UT Tyler - Longview Extension

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I am wondering about the difficulty of admission into the UT Tyler BSN program and if it is offered thru Longview Extension campus ..

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I am wondering about the difficulty of admission into the UT Tyler BSN program and if it is offered thru Longview Extension campus ..

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I'm not sure about Longview, but I know NTCC does it for UT. They just started their BSN through UT this last fall.

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hello. I attend UT Tyler @ Longview working on my BSN. Admissions is based on a point system with grades, and a few other things. If you have a 3.0 you should be fine, they have like 80 applicants in Longview, and 35 accepted. Whereas, in Tyler, there are 700 applicants and 90 are accepted. any questions, let me know.

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Hey,

I just noticed you guys were talking about Tyler. My husband might be getting transferred to Tyler and I am in the middle of an ADN degree here in Arizona. What is Tyler like and what nursing schools are better? I noticed that Tyler Community had a ADN nursing degree as well. Any info you can provide would be great!! Thanks so much!

Amber, future nurse

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Amber,

I've lived all over the country, originally from Pennsylvania. I even lived in Arizona (Phoenix) for several years. I suppose it really depends on what you are used to, but overall I've found this area to be a depressed area, low on SES overall. That's good and bad... I saw it as a pretty bad thing for a long time, but I'm starting to come around to seeing it as giving me some opporunity in that the cost of schooling is low. (It only cost me $900 for this past semester in tuition, 16 credits) Now my view is colored from living in a small town some distance away from Tyler, so that does affect things.

When talking of Tyler there are several other towns nearby that are all kinda interrelated so far as the colleges.

-- Longview (where there are various satellite campuses and many of the nursing programs classes are located for some reason -- its 1 hr from Tyler roughly). Longview (IMHO) is actually the nicer out of all of the towns, has has the best/easiest shopping and layout, but it may be that I'm just more familiar with Longview. It just seems newer and like there is a lot of economic growth, new businesses (like Best Buy, TJ Maxx, Red Lobster, those large specific kinda stores etc.)

-- Kilgore (45 minutes from Tyler.) is just a lil CC college town, blink ya miss it. College town flavor, I feel kinda like I can relax at Kilgore because there's nothing fussy here! haha. (Kilgore's ADN classes are *located* in Longview)

.... and Tyler itself is kinda.. industrial. But it also has lots of the good restaurants and stores. Tyler gets the more cultural aspects, the zoo, the airport, and the local fair every year.

UT of Tyler - has a BSN program. So far as I know, they do not have an ADN program.

TJC - (Tyler Junior College) also has an ADN program. That's in Tyler moreso. http://www.tyler.cc.tx.us/ I don't know much about TJC.

Kilgore College - has the ADN program and (locally at least) they have an excellent reputation. http://www.kilgore.edu

Now, also there is the the Nacogdoches University, that's Stephen F. Austin I think. They have a BSN program. Nacadoches is like 65-70 miles away, but it's an option as well that many around here seem to go for. Their website is http://www.sfasu.edu/ SFA is an older school... overall have a larger academic program in general (according to MIL anyway, she graduated from there.) Cost's about the same I believe, I think SFA may be slightly (but not significantly) more expensive. Don't know much about Nacogdoches, but it seems somewhat comparable to Tyler in terms of what the town is like.

Depending on where exactly you live, would probly determine if you'd want to apply to Kilgore or TJC for their ADN programs. But if you're living in Tyler proper, probly TJC!

Hope this helps :D

J-9

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Oh, btw, I had actually written to the nursing school advisor for UT Tyler last week and asked what the minimum GPA was for applicants most often accepted, she said 3.4 and that competition was extreme for the Tyler campus, but much like the other poster said, she suggested Longview campus.

J-9

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I graduated from UT Tyler-Longview last May. A lot of things have changed since I entered the program, but the higher GPA you have the better because it has gotten really competitive. I also recommend that you get the highest grade you can in A&P. I went to the Tyler and Longview campus both, and found that I liked Longview much better. The teachers offered more one on one assistance and the class as a whole was much closer and studied together a lot more. I currently work in one of the hospitals in Longview and did not do clinicals there until my last semester of nursing school, but I liked it much better than the hospitals in Tyler. If you do go to Longview, you have to commute to Tyler a couple of times during the semester for certain events, but it is only about an hour. If you have any more questions, let me know and I will be happy to help the best I can!

aggienurse

RN, BSN class of 05

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