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Also heard from my recruiter and I was accepted! Not sure if this is the provisional acceptance or what but I'm sooo excited!!! Can't wait to start this journey!!! Congrats to all that were accepted! :)

I understand that, thank you.

Hi all! I was recently accepted into the NCP program for the Navy and I am currently trying to decided what duty station I want. I have heard you only get three choices with Walter Reed being one of them. I went and toured Walter Reed and I thought it was absolutely amazing but I wanted to see if anyone on here could give me some insight into their experience as a nurse there. I currently live in San Diego and am trying to decide between the Naval Medical Center here or Walter Reed. Any input is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Yes I heard there were some issues with last years applicants due to the government shutdown. I spoke with my recruiter about that and he thought things would flow a little smoother this year as long as that doesn't happen again so fingers crossed that it doesn't! I just want to know already, feels like I've been working on this forever!

I applied in the NCP application period as well. My recruiter said the board meets the first week of Oct. and decisions should be released after that, anyone heard the same thing? The wait is going to kill me...

Thought I would post on this topic because I am also an applicant for NCP this FY. I was just notified by my recruiter that everything is good to go and now we just have to wait until Oct. for a decision. It's going to be a long month or more waiting to hear something! I would love to connect with some other NCP applicants, looks like I am graduating a little later than the rest of you but still thought I would see how everyone is holding up! Can't wait for Oct. to be here! :)

I went ahead and created a facebook group for our cohort! You can find it under National University SD cohort 37. I would love to get everyone on there so we can support and help each other throughout this nursing adventure! :)

@spcp2010 I added you on Facebook and I would like to start a facebook page as soon as I am friends with a few more fellow students because I guess you need to add friends to the group before you can make it! Anyone else who is accepted my name is Amanda Rice and you can add me on Facebook, here's the link to my page cause I know there's a lot of Amanda Rices: https://www.facebook.com/amanda.brock.142 (it says Amanda Brock because that is my maiden name! :)) Good luck to everyone and I can't wait to see you all at orientation!

Me too!!!! Yay!!!!! Finally!! We need to add each other on Facebook and start a group page!!! I hope everyone else got their emails!! :)

Ha I just did the same thing!! Mine literally skipped a beat, this is killing me!!

Ugh!! Me too, I just want to know already!! Hopefully they will somehow make the deadline so we don't all pull our hair out!

Next week really?? Darn I was really hoping it would be this week as it is mid-October. Very frustrating!! Was he specific about what day next week?? Probably not but all this waiting is driving me absolutely crazy!!

My admissions counselor said we would be notified via email in the next few weeks, he said mid-October, so we're getting close!! I just want to know already!! Fingers crossed, good luck everyone!!!

You should get an email within a couple weeks after the application period closes. Our application closed on July 17th I think and I got an email about my test date in early August and my essay and test date was about 3 weeks after that. So overall its a pretty good chunk of time. Hope this helps!

Yeah I one of those people that has to plan for like way ahead in the future just so I can feel less stress haha! Yeah Sharp is a really awesome hospital and beautiful like you said, I'm from Colorado so I'm going to apply at places here and in Colorado and just see what I get! Yeah I still can't decide if I want to go on and do nurse practitioner or anesthetist or not so I'm just going to be a nurse for awhile and see how I like it, I may end up doing something I absolutely love and not want to go back! Yeah that's exactly what I've heard, failing a class is very very bad! It puts you back a lot so I definitely don't want that to happen. I hope we get in too! I'm just keeping my fingers and toes crossed and waiting patiently, or maybe not so patiently! :)

Wow! That's a lot of applicants!! Oh gosh that makes me even more nervous!! Yeah I volunteer at Sharp Memorial right now and I have a friend in labor and delivery so I'm going to try and volunteer there soon and then get a Tech job there and after I graduate they pretty much hire their techs for their new grad nursing positions automatically as long as you're a hard worker and they like you. But I don't think I'll start working nights until we're through some of the harder classes because I've just heard its really hard to balance your time with a job and you DO NOT want to fail a class because it puts you waaay back. I want to get a foot in but I also don't want to put my education in jeopardy so we'll see what I can handle! I hope we all get in!!!

@Kelekealoha don't worry you're not alone in your fretting! I think we're all extremely nervous! I'm not really sure how many applicants there are but I know when I wrote my essay there was about 20 students in the computer lab so maybe they just spread the applicants out among several days but I'm not really sure. And I've heard that we don't get our essay results back until after they make decisions and you have to call and ask for them. My adviser told me that the last cohort found out about 2 and a half months before their start date so we should find out around mid-october, which sucks! Soooo much waiting and anticipation!! As for the essay I think we all felt the same way! All the prompts were really different from one another and different from anything we expected. Maybe they're trying to make us really think on our feet? I just wrote as best I could and I'm hoping for the best! So nerve racking though!

@Dequis Yeah I was surprised I finished ahead of time! Like I said I had a lot of moments where my brain just kind of went blank! Well thanks I hope I do! Sounds like you will as well because your grades and TEAS score are awesome and I'm sure you did good on your essay! Exactly, the waiting is the worst part! I always thought applying would be the worst part but its nothing compared to waiting. I live like 5 minutes north of mission valley so closer to rancho than you but I know with traffic my 20 minute drive could potentially double or triple. :-/ Also the work I do right now is online on the computer and I kinda of make my own schedule so I will continue to work as much as I can. Will you be working?

Dequis, I felt the same way when I was writing my essay! The typing of everyone else was super distracting but I just tried to ignore it after awhile! I definitely had to take some time to think and even when I was writing it I still had some brain farts but I eventually finished and was able to have extra time to go over my essay. I hope I did good! Now its just a waiting game! Hopefully next month we'll all be commenting on this thread that we got in! :)

Can't wait to get the decisions!

Yes you have to complete all pre-reqs before you apply. The cost currently is $39,000, steep but worth it if you're willing to invest in your future as a nurse. I plan to apply for a lot of private scholarships and just hope that I get something. The school offers grants based on your FASFA information, if you qualify for them they will give them to you. They don't offer many scholarships but there are private scholarships out there that you can apply for.

Yeah I did fairly well on my TEAS, a 88 which I would have liked above a 90 but my adviser said that was a competitive score so I stuck with it. Wow yours sounds harder than mine! Mine was something like how do I see myself contributing to the nursing field. I have good grades as well and no retakes of classes so I'm hoping that I get max points for those areas. My adviser said the last cohort found out 2 and a half months before their start date so we should know around mid-October at the earliest. I'm hoping it will be sooner but I doubt it, supposedly they take their time with decisions.

How did you do on your TEAS? I've been nervous since I got done too! How do you feel about your essay? My topic was not what I expected so I hope I did well!

Hello, I was just looking for any other applicants to cohort 37 at National University in San Diego. The start for this cycle is January 2014. I just finished all the application steps last week and have been dying to know how other people are feeling about their admission. I'm going to go crazy! My adviser said we would probably not find out until about mid-October, which is so far away! Maybe some other applicants are feeling the same way but I thought that I would check and see. Good luck to everyone and I hope to hear from some people soon!