University of Rochester ABPNN Jan. 2016

[Tink87]

Hello!

I've been looking at allnurses to see if anyone had started a thread for the U of R January 2016 ABPNN program yet but I have not seen one. I figured I'd go ahead and begin. While they are still accepting applications until July 1st, I got everything in early and just had my interview this morning. I think it went well but I won't really know until they make their decision (the faculty member said I probably won't hear anything until mid-September). Anyone else applying for this cohort?

[Tink87, BSN, LPN, RN]

It looks like it is possible that we may have to wait until the beginning of October for a decision. I swear, it's like slow torture. Post as soon as you hear something!

[KayGee]

*creeps back into your guys' thread*

Watch out on the loans, U of R will send you a budget (I put it below) which advises having quite a bit of money lined up. You get to choose what you want to do with loans, but you'll be paying the school for sure over $63,000. My required books for the first semester were $600 (I dug through the internet for used and cheap ones, everyone else said they paid $600 or about that too). I also keep finding, since I moved cross country to go here, I keep buying stuff I didn't realize I'd need (e.g. vacuum cleaner, kitchenware, stocking up food supply, etc.).

My loan ended up being $70k, which sucks. I got $12,500 from FAFSA, which I believe is the maximum that you can get for this program (I may be wrong). But the program is fantastic and U of R is extremely reputable. Also, being a private school there's a lot of perks - a nice surprise after attending a CA state school for my first degree lol.

Lots of fantastic research comes out of here though. For example, I learned this week that Gardasil vaccine originated from U of R. So you're not paying a huge amount of money for a crap school, it's actually incredibly nice. Everything is state of the art and from the sounds of it, you get hired pretty quickly when you're done.

Look at me, I've only been in the program for 2 weeks and I'm already a big advocate for the school lol

This is the budget I have from financial aid, it might be useful for someone. I'm pretty sure everyone gets the same one.

Tuition $62,046

Mandatory Fees $2,436

Room $8,400

Board $4,560

Books and Supplies $1,965

Travel $3,000

Personal $3,000

Total: $85,407

[Tink87, BSN, LPN, RN]

Did you take out the rest in private loans, KayGee?

[KayGee]

Yeah, you really don't have much of a choice but to go private. You can't do the PLUS loan for this program for some weird reason, even though it says it applies to professional students, but apparently not for this...

$12,500 federal, $70k in private. I got a pretty decent interest rate, I would have liked to have kept everything federal though.

[Tink87, BSN, LPN, RN]

That is a large private loan but I'll probably need to take out something similar if I am accepted. It does make me feel a bit better knowing that others have taken out these large loans. I worry about the payments after graduation but hopefully we will all get good jobs and they will be manageable. Good luck in the program!

[KayGee]

Thanks! And yeah it's daunting. Some loans allow you to defer payments until after graduation, some up to 6 months after graduation, but your interest is usually higher that way.

I'm hoping for a good job after this and try to pay it off sooner rather than later so I'm not in debt forever. lol

Good luck everyone. :)

[nhessong]

That is a large amount of loan money but I figured it would be something along those lines. I have also applied for the Navy Nurse Candidate Program which would give me an additional 24,000 towards the payments so with say 12,000 from federal that still leaves 58,000 in loans. Still a large and daunting amount.

KayGee did you take your loan out from your bank or another institution?

[KayGee]

If you get the military thing, that's amazing. Everything helps. There's someone else in the program who is getting military benefits as well, sounds like they're paying for a good portion of theirs (jealous).

Mine was through Sallie Mae. My bank doesn't do student loans. Sallie Mae has been good so far.

[ChelseaCharisma]

Anxiously waiting..... There seems to be less comments on this thread than in the previous cohorts. I wonder if less people applied?

[Tink87, BSN, LPN, RN]

Agreed. I'm selfishly hoping that few people applied so that we all easily get in. I can't stand this wait much longer. I just need to know!

[ChelseaCharisma]

Me too! I hope it was way less. The lady I spoke to today said it usually about 200-400.... I wonder how many of those people they actually interview..... I'm basically just over thinking it at this point because the wait is killing me .

[Tink87, BSN, LPN, RN]

Wednesday marks 12 weeks since the application deadline and it appears that last year's spring cohort started hearing about admissions about this time. Hopefully we won't have to wait much longer. I don't think I can last another week!