Samuel Merritt ABSN Spring 2011

[Victory925]

Starting a new thread for the Spring 2011 SMU applicants for the Sacramento Campus and all others as well.

Post your stats, any other important information you might have heard about the applicants, questions, concerns, anything!!

My stats:

Already been in nursing school- Dropped OUT- UGH, why????? *I digress...

*Received a degree from Sac State already, Cum Laude

Science G.P.A.= 3.4

Overall G.P.A. = 3.5

Teas= 84.1

1 year of healthcare experience

1 year of nursing school experience

Multiple community involvement experiences- ERG's, Volunteer on Diversity teams, Church, internships, mentoring, tutoring

*Hoping that this may be the year because I'm going no where fast in my current job field and I want to return to a profession that I have a passion for and am good at!!

=)

[UCLover610]

Final decision for Spring 2011 cohort is Nov 15th....but don't hold your breath.

Last time, they were on month past the decision date they had mentioned.

[BandAid716]

nov. 15th is when the letters go out.

[rk532]

Does anyone knows how many spots are there in oakland and sacramento campus?

[BandAid716]

usually 48 spots per campus.

[AndyPants44]

I have been emailing with EB and I asked if there was any chance we would find out before November- she responded on Saturday night at 10:33 pm (on the holiday weekend!!!) saying she was working weekends because it was also her hope that we would be notified as soon as possible. That was really nice to read! Crossing fingers it will be sooner rather than later.

Did anyone else who is on the waitlist for the November cohort get the email that they could automatically transfer their application for the Spring 2011 cohort for San Mateo? It was a little weird, given that I had already applied and paid for my app with San Mateo for the same cohort (bummer, since it sounds like I could have one the same for free without all the extra effort), but I did reply to consider me...

[ilnurse15]

I've been talking with the Sacramento Admissions office and they said that they will have decisions done 4 months after the application deadline, which is Nov. 1st. the woman I spoke with seemed to think that decisions would be made much sooner than that, sometime in October.

If you haven't seen that your application is "complete" from NursingCAS you should get on that ASAP! I looked earlier in August and I found that not all of my transcripts were recieved, then I called SMU to make sure everything was in, it wasn't and I had to send unofficial stuff to them for review. I'm really glad I followed up, I think everyone should if they haven't seen that their application is complete. I know now that my application has been pulled for review, which is excellent.

[tiss]

Thanks for that heads up

[cerobbin]

Hello folks,

I spoke with ------- yesterday (Sept 13th) from SMU in Sacramento and was told that we will prob know whether or not we got into the ABSN program in Sac in about 3 weeks. Best of luck to everyone!

~Chelsea :-)

[runningbabyrn]

Chelsea - thanks for that update! That's exciting news!! Good luck all!

[hercules2000]

AndyPants44,

I too applied for the Fall SF campus and was waitlisted. When you spoke with the counselor, did you ask what your waitlist position was? I'm just wondering if they are still pulling people from the list...

[tiss]

How about the CM, do anyone know how people have got in ?.

[cerobbin]

I just found out the other day that I am on the waitlist for CM for Sacramento. I'm position 9 out of 12. I'm thinking the chances aren't very good I'll get in. A friend of mine found out last week he got in for the CM program in Sac.

With respect to the Fall SF admissions, I am not sure how things work down there. Was that for the ABSN?

Has anyone else heard anything about being waitlisted or had any experience with waitlisting? I'm just wondering how fast they usually move through the list.

~Chelsea :-)