UFV September 2018

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Hello fellow potential UFV Nursing students,

I have completed my application for Fall 2018 BSN intake and I thought that I would start a thread for open discussions, what marks everyone is applying with, concerns and such. Good luck to everyone!

Hey! they dont tell you what you need to improve

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Hey! they dont tell you what you need to improve

Is that a question or a statement?

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no this is a statement, the instructor said something along the lines like

that would be in a sense cheating, You should be able to figure out where you may have lost points when looking over the BSN entrance scoring guide. There are 39 points I believe? And each of them has categories, I wish you the best of luck in the next intake if you do not get in for fall don't give up!

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I have no experience with this. I understood from somebody that when you didn't get accepted they told you what to work on. Like higher grades or more volunteer experience etc.

I don't know if they used to tell you and now they don't or what?

Yup 39 points and different categories.

Thanks, definitely not giving up.

God willing I'll still get in, its in his hands.

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yeah all i can stand by is what i heard at the info session and the instructor said they dont tell the students =[

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Hey Guys and Gals,

Just thought I'd update all of you and let you know that I was offered a seat in the Program!

Looking forward to seeing all of you in September!!!

I'm super excited and can hardly wait for this journey to official start!

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Congrats!! That's awesome!

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Hey! I sent in my application for the January 2019 intake (first time applicant!) and was wondering if when you guys wrote down your volunteer experience if you also wrote down non-health care volunteer experience? I have over 1000 hours with Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the Canadian Red Cross and other organizations combined. I only have about 60 from the hospital I volunteer at. Anyways, what did you guys do? I want them to capture the full scale of my volunteer experiences :) also, I applied with a 3.83 GPA.. does anyone know if that is particularly competitive or no? Thanks so much, and kind regards to all!

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I believe you're only supposed to include relevant volunteer experience (hospitals, patient care, etc.). I didn't include my 4 years of volunteer experience with the Canadian cancer society but I think you could include it if you wanted! 3.83 is competitive. I think that's the minimum though, most that I've talked to applied with a 4.0 GPA but I think you'd still get an invite to the info session.

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I agree with Kiwin. They only ask for health care related volunteer experience. You definitely can include other volunteer experience if you want too.

I didn't included any volunteer experience at all. Because I only have work experience at a health care facility.

I have been volunteering for over 6 years at other multiple places but didn't think they'd care so I didn't bother mentioning it, maybe I'm wrong maybe it would've helped, who knows?

As for the GPA the closer you are to 4.0 the better, but it really depends on the other applicants for your intake and how high all their GPA's are.

The GPA points aren't everything if you kill the essay and interview you got a great chance!

Good luck!

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Hey all

New to the chat ... loving all the great info. I have applied to the Jan 2019 take in.

Is anyone able to tell me when the info, essay and/or interview session was last year? Or about when they received any communication about them?

Thanks so much!

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Hi! Welcome!

I applied for the September intake and it's different than the winter intake so the dates don't match up at all. I know there's a little difference in the dates every year.

My timeline was:

All documents in by Jan 31

Invite for info session/essay was April 4th

Interviews April 25th

May 9th told I wasn't accepted but put on waiting list :(

July 3rd told there was a seat open!

Went to the Nursing Student Association orientation yesterday (Aug 30th)

Classes Start on Tuesday!! Super Excited!!!

Good Luck

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