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Awesome! That's great to know! Did you go through the program already/ are you currently completing it nycnursetobe? Thanks for the helpful tip.

Hi everyone! My name is Ashley and I applied to NYU's accelerated bachelor's in nursing program for Fall 2014 in September (yeah, I'm a freak and got everything done early). I just wanted to throw out all of my "stats" and "credentials" so when I hear back from NYU in March on whether I was accepted or not, you all can kind of judge what they may or may not see as the most important criteria for being accepted. First of all, I graduated with a Bachelor's in Psychology from Ithaca College in May of 2012. My cumulative GPA was a 3.8. And here is the breakdown of my prerequisite GPA's: A&P I (with lab): A- A&P II (with lab): A Fundamentals of Chemistry: A ; Chemistry lab: B+ ; I also took a course called Organic Chem & Biochem: B+ ; and the lab that went with it: A (but just one chem course is required for applying) Microbiology I took the summer after I graduated at Cornell University: B (I haven't taken a lab for micro) Nutrition: A Statistics (with lab): A Developmental Psych: A During college, I was on a research team for Psychology (where I went to two national conferences to present our research, and one local conference). I also did an honor's thesis my senior year. One of my letters of recommendation was from my research team advisor (who also was my honor's thesis advisor), and the other letter was from my supervisor at Penn-Mar human services, which was where I did a summer internship working with adults with disabilities. During my off years, I've been working full time as a nanny. I adore children and think I will end up specializing in pediatrics after becoming an RN. My major downfall with my application is that I have NO hospital/shadowing experience. AT ALL. I've wanted to start shadowing but because of my work schedule, it is difficult to find time where offices are open and in addition, I don't have a car so it makes things more difficult. Because I have no experience working with nurses, I feel like this is a major downfall to my application, and most likely will lead to me not being accepted but I figured it's worth a try! I'm sure most of you have seen this blog just by google searching NYU's accelerated nursing program, but I wanted to provide the link for you all because it has a lot of great detailed information on the program that comes from a student who completed it in 2011. NYU Nursing Accelerated 15-Month Program FAQs | Life With Jess I wish you all the best of luck and look forward to hearing from you all on hopefully what will be you posting about receiving your acceptance letters! I will let you all know whether or not I got accepted. Good luck and have a happy new year! :)