Richwade

Anastasiak, you should familiarize yourself with something called the burden of proof, don't worry I'll tell you since you obviously don't know, "he that asserts must prove". I wasn't the one who asserted that neuro is lower on the list, you and your friend however are, therefore it is your responsibility to prove. So while you seem insistent on throwing your two cents in, please show me ANY and I mean ANY proof that "they list them that way for a reason". It's called the list are being done arbitrarily.. Profound concept I know... I didn't see anywhere in your great source where it says, "ICU and CVICU are the top choice area of specialty". All your "source" showed was another arbitrary list. Thanks for your insight. :)

Umm.... Could you explain what your point of emphasis is with the citations you provided? The first one that you provided (tcu) doesn't mention neuro preferred or otherwise (which you pointed out)? So what's your point? Simply because they omitted a specialty doesn't mean anything. Your second post is even more curious... I think you're inferring more than you should about neuro being less preferred simply because of where it's located on the list. Perhaps it might behoove you to read through the entire paragraph, it says nothing about that list of specialties being listed in order of preference, simply that it is among those that are preferred. In fact right above that list, all it states is that adult is preferred above NICU/PICU. If there is a "preferred" specialty it would most certainly be CVICU and according to your logic that would be third?.... Probably not. Like you said, it does obviously vary greatly the preferences that each program may have. There is however no hard and fast rule that on a general basis of neuro being valued any less than any other specialty. You seem to be taking your own anecdotal experience and coming to some incorrect conclusions. I doubt that you're offending anyone, I just want to ensure that incorrect info doesn't get disseminated as fact.

Sweetether you are painfully misinformed. Neuro ICU experience is in no way "last on the list". I don't know where you're getting your information from but please educate yourself before stating things as fact. I am a current SRNA and sit in on the admissions committee for incoming students (in a very, very well respected program) and neuro ICU experience is valued just as highly (if not more so) than any specialty ICU. And the fact that you think it ranks in the same category as PICUS/NICUS betrays your ignorance, most schools require adult ICU experience, therefore making PICU/NICU ineligible as prerequisite experience to gain admission to CRNA school and thus they are not even remotely in the same category.

Congrats! I got my phone call today as well! Looks like I'll be seeing you in August!

I'm guessing that it's safe to assume that we won't hear anything for at LEAST another week, Otherwise why would they have gone through all of the trouble emailing all of us individually just to notify us a day or two later. Just my thoughts...

JSRN19 did you get the email yet?

December

I got that email as well

They said that they were two weeks behind? So did they did they tell you when they would start notifying people?

I interviewed in December, they sent an email in January telling us what days the February interviews were and that we would "know our status by the first week of March."

Yeah, got my letter as well, good luck to both of you!

Will do, thanks for the heads up!

I called today, they mentioned that they are going through applications now and we should hear back in a few weeks and that interviews would probably be early April.

I'm in the same boat, I'll let you know if I hear anything back. Do know much about the program?

Just wondering if anyone else has applied to Lincoln Memorial University's CRNA program? I know the deadline is February 1st, just wanted to get an idea of when people are hearing back about interviews.