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  1. UT Houston Fall 2010 (University of Texas at Houston)

    Hey Everyone! First of all, Congrats on getting accepted! I am about to start my 3rd semester at UT Houston (now known as UTHealth) and I am the Student Nurse Association President. I know you all are...
  2. single mother returning to school for rn licence

    I am single mom in nursing school as well. My advise would be to find people you can count on to help and accept help when it is offered (it is especially important to have a back up plan for the...
  3. Do any nurses work "normal" hours??

    Take into consideration that many hospitals have 24 hour childcare. You can leave your child there up to 30 minutes before and after your
  4. Nurse Researcher?

    I am in a BSN program, we have an entire class on research and I am participating in a study right now on how nursing students learn and if there is a more efficient way. If you look into the...
  5. UT houston spring 2010 hopefuls

    During the summer you *might* be able to make up one clinical...missing three would be suicidal...the summers will be hard and fast, and very few opportunities to make
  6. UT houston spring 2010 hopefuls

    Ok, the very bare bones of it is that the school decided to add about 50 part time slots and 20 more full time slots (we were told our class would be 80 ppl, ended up with ~150) The part time people...
  7. UT houston spring 2010 hopefuls

    Hey guys! Just to ease your mind a little, for our class, UTLink changed before we got the acceptance letters. And if it says provisional acceptance, you're in. You just may need to send your shot...
  8. UT houston spring 2010 hopefuls

    Hey guys! I am in the program now (class of December 09) and I thought I would give you all a few tips. First, you do not have to get your check up from UT health. You just have to have your doctor...
  9. UT- Application Process

    My NET score was somewhere in the mid to upper 80's...I can't remember for sure. The reading section was harder than I thought it would be, but not terrible overall. Good Luck taking the
  10. UT- Application Process

    I have several friends who are nurses and they worked it out so I could shadow them. If you know any nurses, ask them, or ask around to friends if they know any
  11. UT- Application Process

    I took art an art class for the visual and performing arts elective, I took interpersonal communications as an elective, and College Algebra counted as an elective (I took it after I took statistics...
  12. UT- Application Process

    I think they call everyone with the minimum GPA and NET score for an interview. I think they interviewed around 400 people for my class. Also I would recommend going to an information session if you...
  13. UT- Application Process

    Have you taken your NET or whatever test they are requiring now?? For my class you HAD to have at least a 70 on the NET before you could even get an interview, No matter what your GPA was. Just a...
  14. UT- Application Process

    The application process is pretty straight forward. I applied, got an interview and waited (that was the hard part) I was accepted my first time (thank God!) which I wasn't really expecting because...
  15. UT- Application Process

    Mathwizard is incorrect. I was accepted to UT Houston for the fall and I took Stats through the psych department as well. UT DOES count this as your math requirement. I know this because it was my...
  16. Fall 2009 UT Houston BSN Applicants

    I added you to the FB group when you submitted a request and you are showing up on the group list...I don't know why it isn't showing up on your
  17. Fall 2009 UT Houston BSN Applicants

    AdrianLU, thank you so much!! That was very
  18. First of all, nothing in corpus is more than a 20 minute drive anywhere! So, that is nice when looking for somewhere to live and planning your clinical sites which are literally all over the city. I...
  19. Do you know what area of town you want to live
  20. I am not in this program, (I just got into UT Houston) but I just moved away from Corpus where I lived for 6 years. I have tons of useless information on the area and great apartments (for less than...
  21. Fall 2009 UT Houston BSN Applicants

    I did quite a bit of nurse shadowing and it seemed to help me in the interview. Did you say what your NET scores were? If you read back through this thread, there were some people with high GPA's...
  22. To all the mothers: Day Care Advice (long)

    I have a three year old who has been in day care since he was 2 months old. I agree with most of what karen1984 says EXCEPT the visiting at nap time. I would go when the kids are awake. You can get...
  23. Fall 2009 UT Houston BSN Applicants

    unless you are really good at math take something else (to boost your gpa). i am taking math1314 now and it is counted as an elective (statistics fills the math requirement) i only took 1314 to...
  24. Fall 2009 UT Houston BSN Applicants

    For my art class I took Design 1. For my electives I took I took college algebra and interpersonal communications (highly
  25. Fall 2009 UT Houston BSN Applicants

    They used to take around 125, but dropped down to 80 when they opened a spring