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yay! Good luck! Your grades look good, I had an 87% average but that was 3.5 years ago, so I'm sure its gone up. I think you can ask them what the competitive average is. And holy ****, I'm super impressed with your 94% in math! Math was a struggle for me haha. Sending good vibes your way, let me know if you get in! Even if its months from now! I could show you around campus if you like, or give you insider tips :)

I lived in residence for 3 years and had a ton of fun and made lots of friends. I lived in East res which is townhouse style, West res was apartment style and a lot nicer, but all the best parties were in East res . I think East has been renovated though, when I was there half were done (not mine though). Lots of different opportunities to do with your communities. You have your own room and share common areas (kitchen, living room, bathrooms) with 1 or 3 more people. The university itself is great because of the small class sizes, I think my biggest class was 35 people. Every teacher will learn your name and say hi to you in the halls, even if you haven't had them for years. Labs are smaller, 16 people (bio labs maybe 20 people), so you can definitely get the help you need. Teachers are super approachable. The campus is nice, and small. I love sitting out by the pond in the spring. One of my favourite things I took advantage of at MRU was free breakfast, from 9 until they run out you can get cereal, fruit, toast and juice for free. In the nursing program, you also get the option to fast track, which I did. I went right through the summer after 3rd year (which wasn't bad at all), did my final focus in the fall, finished December 1st and wrote my nclex yesterday. So you can finish in 3.5 years, which has been really nice.

Getting the position of an NA with AHS as a nursing student has gotten significantly harder over the past couple years. They want NAs who will stay an NA. They don't want nursing students who will become undergrads, then GNs and then RNs because then they are just in a cycle of constantly hiring new NAs.

I know you didn't mention it, but I just graduated from MRU and I had the best time and received a great education. U of C I do know a bit about. Their first 2 years are all classroom and SIM, they don't start clinical until 3rd year, whereas Mount Royal starts it in first year. This is honestly the biggest deal to me. 1st year we had clinical once a week and all we could do really, was vital signs. But the whole point was getting us to be comfortable talking with patients and providing care. I would spend 5 minutes standing outside patient rooms building up the courage to go take their vitals, it was ridiculous. Second year we really build up the bulk of our skills, we learn it in lab one week, and do it on a real patient the next week. When I was in 3rd year, there was 3rd year U of C students on the same unit. Despite learning all the same skills in lab, they weren't able to do them in clinical yet. They needed an instructor to come with them and quiz them on oral meds, where my fellow students and I were hanging IV meds on our own. I think the MRU program is laid out in a much better way than U of C. I can't speak for U of A or MacEwan though. I was accepted into all 4, as well as Keyano, but after research decided on MRU, even though it was really far from home. Let me know if you have any questions!

I've never heard of anything about this. Was there a rule against this before? I've probably carried advil to school everyday since I was 12. Is there a rule against carrying prescription meds? What if you have to take an antibiotic with lunch or something. I'm in Canada and we don't have school nurses, so that might be different. Do most schools in the states have nurses?

I wrote this afternoon and just tried it. Regardless of if I failed or not, I can't take a $360 hit right now. I put in my credit card, but changed the expiration dates and security code. After I click submit payment, it tells me Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Another registration cannot be made at this time. Hoping this is a good sign!

Hey guys, I've been using mostly uworld to study for the Nclex, I do a 75q quiz everyday for the last 2 weeks and I've score anywhere between 54-66. My average is 61%, but that includes a few quizzes where I did 80s-90s because I did my incorrect questions. I received 'high probability of passing' on the uworld assessment they had last week. Anyway, I'm getting quite nervous, what do you think? Are these score sufficient? I have 1 full study day left, what should I do with it?