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Anyone planning to apply to UIC's GEP for winter/spring 2012? (http://www.uic.edu/nursing/prospectivestudents/gep-about.shtml) The application opened on January 15 and is due March 1.
I just finished the primary application and am waiting to receive the secondary application to send out recommendation requests. Their application cycle is a bit odd and inconvenient, since most other places that start in the fall require deposits by late March into early April, and UIC doesn't inform you of your status until late April. But in the end, it's still a great program and worth a shot.
Prettylights--you asked about being in another city for the MSN portion while working as an RN? It is my understanding that the MSN portion can be completed at any of the satellite campuses: urbana/champaign, rockford, peoria, quad cities, chicago). From the info session i attended, it also sounded as though the MSN classes had a larger online component than in-person.
Willakers--I interviewed earlier this week, and she said they'd be meeting that day or the next day to rank all of us, and then it would be a few weeks before they had the final numbers of how many people they could take for CNM. She said to expect to hear sometime the week of April 25 by email, but that official letters wouldn't go out from the graduate school until mid-may. Was this your understanding as well?
hahaha such a good way to put it. I can hardly focus on much else! I pretty much check out of work a couple hours in, when I know the mailman is on his way to my apartment a few miles away.. lol So are you all thinking it'll come via email then snail mail? Or are we all just kinda leading in the dark? :)
Prettylights,
The way they made it sound at the information session that you had to start off at UIC for the RN portion and then for the MSN you could go to the other locations and I believe everything would be based out of those areas. For example if you transfered to Rockford, your clinicals would be in that area not downtown Chicago.
During my interview it was stressed that after the RN portion everything is online- so I assume then that we do not have to attend any classes at a campus other than clinicals.
Ruthieb, My interviewer was going to check on the notification timeline but has yet to get back to me, so I definitely appreciate your sharing. I am pretty excited about the program, and my interviewer was great! Were you able to visit campus? If so, did you meet any current students or sit in on any classes?
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Hahahah you're not alone on ANY of that! I've been doing the same thing. I think soon no one's going to want to be around me because it's all I can talk about. lol.