Reviews of Family Nurse Practitioner Programs

[jen33336]

I have been searching graduate schools that offer family nurse practitioner programs for nearly a year now. I am applying for fall 2012 admission and have a list of around twenty choices remaining mainly in the south. Throughout this process I have found that reviews of programs from students are very rare and virtually non-existant. If anyone is willing to offer any insight into how they feel about their program it would be MUCH appreciated. I would also be interested to learn of acceptance statistics. I know this will vary greatly by school but am nervous as to aspects of being accepted and what the appropriate number of applications should be to increase chances of acceptance. It seems that most schools get far more applicants than they can accomodate.

Some basic info about me: will have a cum GPA of only around 2.97 (a lot of hours) with a 3.98 in BSN program.

Six years inpatient experience, med-surg and ICU. 4.5 on analytical GRE section, 166 verbal, 156 quantitative . Thank you for any help!

Schools on my list include UAB, UT in FL, Auburn, UA Huntsville, GA State College, Emory, GA Southern U, Jacksonville U FL, UMMC Jackson, MS, UNCCharolotte, UNC Wilmington, Praire View A&M TX, USC, U of South FL, Southeastern LA, U of TN, U of Souther MS, Southern U, Uof TX, Troy, WCU, Winston-Salem U,

[hso5004]

I have run into the same issue of not really finding much info after spending many many hours searching for programs. I ended up just picking one area and applying to schools narrowing it down that way. Now, I have moved to Boston and have been accepted to all 4 programs I applied to (All in Boston) and am now stuck on how to decide which program to choose....

If you decide to apply to multiple schools I would advise going to info sessions first, they give insight as to what that program is looking for and some even give you a application fee waiver for attending (which saves a bunch of money if you apply to many schools). Also a thing to look into would be any sort of tuition assistance/reimbursement you can get from your employer if offered.

Good Luck!

[jen33336]

Thank you for the response. I hope future students have more resources available! I also just chose an area and am going from there. I still have like 13 schools on my list now so I think I will just randomly pick some from it since I live about 16-20 hrs from the programs, and still don't know much about them, other than from websites and e-mailing the schools.