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Hello! I'm posting here to get any feedback from previous UWSoN students or current prenursing students who are applying for the 2019 cohort. A little bit about me is that I'm currently a student at OC in Washington, my prereq GPA for UW's required classes is about a 3.81 and my cumulative GPA is a 3.7. I have been working as a CNA/Medication assistant for almost half a year and will be continuing working until I move to Seattle for school. Any advice is greatly appreciated on housing, how to study for the proctored essay, and any way to better my chances! Thank you!

Hello everyone!

This will be my first year applying to UW, but looking at the acceptance rate is a little daunting, 80 out of 700. Oh my.

I'm at a WA CC and for prerequisites I currently have Gen Chem, Organic Chem and Nutrition done with a 4.0.

As for volunteer hours, I spent them at a local free clinic, hospital and CNA clinicals. All in all I have around 200 hours(which is nothing compared to what I've seen on these threads) and I'm a veteran! I look forward to participating in this thread and riding this rollercoaster!

Good luck eveyone!

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Eddie, welcome to the gang. And don't worry,one thing that I explicitly remember Adrian mentioning at the info session is that around 200 hours is what they care about. They just get "suspicious" if you "only" have exactly 100 hours, but once you hit more than that you're good?

Has everyone handed in their apps? I just submitted mine last night at midnight in a total panic. My recommender submitted my letter just before too LOL

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Hey everyone! Submitted my app a few days ago, hope everyone else got it in on time too!

I've completed all my pre-reqs, sitting at a 3.85 for UW pre-reqs and a 3.7 cumulative, this being my first degree. I'm also a first generation college student! I'm working at Seattle Children's, with a little over 600 hours as a CNA and 3,000+ in an admin role. I have a few hundred hours of volunteering at a blood center and at a summer camp for medically complex children.

Really hoping for an invite to the proctored essay! I know it's gotten crazy competitive over the last few years, but we'll get there. ? Good luck everyone!

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blue, you're preaching to the choir... When I look back at old threads and people talking about how there are "omg 450 applicants" it makes me want to laugh! Haaaa!
How was the application process for everyone else? I never want to hear the words "word count' ever again...it was so agonizing to be wrestling with it and throwing out potentially vital information. I ended up never mentioning my 190 hours volunteering in mammography or my 55 hours volunteering at an animal shelter because there wasn't space. Granted those may not look too impressive compared to other people but I thought it might make me seem a more 'well rounded' individual. :p

Also the statement!! I basically beat the reviewer over the head with cultural diversity in my statement. My sister in law and a CNA I met at Evergreen both got accepted into the BSN program (she's being a CNA on the side) and they both suggested I throw out a boring paragraph about "what I've seen nurses do" and focus more on my cultural background and why *I* want to be a nurse. I did that and I shunted all the stuff about my observations of nurses into my resume. Ugh! So many choices!

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Beserk, you're totally right. It's getting insane! And especially with how the number admitted have been reduced for last year and this year. 80 is definitely better than 64, though!

The word count was horrible. For my personal statement, I ended up with 1,000 words on the dot.. then had some friends already in the program or who are already nurses read it, and had to make my edits accordingly. I think I made some worthwhile changes, but it's hard to cram everything into one small essay. I didn't have the space to mention anything about my volunteering either, prioritizing my experiences working as a CNA instead.

My best piece of advice I received for writing my essay was the use 1-2 sentences max to explain what happened in each of your examples, and the rest should be reflection. I rewrote my entire statement once I got that advice, and I think it made it way better. Now it's just a waiting game ?

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That advice to focus on self reflection sounds really good! If I think about it, I guess my essay was more geared towards that as well. The good thing is, right when my recommender starting working on my letter, she was like "Hey do you have any examples you want me to put in here?" and I JUMPED on the opportunity and sent her a document with a bunch of patient experience stories I've had as an MA. I was so glad that those got put those in my application somehow lol. It was killing me to leave them out of my statement.

Weren't the recommender questions just wild?? Did you have a nurse do it? I got one of the nurse practitioners I work with to write mine. I really, really hope she counts as a nurse in the committees eyes...

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Hi everyone.

I'm new to this thread, but I recently submitted my application for UW's BSN program. Let me just say, I am terrified. Just when I think I did alright, I read about previous years' acceptance rates and I get panicky all over again. The worse for me is thinking that I forgot something or that I missed one tiny detail in their application instructions, something so small that could cost me from being admitted. I'm rooting for everyone on here and hoping for the best!

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LOLLL Acker, same here. The paranoia levels are high within this thread.?And I'm tempted to say they're justified, because right before I was going to submit the app, I was really bothered by the fact that the "Address" box under the "Personal information" tab didn't have a green checkmark. I found out it was because I had only added my "permanent" address on there and hadn't also technically added on an emergency and current address. Even though they're all the same one!
Imagine if I had handed it in without that little green checkmark in the box, they probably would just toss the WHOLE THING!!!

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Ugh, #1 on the waitlist is SO frustrating. Hopefully she has better luck this year (or got into somewhere else). And that's so nice that your recommender asked if you had any examples you wanted to put in specifically! Mine asked if there was anything I wanted to add, but I liked what she said and didn't want to be picky. I did use an RN, but they specifically said in the info sessions that ARNPs were great too.

Acker, I think you'll be fine! It's out of our hands now, either way. ? I applied last year and didn't make it in. Many of my nurse coworkers went to UW and didn't make it in on their first try, either. It just gives you a chance to learn more about the field and be even more prepared!

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It is nice that my recommender showed me what she wrote! Though she kind of had to ask me for examples because even though we work closely together as provider and MA, she's not actually in the exam room with me when I'm working with patients clinically so she doesn't know many examples off the top of her head. She did include one example from her end that made me crack up when I saw it though....

At my clinic we don't have a nurse to handle the more sensitive calls, so many times we MAs have to call people and tell them on behalf of their provider that they're pregnant, or tested positive for STDs, or have diabetes etc. I called one patient and read the (delayed) message from her NP which basically said "Let pt know lab results show she has herpes" Poor lady, she did NOT take it well. She started cussing me out on the phone and my NP who was sitting right next to me could hear evvvvvvery word. It was the absolute worst but it's so funny in retrospect LOL and my NP used that as an example of me keeping my cool under pressure....I laughed so hard to see that in the recommendation!!

Also Acker, I agree with Blue, don't sweat the small stuff. I'm sure you didn't forget anything major! Rooting for you as well!

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I'm surprised at how little traffic this forum has gotten. We're usually 6 pages deep by now!

Just wanted to update everyone on how things are going with BSN Admissions.

We received a little more than 550 applications, much less than I thought! I hope the low cohort number last year didn't sway people from applying this year.

We are currently doing GPA calculations so that we can conduct our preliminary reviews to determine who will go to the Proctored Essay on Feb. 20. We're hoping to get notifications out a week before it!

Good luck everyone!

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Thanks Adrian! Looking forward to seeing if we all make it into the proctored essay. ?

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