University of Kansas- CRNA interview tips please!!!!

Sxg84581 · Nov 24, 2009

Sorry you lost at the casino. I wish you luck and I will keep in touch. I didn't apply in Texas because I need to take the GRE. If these schools don't work out, I plan on taking my GRE and applying in state. I figure if it's going to happen this year, I might as well go. Taking the GRE doesn't guarantee me a spot in Texas. It could take several tries. By then I could have completed a program by then. Well maybe we will both get in. When I interviewed the other five were from texas as well. What attracted you to Kansas?

yta1 · Nov 27, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!!!!!!!!! My friends told me about the school and a few coworker used to live there. the school was pretty big huh. are you waiting for the results for this school only for now or are you gonna to apply anywhere else?

Sxg84581 · Nov 28, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving to you too! I'm waiting to hear from these schools before I apply any where. How about you?

yta1 · Dec 7, 2009

I got the letter and they declined me. what's about you?

Sxg84581 · Dec 7, 2009

Sorry to hear that. I got in to Kansas and Webster. I have to accept this week. Probably Webster because it's only 30 months.

yta1 · Dec 8, 2009

congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!! do you know any other school that will accept my GRE score

Sxg84581 · Dec 8, 2009

?? On the gre score. Midwestern, kaiser, a school in buffalo, Webster requires ccrn. There are more I think one in tennesse

Lifesagas · Sep 4, 2011

Do NOT go to KU for anesthesia school! Accept a different school if you can. They almost lost there school of anesthesia for how they treated students in 2007. After that they will pretty much take anyone and the quality of student has dropped BIG TIME! If you like to be a slave...this school is for you!

tenman11 · Oct 2, 2011

I am currently considering KU's CRNA program and have an interview with them in November. I am curious about what background you have and what things constitute being a "slave". I know that 2007 was a while ago, do you have any insite on how 2010 and 2011 classes are prepared for the real world when they graduate?

Lifesagas · Oct 2, 2011

I am a CRNA and graduate of the 2010 class. The University of Kansas prepares you clinically very well. It is trial by fire when it comes to the operating room. The OR hours are LONG. If you look at how the program is set up, by your second year all of the courses are on-line. This allows you A LOT of time in the OR or at least allows the SRNA's to STAFF the OR instead of getting weekly lectures. Just think twice about a program that MUST staff the OR for the OR to function! In this case, bigger isn't better. By the end of the THREE years they had to REQUIRE myself and my classmates to attend graduation...or very few of us would have gone. I think that in itself, speaks volumes! There is a reason K.U. is not ranked in even the top 25 for CRNA schools to attend - and is one of the easier schools to gain admission to...

On the flip side, CRNA school is a means to an end, and so long that at the end you are a CRNA, that is what is most important!!!

GOOD LUCK to you in your interview next month!

arcurtisrn · Oct 5, 2011

Hello,

I have an interview next month: November 4, 2011 and was wondering if your opinion is still the same of KU?

I have a 3.1 GPA and A's in the last few updated classes. I have 9 years of experience in the ICU and the usual CCRN, PALS, ACLS, etc. Do you have any suggestions for the interview and if your opinion is still fairly low what are some schools you would have subsituted for KU? Thank you

AC

Lifesagas · Oct 17, 2011

AC

Yes, my opinion of KU is the same. I would NOT recommend the CRNA program AT ALL!!! However, as there standards for acceptance has dropped over the recent years, acceptance is much easier.

The link below shows a current ranking of CRNA schools. KU proper is #59 out of 77 schools! I would say start looking at the top 50% or 35 school would better suit a student entering a program. The schools are ranked over many catagories. US News also has CRNA school rankings in which KU was also in the 50's.

http://whichuniversitybest.blogspot.com/2009/08/top-nursing-anesthesia-schools.html

Good Luck to you!