UF Accelerated BSN - May 2010 Applicants

abrink · Jan 18, 2010

One of my clinical instructors mentioned that they receive something like 600 applications a year. To me, that seems like a grossly inflated number, but I imagine that more people are trying to go back to school because of the economy.

600 seems like a little much..I went to a meeting for the program at UCF and they said they get about 200. I would imagine UF would be similar.

Orange and Blue · Jan 18, 2010

Yeah I agree, I don't know who told you 600 but I spoke with one of the admissions advisors and last year they had 295 applicants for UF and i believe around 65 got in

twois · Jan 18, 2010

I could believe 600 applications between the two BSN programs, though, traditional and accelerated. That may be the source of the number.

Shaunna · Jan 19, 2010

Yeah, 300 sounds much more reasonable, as I said 600 was probably an exaggeration. The professor that told me that is not directly involved in the selection process.

However, I think that might be more accurate for just the generic program-a lot of people do apply to that one and end up changing majors.

This year's program has about 56 people actually. I know a few of them were waitlisted and/or got in on appeal, so maybe the 65 includes people who were accepted and chose not to attend.

Orange and Blue · Jan 19, 2010

yeah you are right, i meant 55 not 65! sorry, i didn't reread that before i sent it!

twodollarbills · Jan 20, 2010

around 300 is probably right because Ken said that about 1 out of 5 people are accepted and that would put the accepted number at 60. ugh, I cannot wait until March! Is everyone else feeling really impatient?

NP Sam · Jan 21, 2010

Yes I am feeling impatient!!! 1 in 5.. why does that make me feel good? Something I noticed was a lot people who were applicants to UF last year and wrote about on allnurses.com were accepted. Of course no one knows which application belongs to what allnurses member.... did anyone else notice that?

twodollarbills · Jan 21, 2010

haha that is nice thinking, I wish that were the case, but actually what I noticed was that there were a lot of people that posted and then when letters came out a lot of people posted that they got in, but there were a lot of people that just never posted ever again, maybe they felt too embarrassed to say they were denied.

I am glad that 1 in 5 makes you feel good, because it really freaks me out, I want to hear something more like 1 in 2 hahaha.

NP Sam · Jan 30, 2010

Speaking of the 1 in 2 thing, The University of alabama at birmingham ABSN advisor told me earlier this week that 250 apply and 100-150 get in their program. I will apply to their upper division program as soon as it becomes available online. Not excited about out of state tuition though.

mdaniellek, BSN, RN · Feb 3, 2010

So I just got an e-mail that the ABSN program will be starting in the Fall instead of the Summer. . . I wonder if this means decision letters will come later than March?

LJR2010 · Feb 4, 2010

I've also been wondering if since they changed the start date if they will be taking longer to review the applications. I assume it will be the same as last year though, I think we will know in about a month and a half.

Abby UF · Feb 11, 2010

Hi everyone,

I've been following you for a few weeks now and finally decided to sign up. I emailed someone this week and he stated the new start date should not delay decision letters. The following is his response:

"The program will be starting in Fall and there shouldn’t be any sort of delay in getting notices out to students."

Based on the posts from last year's applicant, letters should be arriving around March 7th or 8th.

I wish you all luck...this waiting game is killing me!!!