Valparaiso University 2019 Accelerated BSN

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Hi all,

I'm new here.

I was was wondering if there's anyone else who has been accepted to Valparaiso University's 15 month Accelerated BSN program?

I'm a transfer student from a California community college. I plan to work in California, do you know anyone who went to Valparaiso University and returned to work in California? What'd they need to do?

what do you know about the overall quality of the program? Are the professors nice and helpful?

Any tips for success?

Thanks for any information you can provide

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Also,

If you've attended Valparaiso in the past for nursing please let me know what you enjoyed about the program and also what you didn't enjoy.

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

Moved to School / College Programs for more response. You can also do a search in this forum for Valparaiso.

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Hello,

I thought I would leave some information on here for future students.

Valparaiso University’s Accelerated BSN program is very fast, and challenging. You’re probably going to always feel happy just to pass the classes. Don’t come here expecting to get A’s. The professors usually want to be helpful, but they don’t really take the time to help you. There is just so much information and you’re expected to know everything basically (anything in the book usually will be tested on, not just lectured material).

that said, I would highly recommend this program to students who don’t yet have a bachelor degree. It saved me so much time. I didn’t have a bachelor degree, or Associate degree or anything. They just required that I have completed the 76 semester unit minimum, and the prerequisite courses. I will finish in August 2020 this year and I started May 2019. So it really is 15 months! Other programs for a BSN would’ve probably took me about 3 years. (If you have a bachelor degree already you have more options/programs for an aBSN, so explore those). if I could change anything it would be the faculty, they’re not welcoming and they want you to be ready for anything they said just 1 time. They are also not forgiving, if you’re 1 minute late, you will probably get a failure for the day, if your grade is 0.0000000001 away from the next grade up, you don’t get the higher grade, grading scale is 77% to pass, anything below you fail. 95% and up is an A, 92% and up is a A- and I think 86% and up is a B. Exams are not curved, unless it’s Nursing 415 where the professor needs to curve so that the average grade is a B- (she said she curves it so average is a B-) and it’s very easy to get on the lower end of the average.

don’t think it’s easy to get an A or even a B or even a passing grade. Most classes you’re going to struggle at some point just to pass!

clinical is tiring, because you go to the hospital at 6:30AM stay until noon, and then go to class from like 1:30 to 4PM. Take an Exam during that time. And there is clinical about 2 times a week, occasionally simulation/lab on top of that. And on average 2-3 exams+quizzes a week. This is why it’s so difficult to pass classes and obtain good grades. I guess I asked for this being in the accelerated program. All my friends are SO READY TO FINISH here, because everyday you just work on school almost every hour you’re awake.

If you come here, buy your scrub shirt from the school, but don’t buy the pants (they’re very big and loose and uncomfortable and overpriced) buy them at Walmart or something. Maybe you can find the shirt used on the facebook group to save some money.

To conclude, the classes are challenging. The program is good considering how fast you’ll be done. The professors could be better. It’s a good program all considered, because of the time you can save if you don’t already have a bachelor degree. I would come here if I were you (:

if you are looking into this school, I hope this has helped you. It’s a good school /program

good luck to everyone reading this with your career/education

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The total cost of the program with the scholarship that the school gave me (not FAFSA or loans or anything included in this price) was about $34,000

The school would be like $54,000 but they gave me a $20,000 scholarship to come here as a transfer student. They’ll also give you a scholarship if you earned an associate degree (I think it’s like $2,000)

It’s a fair price, it would’ve costed about $32,000 to go to a state school and finish a BSN there, but that would’ve took 3 years for me, compared to 15 months!

so $2,000 more and I save 2 years of time? I’ll spend that extra $2,000!

the aBSN program also doesn’t require a TEAS exam or any entrance exam.

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