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To be honest, I'm not sure. On the website it just says "CPR as professional rescuer". I have the healthcare provider one and especially if you've never had healthcare experience recommend that because it's more in-depth. I'd call the school and check to be sure

As far as I know, you're essentially looking at all private loans and any scholarship money you can dredge up. We have people doing a bunch of different things. Some saved up money before the program, some are working as much as possible to offset the amount of loans they're taking out, and some are going all loans and hoping they get a job soon after graduation. You will hear more during orientation (if I remember correctly they spend an hour or so discussing it) but you can call and ask for additional information if you need to know before then.

Storrs was my first choice and I got it. I did my undergrad there and I love the campus and area so I was REALLY hoping that was where I'd end up :)

DavidChen0811 - I submitted my application mid-january for the January deadline. I was told we wouldn't be accepted for the jan/june deadlines if we had any outstanding classes so I had it all done by Dec and was ready to go. It looks like they're changing that policy this year though as several people have posted here saying they were accepted already with prereqs still to complete, so maybe you will be ok?

Honestly that really depends on your ability to retain information. For the first semester, you have 1 class day, 3hrs of lab on a different day, and 2 days of clinical. That leaves you with 3 full days of nothing. Now to give you an idea of workload for those 3 "free days": 5-7 chapters for fundamentals, 2 chapters and readings for the grad class, 2 sim programs weekly (45min-90min each), videos with online quizzes (this ranges between 3-7 videos depending on the week), an online quiz in fundamentals and the grad class, at least one discussion post, sometimes an ATI test, and the big projects through the semester (Nurse Practice Act Paper and at least one full care plan). I work one 12hr shift a week and budgeted for a day of me time, but that means you're working your butt off the rest of the week. I think a few people are working up to 21 hours a week but they say they get overwhelmed sometimes. One person though is working part time and has been doing amazingly well (high A on both the midterm and final). If you're already at the job you'd like to work at during the program, my suggestion would be ask for the first two weeks off so you can get a handle on how much work it is and how much effort you'll have to put in and go from there. They could be completely changing things next year anyway and the workload might be totally different.

I graduated UConn in 2013 with honors, a BS in Allied Health Sciences and a minor in theater production. Cum GPA was 3.5. My pre-reqs were all As except for one B+. I know sometimes people worry about taking pre-reqs at community colleges but I took two there and had no problem. Because I was retaking a class I waited a year to apply and used the time to get my EMT-B for some healthcare experience. We have some people in our cohort with much more experience and some others who have never worked in any healthcare setting. Besides that my previous jobs were all completely unrelated to healthcare. I did have some leadership experience from my other jobs. Our cohort is incredibly diverse in terms of majors/experience/interests and it definitely seems like they look at who you are and not just what your GPA was for your first degree.

I got my bachelors May 2013 and am currently in the 2015 cohort (I had to hold off a year to retake a class so I also got my EMT-B for some healthcare experience)

I know we had multiple people from other areas: California, Florida, Illinois and they didn't seem to have any problems finding housing (in fact several ended up moving in together) but I'm in the Storrs cohort, so I'm not sure about the housing situation around Avery Point.

Personally I like the program. Overall: Positives: -learning a lot in a short time (although some people are finding this stressful, I feel like this really helps in clinical because it's such a faster pace compared to a traditional program) -professors are very understanding, esp. in the beginning (this is good due to the amount of disorganization) -being with the same group of people each week (doubly true with your clinical group) Negatives -disorganization (biggest example - we had a sim program with weekly sims. Prof said we could have unlimited attempts and whatever our highest score was was our grade. To get 90s, people were spending 3 hrs a week retaking it. Three weeks in prof says highest score was NEVER the case, we just had to attempt it once and we'd get a 100. Works in our favor, but that's almost 10 hours wasted. People were not pleased) -things move around - fairly frequently and sometimes without much warning (examples: our clinical instructor changed our whole second week of clinical, incl. location, time, and day; lab hours got changed on a snow day with only 90min of warning after our group thought it was cancelled) Overall, I'm happy I'm in this program. I'm not going to lie, the disorganization is VERY off-putting sometimes, but having heard from previous students this was a problem, I was fairly prepared. You HAVE to be flexible, especially the first few weeks. MAKE A CALENDAR (preferably after your first class) but write things in pencil, so they're easy to move around. Just take everything in stride and move on. If anything really unfair happens the professors are great about fixing the problem, it just may take time. I just keep telling myself it's only one year and I'm done. We've got a midterm coming up and it's very satisfying (although scary haha) to see how much we've learned in the past 1.5 months. Your classmates and especially your clinical group will get very close. It's awesome to share how great your day's been with your clinical group but even better to have people you can talk to who understand exactly how you feel when you've had a bad day with a sim/reading/assignment/patient/whatever. I know this was kind of wordy, but if anyone has any other questions, just let me know

I sent everything about a week before the Jan 31st deadline last year and got my acceptance Feb 14, just to give you an idea how long it takes. Don't panic if you don't get it the next few days, with all the snow, it might push back getting the letters out, it's certainly pushed back stuff for our classes.

I'm also in the 2015 program at Storrs, so if you still have questions after looking at the other threads, I'd be happy to answer them! :)

Not sure if you already saw this, but some people already posted their stats on the first page of this topic :)

There is definitely a Storrs one (I'm in it) but I don't think there was one for all campuses until now :) So excited to meet everyone!

I got an acceptance package in the mail. It had an acceptance letter as well as a few info sheets and health forms to fill out. As far as I remember, I didn't get an email. I got really lucky haha, my mom forgot I got mail and thankfully by the time I opened it I still had a few days to return the RSVP

The email with my peoplesoft/netID didn't come until mid-March, so it took about a month. If you're really worried, you could try calling and asking for an estimated time but I think it just takes awhile for them to sort through all the acceptances/paperwork