Samuel Merritt ELMSN FALL 2023

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Hello everyone, 

I did not see a forum for the ELMSN FALL 2023 for Samuel Merritt yet and I would like to see if anyone has applied to the ELMSN-CM. I submitted my application last week. Has anyone heard back? If you can also share your stats. Good luck everyone! ?

gigiclem said:

Hi! Results are out and I got accepted into both ELMSN and ABSN (Summer) program! Just need to decide which I should go for. 
Anybody else heard anything? Good luck to those who are still waiting for results. Do not lose hope!

That is amazing! Congratulations!! When did you have your interview and what types of questions did they ask (ELMSN). What are you thinking as far as which program you will attend? Have my interview next week and I am starting to get prepared :) 

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gigiclem said:

Hi! Results are out and I got accepted into both ELMSN and ABSN (Summer) program! Just need to decide which I should go for. 
Anybody else heard anything? Good luck to those who are still waiting for results. Do not lose hope!

Congratulations! I haven't heard anything yet, hopefully soon. 

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gigiclem said:

Hi! Results are out and I got accepted into both ELMSN and ABSN (Summer) program! Just need to decide which I should go for. 
Anybody else heard anything? Good luck to those who are still waiting for results. Do not lose hope!

Congratulations on getting in!! I still haven't received any acceptance or denial, so fingers crossed! 

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@desireformsn Goodluck on your interview next week. I'm sure you will do well. If you were given instructions and information from when they scheduled your interview, I suggest to review all of them. Do some additional research, take notes, and most importantly, be yourself and speak clearly. The interviewer was great and made me feel at ease during my interview. 

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@gigiclem

Congrats!! I'm wondering when did you receive your invite to interview?

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@gigiclem Congrats on your acceptances! Did you apply for the CM or FNP for the ELMSN?

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@tikitrch26 I received an interview invite the second week of March. Did you also apply for the ELMSN?

@joyful I applied to both CM and FNP, but I was only invited to interview to their CM.

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Hi, 

I saw that some of you have expressed worries about the ELMSN program. And as a current ELMSN student, I want to promise you anything you are reading about this program on yelp or this forum is true! SMU is way over their head and does not have nearly enough qualified staff to support your journey of becoming a nurse or provider. My cohort had next to no clinical exposure, which should be the center of becoming a nurse. The school instead gave us online simulations, which would teach us nothing. Your clinical hours will be lied about to the Board of Registered Nursing (something they can't ever admit to since it would threaten their accreditation). For example, most people in my cohort never set foot into a psych clinical; instead, they had to spend some hours at a soup kitchen. My group also did not receive any hours in an ICU or ED setting. What is even worse is that professors have been leaving the school due to these circumstances... of course, only the good ones are leaving, professors that have been there for many years. So instead, they are hiring either DNP students who have no time to teach and are no educators or they are hiring burned-out nurses who also have no business being an educator. 

You can probably tell by their email correspondence or lack thereof that the school is disorganized. And it starts with the head of the program. The director is condescending to students. We are all adults, and many have had careers or have families, but she will treat you like a first-semester college student. If she feels threatened by your intelligence, she will gaslight you or try to make your life miserable. She has tried to fail people and have them pay for repeating a class. This program will not support you, especially if you have anything going on in your life besides school. They will also tell you that school happens during normal business hours, so they don't care if they schedule parents on the weekend to do things or if a class will happen in the evening hours. 

Please look into any other program. I get that former students say it might be OK. But most administrative shifts have happened recently, thus, you are seeing all these current students trying to warn you. SMU used to have a good reputation, but this is fading; nurses are becoming aware of our lack of education. UCSF and East Bay or San Jose are all able to give you some clinical exposure. SMU does not manage to do so. This school is too expensive to have; it ruins your experience of becoming a safe nurse/provider. The amount of fluff classes you will have to take is unreal!  

I wish I had had outspoken students when I applied. Please do the work and look around the forums and yelp, and at least apply somewhere else if possible. I know that I am speaking on behalf of many students currently attending SMU. Good luck in everyone's journey of becoming a dedicated nurse/provider. 

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gigiclem said:

@tikitrch26 I received an interview invite the second week of March. Did you also apply for the ELMSN?

@joyful I applied to both CM and FNP, but I was only invited to interview to their CM.

Oh wow so a while ago! I applied to ELMSN- FNP.. haven't heard anything yet or any invite to interview 

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tikitrch26 said:

Oh wow so a while ago! I applied to ELMSN- FNP.. haven't heard anything yet or any invite to interview 

Yes, but don't lose hope! I am actually thinking of doing the ABSN, instead of ELMSN program. So you may get a spot there. 

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@desireformsn Good luck on your interview! Is it for the FNP or CM track? Wondering if I'm just sitting in the reject pile or if FNP has not interviewed yet ?

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@joyful CM track! Don't worry I have hear literally nothing at all from FNP and am thinking the same thing that I am just hanging out at the of the bottom of their stack ?.

ALSO: my username is SO UGLY don't mind it. I did not know what to use so I am probably going to change it to something else that'll maybe be less silly just in case if you see a different username ?

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