If you're applying to the University of Florida's Fall 2011 accelerated BSN program in Gainesville, this thread's for you! Applicants, current students, and alumni are all welcome to the discussion!
(I am not sure what the difference is, but in case they are on different servers I will post them both. This way you potentially have two servers to use in case one of them is temporarily down.)
Looking forward to meeting more of you on here!
I actually "appropriated" almost everything above from the previous years discussion board. I would at least like to give credit to the original author. The thread last year has been very helpful for me. It contained a lot of quality content and postings. It even included posts from members of the UF College of Nursing administration as well current, former, and prospective students. I hope that this thread will be just as helpful. I look forward to discussing various topics with all of you, such as the inevitable "what is your G.P.A and GRE score." I also hope that one day soon I will be able to meet with all of you face to face as newly admitted students for the Fall 2011 term. Good Luck!!!
In good faith I will say that my undergraduate GPA was very low, around a 2.0, but I earned a 3.5 GPA at FGCU for my MBA in Finance. It was a 4.0 until my final two semesters when I experienced an unfortunate series of losses of friends and loved ones. I have taken a few other courses at the undergraduate level since my bachelors degree and earned either an A or a rare B+. I am currently retaking all of my prerequisites because I took them, originally, over seven years ago. I earned a B+ in Nutrition last semester, and I expect close to straight A's this semester even though I am taking BSC 2085, BSC 2086, MCB 2010, DEP 2004, and STA 2023 all in the same semester. I am also working forty hours per week as a Financial Aid Officer at City College and teaching in the College of Business part time at the same institution. No, I would not recommend this to anyone else or to myself if I could do it over again. I took the GRE at the beginning of this month, but I was not pleased with my results. I scored a 1250, and I plan on retaking it in the beginning of December. I scored a 1380 on the SAT and a 690 on the GMAT. I was very tired, and I think I will do significantly better the next time. As I said before, I look forward to hearing from all of you regarding your backgrounds and any questions you might have.
I have been researching housing options and I came across three that I liked: The Estates, Gainesville Place Apartments, and Oakbrook Walk.
Does anyone know anything about these places? Are they pretty safe?..Quiet enough to study in the apartment?
I'm interested in a roommate, if anyone is still looking! LolaMac, I know you had mentioned you would like to live with a nursing student! Let me know if any of these places interest you! Also, I wouldn't mind sharing an apartment with 3 people - I know that helps with rent prices!
UFCON - any suggestions for housing? How do most nursing students find housing? Do a lot of nursing students live together?
honestly, it's been a long time since i've looked into renting an apartment in town but the first place i usually recommend is apartment hunters. it's a free service i've used in the past and i've found great places. here's the link: http://www.apartmenthunters.com/homepages/gainesville.aspx
additionally you could take a look at the new continuum that's being developed through uf housing. here's the link to that: http://www.housing.ufl.edu/continuum/ they actually look pretty nice.
I lived in Gainesville place my freshman year, I would describe it as your typical "college apartment". I think mostly undergrad students live there and when I lived there they didnt allow pets. They do have some third story units that have vaulted ceilings and one nice thing is that if you ever have something broken they will send maintanence out to fix it pretty quick. The estates is another typical college place but it is gated and has a really nice pool (they throw a bunch of pool parties throughout the year) I would say as far as noise level it just depends on your roomates. A lot of people "try" to throw parties there but they usually end up getting busted by the cops. Ive heard oakbrook walk is good for grad students and I would guess it would be pretty quiet. If you want to stay on that side of town you may want to look the Polos. Its pretty quiet there and the apartments are nice and have big rooms. They also have two pools, a hot tub and volleyball courts. They allow pets too. The enclaves are really nice too and are more updated than most apartments (they connect to gainesville place). It really just depends on your price range and what part of gainesville you want to live. Living near archer road or off of 35th blvd may be a good bet for you if you want to stay close to the hospitals and such but be prepared for some annoying traffic, they were once talking about lowering the speed limit to 25 for the entire archer road by the university. Im not sure if they still plan to do this but it would cause chaos in my opinion (I think they decided against that though). The student ghetto is behind midtown and downtown where all the bars are located. As far as houses go they are literally everywhere check out watsonrent.com and bosshardtpm.com for those rentals. Hope this helps :)
oh and as far as safety goes... all of those places are safe. Try to avoid the sw part of gainesville by tower road and downtown if you are concerned about safety. Otherwise its mostly student. Just keep your car locked at night.. I had to learn that the hard way :/
I just sent you a message about housing. I just wanted to let you know, as I hadn't been checking allnurses that often and just got your post from a couple days ago.
Hi everyone and congrats on getting into the program! I am new to this site, but see that some of you are looking for housing. I am coming from out of state, so I don't really know the area, but I would love to be roommates with others in the program. Let me know if anyone is interested. Can't wait to meet everyone!
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Hey ya'll!
I have been researching housing options and I came across three that I liked: The Estates, Gainesville Place Apartments, and Oakbrook Walk.
Does anyone know anything about these places? Are they pretty safe?..Quiet enough to study in the apartment?
I'm interested in a roommate, if anyone is still looking! LolaMac, I know you had mentioned you would like to live with a nursing student! Let me know if any of these places interest you! Also, I wouldn't mind sharing an apartment with 3 people - I know that helps with rent prices!
UFCON - any suggestions for housing? How do most nursing students find housing? Do a lot of nursing students live together?
THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE!!