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 feel like UF is one of the last schools to let us know if we are in (but they also had the latest deadline from my list of schools). UF is the last school I am waiting on, and my #1 choice. Bah, this wait is so painful.
Any of you have a backup plan yet should the news not be so good come the end of the month? I will retake some pre-reqs and GRE, and reapply. Anything worth having is worth fighting for, right?
I know me too! I'm just dying to find out already, longest few weeks of my life. My back-up for now is USF, their deadline is in June, but require an extra psychology pre-req but I am trying to find out about UF first before I crank out another class before June, because I would love love love love love to go to UF over anywhere else.
Hope everyone is enduring the wait as patiently as possible....jmh88, I believe they will send out decision letters at the very end of April, and we will receive them at the beginning of May looking at last years' stuff...I applied and was accepted to Georgetown, so that is my backup, but UF is definitely my first choice (mainly because it is so much less expensive!). Does anyone else have pre-reqs in progress?
I just joined the site. I wish I had found this earlier. I have, like most of you, been anxiously awaiting the UF decision letter. I was denied by two of my back ups and am really discouraged at this point. UF is my first choice so hopefully it will work out! Have any of you applied to other schools as back ups? If so, where? I graduated with my degree in Psychology but decided that it was not the field for me. I have such a passion for nursing and getting started in the field! If anyone has any back up schools they would like to share I would appreciate it very much!! Hopefully we will all be classmates soon :)
My back up is going to USF, the submission of the application is not due till June 15th. Super excited to hear from UF though!! Just a week and a half left!
With rotations, I believe they are at Shands, North FL, and the VA Hospital though I may not be fully correct.
Thank you so much! I am going to start that application if I do not get into uf. hopefully we will be classmates at Florida :-) good luck everyone!! Hope we all get to meet soon!
I hope that we find out this week!! I am going out of town this weekend and I hope that we find out before we leave!! From what I have read, I believe UF looks at the complete applicant, which is different than UCF and UNF. UCF and UNF only look at the prereq gpa and test scores. I think at this point we just have to try to continue to be patient...even though it's very hard to do:eek: Luckily, I have a busy week ahead, so hopefully it will go by pretty fast for me!! I just hope we know by the weekend. Good luck everyone!!
This is my first time on this website, it's extremely helpful. I want to thank all of you who have posted such useful information.
CShia- I understand where you're coming from, I've been denied from my backup schools too, it was definitely discouraging. Uf is my number one choice as well. Thankfully some doors shut while others open, lets hope that UF's door opens for us.
My husband and I have anxiously been checking the mail daily for about the past two-three weeks now "just in case." Well, today as I checked it, I noticed I had a big envelope. I think my heart probably stopped for about the 10 seconds and I don't think I took a breath from the anticipation. Needless to say, it wasn't from UF:-( It was my Joyce Meyer newsletter...which was also a nice surprise, just not the one I have been waiting for. I also had a dream (more of a nightmare actually) a few days ago that I didn't get in school. Is anyone else as crazy as I am?? I am sure, as this is such a HUGE decision for all of us!!
Has anyone heard if the letter's have been mailed yet? I sure hope its very soon...maybe tomorrow?? It never hurts to have wishful thinking:-) I hope ya'll are keeping your sanity intact...these last few days will probably be the hardest.
Waiting along with everyone else, but I'm not expecting anything this week. From my experience the end of the month means April 30th, so my guess is that letters will not be reaching anyone until next week. However, I have been wrong before. It's just easier for me to wait when I'm not expecting to receive any news.
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I feel like UF is one of the last schools to let us know if we are in (but they also had the latest deadline from my list of schools). UF is the last school I am waiting on, and my #1 choice. Bah, this wait is so painful.
Any of you have a backup plan yet should the news not be so good come the end of the month? I will retake some pre-reqs and GRE, and reapply. Anything worth having is worth fighting for, right?