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Great and congrats! Looking forward to getting started. Are you doing it full time or part time? There are some orientation things to do and I got a link to them today. Tried to sign in but the sign in did not work so I will wait a little longer before my curiosity is sated. There is a Facebook group - for Admitted to Nursing @ Simmons or something like that . Have you seen that ?

Congrats ! I will be in March after the Bio course . It took about a week for me to hear back also. Really had expected it to be longer.My GPA was nearly 30 years old and not great ,so they do look beyond the GPA. I credit my fabulous recommendations or rather the people that wrote them. The entire application process makes you WANT to be accepted.

Hi there! It looks like it took a week. The admissions person did say 1-2 weeks. So November 11 they finally received all my recommendations and the faculty received everything. On November 18 , I received the call. And yes I agree with you in that Simmons seems to be the best fit but the cost is astronomical to me. Like you probably, I have been a nurse so long that the pay is not even going to be that much of an increase. But I am ready for a great educational experience and more challenges in my career . And I thought I wanted early retirement ! LOL . I bet you will hear anytime now , and maybe we will be in classes at the same time. You may be a little ahead if you don't need that bio class.

Hi, I have been accepted to the March 2015 cohort (part time) provisionally, when I pass the Bio class. They made it clear that since I have been out of school for 27 years I needed this class and should be part time. From what I have read it will be a good first step back into academic world.Part time at Simmons is more like full time at other schools I applied to. I have also been accepted at Chamberlain ( and 2 others that are not in the running),which is quite a bit less expensive but Simmons is my preferred school. Chamberlain does a RN-BSN-FNP , take 6 months longer and require many core classes. I do not really need the BSN in my current position. I have set Monday Nov. 24 as decision day! Anyone else starting in March 2015? Anyone doing the Bio class in Jan 2015? Does anyone know if this class has live lecture days? I work part time and have a flexible schedule but would like to know how flexible I need to be for these lectures. Pretty excited to be going to school again after all these years !!! Sherene