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Hello everyone! I've been piddling on these forums for a few months now reading varying bits of advice, pros/cons of becoming a navy nurse, competitiveness of getting in, etc, but I still have a few unanswered questions that I'd like to post here. I'...

Hello everyone! I'm roughly two months short of finishing my first semester of nursing school. I'm attending UTHealth in Houston, TX and am currently enrolled in Health Assessment, Pharmacology, Pathophysiology, and Adult Care 1 (fundamentals and med...

Update: Passed my first semester with Bs, now halfway through my second semester with all As. Rocking it, and loving every minute of my clinicals! Much more satisfied with my abilities and competence level now! :)

Congrats to everyone that has been accepted! I am almost done with my first semester... It's been a little intense, but I'm still making it. Can't wait to welcome you all! :) We have a FB group that helped us tremendously prior to being accepted, and...

First, I am going to address that I made the comment about staying in Houston not because I thought nursing school somewhere else would be easier, because that isn't what I want or expected at all, but because I felt I should have given myself a chan...

Thanks for the responses everyone! They were greatly appreciated. :) All the wear and tear got me sick now and I have acute bronchitis... I just need this semester to be over so I can rejuvenate myself. I just didn't prepare myself well enough for nu...

We had 90 at the start of the semester according to our instructors, but our clinical instructor is saying they are being told to prepare for 104 for the upcoming semester. As heavykey said, I believe we're down to about 81 now. You guys can get thro...

I think they took their stack of applications, and rather than organize them by score, just simply picked the first 80 they came to that met the criteria they were looking for. IE, if the first person they came to was 88% on HESI and 3.5 gpa, and the...

I just wanted to clarify to everyone now that I'm in the program in case anyone gets back on and reads this forum.. 1. There was no race card (or gender card) for acceptance. There are Hispanics (my roommate), African Americans, Asians, etc and a ha...

@L8Blumer... No I haven't, and it is driving me absolutely insane. I feel so silly with this first world problem! lol I have never had to make a decision this big, and now my family and friends are getting involved and chanting UT in my ear! haha I a...

Hey everyone! Do yourselves a big favor and don't give up until it is all said and done. UT had 850 applicants, and (as we know) a very lengthy acceptance process. It is only natural that they wouldn't accept everyone in one day. Most of us sat aroun...

I will fix the typo! Sorry! Made the group at 2am.. lol Also, I have it as spring 2012 because that is when we start/applied for, but yes, we graduate in fall 2013. Ohhh btw, we're up to 28 people in the FB group! That's almost a third of the class! ...

The group is called, word for word: Texas Women's University College of Nursing - Houston Center - Spring 2012 Just for the record, it's a group and not a page. You have to request to join, and can't just "like" it. If you still can't find it, PM me ...

@grace928 she wasn't very reassuring, honestly. She said that her TWU friends all have higher GPAs than anyone she knows at UT, and that TWU students with higher GPAs appear to get hired before UT students with lower GPAs, because that is a big facto...

See that's what I want to know! UT gives their students the options to rank their hospital and clinical days by preference. I am wondering if TWU gives us this flexibility, because that is a GIANT plus! @Darcy I added my friend's sister on FB last n...

Does anyone know any current TWU students that could help us out on some info and questions? Rocket surgery has been so helpful on the UT forum and I have so many questions before I finalize my decision!

Maybe because it's Friday they're not doing anything? Just keep your head up everyone! :) Letters don't go out til the 15th, so there's plenty of time to still find out. I'm still undecided as of today....... Leaning more towards TWU after talking t...

Everyone on this forum has worked really hard. No one hear has poor gpas or hesi scores, so if you haven't heard anything yet, then it isn't over til it's over! I felt the same way until I got my changes. Good luck to all of you! Have some faith!

@darcyanddebussy lol that's awesome! I don't put too terribly much stock in rankings. If the board of nursing statistics show excellent first time pass rates for both schools, then I'm not going to fret over that detail! The tour was just literally l...

Just out of curiosity, will anyone be applying for housing, or looking to move to the TMC?

@amby TWU is in the Texas Medical Center as well. Actually across the street from TCH. Also, they have a 98% NCLEX first time pass rate for their 90 person student body, while UT has a 97% for their 80. Got that info from the board of nursing websit...

Well my holds changed, so I believe so!

Don't fret yet everyone! They're not done, I'm sure!

darcyanddebussy: i'm in the same predicament as you. i haven't heard from uth yet, but i'm already in at twu, and i can't decide either. the factors i am considering are: housing (ut has it, twu does not) phi theta kappa membership + scholarship oppo...

I'm sending my stuff today while waiting for UTHSC. No biggie!