ChangingPaths

Hi Sicilib, I am currently in the program and should graduate in May as long as everything goes smoothly. It is a good program, but as with everything, there is always room for improvement and they make changes each semester based on the previous one. It is extremely fast paced with 6 week "mini-mesters" for courses and it's a lot to lear for each 6 weeks. The first semester is fairly easy (Fundamentals), but you can't let that boost your confidence. I have always been an A/B student and now I aim for a low B and I'm happy to pass. Most students have very little free time/life outside of school and studying for the 15 months of the program. This could be some people's definition of a nightmare, but I'm not sure what made Broward a nightmare to you. However, like I said, things change each semester because there is always room for improvement. Overall, I believe that they are doing a fairly good job preparing us to be nurses, but it does require a lot of work and dedication. Many people have failed and have to wait to restart where they left off with the cohort behind their original. You may fail and come back up to 3 times and I know people who will not be allowed back if they fail MS 2 because it will be their third fail during the course of the program and MS 2 is only 5 courses in to the approximately 9 course program. So, it's tough and people do fail. Passing is 77% and above. Please let us know if you have any specific questions.

Hi Michaelpaulclay, It is kinda dependent on the high and average of other applicants who have applied for the same semester. For spring '17, most of us seemed to have in the low 50s to get accepted in the first round of picks. I was offered a spot the morning after first round people had to accept their spots. I had 46 points and a 90 on the Kaplan. Your Kaplan score is the tie breaker for other people who have the same number of points as you, so it can make a big difference for whether or not you get a spot, if your points aren't in the 50s.

I agree! It only took me about 6 months of depression and my boyfriend sitting me down to tell me that I was no longer the "happy sunshine" that he looked forward to seeing at the end of the day, for me to decide to take steps toward change. I did some soul searching, took some career personality tests, and enrolled in courses the following semester to pursue a career in nursing. Now, I am starting the RN program in January and I'm extremely excited about the possibilities, although some posts like this make me nervous. Neezy84, as mentioned above, I was very unhappy in my current career, which is in outreach and communication. Before completing your RN program, I would suggest doing some soul searching, look for some career placement surveys to gauge what type of work matches your personality. Also think of and research the other career opportunities that are available after receiving your RN. I live in a college town and there are TONS of opportunities for RNs that are outside of the clinical and/or patient care setting. Some options could be health outreach, clinical research (many facets and roles), and many more. My aunt was an RN at a hospital for years when she decided to pursue another path that still utilized/required her RN experience. Now, she works from home and is responsible for recommending patients to specialists. She seems to really enjoy the work and she makes good money. Best of luck finding a path that makes you happy. I'm sad that you have spent so much of your life doing a job that seems to have impacted your overall happiness and life satisfaction. Life is far too short to spend it being anything but happy.

I have been accepted!!! They called me first thing on Thursday morning to offer me a spot. :-)

Hello! I think that having an MS is likely a major plus for any program. When considering who to accept, I believe that they want to accept those they believe will succeed and finish the program. So, since you have already completed 2 degrees, it is likely that you have good work ethic and will not drop out of the program. I am in a similar situation with an MS and I am also a UF alum for both of my degrees. From what I have seen in the other UF ABSN forums, they do seem to favor UF alum. For those who were accepted to start the summer of 2016, I believe that they received letters in March. I got that information from the UF ABSN 2016 Hopefuls thread. I have been accepted to Santa Fe's ASN program and will start in January. However, I am still applying to the UF program as an option. I hope this helped and good luck!

I feel the same way.

Wow! This is BS! I am in the same situation. I thought I was accepted because of the email. After reading your post I decided to check out the details of my attachments and I'm in the same situation as you. I am very happy that I did not call around and tell a lot of people. I understand that they were in a hurry to get the decisions out to us, but you would think that they have standard email bodies for acceptance, wait list, and declined. í ½í¸£

I received my acceptance! They let me know about an hour ago, for anyone else waiting to hear. I had 46 points and Kaplan scores over 90.

Congratulations! vlvlvlvl! Would you mind sharing how many points you had? Thanks for letting us know. It is a relief to hear that they are still sending out acceptance emails.

The girls above already received their acceptance emails. I'm becoming quite anxious that it's been over an hour since they got acceptance emails and I haven't heard anything. Makes me think that I might be on the declined list. But whatever is meant to be will be. I had 46 points, which is on the low side for the program. I will let y'all know when I hear something.

Congratulations!!! Still nothing yet for me. :-( It might be going in alphabetical order?

Nothing yet...

Thanks for the updates y'all! The anticipation is killing me. Thank goodness they're able to get them out tomorrow since they will be closed on Friday.

It would be such a relief to have a decision this week. One of us had heard from someone in the advising office that decision were going to be released last week, obviously that did not happen. So, I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much. According to Mr. Fortner, there is not technically any cutoff for points because it is dependent on a lot of factors(point spread of all applicants for that semester, number who applied and number who will be accepted, etc.), but 46-51 seems to be the trend for the lowest of the high end scores . They also accept a few people from the lower and mid range of points. I am hopeful for all of us.

Only Crickets! I hope we find out this week, but, from what Mr. Fortner said when I submitted my application. I don't think we'll here anything until closer to the middle of October.