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I use Bank of America for my private loans. Oh, and NYU does offer many scholarships, it's only a matter of applying for them in such a freakin' LARGE pool that you are lucky to receive a meager few thousands... but I guess at this point any drop in the bucket helps. Work study, I hear is pretty hard once you're in the 15-month progression program because you barely have ANY free time to work on campus, if anywhere at all. Most people work once a week or do some sort of evening job because some days you aren't done with classes until 6pm.

Hi all. I'll be starting the 15-month progression program in Fall 2010, but I've already been at NYU completing the pre reqs and doing some nursing courses (an elective and theory and research). I've already spent $31,000 in one year: just on tuition!! Books was about another $1,000 and I live in Brooklyn, which is $1,000 a month in rent. I did work part-time during the year, but the College of Nursing advises you NOT to work AT ALL during the 15-month progression program. So, to pay for school I have taken out subsidized and unsubisized stafford loans and private loans.

HI Nicolemsm.. it sounds like the pre reqs you have lined up should be okay, but I'd run them by an advisor at NYU's College of Nursing. In order to be enrolled into the progression BSN/MS program, I *think* you have to have all of the pre reqs completed, if not, they won't let you advance in the program. good luck!

I will be entering NYU's Fall 2010 15-month progression group and I the advice I have to offer is: do well on your pre requisites! I did most of mine at NYU, except for Microbiology, and they really stress nothing less than a C (or maybe it's a C+) for pre reqs. With that said, I got a C+ in Microbio and a C+ in Biostats. Not great, but I didn't have to take them again. With those grades though, I could have potentially damaged my future career options of where to work (some hospitals stress that they won't accept anyone with C's). So, in short, do well in the pre reqs and you should be okay. I'm a second degree student (already have a BA) and my GPA going in was somewhere around 3.2 or 3.5.

so which one did you pick turtles?

This is a great post! I too will be starting my clinical rotations in the Fall in NYC and I am just terrified that I will 1)be "left out" of performing such tasks (I hear that before you are allowed to do ANYTHING you MUST FIRST get your clinical instructor's permission and in some cases, they even have to observe you performing whatever task/procedure it is...) and 2) being overwhelmed and "unprepared" to do tasks and procedures. Right now I simply volunteer and I find it frustrating that all I am allowed to do is stock PPE boxes, serve trays, and fill water pitchers. I wish I could do more, but I know it's learning process and I will definetly be printing all of the replies here to remind myself how I can be helpful and make the clinical experience the best it can be! thanks all.

thank you Silverdragon102!

Hi Silverdragon102. I'm new year and currently an accelerated BSN-RN student at NYU. I will hopefully be earning my BSN and RN in the Fall 2010 here in the USA, but just over a year and a half ago I married a man from the UK. We are *thinking* of moving back in a few years but we're not sure. Do you know if I would have to resit all of my nursing courses and RN exam if I did move to the UK? And how does it work for obtaining a job if I married a UK subject/citizen? Thank you! :)