University of Michigan (UofM) Accelerated program

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Hi everyone!!! I am new to allnurses.com - I was wondering if anyone has applied for the Fall 2009 accelerated program? I have not been able to attend an information session due to scheduling conflicts. Does anyone know how many people apply to the program or know any "insider" info? I know that 50 people get in every year - I just submited my application last week for the early response deadline - good luck to all!!

In the end, it doesn't matter. Put your best foot forward, apply, and pray! Do that for every school and hope for the best. It's nursing school guys...lots of awesome qualified applicants get denied just because it is so competitive. It's not because any student it's necessarily better than the other....part of it is luck and who reads your essays :p Stop worrying about how to get in....get working on those essays and maintaining as many A's as possible :) Be the best you can be :)

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Dave, you sound like a nice guy and I wish you all the best in getting into a program. Every nursing school is different. At Wayne, I know they definitely look at where you take your classes. Oakland doesn't seem to care. I know of two people with close to 4.0 GPA's not get in(at Wayne) and they took almost all of their classes at community colleges. U of M will likely look at everything and essay's hopefully will be a big factor. Keep in mind too that I wouldn't doubt that some people use professional writing services for their essays - not morally correct but I heard it happens. So they have to be objective and in my opinion, the grades will hold the most weight. Since U of M is partnered with Washtenaw, I would recommend anyone wanting to apply to go there. I said that in my earlier post that community colleges offer good education, they're cheaper, etc. But I have been working on getting my classes lined up to apply for 4 schools and have talked to many people - where you take your classes and grades are key. For example, my friend showed me his A & P exam from Henry Ford Community College and the hardest question on that exam was the easiest one on the Wayne State Exam. I have read many posts on this site and if you read the entire U of M posting(suggest you do this), you will see some pretty darned qualified candidates get put on waiting lists or rejected while others with lower GPA's get in. My guess is U of M looks at the school, the quality of the essays, and the resume - but ultimately the grades will be the biggest factor. They have to make sure you can handle the program since their reputation (pass/fail on NCLEX is how they are graded). Good Luck to you!!

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Amen Wannabeanurse..:cheers:

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Dave, you sound like a nice guy and I wish you all the best in getting into a program. Every nursing school is different. At Wayne, I know they definitely look at where you take your classes. Oakland doesn't seem to care. I know of two people with close to 4.0 GPA's not get in(at Wayne) and they took almost all of their classes at community colleges. U of M will likely look at everything and essay's hopefully will be a big factor. Keep in mind too that I wouldn't doubt that some people use professional writing services for their essays - not morally correct but I heard it happens. So they have to be objective and in my opinion, the grades will hold the most weight. Since U of M is partnered with Washtenaw, I would recommend anyone wanting to apply to go there. I said that in my earlier post that community colleges offer good education, they're cheaper, etc. But I have been working on getting my classes lined up to apply for 4 schools and have talked to many people - where you take your classes and grades are key. For example, my friend showed me his A & P exam from Henry Ford Community College and the hardest question on that exam was the easiest one on the Wayne State Exam. I have read many posts on this site and if you read the entire U of M posting(suggest you do this), you will see some pretty darned qualified candidates get put on waiting lists or rejected while others with lower GPA's get in. My guess is U of M looks at the school, the quality of the essays, and the resume - but ultimately the grades will be the biggest factor. They have to make sure you can handle the program since their reputation (pass/fail on NCLEX is how they are graded). Good Luck to you!!

Can't argue with any of that! And hopefully UM can see through anyone what uses essay writing services, that just sucks. Period. A suggestion people, U of M Hospital has a really good volunteer program. I am volunteering in the Post Op Unit and am getting some really good hands on experience. If you have the time, it could be of great benefit to getting into nursing school. The new session starts in a couple weeks, so go to their website and sign up.

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Thanks Dave, I volunteer at a hospital as a patient escort. When you say hands on experience what exactly do you mean?? I know many of the hospitals in my area are strict on what volunteers can and cannot do in terms of patient contact / etc due to liability, etc.

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Thanks Dave, I volunteer at a hospital as a patient escort. When you say hands on experience what exactly do you mean?? I know many of the hospitals in my area are strict on what volunteers can and cannot do in terms of patient contact / etc due to liability, etc.

The PACU is where patients recover after surgery, when they come out, I take their temps, put on blood pressure cuffs, pulse ox, put gowns on them if needed, help transport them back to their hospital rooms, take off the ECG leads, call their families in, get them food or beverages, prepare the slots for the next patient, run to the pharmacy, hook up SCD's (those machines that massage your legs) and Alaris pumps (those beepy medicine pumps). I can't do any "body fluids", so obviously nothing to do with IVs, urine bags, etc. It's been a real eye opener to see patients with all types of surgeies, and UM does like 80-90 a day, so every shift is unique. There are about 12-18 nurses that work in the unit, so the interaction with them has been great. AND, I get to wear scrubs. LOL

BTW, if anyone is interested, they begin to schedule for interviews Monday the 31st, and they have way more people wanting to volunteer than they have slots, so call that morning. Their website has a pretty good description of each of the opportunities

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Hi all! I just submitted my application on Friday for 2010. From what I understand it will be mid January at the earliest to hear back. I was a bit nervous hitting sumbit after reading everyone's comments here about professionals writing essays and such. Mine were all straight from the heart!

