University of Rochester Accelerated Nursing Program - ABPNN

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I just got accepted into U of R's accelerated bachelors nursing program. Just wanted to start a thread to see who else is going there!

Oh I see..wow so expensive lol.

Anyway good blog, I just read every post ;)

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I think the wait to hear back from them is by far the worst part! It's making me so anxious and nervous!

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ansaguy,

I'm reading your blog right now and its wonderful! Thank you for taking the time to post about your experiences during the program and for being thorough! I will definitely be looking back on your posts if I get in! :)

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Sorry to keep posting but I have another question for you Ansaguy!

I'm up to your blog post on your workout bet with a fellow student. Right now, I work out three-four times a week doing a cardio kickboxing class that last approximately an hour. However, I'm not in school, just working, and thus have the spare time to do it. How did you find time to add your workouts into your schedule? Did you feel it was stressful to make time for them? I am really hoping to keep up with working out if I get in, but I am very nervous about having enough time.

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In the very beginning, it might be very stressful and difficult to get your workouts in. The second half of your first semester you will be able to fit them in if you want. It really depends on how quick of a reader you are and whether you take more time to learn the material or not. I am able to fit in some personal activities now.

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I'm definitely not a quick reader so i think i will be pressed for time a little for workouts. But I guess I can do some little workouts at home during the first semester and then join the gym if it slows down a bit second semester. I just hope we find out soon!

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Ansa - I have another question too (you're proving to be a great resource lol)

You said you would get home after 9pm most nights, and then I saw you say sometimes it was after midnight. Is this because of your study group? Or do you actually get out of class that late? I will be commuting from an hour away if I get in, so getting out late at night (esp in the winter) and having to drive home in the dark is a bit scary to me. Will it be hard for me to get the earlier lab if I tell them I have such a long commute?

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haha thanks. I never figured I'd be a resource for the program.

xoxjedixox -- if you're so inclined there is a gym right across the street in the hospital that you can join for like $13 a month or so. I don't remember exactly. It's got everything you need, just not much of it.

SyberianPuppy, The first semester, the latest you will get out is 6:30pm if you have the second lab. Anything past that I was studying with my study group or reading on my own. The second semester, you MAY get assigned an evening clinical which means you'd be driving home from the hospital as late as 11 pm. You can always request a daytime clinical and cite an extenuating circumstance but there are so many people requesting daytime clinical and only 1 or 2 day shiftsthat you just may not get it. Your capstone, you work the same shift as your assigned nurse, so that could be days, eves or nights. I thought I heard you only had to work 8 of their 12 hours or something but I have to ask that myself. It never occurred to me to ask that before.

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ansaguy: I will most definitely be joining the gym, being that it will be my cheapest option compared to other gyms, and since we are in debt anyway, might as well take the cheap route!

syberian: I will hoepfully have an apartment near campus! My couch is always open if the weather is bad and you can't drive home late! : )

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i have another question Ansaguy:

I was reading some posts from a couple years back and they said UR called them to tell them about their acceptance? How did you find out? Did they call you, email you, mail you? And when did you find out? It's crunch time for us waiting to hear for Sept!

Also, did anyone get a random email from UR with a username and password to a MyRoc account? I got it, but it looks like a general thing for students who applied to Rochester in general. And its not very specific as to why they set this up for me.

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I got a letter in the mail. No kidding about crunch time. I got the acceptance letter 2 weeks before all my paperwork was due, including two PPD tests. The doctors office will think you're crazy for doing two TB tests inside of a week of eachother, but the school needs two negative tests on record. Anyway, I got my acceptance letter in mid-late october I think, and everything was due in November. So I knew about 8-10 weeks ahead of time that I was accepted.

I got an e-mail from UR with a login, e-mail address etc., but that was only because I was taking pre-reqs there. I'm not sure why they would have sent you a login. As a former IT person, it would be foolish of them to create a UR login for everyone who applied. Unless it's something to do with your online application login or something? I think that's a separate login and website area. If it's a UR e-mail address or login to blackboard or something, they probably wouldn't do that for applicants.

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hmmm, i already have a login to their blackboard because I took my pre-reqs through them also. This was something different which confused me. Here's the link they sent me: http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/

It confused me because it looks like a link that should be sent to seniors in high school who are maybe interested in Rochester and filled out information for them. When you sign in, it also talks about how to apply to rochester, etc. Anyways, perhaps it was sent in error, I just thought it was strange to get this so late in the application process!

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