texaspancho

It took them 2 months from my test date to notify me by snail mail that I had been selected to take the class (also scored above 90 on all sections). If you took it May 8th, it seems awfully fast for them to notify you, but if she said a week, I dunno. There is a mandatory orientation on June 2nd for summer Pharm. I postponed to take Fall Pharm because I am traveling this summer. But I know how you feel, cuz choosing postponement seemed dicey (what if they forget me?). If you did all your stuff right it seems like you will be contacted...at some point....:)

Sorry, also forgot that you HAVE TO go to the orientation before they will let you fill out an application. They make you show proof that you attended the orientation before they will give it to you!

You have to be in invited to take Pharmacology (RNSG 1301). You are invited after you fill out an application at Coleman, take the other prereqs, and score high enough on the HESI. When you fill out an application, and show you have finished your prereqs, they will give you a date you can take the HESI. Take the HESI, and wait until you hear from them. I took the HESI in Feb, and was invited in April to take Pharm for the summer. Once you pass Pharm, then you are officially in the program. You can't take any other RNSG classes until you pass that class. Yeah, it's that complicated.

I'm still waiting to hear back from places, but was wondering if anyone had any opinions on programs as graduates or former students of the schools here in Houston. I am getting a bad vibe from HCC (e.g., crazy [more than usual] professors), and not heard great things about HBU. I have heard positives about Lone Star. Was wondering about TWU-Houston or UT-Houston? Thanks y'all!

I am an excessive sweater myself, and I finally broke down and saw a dermatologist. She prescribed Drysol, an antiperspirant. You put in under your arms at night, wash it off the next morning. After a few days, no sweat. It takes a few days to block the sweat plugs. I love that stuff, and I am a person who would sweat when it wasn't even hot.

It has been such a long finals week. No, THIS STORY. I'm done. Sorry.

Sorry, I meant to quote this story...

This story was interesting and (disturbingly) funny. Thanks for posting it!

Yeah, that's how I felt. Although I did look on their admission steps form on the internet, and Speech isn't on there anymore (but knowing them, they'll add something else).The HESI date availability is sketchy. I am definitely not pinning any hopes on HCC. I was going to apply and just see how it panned out. I am out of district for HCC (don't live in HISD zones) but it closer to me than Lone Star. Also, Lone Star has a point system that would require me to retake ENGL 1301 to be competitive. And , like you, I just don't want to take any more prerequisites.... If it weren't for that, I'd probably drive the extra distance to Lone Star. If I even got accepted....good gravy this is ridiculous...

The lady at the program info session did say they were going to add more requirements, most likely for the Fall 2010 applicants. She said ENGL 1302, Speech, A & P II, Micro, PSYC 2314, and a Fine Arts Elective. Basically all the courses they are "strongly suggesting" to take before starting their program. I knew about the HESI test, but she said they didn't have any open test dates when I went in September. And you have to take THEIR HESI, not transfer a score in from a testing center. Then you have to be "invited" to take Pharm for the semester following your acceptance (so like in the summer if you were accepted for Fall), and pass the test with an 85 in order to enroll for the fall. So, in answer to your question if they are making it more difficult, sure looks that way. I am ready to apply for next fall but will be lucky if I can get a HESI test date there in time. Their admission system is ridiculous, I feel your pain.

Sorry I can't reply to your PM, inbox, don't have enough posts yet. I did want to tell you - I went to CUNY at Queens College. Yea Flushing!

For those of you that are being hard on Inbox as a pushover, as one who has been through this experience, moochers are very clever at finding ways to see your work. Can they just "confirm" an answer and then, when you go to get supplies, you find they have "confirmed" 3 pages verbatim. When you go to talk to the professor, they "accidently" pick up your book as their own. You don't want to believe that other students, who got in the same school you did, do this, and you're sitting with them. So yes, I guess we should be more vigilant about our work product (and aware of what patients might do for, say, narcotics). But as a person who thought we were all in this together (HSM :))), it takes time to realize, nope we're not. Every man for himself. Unless you meet a kindred soul, and we're figuring out who those are right now. It's part of the learning process. It's not a matter of "I'm too weak to say no" but "*** just happened?"

Yes, sadly, I have discovered that the moochers can make the same high grades as the students who work their tails off. Another great reason to stop the mooching.... Next semester, we'll start fresh. I think you may be like me: nice, trying to help people out, maybe a little naiive (at least I think I was), about what they were doing. We have to learn too I suppose! And I think that the mooching is how they got into the program in the place. Too bad they don't spend the time learning.

OMG! Are you my inner self who snuck to the computer to write your post! YES! The exact same thing, same responses, everything, happened to me in my pre req classes. I was hoping that the moochers would be weeded out for nursing school because really, how far can you go without doing your own work? But OH NO, we have ENABLED THEM! What do they do once they are nurses, and don't know anything? Endanger people? In the classes I have talked about, I was trying to figure out creative ways to get around them (turn assignments in outside class? turn it in very early at beginning of class). I was about to toughen up and say "NO, because I don't want to get in trouble when our answers are the same, sorry ([not really])", when for various reasons, we had no more labs this semester, and we had to do them on our own. So, I am feeling pretty satisfied that they have had to do their own labs (do they even know how?) for the last several weeks. Now I need to figure out how to get out of this next time....And yes, I agree, you have to careful because you will be with them for 2 LONG years.

Did you take a lab component with the Intro to Chem class? I know you have to take a lab part for it to be counted. At the community colleges, it's CHEM 1405 (at HCC, Intro to Chem). If you took 1305, you can register for just the lab part (1 hour credit). I am just getting this info from their Prerequisite Equivalency List on UT-Houston's website and that I got at an info session. Another thing to consider is if your credits came from a regionally (not nationally) accredited school or not. Most schools won't accept credits from schools that aren't regionally accredited (including University of Phoenix). That's all I can think of off the top of my head....