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All of the schools I applied to looked at both my cumulative (which was honestly terrible - like a 2.9 - due to a lot of issues that are all very old now) and my last 60 credits aka my ABSN GPA (which was a 3.9). They also looked at my science GPA as...

Agreed with all of the above. I started in the ICU straight out of school and was glad I did; I would have been insanely frustrated with the low acuity of the floor. The ICU has a large learning curve, but if you're truly the CRNA type, you'll be hap...

I'm oh-so-lucky enough to be a somewhat tall gal (5'9") with short legs (usually a 30" inseam is more than sufficient for me) and a long torso. It's hard to find long tops - most don't even cover the top quarter of my tush which means I can't bend ov...

Okay, so I know this may be somewhat controversial, because it may be one of those things that's not "official" but is in reality a factor... I'm currently getting ready to go back to school, for nursing, via an ABSN program. I've narrowed my choices...

Wow. We started with 62 and ended with 62. I'd be shocked if we lost anyone along the way to graduation, to be honest. I don't know that our program ever has asked someone to leave due to academics more than once or twice. (Hooray for competitive AB...

Our clinical group all chipped in for a GC to a restaurant for our CI... I don't think it was that weird, considering the semester was over, grades were in, and it's really something to take a group of complete newbies under your wing in a patient ca...

I'm surprised at how many people are so offended by the idea. We just finished doing physical assessment and had to do our head-to-toe exams on each other in a sports bra and shorts (and will be doing bed baths in the same, or a swimsuit, in a week o...

Hey, everyone. I'm wondering if any of you out there are working nurses with Crohn's disease. I am - get this - two weeks into my ABSN program, and just spent three days in the hospital culminating with a diagnosis of Crohn's. (I was joking with the...

That's true. What I'm going through now is a full-on flare that I ignored for days assuming it was something viral that would pass; hopefully in the future I can recognize this sooner and take evasive action if possible. I have to hope they won't all...

Thanks, guys. :) This was really encouraging to hear.

With the laptop thing - you can pick up a netbook nowadays for $200-250, and they're so small and portable that you can basically close it and toss it in your purse while running around campus. I still prefer my 15" notebook for working on, but if I'...

It's RAD. I'm coming from FL, so I'm used to $200-300 in the summer and when it gets cold (like it did this January) we hit $450 in a townhouse because all anyone has down there are the heat pumps that work down 'till about 50 degrees then start runn...

Just as an FYI for those wanting to live near campus... check out University Apartments (I live here, full disclosure!). It's just over one mile from my door to the nursing school, plus I'm on a bus route directly to there and two blocks from a free ...

Yeah, I know, I just didn't feel like calculating it. :)

Uh... not sure... whatever a 3.4 across 60 credits (my first degree GPA) plus a 4.0 across 20 more (prereqs) works out to be. Probably a 3.4 or 3.5ish.

I'm kind of confused as to how "never updated any information on the list" automatically means she may have screwed up. What if the person's an alternate? What if there's no processing and updating to be done right now? Maybe she hasn't updated any i...

Chapel Hill is 7+ miles from campus and the main corridor between the two is a nightmare at anything remotely resembling peak traffic time. The rest of NC seems terrified of Durham but it's actually quite a fantastic little city, the crime rates are ...

Congrats, all! I'm so pleased for all of you! Let me know if you have any questions about moving to Durham!

I think you're right. But if you look back, there were people with CL who had credit pulled over a couple of days last week - and now it's the weekend. I know exactly how you're feeling right now, but she may just be going slow, or doing paperwork in...

Nope - no credit pull here, either. C'est la vie. :-/

Yeah, it sounds like things are on a much shorter schedule for you guys. Our scholarship deadline was a week or so after acceptances went out. Listen, financial aid is not really an issue - at least not as far as "will I be able to or not?" unless yo...

Let's see. Gotta dig through the email. Uhm... acceptance would have been mid-February for us... and my financial aid email came March 16th. So about a month. But I knew about the scholarship before that.

There are six $10k scholarships - two of each of the three broad categories (overcoming difficulties, diversity, and working in the community.) They also give out a lot of smaller scholarships - I think a lot of them are $7500? - mostly based on fina...

Yep. Whatcha need to know? I actually got one of the $10k scholarships they offer - wahoo! They make financial aid pretty easy, overall. There's a lot I could say, but what are you most specifically wanting to know? :)

You're welcome! I'm enjoying my last couple weeks of freedom, it's been soooo nice to have time to spend reading stuff on allnurses, decorating the apartment, baking, cooking, sleeping in, going out and exploring Durham, etc... :)