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I'm stepping back on this runaway train. Reapplied to UAB's AGNP/WHNP combined program for the Fall 2014 entering class. Has anyone else applied? The application deadline is late March!
I really hate that ... Have you called to ask what you can do to get in? Are you using a secondary choice? When I applied, I applied for the AGNP Primary and Acute. I got in the primary because I didn't have ICU experience. I'm so very sorry. I was looking forward to seeing you there. You have been the most positive person in this whole thing and I feel you deserve to be in too ...
If I may ask, what is your overall GPA? Mine is a 3.5 so I know that's one of the other reasons I did not get into the Acute trek. Again, I'm sorry because you have been through this twice already.
I emailed my program director asking if she could find out the reasoning behind me not getting in this time, and she emailed right back from her phone and said she was sorry and would find out. This was really very, very disappointing, because of the way she had practically pleaded with me to try again back in February. She had made it sound like she was going to get me in after the snafu that happened with my Summer 2014 app.
My overall GPA is under 3.0, but my GPA for the last 60 credits is 3.6+, my GRE scores were high, I had great recommendations, a rockin' essay, and what felt like heavy support from the WHNP program director, so I'm really not sure what happened.
I just got off the phone with the director of student services, who told me that I was not admitted because my GPA for the last 60 hours was calculated at a 2.8, since they don't factor in grades from my ADN program, which is totally different from what I was advised by the program director.
I honestly feel like I was deceived. I will not be reapplying.
According to JU, Director of Student Services of the School of Nursing, they do not factor 2-year program grades into their GPA calculations. When I sent my program director my grades way back in September, before I ever applied, she made no such distinction and said I'd be a good candidate for admission.
Nocturnelle
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I'll most likely attend in July because I already made my work schedule for the beginning of June.