FutureNurse208

My appointment isn't until Friday But I have everything in my cart ready to go...

Yay... its a lot to do, but oh so exciting.

I just got my acceptance letter today :) So, I'm sure that you will get yours very soon since your GPA was better than mine.

The main hospitals are going to be Saint Lukes and Saint Alphonsus, they both have a few different campuses around the valley. And I actually work at Saint Alphonsus, I'm just doing housekeeping type stuff right now though. I'm thinking about going to get my CNA, but don't really know if I'd want to put those classes on top of the other classes and work I already have, haha.

Nampa is about 18 miles outside of Boise but that is exit to exit, you'd still have to get to the freeway first. Honestly though, if I get in, I'm going to seriously look at moving into Boise to be a lot closer to campus. And yes, I would keep working, but the job I have right now its pretty low stress and it works with my school schedule fore sure, especially since most classes will be somewhere between 7am-3pm.

I'm running a 3.73, I got a B in the second A&P haha. And yeah, the average admitting GPA has been running between like 3.75-3.8 over the last couple of years. So even though I'm slightly below that, even if its the 3.8 how I'm going to look at it, that means for every 4.0 getting in, there is also a 3.6 getting in. Both the pre-nursing adviser and the nursing office lady both had stated that they think my GPA is strong, but I guess we will see.

Well, Nampa... but most of my time is spent in Boise between work and school. haha. Yeah the waiting game sucks. I turned my application in by hand towards the beginning of the month, they had told me they were going to get the letters out a week or 2 after oct 1. Here is to hoping for good news. What was your GPA in the 4 classes?

Anybody else out there applying this fall to start with the Spring 2015 semester?

Fullforce, for a few semesters, they were doing essays and even an interview I think one year. They got rid of that though. They were thinking about changing it again but opted against it. So, for admittance it is based strickly on GPA in the 2 anatomy classes, the chemistry class and statistics. You need to have a minimum of no C's in those with a GPA min of 3.0, but that will not make you competitive at all. From what I know a 3.7 or higher is still what makes you pretty competitive. You then need a minimum of 2.0 for the other required classes. Another student asked the nursing adviser what happens if students lets say 58-62 all have the same GPA (since they only admit 60) they advised us that they would put those people in a hat and draw a name to see who is admitted. I hope this helps some.

Keep in mind as well that the lower cost of living does come with a lot lower salary as well. I am not a nurse yet, just studying to be one, but believe me I do a lot of income comparisons, haha. I live in southern Idaho, so wouldn't really tell you where to start looking. I do know that some people have actually crossed the boarder to look at working in WA while living up there in CDA.

Hey Briana! First of all congratulations! I bet you were super excited when you got that letter. I am going to try to apply for the first time in the Fall to start in the Spring. I am just finishing up some classes this summer (Stats is just finishing up and will be starting Bio 228 here pretty quick) to get to that goal. So hopefully I'll see you around the Nursing building sometime soon. Arianna