Hello all, I'm preparing to apply to UCLA's Master's Entry Clinical Nurse (MECN) program, and so have decided to start a thread for others that planning to also apply and/or interested.
Taking into consideration that admissions begin September 1, 2017 and end on November 1, 2017, this conversation will hopefully progress from now (the lead up) through the time of notification for acceptance/denial/waitlist (between February and April 2018).
In the meantime, is anyone planning to attend any of the upcoming information sessions?
I'm pretty sure all acceptances went out the first 2 days... there's no more hope for me considering I haven't even heard anything from them. Been super sad all week. Those of you who applied last year, what were the reasons you guys were not accepted first time around??
To answer your question, I never asked and was never told why I didnt get in last year but I have a few theories
1. I wrote my statement of purpose in like a week, didnt really put much effort into it
2. Perhaps most importantly, I had NO volunteer (medical or not) experience or Employment history. I graduated from my Master's Program and went straight into doing my prereqs for nursing and had never had a "real" job, I was a nanny for about 4 years but that was it, no professional experience
After I got my rejection letter I decided to get my Nurse Assistant Certification and I got a few employment opportunities from that before landing a job at a hospital as a nurse assistant. I think that was what made the difference because everything else didnt change.
I will include some of my stats, they arent really that outstanding
Undergrad GPA 3.12 overall and 3.6 for the last two years
Master's gpa ( i dont know if they consider this) 3.69
Prereqs gpa 4.0 ( i didnt retake any classes between both application periods so my gpa didnt change in between)
Nursing schools are all really tough to get into. Plenty of folks end up strengthening their applications and reapplying the following year. It's a process.
I received my acceptance letter from the Graduate Division a few days ago and accepted. I'm kinda a weird candidate, so whether or not I'd get in anywhere this year was a toss-up. 3.19 undergraduate GPA from Wesleyan with like a 3.6 in the last two years, a few years off to work as a labor and community organizer (some of that was public health tenants organizing work), then a 3.47 prereq GPA at ELAC.
I started volunteering in the ER at the General Hospital during my application process and had volunteered on a med-surg floor for about 200 hours in high school. I'm also a yerbera (traditional Mexican herbalist) and am taking community based classes through the Hood Herbalism project. My end goal, after a bunch of hospital and clinic work, is to open up my own integrative and holistic clinic on the Eastside. I wasn't shy about my convictions, and I have a clear professional goal and community-accountable motive. I think that's why they accepted me into their cohort.
The tl;dr is that they take non-traditional candidates like me. If you got a rejection letter this time around, I'd get some more experience (healthcare / public health / etc) and figure out what you want the next three years of your life to look like. The clearer you are with UCLA, the better a picture they'll get of who you are as a person and what you'd contribute to their upcoming cohort. Best of luck!
My email from Rhonda states that "In order to assist us in the planning for the Fall Quarter, ALSO notify me by sending an e-mail to [email protected] by FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2018 indicating whether or not you intend to enroll."
mrmunkmunk
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Just got my acceptance, scared and excited to start