I applied to U of D and have done the same for Wayne State. I know that some people already were accepted to U of D for May 2010 so I feel behind the ball there.

Best of luck to everyone applying!

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Hi JKB -

Good Luck to you and everyone else!!! I don't think professional writing is very common but I hear it happens. I know at Oakland they want a writing sample the day you interview - to make sure you can write at a college level. Likely they had problems in the past with people not writing their own essays. People do desperate things since its so competitive and since U of M does not require an interview, you never know. Hopefully it doesn't happen much and if so, bad karma will prevent these people from getting in. May I ask you how many pre-reqs you have completed at this time?? I just found out two of my science classes will need to be taken again since they are older than 7 years. But I am still just over 3.5 so I hope I will get some good news. January is a long way off. I guess U of M takes their time which can be a good thing. But in my opinion, 10 weeks is enough time to make a decision. If you apply in early August, that's like 18 weeks!!! No other program takes this long. I don't get it. Right now, U of M is likely my 4th best option(in terms of getting in) behind Oakland, Wayne, & MSU.

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I will be submitting this week. I only have a few of the pre-reqs completed, and will have 4 more done by the end of this next semester. I got A's in all classes so far and a solid 3.6 from my previous Masters at U of M. I'm really not going to worry too much about how many pre-reqs. I figure since they open admissions this early, then obviously they expect you to be currently working on pre-reqs, and when I sat down with a counselor one on one at the admissions office, they said the same thing. I think they can pretty much tell that if you did well in Chem and A & P, that you will do fine in the rest. Hopefully my letter of recommendation from my A & P prof will carry some weight, although U of M does not require LORs. My three essays are really solid and have a lot of passion, I've had a number of people review them.

Like Wayne State Grad said. Good luck to all of you. Would ideally love to meet you all at U of M Fall of 2010!

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Dave and Wayne State Grad,

I agree with you Dave on the pre-req's and I think you and I think you are in a great position having finished a Master's at U of M. May I ask what your background is?? I have my MBA from WSU and undergrad was CMU.

I am not sure where I have the best chance of gaining admittance? I feel that WSU may be out of reach with not having any pre-req's from there.

As far as the science pre-req's I really don't have many complete. I just finished A&P at Washtenaw and got a 4.0 and had to take basic Chem so I could take Organic BioChem. I also completed Nutrition and LifeSpan, but again not really Science courses. For U of M this semester I have Patho, Micro, and Family Concepts. Next semster I will have BIOCHEM and Phama and that will complete my pre-req's for them. For U of D I have to take a basic Bio and basic Psych and perhaps Ethics if my undergrad does not get accepted.

I was looking again at Oakland but want to get in next year and it seems as if they are moving on to 2011 already!! I also looked at Eastern and that could still be a possibility, but they don't accept the Patho I am taking now so I would have to retake it there. I looked again at MSU as I went there my Freshman year, but again would have to retake Patho and Micro as they don't accept what I have--which I guess goes with taking them at a CC instead of a University.

I don't think the timing for U of M is so awful as for WSU you don't get accepted until course work is complete and they tell you in mid June (with program starting that Fall). Then again for U of M if you are put on a waiting list you are again on hold for quite some time wondering if you will get in.

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Hey JBK, were you in A & P at WCC? I just finished that class too. Sounds like you are in a fine position too to finish up with the pre-reqs. Are you sure EMU doesn't take the WCC patho class? There's another member on this board going to EMU next semester and I thought she said they took all her WCC courses, so she's only taking like one class the first semester there.

My masters was in architecture, so no real help there for me. But I have spent the last 20 years doing a ton of non-profit work for a bunch of different orgs, so i hope that helps.

I'm going to try for UM, EMU and WSU. I actually like UM's timline in that you have through the Spring/Summer 2010 to colplete courses for Fall 2010. That's ideal to me,. especially since that makes your pre-req education as fresh as possible before entering nursing school. Heck, I probably already forgot a quarter of what i learned last semester in A & P (kidding) LOL I was chatting with a UM nursing student where i volunteer and she had tajen pharmacology about 2 years prior to entering school, byt eh time she got in, half the drugs were different!

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Dave,

My patho is this semester but at Wayne County CC as it is 5 min from my house. From the looks of their website at EMU they don't take this course from WCCCC. I wonder if it is too late to switch and take patho somewhere else??that is accepted too at EMU. It is so difficult to coordinate applying to different schools as they all have such different pre-req's so at first I based it on the 3 most similiar.

I agree too that it will be nice to have everything so fresh in our minds having just completed most of our courses within a year or so of starting the accelerated program.

Janene

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