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Probably not, I heard HCA has a stake in Meditech.

Admitted students day is NOT orientation. At Admit day you get more information on registering for classes, financial aid, parking, and you will get to speak to other students too about their experiences in nursing school (I will be there!). I would wait on the clinical bag and books. A lot of upperclassmen will be selling their books after finals on May 6th. At orientation (which is a week before school starts) they will end up giving away 2 bags for free.

I started Summer 16 and we started with 120-125 students.

Its about 12 weeks vs. the normal 16 weeks of a long semester.

I had clinical at the school today and saw them setting up for the information session. I'll be honest and say summer is probably the best term to start. You're easiest semester is the first one (even though at the time it feels like you're dying) and the 2nd and 3rd semester are a lot to do in such a short term like summer. So if you get in for the summer you will do your 2nd and 3rd semester during the long semesters of Fall and Spring. Your 4th semester of straight clinicals will be 4 weeks short, but you get the same number of clinical hours as someone doing their 4th semester during a long semester because those hours are set by the TX BON. So you do more shifts a week to offset that.

Over 100 for sure. I couldn't really tell you. We have some students from cohorts in front of us who failed or dropped a class and are now in our cohort.

My stats: Overall 4.0 Nursing GPA 4.0 Hesi 95% CT 980 Honestly, do not put too much thought into stats, there is no rhyme or reason as to how UTHealth picks students.

I started Summer 2016 and we started out with about 120 students.

You are required by the BON to have a minimum number of clinical hours. It doesn't matter if your semester is shorter than a normal semester, you will have the same number of clinical hours as longer semesters. Your semester will just be more compact.

It doesn't matter what semester your last semester clinicals fall into. You have to have to same amount of clinical hours as any other student to graduate.

Well because 1. it's a teaching hospital and the nurses are used to having students on the floor and 2. I had other classmates who were at well known magnet hospitals and the nurses were very weary of letting the students do things they were checked off to do such as subQ, IM injections and foley caths. So instead of utilizing the their skills they were making beds and sitting around for 10 hours. Not that making beds isn't a nursing skill because it is, but its something that we could practice outside of the clinical setting unlike injections on real people.

The higher pay in the med center offsets the huge amount in parking you will be paying a month.

I recently did clinical at the VA hospital here in Houston. I was a really good experience. I learned a lot from the nurses and they patients were awesome! And yes, it is a teaching hospital. I was able to do a lot more there than I would have at another hospital.

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I think it's for accepted and waitlist. I was accepted and declined my acceptance and never got one. I would go ahead and do it, you'll end up getting off the waitlist at the last second and you'll want to have all your ducks in a row.