UMB FALL 2011

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I will be applying for the Fall 2011 program at UMB really really soon. I was wondering if anyone else was doing the same...? I'm really nervous about applying because Anatomy really kicked my butt last semester and I ended up getting a C (even though I ended up doing really well on my other science courses). Now, I'm losing hope. Anyone feeling the same?

Yea sorry guys mine has been like that for a while, I don't think it means anything. And I'm thinking they will count next week as the first week in April ; I think the 2'nd week would count as the 11'th-15'th lol but student4life I hope you are right.

we have just 15 more days to go :yeah:

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Just to clarify, for those who had the "Current Program: Bachelor's of Science in Nursing" earlier on, are you all applying to BSN or RN to BSN? I ask because I am going for the RN to BSN and my Status was only changed to "Committee Ready" about a week or so ago. Perhaps the traditional BSN applicants are reviewed first before they start working on the RN to BSN pool? An admissions rep told me that the RN to BSN is somewhat less competitive than the traditional BSN program. Idk. But I am almost 100% positive that those two lines were blank before (I've been checking it quite a bit, lol). When I got accepted into my current ADN program, I actually got a letter stating that my major was updated to Nursing before receiving the actual acceptance packet to my program. So might be the same deal. Staying hopeful!

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I'm also applying to the RN-BSN program. So someone told you this program was not quite as competitive as the traditional BSN program? I was told that we would not be notified about this program until the end of April, but I don't know... Hopefully sooner than that!

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Just to clarify, for those who had the "Current Program: Bachelor's of Science in Nursing" earlier on, are you all applying to BSN or RN to BSN? I ask because I am going for the RN to BSN and my Status was only changed to "Committee Ready" about a week or so ago. Perhaps the traditional BSN applicants are reviewed first before they start working on the RN to BSN pool? An admissions rep told me that the RN to BSN is somewhat less competitive than the traditional BSN program. Idk. But I am almost 100% positive that those two lines were blank before (I've been checking it quite a bit, lol). When I got accepted into my current ADN program, I actually got a letter stating that my major was updated to Nursing before receiving the actual acceptance packet to my program. So might be the same deal. Staying hopeful!

@ Aarika, do you have the "Current Program: Bachelor's of Science in Nursing" thing on your application?

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Yes, the woman conducting the information session told me about that. I traveled down to Baltimore for a session that was actually for the traditional BSN, so I stayed a bit after and got some more details on RN to BSN. She didn't specifically say to what degree, but she did in fact say that is less competitive. Perhaps because there are so many options, especially online ones, that there aren't as many RN to BSN applicants? @ Abby - Yep, I do!

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@ Aarika, was that there since day one or it is a new update?

I couldn't exactly remember mine.

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Abby, I do not remember seeing this at all up until today. I've been checking it about once a week since I submitted my app, and only in the past couple of checks did Committee Ready come up. Today when I checked I noticed the Current Program: Bachelor's of Science in Nursing.

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The font size just changed temporarily making sections of the site appear to be newly filled in. At least that was the case for me.

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The font size just changed temporarily making sections of the site appear to be newly filled in. At least that was the case for me.

so it is not something new?

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Nope, the font change just pushed the letters off into the formerly clear margins. So it appeared like something new was on the status (after all we all just scan the right column) but in reality it was just a font change (which has reset to normal now).

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I suppose I could see how this might be possible. In my experience with web design, typically you do not specify the text for an individual box in a table such as that when you write the HTML code for a page. The font style, size, color, etc. will be either designated in the beginning code of a table such as the one used to hold information on that page, or more frequently a cascading style sheet, or CSS, is used and contains design, including font, parameters for all of the content on a page and you designate a specific style before each section of font. Even more likely for a website such as Maryland's, they probably use a web design program that would set a standard formatting for that entire table rather than writing out all of the code by hand. I just see no reason as to why the font size would have been altered and then later edited to this specific section. Idk!

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Also, all of the text is within a table. There isn't an easy way (that I'm aware of, it's been a few years since I've actively done web design) to have floating text on the side of the screen, unless you made a really thin column within this table on the side and took away the borders. But if you view source code, there is no extra column to the left and the information I referenced falls within the same column as the other information:

(TR) (TD COLSPAN="5" CLASS="dblabel" scope="row" >Current Program(/TD) (/TR) (TR) (TD COLSPAN="5&quote CLASS="dbdefault& class="inlineimg" />Bachelor of Science in Nursing(/TD) (/TR) (TR)

(Brackets changed to parenthesis to preserve format)

Edit: Well it quoted kind of weird, but basically, where it says CLASS=dblabel and dbdefault, that's where the format is outlined. For each other entry in the table the same formats are used, and this is all probably set up in the CSS to set how dblabel and dbdefault will format the text within the cell in the table. So it's really, really unlikely that there was a change in font, but I can't tell for sure because I can't download the CSS used and determine if there is a format set to font size 0 or font color white which would have given the appearance of empty boxes. But even when you would have highlighted the boxes the text entered into the cell would have shown up.

Even now, I have a blank box between Date and Requirements toward the end, and when I viewed that cell the source code there is "& n b s p ;" entered, which means non-breaking space. Essentially this holds the cell open and at the size of the others (since the format is specified) without needing any true content inside of it. So basically this is what was likely in the two empty cells before where I can now see "Current Program: Bachelor's of Science in Nursing". Hope that makes sense, lol.

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