UTMB - Galveston Spring 09

TheguyRN · Sep 30, 2008

Well, on the website the school of nursing is continuing classes Oct 1, and Med students don't come back until Oct 20. Weird in my book....

Galveston is pretty messed up.. this coming from a former local that still has parents that live there. Some parts of galveston still have no power and even in the paper it said they would probably take 2-4 weeks to actually have "clean" water.

GL to anyone else that effected by IKE. I feel as if im being selfish wanting to know more about the school when everyone on the island is just trying to fix/repair.. sigh

raconteur · Oct 5, 2008

40 slots out of 174 isn't that bad. At UT Houston, it's 40 slots out of ~700 applicants. Anyway, the UTMB school of nursing website is back up, and it says that Master of Nursing programs for Spring 2009 are being rolled over to Summer 2009. I hope they don't do that for bacc2. I am tired of waiting.

tea_leaf · Oct 5, 2008

Well, on the website the school of nursing is continuing classes Oct 1, and Med students don't come back until Oct 20. Weird in my book....

according to the list of open buildings on the utmb website, the nursing school building is open so maybe that's why classes already started. however, the medical school is not on the list. maybe those students don't go back b/c their building is too damaged.

and i agree with raconteur. i don't think that 174 apps for 40 spots is that bad COMPARED to what other schools get.

life_student · Oct 7, 2008

as a current BSN student at UTMB I thought I'd fill in the lacking info here, SON classes did resume Oct 1st, but not at the SON. we are being sent around to various places in Galveston county, other CC's and halls wherever we will fit. They don't know when the building will be back up to par for us to return. --only faculty are allowed to return to the building right now to assess damages and figure out how to recover. Medical students were all moved to Austin and surrounding areas to continue their residencies, not sure if they will be returing to the school this semester.

If they truly only received 174 applicants that is very good odds, we had over 750 apply for the fall '08 with 40 spots available,

Good luck to all!

tea_leaf · Oct 8, 2008

as a current BSN student at UTMB I thought I'd fill in the lacking info here, SON classes did resume Oct 1st, but not at the SON. we are being sent around to various places in Galveston county, other CC's and halls wherever we will fit. They don't know when the building will be back up to par for us to return. --only faculty are allowed to return to the building right now to assess damages and figure out how to recover. Medical students were all moved to Austin and surrounding areas to continue their residencies, not sure if they will be returing to the school this semester.
If they truly only received 174 applicants that is very good odds, we had over 750 apply for the fall '08 with 40 spots available,
Good luck to all!

thanks for clearing that up. i stand corrected on where the SON students are taking classes.

tea_leaf · Oct 8, 2008

if i read the utmb website correctly, it sounds as if interviews are scheduled for the end of oct/early nov. we will receive letters soon

raconteur · Oct 9, 2008

STRAIGHT FROM THE UTMB WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check it out:

Dear Spring BACC 2; Spring RN-BSN; Summer BSN/ Program Applicants,

Due to communications difficulties, with telephones and online submissions that occurred as a result of Hurricane Ike many of you had multiple questions.

The Spring BACC 2 applicants will soon receive letters scheduling individual interviews for the end of October and beginning of November. :yeah:

Spring RN-BSN applicants the application deadline for the Spring RN-BSN has been extended until Novem ber 15.

For the Summer BSN Programs the deadline for these applications has been extended to December 1.

If you have additional questions please call Students Affairs at 409-772-7340

Thank you,

Dr. Tina Cuellar Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Admissions

Whoever gets an interview letter, POST UP THE NEWS HERE ASAP!

thuynhle · Oct 9, 2008

OMG.. thanks for the post! Wow.. im gettin nervous again!

TheguyRN · Oct 16, 2008

It's Oct 15th... has anyone gotten anything? Maybe's i'm just freakin out...

rfs2886 · Oct 21, 2008

Nope, I have not heard anything yet either. It seems like they are sooo behind!

TheguyRN · Oct 21, 2008

Yeah med students just started classes agian oct 20th im not sure whats happening... haha

raconteur · Oct 25, 2008

Anyone hear anything yet? If interviews are supposed to be the last week of October/first week of November like the UTMB website says, then we ought to have notification by now.