Vanderbilt Fall 2010 ACNP

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Roll call!!

C- have you finishd NCLEX??????? Can't wait to see y'all next week!!

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It went well I thought! Much better than yesterday (for me personally). Yesterday I was like 15 minutes late thanks to traffic, weather and misunderstood directions to the annex... i knew where the nursing building was, but they made it sound like the annex was some separate building behind Godchaux and what not.... just bad day all around! But today was much better :-) Med: I totally forgot you were a pre-specialty student! Did I meet you today and not even know it? lol message me if you can :-)

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No NCLEX yet...waiting for the official ATT (authorization to test) to show up and then I can schedule. I'm hoping for the first week of Sept., but we'll see. I really just want to do it and be done!

Looking forward to first block next week...

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Hey thanks for asking! It's been great! I'm a little intimidated by the amount of reading required but looking forward to hammering it out.

@ Meredith- I probably have meet you, trying match 142 names with faces is insane!!!!!!

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Med,

I'm a little freaked about the reading too, but I suppose you just do what you can, get the highlights, and move on. So much of what I have read on AN suggest NOT trying to read everything thrown at you....I personally am a little too insecure to do that! I have to give it a try at least. I defer to mammac for advice specific to our program :o

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Meredith...so great to meet you! Definitely do not attempt to do ALL the reading, unless you want to lose your mind. Just today we had that reinforced in one of our classes; we need to learn to read at a grad student level which means skimming the high points and using the books for reference to flesh-out lectures, to answer our own questions whenever possible, etc. You will find that you only need to read word-for-word those things that are most difficult to "get". In my case, that was acid/base balance. YMMV!

Text me if you want to get together Friday lunch OR Friday/Saturday for dinner. My internet situation has been iffy this week so that's the best way to get through to me right now.

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C,

So good to meet you too!

Your advice re: the reading couldn't be better timed... I have a mountain (read: about 130 pages) of Perry & Potter to read for lab tomorrow... despite my best efforts, I am already behind on that dang book! I've memorized the skills we need for tomorrow though, have done some practice med calcs (review for me since I took pharm in the fall of 2009), and am going to try to i.d. some of the more important things for lab. It's just scary not knowing if I am truly prepared since we haven't met in that class yet! I'll text you about dinner :-)

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I just graduated from vandy's acnp program. yay! I was initially wait-listed, and was accepted about 2 weeks prior to the start of the bridge program... i had to reply within a couple days.

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Hey,

I am looking to apply to the prespecialty program at Vanderbilt. I have a bachelors (psychology) and masters degree (Education). I am a high school teacher and department head in a poor rural community. I still need to finish some of my science prereqs this coming year and that is why I am waiting until Fall 2012. I was wondering if you would share some of your insight in terms of admissions stats, so that I have an idea of whether I am a good candidate. If you are willing to share the GPA/GRE that got you in then I would really appreciate it. Thanks!!

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I'm pretty sure that you don't need to submit GRE scores if you already have a Master's. I don't know stats, but I think there is a minimum GRE necessary. If things haven't changed in three years, then you will apply directly to a specialty area. Some specialties, from my understanding, are more competitive to get into than others (Midwifery, Acute Care, Pediatrics), but I have no data to back this up, just word on the street. You can switch specialties during the first year before you start the second year. Of course it is not guaranteed that you'll get it, but it is quite possible and MANY people do it, despite what you may be told. A lot of people also go part-time during the second year and work. I HIGHLY recommend doing this if you want to have a job after graduation. Good luck.

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Rob...since you already have a proven academic record with a Masters degree, you likely won't even need to take the GRE. You may want to call someone in Admissions to confirm that, but I think you're okay.

As for GPA, in talking with my friends who were pre-specialty last year...they were all over the place! I heard people saying they had 2.7 in undergrad all the way up to those with 4.0.

We had people who did their undergrad at Vandy, people from other universities around the country, people who came from community colleges, and people who had been out of school for many years. Depends on program you want to get into and I think most VUSN students will tell you that the applications actually are read by faculty within the programs, so how you answer questions about your goals and experience really matters.

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Wow!! Thanks for the quick replies. My undergrad GPA is 3.27 and my grad GPA is 3.89. Does Vanderbilt look at my grad GPA? I know a lot of schools do not. It says that the GRE is not necessary if you have a grad degree, but I do have a MAT score of 423, which is supposedly the equivilent of about a 560 verba on the GRE. Maybe I should send these scores. Although I really need to speak to someone at Vanderbilt. I plan on getting on this asap. Oh yeah, I will probably be applying to the FNP program. Is this program more competitive that the others offered? I am eager to hear anyones opinions.

I really want to get in more than anything. My Grandfather graduated with a Masters at Vanderbilt and I would love to follow his lead.

This community forum is great, and everyone has been so kind and helpful so far. Thanks!!

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