UI Chicago GEP Spring 2012

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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.

.. . Or maybe I was the only one to encounter that problem....

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Phoenix,

I had a similar experience in my interview. I mentioned having volunteered at a hospital and the interviewer knew nothing about that and it was definitely in my application info. She was reading as we were talking, so I'm not sure they had our info much before the actual interviews. I'm not sure what that means though!!

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I had a similar experience with my interview. I was told that she hasn't had a chance to look over my application yet and to tell her about myself. I had thought that maybe it was a way in which she was pretending not to have read it to see if what I said matched my application or hear me explain it myself but it could also be like the feeling that you got that she hadn't read it yet.

I was asked a lot about things that I knew were in my essays but thought that maybe she just wanted to make conversation.

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Why am I 99% certain your application hadn't been read at all by the interviewer before you met? Same here. However, as the first in the lottery to have your interview, what you may not have realized is that they didn't just take the next applicant in right after you. I'm betting they read our applications after the interview if they liked us, and if that's the case, then I know yours was read because the second applicant got anxious and walked to the room before being called and she was told they weren't ready for her. :) (Unless, of course, your interview got walked in on, but it didn't sound like that's what happened to her.)

Btw-I know your last name of probably pretty common, but you don't happen to have a brother named Abidemi, do you? If so, i think I went to high school with him. :)

I do. He is my brother inlaw, he is my husband's brother, he went to MIT, wow, it's funny how small the world is

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.. . Or maybe I was the only one to encounter that problem....

She told me she didn't go through my application yet

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Hmmm... I wonder who read our applications in order to give us interviews?

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Miss Priss,

I'm definitely thinking that they didn't read the apps/essays. I had an almost identical experience. "Tell me about yourself" start to the interview and we basically just had a conversation. It was fine, but she definitely asked me very specific questions, like why an MSN vs a BSN. What would the role of an APN be in a hospital setting compared to the role of an RN or LPN. I thought the questions were tough, considering I haven't had experience working in the hospital environment, but hopefully I answered them well enough.

How many more days until I can stop over analyzing my interview??? :D

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Miss Priss,

I'm definitely thinking that they didn't read the apps/essays. I had an almost identical experience. "Tell me about yourself" start to the interview and we basically just had a conversation. It was fine, but she definitely asked me very specific questions, like why an MSN vs a BSN. What would the role of an APN be in a hospital setting compared to the role of an RN or LPN. I thought the questions were tough, considering I haven't had experience working in the hospital environment, but hopefully I answered them well enough.

How many more days until I can stop over analyzing my interview??? :D

I think they were just giving us that impression because how would they have narrowed down the interviews if they had not gone through the application materials? I'm thinking they went through them all, a school like UIC would not take such chances

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I think a different committee was responsible for the first cut. My interviewer definitely had not read my info. Almost everything I said in the interview would have been totally repetitive if she had. She could have just asked me to get into more details about things I wrote had she read it. Instead, I think I pretty much repeated what was in my essays and I did elaborate some too. Who knows? Again, I think I'm over analyzing the whole thing!

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I didn't have any questions like yours CPA. All we conversed about was my background about my aas in radiology and my volunteer experience. Most of my interview was about the differences between Rush and Uic and why I wanted UIC over Rush. The rest was an explaination of how the MSN was on-line and people dropped out because they felt "alone" after the first 15 months. I don't really know how my interview went...

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miss priss,

we definitely talked about how people have dropped out after the 15 month portion of the program. You have no degree at that point and would not be able to work, definitely by 2016, so there's no way I would do that! But, it sounds like that's been an issue in the past.

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My interviewer seemed to have a good idea of what was written in the different essays. She referenced several of my past experiences before I even had a chance to bring them up. I'm guessing it all depended on specialty and how many were being interviewed. Overall I thought it was a good experience. I guess I'll see how they felt in less than a week.

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