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Maybe it is tougher to get in now. But like I said before I didnot have all A's. Look at my prior post for my grades. Write a good letter of intent, and try your best at the grades, but mostly make yourself known there with Karen Preston and others if you can. Also in your interview SMILE!!!!! Look them in the eye when you respond. Feel very confident!! Good luck to you all. Have fun and enjoy nursing school.

Hi, not really tough to get into the BSN program. I am attending Bothell campus of UW. Application, some type of letter, why you want to go or something like that about your character. They do a background check, immunizations, transcripts, the usual. No interview though. They give you 45 credits for passing the NCLEX so that was cool. I think you need fairly good grades from nursing school, but I was not an A student in nursing school. I got some A's, B's and one sememster a C!!!! Oh yea about your NCLEX, while you are in nursing school, at the end of each semester you have to pass a test ( I can not remember the name) it is supposed to prepare you for the NCLEX. It is taken on the computer, with your whole class with an instructor watching so you do not cheat........ Anyway you have to pass by 80% at that time. If you do not then you are able to retake the test, open book at home but have to pass at 90%. The school gives you a book and CD to practice questions out of, etc. It really is important because when you go take the NCLEX, it is intense. I would suggest you use these books and CD's to practice when you have time and especially on breaks, otherwise you may forget stuff, at least I did. The books and CD's coordinate with what you are learning in that sememster. Good Luck!! I am excited for you!!

Good Luck to both of you. I graduated EVCC nursing in 12-2009! Sounds like they made it tougher to get in. I did not have straight A's in my pre-reqs. In Chem. 101 I had an A, but Chem 102 I had a C. The rest of my classes were A's, (except MATH) and I had a B in A & P! The best advice I can give you, smile alot in your interview, dress professionally, and listen carefully to the question asked. The instructors I LOVED; Brasfield, Zoeller, Whedon, Dotson, Weber. When I started it seemed like I would never get through it but then it was graduation and it seemed like it flew by. I have been working the past year, and am attending UW for my BSN! Graduate in June. I figured since I was in school the last five years what was one more, . Hope this helped. I love being a nurse! Sometimes it is insanely busy but makes your day fly by!!!!! Good Luck,