectric replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing
Speaking from personal experience .. I attended a state school in California from 2001-2003. Before that I did my freshman and sophomore years at a California community college. Tuition at the...
There is no single site with this information, but if you google around using specific school names, you can sometimes find information. For example:...
What about professors who you took prereqs with? Anatomy, physiology, micro, etc? They would probably be able to better speak to your aptitude for nursing
I have some pretty strong feelings on this subject, since I worked as a teaching assistant for several semesters in anatomy, physiology, and microbiology classes, and I can't tell you how many times I...
Mistakes happen, and everyone loves a comeback kid. You need to demonstrate that this last year was an anomaly, and not indicative of how you'll function in nursing school. Figure out what you did...
I was told by the admissions director that they're looking for 153 in both verbal and quant, and a 4.5 in AWA. I think the verbal and quant translate to a 55 percentile and the 4.5 is about an 84...
I dropped out at 17 and got my GED. I don't want to completely discount RunBabyRN's experience, but I went to community college, transferred to a 4 year school, and never looked back. I am 33 and...
ISingTheBodyElectric replied to ShineyNickelRN's topic in General Students
I just finished studying for and taking the GRE, which is a really long (3 hours and 40 mins), so I feel you on this. I don't know of any magic bullets, but in taking mock exams I found my scores were...
I think you should be fine considering you're not working. In my own experience and watching classmates, it's trying to take anatomy, physiology, and/or micro in the same semester that murders
ISingTheBodyElectric replied to junipers's topic in Advanced Practice
Which loan repayment scheme are you looking at? The hrsa program pays 60k for two years plus 40k for every year after that up to 200k. That's on top of your regular salary, plus it's tax free. So work...