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I just finished my last PhD application this month, and I wanted to know if there was anyone else completing applications and waiting. I'm hoping to make a little group of people waiting together to ease the strain a little. I applied to a reach prog...

Hi! I'm not sure if anyone is still reading this, but I wanted to drop this note here. I started posting on this site, at least partly, because I couldn't find much info on the web about the nursing PhD process. What I really wanted was a blog or som...

I've now been seriously apartment hunting for around 3 weeks. I think that I initially started too early. It's only now that apartments available in mid-August or September are being posted on Craig's. I have taken llg's advise and I am looking for a...

I haven't updated anything on here in forever. I thought that it might be nice to say hi to everyone. Hello! I was lucky enough to meet BayArea2010 at a meeting for incoming students at UCSF. BayArea2010 is wonderful and the experience of meeting oth...

So, I'm approaching the next step towards being a student again! Today, the first moving company representative came to give us an estimate. I've never used a moving company before, and I'm hoping that it goes well. I'm not planning on having a car i...

Hi Scoyola, It's great to hear from you! Also, I'm glad to know that our posts have helped you some. I can't speak to everyone's experience with the GRE, but I'll tell you what I did. I work full-time (though not nights anymore) and what I found wor...

Thanks llg! It's nice to hear that other people have been interested and supportive! I hadbeen considering the idea of starting a blog about the PhD nursing experience for a while before I found allnurses.com. When I started the application process, ...

My husband and I made the decision last night. I accepted at UCSF! I also contacted my assigned adviser. It was a relief and after I had finished writing out the declinations, I felt really relaxed. And I also realized how ready I'm getting to start ...

NPtoPhD, that is GREAT! While I'm sorry that we won't be meeting at UCSF, I am thrilled for you and for your decision! It must feel nice to be able to move into the planning phase. Congratulations! I hope to be joining you in the decided group soon. ...

Yay BayArea2010! That is great! I'm so glad that everything is working out and that you'll be able to continue to your PhD :) If I go to UCSF I would love to meet you too! It could work out that you and I and NPtoPhD could be there...that would be a...

Just posting a quick update: no decision on which school yet. My husband's job is holding us up. We originally thought that he would be able to transfer to either city, or at least very nearby, but that isn't the case after all. So we will definitely...

Oh BayArea2010, I am so sorry to hear that you are declining both of those offers. BUT, through that entire post, what I kept hearing is that you are a wonderful mother and wife FIRST, and that will, of course, make you a wonderful nurse. I have alwa...

I hope that everyone is doing well with their decision making! Both my husband and I are off today, so we're sitting down to make a pros and cons list and to start finalizing a decision. He had really thought that this would be an easy decision until...

Hi NPtoPhD, Congratulations on your acceptance at Yale! I was wondering if you had heard! That is so awesome! When you described the decision-making process as "laboring," I laughed out loud. That is exactly what it seems like. And as an old L&...

Yay ctbtrini! Congratulations! Yay! I also wanted to thank you BayArea2010. You're correct and I'm going to contact them and ask nicely. I hope your visit to UMICH goes well this weekend!

Hi Everybody, I thought that I would post an update: I'm still working on my decision. I know, that's not really news... but with just my husband (biased strongly towards UCSF) and my mother (biased strongly towards UW) for sympathetic ears, I've fel...

Hi BSNtoPhD, I don't have much advice on interviews, but I think that some people may have posted some info in previous posts! Good Luck!!! Thank you BayArea 2010! I appreciate the kind words :) Did you visit your other school yet? Are you leaning in...

Thanks for the lovely congratulations! The decision process has now become more complicated than I was expecting, but I am really excited to have options. Since I've heard from both UCSF and UW, we have started to weigh all of the potential impact of...

Thanks llg!

Hi NPtoPhD, Congratulations! (And also, I'm sorry to hear about Penn.) I am excited to hear that you were accepted at UCSF because I was too! Yay! And also Yay! funding!!!! I heard from two schools as well this week. They were my top two choices, wh...

Thanks BayArea2010! I have been having a better day. It is helping that I really think I'm in the home stretch of waiting. How were your campus visits? I'm interested to know if they helped you to decide or gave you any insight into the programs. I w...

So today I panicked. I woke up and was immediately in a full panic about this whole process. Now since I'm posting this on a nursing website, I want to clarify my statement. I did not have a panic attack, I don't have those, I just could not do anyth...

Hi Wall-E, It's nice to have so many people responding to this! First, I'm not in a PhD program yet. I'm in the terrible "waiting" period after applying, but before being admitted (hopefully). Two of the schools that I've applied to are sending out ...

NPtoPhD, you are a wealth of info. Except for Rush, all of my schools are west coast. None of the schools that I'm applying to fully fund and it has been a concern for both me and my husband. I considered some schools out east, but my husband's job w...

Hi NPtoPhD! It's nice to talk to you! And also, thank you so much for letting me know that UCSF doesn't do interviews. I have been freaking out about that very question. I was really getting concerned! What other schools did you apply to and what is ...