UBC 2022 Nursing

[dubutofuzxx]

Hey guys! I just wanted to start this post for anyone applying for the 2022 cycle for UBC nursing.  Just wondering where everyone is coming from and their experiences.

[Donna98]

6 minutes ago, Mcmaize said:

Hey! Is anyone here a current or past UBC student?

I'm graduating from UBC with a BSc in April!

[Mcmaize]

1 hour ago, Donna98 said:

I'm graduating from UBC with a BSc in April!

Me too!

[healthsciencegal]

2 hours ago, Nina_W said:

Hi!

Mine just switched to being reviewed by the faculty/school a few days ago. I think it’s probably just an automatic change to when they open your supplemental or some other part of your application - I don’t think it matters at all when it changes though.

I am also checking the SSC way too much. Hopefully the earlier supplemental deadline might mean earlier decision making?

Mine switched to “being reviewed” over a month ago ?I guess they are just doing it randomly because I submitted my supplemental on one of the last days because I kept trying to make it perfect LOL 

[Ness1212]

Hey, 

Has anyone received an email from UBC? Because on their site it says

 

“ All PLAR Applications will be reviewed individually, and normally students receive a response within four (4) weeks. Response times vary during peak times. All applicants for September 2022 Entry who completed their application prior to the PLAR Application deadline will receive a response by end of February in 2022.“ 

[Ness1212]

Just now, hannahnrankin said:

Mine switched to “being reviewed” over a month ago ?I guess they are just doing it randomly because I submitted my supplemental on one of the last days because I kept trying to make it perfect LOL 

Same here @hannahnrankin mine has been like that for over a month now. I think it is random because I submitted mine on Dec 20 2021

[CocoB55]

4 hours ago, Queen00 said:

 

Oooh that's so exciting!!  Good luck to you as well!  ❣️?

[CocoB55]

3 hours ago, Nina_W said:

Hi!

Mine just switched to being reviewed by the faculty/school a few days ago. I think it’s probably just an automatic change to when they open your supplemental or some other part of your application - I don’t think it matters at all when it changes though.

I am also checking the SSC way too much. Hopefully the earlier supplemental deadline might mean earlier decision making?

Hi!  Ah okay, hopefully mine will change soon too!  Even just seeing any change, like they're actually looking at your application and things are HAPPENING is exciting, after all these months of working on the application, and waiting!  Yes I hope so too, would be wonderful to get an answer sooner if possible!  Good luck to you! ??

[CocoB55]

1 hour ago, hannahnrankin said:

Mine switched to “being reviewed” over a month ago ?I guess they are just doing it randomly because I submitted my supplemental on one of the last days because I kept trying to make it perfect LOL 

Ha ha same here, I submitted mine 1-day before the deadline ? 

So I wonder how long the review will take, I guess it takes a long time to review hundreds of applications.  Well hopefully there will be more updates to everyone's status soon! ?  Good luck!

[CocoB55]

3 hours ago, Mcmaize said:

Hey! Is anyone here a current or past UBC student?

I'm taking 1 course at UBC right now, and have 1 in the first term of Summer, then I'll be finished my B.Sc.!  (finally?) - so I won't be done in time for Spring graduation, have to wait until November. 

[Elly1015]

Does anyone know when do we expect to hear the first round of acceptances? Will it be early May?

[khj329]

1 hour ago, Elly1015 said:

Does anyone know when do we expect to hear the first round of acceptances? Will it be early May?

According to previous years, applicants started hearing back at the end of April or early May. I think it's highly unlikely that we will hear back earlier than that. 

[lotusmntnmama]

On 3/18/2022 at 9:57 AM, Mcmaize said:

Hey! Is anyone here a current or past UBC student?

I received my MFA in Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction) from UBC in 2012, though I began the program in 2006. I was diagnosed with Stage IIIb Triple Negative breast cancer the Summer after I completed my first year of course work, which meant I had to take a year of medical leave for chemo, radiation, and a bilateral mastectomy (when my kids were 2 and 3 years old). I came back to finish my course work, which was awesome in that I decided to take two genres I’d never done before (screenwriting and children’s lit), as well as to work on my thesis, which was my first published memoir. I was fortunate to have an advisor who is an award-winning war journalist and memoirist in the Middle East, and she helped me have an epiphany about my longtime work, which was always about growing up in rural Pennsylvania with my South Vietnamese mom and Pennsylvania Dutch Vietnam Vet dad—and their trauma from the war. But my advisor asked me if I had ever considered if I had all my serious illnesses—epilepsy, cancer, and now I have many others—from my parents’ exposure to Agent Orange. (I had not.) It was the most astute insight, which changed the course of my research and activism to this day. 

My goals for nursing are to research chronic pain, autoimmune disorders, stress and trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and the correlation among all these factors so that one day, as a nurse practitioner, I can open a clinic and operate in a functional medicine capacity with other likeminded practitioners. As a complex, chronic patient who has a vast network, I am proactive and feel so much that it’s way overdue for these types of illnesses to be taken seriously and looked at holistically, not piecemeal, symptom by symptom. It’s ridiculous that the majority of chronic patients are dismissed, that we’re being told it’s in our heads, and we’re prescribed anti-depressants. That is why I’ve made the decision to switch careers from being an editor of 25 years to applying to nursing school. I’ve suffered the system for 15 years, and I’ve done mountainous research. I’m hoping I can be of service to others now.