SF State/Sequoia ABSN Fall 2016

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hi all! I know this is early but I wanted to begin a thread for those applying to the SF State/Sequoia program! The app isn't due until next month but i thought id get one started as I am already anxious! :)

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Hi there! Thanks for creating a thread. I'm applying to the Sequoia/SF State BSN program as well. :)

Has anyone heard anything about when interviews will be conducted?

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Hi Elizabethbee! I am under the impression that interview will take place in February but I don't know when we will find out! Does anyone else have any ideas?

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I just received an invitation to interview on March 10th! Anyone else heard yet!?

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Yes!!! Recieved my invitation to interview this morning as well :) My date is also on the 10th... So excited! Good luck to you!!

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Awesome Elizabethbee! What time are you at?

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Hi all,

I am the incoming President of the Nursing Student Association (NSA) for 2016-2017 for the SFSU Sequoia Program at the Canada campus. I am trying to get an idea of how our current class (and incorporating both campuses) can best be of help to the incoming class and other future pre-nursing students and SFSU applicants. Please let me know if you have any questions about the application process, current curriculum or nursing school in general. Good luck with your applications/interviews!

Tara, Cohort 12

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Hi Taraflesner! I am a current candidate for the next fall cohort and I have my interview next thursday march the 10th! Do you or any others have any advice on how to best prepare for this!? I am not sure what kinds of questions to expect and if I should practice or have things prepared before hand, or just sort of be natural and go in say things from the heart and be real (more what i like to do!)

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Hello everyone!

I'm scheduled to have my interview on Wednesday, March 9. I'm both excited and a bit nervous. I'm currently wrapping up my last semester at Canada college with 11 units, a full-time job, applying for other nursing schools and volunteering as a teacher's assistant for the Anatomy lab. Safe to say my schedule is fully booked. I just need to hold on until April where I find out from SFSU/Sequoia and San Jose State University if I got in.

So good luck everyone!

By the way, take Tara on her offer. She's really awesome and a nice person too.

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I have my interview the day following yours! Thursday the 10th! I would love to hear how yours goes!? good luck!

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Hi Tara,

I just had my interview yesterday (March 7th). I have so many questions and would love to ask you a few of them, maybe not all of them at once so I don't overwhelm you.

I know this is probably jumping the gun a bit, but do you have to take any classes at the SFSU campus (like certain upper division courses needed to graduate)?

Also, did you have to drive all around the area to different hospitals. I live in Los Gatos and am wondering how much commuting to expect- if I get in that is.

Finally, the program is only two years right? SJSU and CSUEB have 3 years programs, is this one accelerated?

Thanks so much!

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Hi guys,

I'm sure you rocked your interviews! Due to the ongoing application process, I can't discuss the interview content until the admission decisions are released, but I will do my best to address the rest of the questions I see here... Feel free to message me on allnurses and I can give you my email for more individualized questions. To answer the questions you have asked:

1. Do you have to take any classes at the SFSU campus (like certain upper division courses needed to graduate)?

I had to take a cinema class over winter through SFSU, but I chose to take it online. It's more expensive to take classes through the College of Extended Learning ($1080 for 3 units) if you do want to take classes during your breaks, but it lightens your load significantly during the semester. My cohort is waiting to hear back if we will have to take any more upper division GEs or if the nursing curriculum alone will be sufficient to cover these requirements. We have been told that in the past, our Nursing Admin coordinator was able to arrange a class at Canada with an SFSU professor (something like Chinese Medicine or Holistic Health) for those of us who didn't already have a Bachelor's degree and needed those credits in order to graduate.

2. Also, did you have to drive all around the area to different hospitals?

OH YES. Expect to drive to south bay, east bay, and to the city throughout the program. For your community health screenings/rotation during first semester, you will be up in the Tenderloin most likely at different low income housing site. Try to find carpool buddies that live near you or get a Clipper Card for the BART. It really came in handy for me. For my current cohort, the Clinical Coordinator tried to do her best to place everyone at clinical sites kind of close to their houses. For example, I'm at Washington Hospital for Labor and Delivery and I live in SJ/Milpitas so that's only 15 minutes away from me. However, for my other Psych clinical I'm in San Mateo, which is a good 45 minutes away. Other groups are at Sequoia, SF Kaiser, and John George in San Lorenzo this semester, for example. They try their best to accommodate everyone, but clinical sites are competitive for Bay Area nursing schools so you do have to be somewhat flexible (You will hear this A LOT in nursing school ;)) I hope that helps answer that question.

3. Finally, the program is only two years right? SJSU and CSUEB have 3 years programs, is this one accelerated?

Yep, the program is shorter that Cal State East Bay's and SJSU due to the change in curriculum 2 semesters ago. The SFSU program at both Canada and main campuses is now 4 semesters instead of 5 with summers off. There are no more pathophysiology and pharmacology individual courses, but instead you now get a little bit of each component in your core theory classes. For example, you learn cardiac drugs and disease processes altogether in, say, Med Surg theory and take a Metrology test at the beginning of each semester before you can do med passes in clinicals and have to pass with 90%. Start studying your Med Math, by the way! I found this book really useful:Calculate with Confidence, 5e (Morris, Calculate with Confidence): 978

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