UTH Cizik School of Nursing BSN Pacesetter- Spring 2020

UTH Cizik School of Nursing BSN Pacesetter- Spring 2020

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I thought I'd start this feed now. I applied in January. I know I'm early but I'm not much of a procrastinator. I just retook my Hesi and got a 89.2.. I feel I need to take it over but, some people are saying they don't even know UT's selection process. Can anyone enlighten me on that?

4 hours ago, olay1 said:

Oh! But for the fall 2019, i see stat of 4.0 parallel and 98% hesi scores and they don'tget admitted. Like i said, gp matters but not the baseline criteria for UTHEALTH

At the info session a couple of weeks back the person speaking said they only base it on grades and HESI. I wonder why they'd reject someone with scores like that?

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2 minutes ago, DontWorryBeHappy said:

At the info session a couple of weeks back the person speaking said they only base it on grades and HESI. I wonder why they'd reject someone with scores like that?

You soon gonna find out for yourself that its not about grades

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Just now, DontWorryBeHappy said:

At the info session a couple of weeks back the person speaking said they only base it on grades and HESI. I wonder why they'd reject someone with scores like that?

From what I have read in these discussions and just in general is that the school gets a wide range of students with different scores. Thats why the average GPA is a 3.5 at the school. Theres only so many spots at the school with so many applicants, so if they only accepted people with 4.0's there would not be room for anyone else.

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Hi everyone my name is Jewel and I'm a current J1 student for Fall 2019!!! I know you guys haven't gotten your acceptance letters yet but I just wanted to mention that I'll be needing a new roommate starting the Spring 2020 semester. So if you're interested by the time you know you're in then please let me know!

Also, I'm free to answer any questions about admissions and the J1 semester! :--)

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11 minutes ago, DontWorryBeHappy said:

At the info session a couple of weeks back the person speaking said they only base it on grades and HESI. I wonder why they'd reject someone with scores like that?

Honestly, @olay1 is right. I spoke to a past admin who dealt with the applications in the nursing department and confirms this. They consider way more than just GPA and HESI scores.

There were some students who would retake a science class sometimes more than twice, or even three times, just to get an A, ultimately raising their GPA to a 4.0. So if they had to consider who would be the best fit for their nursing program between a person with a 3.7 GPA and didn’t have to retake their pre-reqs, or a person with a 4.0 but they failed/scored low on their A&P/microbio class a few times, they would take the prior of the choices.

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16 minutes ago, mirajira said:

Honestly, @olay1 is right. I spoke to a past admin who dealt with the applications in the nursing department and confirms this. They consider way more than just GPA and HESI scores.

There were some students who would retake a science class sometimes more than twice, or even three times, just to get an A, ultimately raising their GPA to a 4.0. So if they had to consider who would be the best fit for their nursing program between a person with a 3.7 GPA and didn’t have to retake their pre-reqs, or a person with a 4.0 but they failed/scored low on their A&P/microbio class a few times, they would take the prior of the choices.

That makes total sense, I hadn't realized that. Thanks to everyone who shared their experience and insights.

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19 minutes ago, mirajira said:

Honestly, @olay1 is right. I spoke to a past admin who dealt with the applications in the nursing department and confirms this. They consider way more than just GPA and HESI scores.

There were some students who would retake a science class sometimes more than twice, or even three times, just to get an A, ultimately raising their GPA to a 4.0. So if they had to consider who would be the best fit for their nursing program between a person with a 3.7 GPA and didn’t have to retake their pre-reqs, or a person with a 4.0 but they failed/scored low on their A&P/microbio class a few times, they would take the prior of the choices.

This is exactly what was explained during the info session I attended. If you have a 4.0, great. But if you had to take multiple classes several times to get that 4.0, that is absolutely taken into consideration. From what I understood, your entire academic history will be looked at....everything. So yes, even though they base admissions criteria off of a numbers matrix, the number of times you had to take each class is included in the matrix.

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1 hour ago, jxwll said:

Hi everyone my name is Jewel and I'm a current J1 student for Fall 2019!!! I know you guys haven't gotten your acceptance letters yet but I just wanted to mention that I'll be needing a new roommate starting the Spring 2020 semester. So if you're interested by the time you know you're in then please let me know!

Also, I'm free to answer any questions about admissions and the J1 semester! :--)

Is it true you guys only do clinicals in the very last semester?

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1 hour ago, jxwll said:

Hi everyone my name is Jewel and I'm a current J1 student for Fall 2019!!! I know you guys haven't gotten your acceptance letters yet but I just wanted to mention that I'll be needing a new roommate starting the Spring 2020 semester. So if you're interested by the time you know you're in then please let me know!

Also, I'm free to answer any questions about admissions and the J1 semester! :--)

Are you living in the student housing or just a regular apartment? and if not do you know anything about the student housing and the quality?

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8 hours ago, hopefullyfutureRN0 said:

Is it true you guys only do clinicals in the very last semester?

Not sure who gave you that info, they do clinicals every semester!

8 hours ago, lindsay73 said:

Are you living in the student housing or just a regular apartment? and if not do you know anything about the student housing and the quality?

I didn't think UT Houston had student housing..

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12 hours ago, SA82 said:

This is exactly what was explained during the info session I attended. If you have a 4.0, great. But if you had to take multiple classes several times to get that 4.0, that is absolutely taken into consideration. From what I understood, your entire academic history will be looked at....everything. So yes, even though they base admissions criteria off of a numbers matrix, the number of times you had to take each class is included in the matrix.

Thanks for sharing, it makes total sense as to why they'd do that.

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On 9/30/2019 at 6:41 AM, BlondeBSNHopeful said:

Not sure who gave you that info, they do clinicals every semester!

I didn't think UT Houston had student housing..

https://www.uth.edu/housing/

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