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FYI y'all Saturday does count as business hours - found out I passed NCLEX this morning :)

Hello everyone! I took the NCLEX-RN yesterday, July 19th at 8 AM. My exam shut off at 75 questions with the majority of the questions being SATA. My state (Oklahoma) has quick results enabled but my question is does Saturday count as "business hours" for PearsonVUE??? The wait is KILLING ME hahahah but if Saturday counts then I should find out tomorrow morning..

Hey nursing0572! :) At orientation, they handed us a list of supplies that were required for school. Nursing shoes, I believe they said no mesh shoes were allowed (athletic shoes with that "breathable" material) for fear of dropping needles or splashing body fluids seeping through, but this was a rarely enforced rule. They make you buy their scrubs from the school or buy dark maroon like scrubs elsewhere, but you still have to buy the OU College of Nursing patch from the school and affix it to the scrubs you buy. We needed a pen light and this little dry-erase booklet to record assessment data you collect during clinical. A stethoscope is needed of course! Also books. Lots of books. All of these things you can either buy through the College or at the bookstore, but you can go elsewhere if you want. It's been a while so I might be missing some things but they should give you that list at orientation!! Classroom wise, for big lectures we were usually together in one big lecture hall. However, for skills lab we were in a lab room right across the hallway. You are correct in that they split you up into groups (6 to 10 people) for clinical. Your clinical group each semester will be the people you spend the most time with - for skills lab, you are always with your clinical group and several others. For activities in class, they break you down by clinical group number. Good luck nursing0572!! I wish you the very best at OU! :) If you have any more questions feel free to ask. It's so overwhelming in the beginning, I remember that feeling.

jc109, I think your stats are pretty competitive for the University of Oklahoma's Traditional BSN program! I am a graduate of this program and was very nervous about being accepted myself. I was accepted into the program with a 3.33 overall GPA and a 3.33 science GPA (considered Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry classes at OU...at the time I was still working on my Physiology class which wasn't included in this GPA). Granted, Physiology was my absolute last class I had to take when I applied and I had completed all of my pre-requisites at OU. However, if you've completed all of your pre-requisites at an "equivalent research-level university", your GPA is quite competitive, as I knew several people who were accepted who had completed their pre-requisites at other, sometimes out-of-state universities. Additionally, OU does not require you take the TEAS and does not factor them into the admission process. I don't know anything about California schools but I am from Texas and found Oklahoma BSN programs were *significantly* less competitive than those in the state of Texas. I urge you to apply around here for sure!! Other great BSN programs in central Oklahoma are the University of Central Oklahoma, East Central University and Oklahoma City University (expensive private university, but you qualify for automatic acceptance into their BSN program because they accept everyone with their pre-reqs done and GPA above 3.0). Best of luck to you :)

Hello Allie! :) That is pretty cool you found our thread...yes we have all graduated now!! I take NCLEX next week and start my new job as a nurse in the OR the following week. I am super excited!!!! OU is a fantastic school, I made lifelong friends there in nursing school. The ride is crazy but worth it!! It goes by way more quickly than you would think. I feel like I was here writing about whether I was going to be accepted into nursing school not too long ago at all. I really hope you get into the OKC campus if that's your first choice!! Push through your last big science prereqs :)

They accept like ~110-115 people each year in the Traditional program! I think having everything done except that last class will look really good! Do you know what 3000-4000 level class you're going to take? If at OU, I recommend taking World Music if that's available :) It was super easy and fun!

Hey Megan! The biggest thing they look at is science GPA. They stressed that a lot when I was applying. I remember this handout they gave me at the Pre-Nursing Club a couple of years ago with a pyramid of what they look at in your application. Science GPA was the base, cumulative GPA was next, then # of sciences complete, then # of overall prereqs complete, and then the very top was what school you went to. I got into the OKC campus with a 3.34 Overall and a 3.33 Science GPA, but I was an OU student who had literally every single prereq done and all sciences done except physiology when I submitted the application. It can't hurt to apply, especially because you don't have to take the TEAS or HESI (thank God)! Good luck!!

Well, I'm a student in the Traditional BSN program, but my cumulative was not very great either and I got in! Your 4.0 science GPA and 4.0 last 60 GPA will look REALLY good. They put heavy emphasis on science GPA, and I'm pretty sure they consider your last 60 GPA more than your cumulative. I have no clue how much emphasis is put on having the degree actually complete by application submission. Good luck, I hope you get in! If not this time, I'd be shocked if not next fall.

OKC is more competitive compared to the Lawton campus but not as competitive as the Tulsa one! That campus is small (given that it's in an area about as big as OKC but accept not even half as many people into the traditional program) and newer so it's pretty hard to get into from what I understand. Also, the traditional program isn't so bad! I feel like I'm constantly buried in studying/assignments but I've been doing pretty good and kept up reasonably well with everything. It's definitely way more doable than I thought.

I'm from Texas too! My whole college experience has been at OU though. It won't hurt you very much, if at all. Even though it's not OU, it will look really good that your prerequisites were done at a research-level university. I've heard the admissions person stress that they prefer the prerequisites done at OU or an "equivalent research-level university". There are plenty of people in the program that did their prerequisites at OSU and got in. And yes, there is a LOT of movement on the waitlist. They admit a lot less ABSNs than BSNs, but less people apply to ABSN I think. For example there are 110ish of us in the Traditional program and I think like 40 in the ABSN program. Either way, if you end up on the waiting list, there's a good chance you'll be offered a spot. I know a good amount of people that got in off the waiting list. Though really, with your high last 60 GPA, and your (I'm assuming) good science GPA, I wouldn't be too worried!! :)

Hey hayleyreese23, I think the College heavily weighs your last 60 GPA and especially your science GPA. I think the overall GPA is not looked at so much. From what I've heard/seen, ABSN's average admitted GPAs are higher than ours (compared to the Traditional BSN program) but a 3.7 is very good!! Did you do 2 years of pre-reqs at OU? I think you'll get an even bigger advantage in admission then. Good luck!

@sunshine349 I just went on the College of Nursing's Facebook page to see if they had posted anything from last year's orientation and they did, looks like there are people in jeans and shorts so anything goes I guess!

@sunshine349, I took MUNM 3113, World Music at OU. It was an extremely easy class. I don't know if they offer it online or over the summer, but I took it in person in the fall and it was bar none the easiest class I've taken so far lol. We met twice a week and had one small presentation, a few small (like pretty informal, 1 or 2 pages) papers, and had to attend one (world music-related) concert and one contra dance in the OKC area. There were a few tests too but they were very easy and required almost no studying. It also counted as my non-western civ credit. Also, I forgot to say it in my last post but happy late birthday! You must've had a killer day yesterday!! :) lol

Congrats everyone!!!!! Taurus87 and sunshine349 see you at orientation/in class :) Yep, that's what it means! :) It's weird terminology! It makes it sound like you weren't fully accepted or something, lol.

YAAAAS FINALLY! THE EMAILS! Congrats aing!!!!!! That's awesome!!!! I got into OKC!!!!!!!!!! I am SOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!