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Anyone with any suggestions of schools .. particularly in the Philadelphia / Pennyslvania area.. good for nursing, financial oppurtunities, and a nice atmosphere whether it be from knowlege or experience?... running out of time!

hey bergen .. haven't got back to you, I've been really busy and I got my wisdom teeth out this week. Anyhow, I visited drexel today and I walked through Penn's campus as well, got a taste of the city, saw all the hopspitals. I enjoyed it. I'm excited to get down to buisness this week at school and get my stuff together s far as exactly where I'm going to go and what I'm going to do here. Thanks for the help and knowledge you shared, any ideas or anything you find out as far as financial options with the profession let me know! Thanks .. as for anyone else who reads this too, more broad the opinions and the knowledge the better.

I am hoping this weekend to visit Drexel, even just to drive through the campus will give me an idea. Just their website looks beautiful! I started the application, I have a login ID and pin number to finish (informaion I need from school) I read their optional essay and I have that ready. Last year the thought of joining the navy was an option as well.. because they pay your full tuition/ room and board correct? Kind of like the hospital/loan reimbursment deal though, you have to gaurantee yourself a certain amount of years to them .. would I still be able to work in a hospital like CHOP or another children's hospital ? I would have to join a summer training camp/boot camp type thing this summer right? I wouldn't mind I want to do whatever it takes .. I just wish I would have made this decision a couple months ago. But better late than never. Money is my main factor with a lot of this .. I just have to seek my options and get main facts. This weekend I'm hoping to go to Philly and pysically visit some schools and when I return school monday I'll get down to buisness with calling and applying.

I appreciate your reply. CHOP is actually where I hope I end up, I met a woman at my career day at my school who is a ped nurse there, and we talked and got in touch over the holiday and I am going to go up with her one day and check everything out.. she said she would set me up with a recruiter as well. However, I feel like I'm rather late in the game as I mentioned I was set on going to my local community college but the closer it gets the more I'm thinking what am I doing? I need to go away, not for anything else but the experience, growing up. I have really been looking into Drexel which was on your list, however it is soo much money and I have a family of 6. Two sisters and a brother right behind me so my father is not going to be able to put out this outrageous amount of money (big reason i was "settling" for the community college) but this is really what I want to do and a a lot of people have mentioned these loan reimbursemnt plans for hospitals which wouldn't inconvenience me any, because I would be working anyhow. I feel it is too good to be true though .. and I do not want to be stuck in debt when i graduate. I need to find the facts as far as that works .. because that will basically determne what I do, the money part is up to me with making this decision. I will defnintely check out some of the schools on your list that I haven't already looked at. Also, when you say for Thomas Jefferson (where I would like to transfer after 2 years .. because of their affiliation with CHOP) that the program will provide $18, 600 over a three year period to qualified applicants who are hired into a full-time nursing position at any of the four Thomas Jefferson University Hospital campuses is that $18,600 of your loans from college for 3 years worth of tuition or that much each year of tuition/loans?

I am current senior at a highschool in New Jersey, I am looking to move to Philadelphia, PA next year and attend a university there, I am considering Drexel. I've decided I want to go away rather than stay in NJ and attend a community college, I want the life experience of being on my own. However, the cost of this decision is outrageous. I am looking for anyone with knowledge of the area and the nursing profession. I'd love to specialize in pediatric nursing. I would appreciate anyone's advice and mainly exact facts and info about the loan reinbursments once you garauntee a hospital 2 or 3 years of your work. I've heard so many different limits and rules. Any help would be greatly appreciated.