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I wish ours did.... 76.9% = F Thankfully this hasn't affected me yet [emoji16]

Thank you for the advice. Hopefully I can be a competitive candidate!

Thanks for the advice!!! I'm so excited to apply, but so incredibly nervous! I know the essays are worth a majority of the points, so I hope I can make mine good enough :) I have a near perfect GPA and a lot of nursing student organization involvement, different health organizations, honor societies, and jobs. However, I don't work as a CNA so that may be my downfall

Public Health is the most popular major to switch to at my college because many of the prerequisites are similar

I'm planning on applying as well Brooke! :) I'm so nervous because I've been dreaming of this externship for so long, but I know how competitive it is

From what I have seen in my area, NICU is one of the hardest areas to get into if you are a new grad or have no NICU experience. If you have NICU experience, I believe it would be much easier to find a job. However, it is a very desirable speciality. I know that new grad programs for NICU are very selective and competitive. That's just my 2 cents. I don't have statistics or anything like that :)

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At my school Dean's List is done semester by semester. You must get a 3.75 semester GPA. However, I know that the norm is usually a 3.5 GPA, and some schools do Dean's List by the year rather than by the semester:

I've definitely heard this phrase before. However, the professors about my college say "Be an A nurse, not a C nurse".

4 year BSN Program (with 5 semesters of actual nursing classes) 1st Semester: Simulation Lab & Health Assessment Lab 2nd Semester: Med Surg 1 & Psyc 3rd Semester: Med Surg 2 & OB 4th Semester: Peds & Community Health 5th Semester: Geriatrics & Capstone Clinical

You are correct! However, they take 100 students for the fall and 80 students for the spring.

I'm really enjoying the program so far- just an update :) Pretty scared for the two HESIs we take at the end of the semester though!

I'm currently in my first semester of NIU's program. I'm 20 years old, and many of my friends are 19. I would say that the instructors don't try and intimate us. We have a wide range of ages (from age 19 to 50), and our maturity is what we are judged off of. I love NIU's program so far, although it's challenging. I can answer questions you may have about first track!

1. Coffee 2. My significant other 3. My nursing major friends 4. Practice NCLEX questions 5. My computer 6. Saying "only 2 more years" all the time