TWU Spring 2018

Nursing Students School Programs

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Hi!

I haven't seen a thread made for the TWU Spring 2018 application process, so decided to start one! I'm the type to worry, and I know I'm not alone, so what better place to vent than here? For anyone wondering, the application date for Spring 2018 is August 15th, 2017!

My GPA comes out to a 3.720 with TWU preference. I haven't taken my TEAs yet, but plan to soon.

How about y'all?

nrvhy - I am also waiting to hear back from UTH. My experience has been vastly different between the two schools , like night and day different.

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Hey rnstudentcarmona! How so?

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Did anyone else have more points than the lowest admitted score but still get denied? I'm confused as to how they chose who gets admitted.

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Same here. I had 46 points and I was denied. I wonder if they accept applicants that attended TWU first before others if they had decent TEAS scores and GPA?

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I believe students who attended TWU already have a bump that's added onto their points (same goes for those with a bac degree) and from what I know they rank everyone based on points and pick the top whatever number of students to be admitted. If I'm wrong someone please correct me.

Same here. I had 46 points and I was denied. I wonder if they accept applicants that attended TWU first before others if they had decent TEAS scores and GPA?
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Where are you guys seeing your score? My gpa was lower than most, I did not attend twu for first bachelors but I had healthcare experience so I'm guessing that boosted me.

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nrvhy

I couldn't really put my finger on WHY i wanted to go to UTH other than suggestions of Nursing School ranking scores (which can be highly subjective by the way depending on who is doing the calculating) and what I perceived to be some prestige as an extension of UT, because after all we are in Texas right? Beautiful dot-matrixy type art billboards highlighting their contributions scattered all throughout Houston. Their marketing worked on me. They made an impression on me. I am not really a competitive person, but the notion of prestige through its competitiveness drove me towards applying. Who doesn't want to be "the best" (whatever that is)? I certainly do. (and I will be the best I can be at whatever I do) But answers from UTH admissions were vague and often contradicted information provided in information sessions. The biggest bone was lack of clarity in the selection/admissions process. I watched students with lower GPA's and HESI's get in, while I was left, rejected and alone. (JK) But I didn't get selected, and my grades are really up there, and it didnt make sense. And don't get me started on when I actually went in to UTH and tried to speak with a counselor. I felt like I was on the phone with Comcast customer service, but I wasn't. I was there. In a room. With another human being.

And then you started to see a much less nurturing environment. Look, I don't need to have my hand held. I am a worker. But on second thought, maybe a hand is nice every now and then? And I could visibly see that being available during my TWU admissions process. And for crying out loud did you read the post Ms. Cole just now put? A recap of the admissions process complete with prelimary stats? Here's how UTH dealt with AllNurses during last semester's application process: during a phone interview, one of the admissions agents told the student that they often read through the AllNurses forum, and to tell the posters blah blah blah (whatever it was, i dont even remember). I mean here is a tool to communicate with people en masse that you are going to take money from and honestly the vibe from the student was as if they were being scolded. As if to say listen tell all these little rats gossiping on All Nurses whatever... TWU on the other hand have posted here and kept us informed, which is all we want/need.

So overall there is, from what I can tell, more of a fend-for-yourself vibe from UTH, whereas TWU feels like when I hugged my mom when I was ten after a bad day at school. Maybe Im still on an acceptance high, I don't know, maybe Im over dramatizing it, I don't know. I certainly don't need that Mom hug every day, but it is reassuring to know that it is there. And if you didn't attend the information session, please go and be amazed at all that the SGA and Student life do for the students. It is literally insane. And I was still on the fence about UTH. In some ways I still am. I compare them to the bad boy that a girl (or another boy) cant shake off. You know they may be bad for you, but you just cant give them up. Why do they have this hold? What is it that we think UTH has that TWU doesn't? Surely I am not the only one. One of the TWU counselors commented last year about the number of spots that tend to open up once the UTH acceptances go out. It's like dumping the safe guy for the bad boy, but who is marriage material here? When I asked a nurse friend for some guidance he said "go with the cheaper one." Hahaha Thanks Scott. Well they are both about the same for the two years. The curriculum looks a little "fancier" at UTH to me for some reason, but when I lined them up, they still are hitting all the subjects. And the NCLEX is the same no matter where you graduate from. I'm not really a burgundy, though. So there's that, but its growing on me. Looks to close to College Station maroon. But transparency in admissions was fr1gg1n HUGE, probably my number one.

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There's an excel doc someone posted further back on this forum where you put in your grades, TEAS scores, etc and it calculates your points.

Where are you guys seeing your score? My gpa was lower than most, I did not attend twu for first bachelors but I had healthcare experience so I'm guessing that boosted me.
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Couldn't have said it better myself, rnstudentcarmona. You hit absolutely everything. I'd like to add though, TWU for me has been way more helpful in the sense of telling me what I need. UTH has put me down time and time again; and being a student who graduated from UT, I have never experienced anything like that. I'm not saying I need special treatment, but gosh, we're prospective students and we don't have the answers; we need someone there to answer, and how are we supposed to do that when we already feel rejected before anyone answers the phone?

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Yeah your official "points" may be different from what you calculated using that spreadsheet. They may have updated their scoring guidelines or something this round since the spreadsheet is no longer available online.

Edit: also remember they only accept the most recent grade, not the highest grade. Like for chemistry, they plug in the most recent chemistry class (ANY chemistry) you've taken. Same goes for the TEAS - most recent not highest

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does anyone know how many people were accepted in each program?

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@rnstudentcarmona your post is EXACTLY my thought process.

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