UCONN CEIN 2016

heb06004 · Feb 9, 2015

Best of luck! I'm currently on week 6 of the program at Avery Point. :)

Watercolor18 · Feb 9, 2015

I'm also in the 2015 program at Storrs, so if you still have questions after looking at the other threads, I'd be happy to answer them! :)

Allie31 · Feb 10, 2015

Applied for Jan 2015 deadline and waiting to hear back! Anyone know when we can be expecting to hear?

heb06004 · Feb 10, 2015

I'd say on average no later than 2-3 weeks after the review date.

Karina85 · Feb 12, 2015

Hi- great idea. I applied for aver point. I am very anxious to find out and it would be nice to know when others are getting their letters. Thanks!!!

RN2BCamm · Feb 12, 2015

Hi- great idea. I applied for aver point. I am very anxious to find out and it would be nice to know when others are getting their letters. Thanks!!!

I agree. It would be nice to know around when others are receiving their letters. I'll stay in touch!

RN2BCamm · Feb 12, 2015

I'm also in the 2015 program at Storrs, so if you still have questions after looking at the other threads, I'd be happy to answer them! :)

How do you both like the program so far?

Watercolor18 · Feb 15, 2015

I sent everything about a week before the Jan 31st deadline last year and got my acceptance Feb 14, just to give you an idea how long it takes. Don't panic if you don't get it the next few days, with all the snow, it might push back getting the letters out, it's certainly pushed back stuff for our classes.

Watercolor18 · Feb 15, 2015

Personally I like the program. Overall:

Positives:

-learning a lot in a short time (although some people are finding this stressful, I feel like this really helps in clinical because it's such a faster pace compared to a traditional program)

-professors are very understanding, esp. in the beginning (this is good due to the amount of disorganization)

-being with the same group of people each week (doubly true with your clinical group)

Negatives

-disorganization (biggest example - we had a sim program with weekly sims. Prof said we could have unlimited attempts and whatever our highest score was was our grade. To get 90s, people were spending 3 hrs a week retaking it. Three weeks in prof says highest score was NEVER the case, we just had to attempt it once and we'd get a 100. Works in our favor, but that's almost 10 hours wasted. People were not pleased)

-things move around - fairly frequently and sometimes without much warning (examples: our clinical instructor changed our whole second week of clinical, incl. location, time, and day; lab hours got changed on a snow day with only 90min of warning after our group thought it was cancelled)

Overall, I'm happy I'm in this program. I'm not going to lie, the disorganization is VERY off-putting sometimes, but having heard from previous students this was a problem, I was fairly prepared. You HAVE to be flexible, especially the first few weeks. MAKE A CALENDAR (preferably after your first class) but write things in pencil, so they're easy to move around. Just take everything in stride and move on. If anything really unfair happens the professors are great about fixing the problem, it just may take time. I just keep telling myself it's only one year and I'm done. We've got a midterm coming up and it's very satisfying (although scary haha) to see how much we've learned in the past 1.5 months. Your classmates and especially your clinical group will get very close. It's awesome to share how great your day's been with your clinical group but even better to have people you can talk to who understand exactly how you feel when you've had a bad day with a sim/reading/assignment/patient/whatever. I know this was kind of wordy, but if anyone has any other questions, just let me know

ald09010 · Feb 18, 2015

Hi All!

Wow this conversation has enlightened me I had no Idea you were suppose to apply a year in advanced!

Right now I have to do ALL the Science pre-req courses I am enrolled in 2 right now and then have 4 more to go.. I was planning on applying by August and completing all the pre-reqs by January... I want to go to either Storrs or Waterbury (I live in the hartford area)

I could take 3 courses this summer and have one left by the time I apply.. What do you think my chances are of getting into the Jan 2016 program if I do that?

or do you think I am better off waiting and applying for 2017?

Your help is very much appreciated!!!

Thank you!

heb06004 · Feb 19, 2015

So I completely agree with EVERYTHING Watercolor18 said! I couldn't have said it better myself. I have also noticed that the difference between what each campus is told has been quite frustrating.

My clinical instructor is on the committee for picking next year's students, and she said they've been working on the acceptances, but have been delayed due to so many snow days. Hang in there!

ald09010 - last year I completed all my prereqs over spring/summer/fall semesters. By the time the August applications were look at (although I applied in January.. a whole OTHER conversation haha) I still had to take chem and A&PII in the fall. The ONLY semester they seem to look at applications if the prereqs aren't complete is the August round, but you have to be done before the program starts in January. If you don't mind getting into Waterbury (or your third choice), then go for August. In reality, Storrs usually fills up quick, and although I've heard there are a few spots saved for each round of applications it seems to be that Storrs fills up by the June round of apps. If you're dead set on Storrs, you would want to wait to apply another year, but if you're a bit more flexible definitely apply this year!

I am so far happy with the program, and am definitely learning a lot! I am also open to any private message questions if somebody has something to Avery Point specificly or just doesn't want to ask here. :)