Rutgers Accelerated Nursing- Fall 2015 (Newark)

donutball · Apr 8, 2015

Hey everyone

i entered with the summer program originally. I cant remember at the moment but i sent my applications to the school around the last week of jan 2013 or begining of febuary and got my acceptance letter late march-early april time. It was enough time to complete my immunization requirements. You must have your tb shot and flu shot and whatever else cleared. The school goes crazy with that.

Clinicals started first semester around the 2nd month in.

most of us had to take out loans. Work study may be available for you, they offered it to me but i didnt have time. Financial aid office never gave me any issues and if i had a question about my term bill or needing to follow up on the disbursment of a private loan i was always able to get that settled quickly. My financial advisor was really great.

my first clinical was placed locally at university hospital. from the second semester and on i was placed in clinicals that were more "south", despite that the fact that i was residing in newark. i did clinicals in raritan bay, robert wood johnson, st peters hospital...your clinical placement and groups are decided by whoever is coordinating clinicals for that specific semester

the curriculum and class day schedule per level are posted on the schools website :) i cant remember class dates but here is the current curriculumn Accelerated BS in Nursing at Rutgers School of Nursing

everything was the same for me except second semester i

had 5 classes it seems they removed gerontology. Lucky lol heres their classday/room schedule

Room Calendars - SSB - Rutgers School of Nursing

I'll answer some more questions asap~!

tmath · Apr 8, 2015

@donutball do you know if i could still apply if I have classes in progress?

donutball · Apr 8, 2015

You can start the application I believe, but the school uses NursingCas application process. So at the time I applied i had to have all the prequisite requirements completed to even fill out the application properly and submit it. I finished my preqs in dec '12 and had my application submitted by the end of jan '13/begining of feb '13 so submitting it asap after finishing prereqs is important because NursingCAS takes a while to process everything.

lisalt23 · Apr 8, 2015

Hi, Donutball. Thank you for the second link that shows the times of the subjects. Student is really pretty booked and it seems like there is a different schedule per week. And somehow, there are two groups of students (or two classes) during the semester that goes to one subject with one class going say from 8-10a.m. and the other class going from 10-12 noon. Thank you very much for posting the schedule. I appreciate it.

lte16 · Apr 8, 2015

Hi! Was there any time off from classes? I imagine you had major holidays off and things like that, but did you have week long breaks between semesters or anything like that?

cala_38 · Apr 8, 2015

Hi all. I thought I would chime in here, even though I have a year or so before I apply to the ABSN program. I actually sat down with the program recruiter (Nikia) in Newark yesterday and found it to be a super helpful experience. I found out a lot about how the program works (schedule, clinicals, placement, student support, prereq stuff, etc). A couple of things that seemed key to me, I will include here, but I encourage everyone to call the program and go in for open advisement hours in order to answer any of your specific questions. I also know that there will be another Info Session sometime in May or June for anyone who is interested. Nikia didn't yet have the date, but said it should be determined soon.

So, for the stuff I found really helpful:

1) prereqs: The interpersonal comm. prereq has been eliminated. As for chemistry, the "Inorganic Biochemistry" course is actually a 100-level course with a lab that eliminates the need to take General Chem I or II. I thought I was going to have to take 2 semesters of chem so that I could get through Chem II, but the other course satisfies the requirement and is often taken by pre-nursing students. For anyone looking for a local option for the course, Brookdale offers it online (and I imagine in person). I think it is Chem 130.

You can have 3 courses pending when you apply for the program. My understanding is that they must be complete when you start the program.

Prereqs shouldn't change any further any time soon.

2) schedule: If you opt for the ABSN program (as opposed to the 2 year program), they ask that you have a lot of flexibility and are available from 6 am to 10 pm Monday through Friday. Courses usually happen between 7-3, and clinicals from 3-8, but those hours can stretch on either side of those times. Should you be interested in the part-time (30 month) program, that happens only in Newark, and takes place on Thursday-Saturday, with courses on Thursday and Friday afternoons and cllinicals mostly on Saturdays. In both cases, clinicals are built into the classes they correspond to.

Roughly, you should expect to spend 60 hours/week on school (coursework, labs, sims, clinicals, classtime) in ABSN, and 30 hours/week in the part-time program.

3) job placement: Everyone gets a job according the recruiter. In many cases, she said, that happens even before boards are taken.

4) Admissions criteria: It is done holistically, with GPA being an important factor, but not the only important one.

Hope this helps!

I will be applying for admission in NB, as I live a few minutes from there.

cala_38 · Apr 8, 2015

@donutball, I would love to know if anyone in your cohort was a parent with young kids. That is my major reservation with pursuing the ABSN (as opposed to the part time program). I have two small children, and am trying to suss out how do-able the program is in light of my family situation. I don't really want to do the part-time program as the schedule and location are a bit less ideal for me.

jsc208 · Apr 15, 2015

hi all !!!

I've also applied to the rutgers program (new brunswick) and am waiting to be verified. I had many questions... most of them were answered thanks to this thread so thank you :)

i wanted to know what are your GPAs because i'm getting nervous that I won't seem competitive enough. I graduated Rutgers a semester early and majored in exercise science and psychology. my overall gpa is 3.44.

as far as prereqs go, I only need to take Microbiology. I am registered for that this summer and will be done July 1. not sure what my science GPA is but I have B's and above. I know that the nursing program wants atleast 3.3 overall gpa... I was torn if I should apply or not since I imagine others have high GPA, but now we shall see!

Good luck to everyone !

SweetDream · Apr 15, 2015

The program requires a 3.3 so I'm sure you'll be considered. I don't think they look on it as a collective basis and say that this person has a higher gpa so we will accept her, I think they look at all aspects of the individual through your Essay, gpa, grade trend, work/volunteer experience. I have a undergrad gpa 3.3 and As and Bs in my prereqs. I'm doing micro and A&P 2 now. I just really hope to get into this program!! I've been obsessing about it for a while lol.

johndabaker · Apr 15, 2015

The 3.3 GPA is actually PREFERRED. So people can still apply if they don't have a 3.3. They do a holistic process so everything in the application counts!

lte16 · Apr 15, 2015

I also think they focus a lot on prereq Gpa. In older forums I would see a variety of under grad GPAs but with a 4.0 in prereq GPA and they would often get accepted. I think it depends a lot on the applicant pool. I spoke to someone once who said many people in their cohort had 3.5 undergrad GPA and above, but several did have lower, some even more towards the 3.0 range

tmath · Apr 15, 2015

Do you guys know if it's rolling admission? Also do you know if the decisions will be sent out by email or mail?