Texas State University Fall 2016

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Hello everyone!! I know it may be a little early to start this thread for the Fall-16 Admissions into the SON @ TXST. The application Deadline is quickly approaching and I thought I'd start this. I am super nervous because I always hear that getting into nursing school is a difficult process. This will be my first time applying into any nursing school.

My Current Stats :

Overall GPA : 3.67

Science GPA : 3.61

I am taking my TEAS V in Jan a week before the application deadline. I know that is pushing it kind of close.

This wait is killing me too! I hate having to line everything up for financial aid, my work schedule in the fall, and everything else in my life without even knowing if I'm in the program yet. Terrifying!

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Hey y'all. I'm in the class of 2017 and just wanted to drop by to see if anyone has any questions...let me know if you do! You will (most likely) find out around 3-4pm on March 31st about their decision. Good luck to all of you! This is a great program and we'd love to have y'all :)

Hi! This may seem like a silly question but I was hoping you could elaborate on the dress code? I've seen some references to business casual and was wondering if you could clarify if this is for every day classes? or…?

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I am dying.....I am so anxious. We find out on Thursday!!!!!!! So close, yet so far.

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I met an instructor at the deans list event last week and she said April 1st they were sending the email out. So this Friday! She also said nursing and the college of health professions as a whole had really low application turnout this year so hopefully that is a positive for us all.

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I met an instructor at the deans list event last week and she said April 1st they were sending the email out. So this Friday!

Thanks for the update! You saved me from being glued to my email on Thursday :)

Good luck, everyone!!

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Like the above poster said, the notification date is now April 1st. They updated their website to reflect that date. Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN): St. David's School of Nursing: Texas State University

: Texas State University

One more day of waiting! Good luck every one!

Did anyone else still not get a background check email?

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Are there any weekend classes? I currently work weekends, and would love to continue part time at my job on the weekends, but am nervous about ending up with classes or clinicals on on those days.

This semester there are only 2 clinical classes that go Friday night and Sunday, but that could all change by next year. The first semester there were not any weekend classes or clinicals.

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Sorry to take a while getting back to you...I thought I'd get email notifications, but I guess not. Oh well! In our J1 semester we had three days of classes (pathopharm, health assessment, essentials, and foundations) plus one day of sim lab/clinical. You will probably have only 3.5 days in the hospital your first semester. The health assessment and essentials classes are important to learning the base nursing skills, but pathopharm is the hardest class (disease processes and meds). We had pathopharm for 4 hours (split into two sessions of 2 hrs w/ lunch in between) on Monday, health assessment and essentials on Tues (2hrs each), and foundations for 3 hours on Thurs. Then we had sim lab/clinical on either Weds or Fri. I had Friday and it worked really well because I then had Weds off to study and what-not. I'm sure they have the schedule up in catsweb if y'all wanna check it out. Hopefully they structure it the same way for y'all, I really liked it.

Second semester is lifespan (like medsurg), psych, and research. You'll have sim lab/clinical days for both lifespan and psych. There will be 7 total clinical days for each class. My schedule is super different but most people have clinicals/sim lab Monday and Tuesday, then class Weds (lifespan & psych for 2hrs each), research on Thurs (3 hrs), and class Fri (lifespan & psych again).

Hope this helps!

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As far as I know there aren't any clinicals/sim labs on the weekends in J1, but there is potential for Sunday clinical in J2 (I currently have Sunday psych clinical). It just depends on how the faculty build the schedules, and unfortunately you won't have any control over it in J2.

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Classes are pretty laid back, but they want you to look academic. So, no tank tops or shorts or skirts. Leggings are fine as long as they are modest and your bum is covered. Although, we've had some folks get dinged for leggings...no sweats either. I think as long as you dress like you're going to an office with a laid-back dress code (if that makes sense), then you'll be fine.

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Like the above poster said, the notification date is now April 1st. They updated their website to reflect that date. Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) : St. David's School of Nursing: Texas State University

: Texas State University

One more day of waiting! Good luck every one!

Did anyone else still not get a background check email?

Sorry y'all, I totally thought they'd release their decision on the 31st (that's what they did last year). My bad!

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This wait is killing me too! I hate having to line everything up for financial aid, my work schedule in the fall, and everything else in my life without even knowing if I'm in the program yet. Terrifying!

You'll know soon! Hang in there!

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