UCSF MEPN 2018

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  1. Which UCSF MEPN specialty are you planning on applying for?

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      AGCNS
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      AGCNS - Oncology
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      AGPCNP
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      APHN
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      FNP
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      HPN
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      CNM/WHNP
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      OEHN
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      PNP
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      PMHNP

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A place for individuals applying to the UCSF 2018 MEPN program to contact each other, share information, support each other, and provide advice.

I don't knooooooow!!!!!! Right now I'm just grateful my interview is on the 19th, because on the 26th I will be in classes at Sfsu.....

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Wait, final decisions are in Feb though?

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
I don't knooooooow!!!!!! Right now I'm just grateful my interview is on the 19th, because on the 26th I will be in classes at Sfsu.....

I think by the time the admission letter comes you would have been in class at SFSU for 3 weeks since we are told mid-Feb? That is going to be a tough one since you would have started classes already and have met all your cohort mates.

I don't envy your decision as both of are great schools and great programs. It will be hard to choose. Good luck!

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Yeah I had orientation today and already like a bunch of people I met (and I really like the director a lot, she also interviewed me). To be honest the main thing that would keep me at Sfsu would be guilt over taking a spot and then ditching out. Don't know if that's a good basis for such a huge life decision? But it is also just the kind of person I am, so I dunno. I can't be the only person here in the same boat...?

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Endodiabpnp, Yes, I'll have already started at Sfsu at that point!

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Wow! What about the costs?

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Also if any of you bay area people are getting together I would love to join!

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
Yeah I had orientation today and already like a bunch of people I met (and I really like the director a lot, she also interviewed me). To be honest the main thing that would keep me at Sfsu would be guilt over taking a spot and then ditching out. Don't know if that's a good basis for such a huge life decision? But it is also just the kind of person I am, so I dunno. I can't be the only person here in the same boat...?

If it helps, I think you might have to think about this less from a guilt standpoint and more of what type of clinician you want to be.

I don't remember which SFSU specialty that you chose but SFSU gives you a CNL at the master level initially and you will have to work as a RN for 1 year before going back for your FNP. Since you applied to PNP at UCSF, do you want to work more with the entire lifespan or do you really want to work with children only and really specialize in that area?

The pros I see with UCSF is that if you want to work with children you can't really beat the two Children's Benioff in SF and Oakland that UCSF is affiliated with along with the new Women's and Children's Hospital at Mission Bay.

Overall, you will also finish SFSU one year earlier and the tuition is cheaper while UCSF.... is UCSF one of the very best consistently top 5 ranked nursing schools in the country.

Okay, I give up I don't know how you are going to decide. They are both good programs. I tried lol!

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Yeah I go back and forth just like that, "but sfsu, but ucsf..." Thanks for joining me in it :) I volunteer at Children's and all the doctors and nurses I work with there all say "you gotta make the best choice for yourself."

If I planned to do fnp then I would stick with SFSU. It's a harder choice because I only want to do Peds so I would finish sfsu, go work, apply again to ucsf (not mepn at that point). Tuition total is basically a wash (sfsu accelerated MSN is 60k versus the 20k you may be thinking for the three-year option). Doing my msn at Sfsu and then applying again to ucsf would mean a total of four years in classes vs three if I go straight to ucsf. There is also the possibility of just staying a pediatric clinical nurse specialist (which is what I would be after sfsu), if I could get a job doing it- there's a lot about that role that appeals to me too; to be honest I think the work might be more intellectually stimulating, but probably less fulfilling to my soul. Anyway, perhaps I won't get in this time and will still have the option to go back later. Either way, after years of having no idea whether I'd get in anywhere, the level of stress I'm having over this is relatively minimal :)

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
Yeah I go back and forth just like that, "but sfsu, but ucsf..." Thanks for joining me in it :) I volunteer at Children's and all the doctors and nurses I work with there all say "you gotta make the best choice for yourself."

If I planned to do fnp then I would stick with SFSU. It's a harder choice because I only want to do Peds so I would finish sfsu, go work, apply again to ucsf (not mepn at that point). Tuition total is basically a wash (sfsu accelerated MSN is 60k versus the 20k you may be thinking for the three-year option). Doing my msn at Sfsu and then applying again to ucsf would mean a total of four years in classes vs three if I go straight to ucsf. There is also the possibility of just staying a pediatric clinical nurse specialist (which is what I would be after sfsu), if I could get a job doing it- there's a lot about that role that appeals to me too; to be honest I think the work might be more intellectually stimulating, but probably less fulfilling to my soul. Anyway, perhaps I won't get in this time and will still have the option to go back later. Either way, after years of having no idea whether I'd get in anywhere, the level of stress I'm having over this is relatively minimal :)

I'm glad that it isn't stressing you out. Perhaps this is one of those "take me where the wind blows" sort of situations. Now that you are secure at SFSU perhaps you can see where that road takes you since it has already begun and UCSF is still an unknown.

You asked if anyone else was in your same position and I don't know about everyone else but I deliberately decided to apply to the Fall 2018 cohort non accelerated at SFSU because I wanted to find out whether I was admitted to UCSF first before I would have to make a decision about SFSU. We all make different choices for different reasons and that was what worked best for me given the specialty and area that I was interested in. While SFSU has Women's Health as a specialty they don't have a midwifery specialty which is where my ultimate interests lie in addition to Women's Health while UCSF has both. In the end, it was an easier choice for me because UCSF has the program that I really wanted versus SFSU which only had part of the program that I was interested in.

The bummer is you are also interviewing on the 19th with acires so I won't get to meet you either since I was given the 26th as my interview date. I will get to meet abbybetty though since she has the same interview date as me. Hopefully, the two of you can give us some additional insight since you are both interviewing a week ahead of us.

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Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.

@ yawp - Did you get to meet bay_np? I thinks she was also admitted into your cohort at SFSU?

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Ah, I considered waiting to apply for fall too, but I dropped down to very little work in order to focus on prereqs and I support my daughter and help out my mom too, so I didn't think I could afford any more wait time :/ The way you're doing it totally makes sense. There seem to be a lot of women's health majors in my cohort, I don't know to what extent this is the end goal for them. I'm totally ignorant and have no idea what anyone plans to do with that major besides pap smears all day? :) Maybe they all hope to do midwife later too?

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