Vanderbilt MSN 2019

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Hi! I'm starting a thread for Fall 2019. Anyone else applying/re-applying too? Please comment!

36 minutes ago, palindromegirl said:

I was pulled off the waitlist today, for PMHNP! So excited!

Congrats, @palindromegirl! Are you prespecialty?

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Better question: does anyone know of someone that has been through the full time one year program: that would have some words of advice? ?

This was posted in the 2017 Vanderbilt MSN forum from a student completing the one year PMHNP program:

If you're a pre-specialty student, I don't have any recommendations because I entered the program in my specialty year.

If you will also be starting the program in the speciality year, I recommend using your free time to do things you enjoy before starting this program. Although the workload is manageable, it is still intense. I spent the summer before starting this program traveling, reading for pleasure, and relaxing--all things that I'm not able to do with much frequency now that I'm in the program.

The 3 Ps (advanced pharm, advanced patho, and advanced physical assessment) will require the bulk of your attention and time in the first semester (at least this has been my experience). For all 3 of these classes, test information is based not only on lecture, but on assigned research articles, guest lectures, videos, etc. So even though you could theoretically spend time reading textbooks or review books before the program starts, you don't know which topics to spend time on because you haven't started yet or had your lectures. And in the case of guest lectures or specific research articles that professors assign you to read, there is obviously no way to prepare for that before you start the program. It would be a waste of your time to read multiple 80+ page chapters, or work through a review book, ahead of time and find that the professor only covers a fraction of that in lecture. Most people in my specialty came to orientation and the first couple days of classes without having even ordered books.

If you are OMTA and if you will be responsible for finding your own clinical sites, I would start on that as soon as possible. It's never too early to start identifying preceptors.

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Has anyone else heard back from the waitlist?

1 hour ago, anonymous4432 said:

Congrats, @palindromegirl! Are you prespecialty?

I am!

Hey, congrats!!

were you notified by email or did you receive a phone call?

16 hours ago, Kenziem said:

Hey, congrats!!

were you notified by email or did you receive a phone call?

Thank you! They sent an email saying that there was a decision update in my application.

I was accepted on February 22nd for WHNP/AGPCNP!! I’m so excited and nervous!??? I’d love to be added to the Facebook group

Congrats to everyone who got accepted, unfortunately, it's not my case... However, I want to share my interview experience. My interview is scheduled for 9 am. 9.15 is no phone call. I looked up my emails, there is email on the same date, at 7.51 am telling me my interview got cancelled due to scheduling error? No explanation if its cancelled for good or can be rescheduled, but phone number is left to call. I did call, and person on the other side could not give me an answer and suggested me to call admission. 9.35 am I am calling admission and asking why my interview got cancelled etc. Her response" Really? Cancelled? I have no idea, but let me find out what the problem and I'll call you back". 10.10 am, and no return call, so I am driving to work. 10.47, and I am almost to my parking lot and I get a phone call" We are such and such, would like to interview you..." So, my interview was literally going on while I was PARKING!

It is actually very sad that such an institution with big name and charging above the average tuition fees can not put their things together for simple task like phone interview.

I wish good luck to everyone who got accepted and tell myself after my bizarre interview experience " may be ,its for good now!"))))

Specializes in CCRN.
1 hour ago, ringelm said:

Congrats to everyone who got accepted, unfortunately, it's not my case... However, I want to share my interview experience. My interview is scheduled for 9 am. 9.15 is no phone call. I looked up my emails, there is email on the same date, at 7.51 am telling me my interview got cancelled due to scheduling error? No explanation if its cancelled for good or can be rescheduled, but phone number is left to call. I did call, and person on the other side could not give me an answer and suggested me to call admission. 9.35 am I am calling admission and asking why my interview got cancelled etc. Her response" Really? Cancelled? I have no idea, but let me find out what the problem and I'll call you back". 10.10 am, and no return call, so I am driving to work. 10.47, and I am almost to my parking lot and I get a phone call" We are such and such, would like to interview you..." So, my interview was literally going on while I was PARKING!

It is actually very sad that such an institution with big name and charging above the average tuition fees can not put their things together for simple task like phone interview.

I wish good luck to everyone who got accepted and tell myself after my bizarre interview experience " may be ,its for good now!"))))

I didn’t have a good experience with them at all. I applied for ACAG, so no interview. But I called to see what I could do to strengthen my application for next year— they were incredibly rude and flippant. I was told (along with some other very discouraging comments) to “find a school with lower expectations.”

I do know the applicant pool was double what it has been in the past, and there were more highly qualified applicants. However, I was disappointed (as someone with quite a bit of experience, CCRN certification, carefully written essay, and very strong references) by their responses to an honest inquiry from someone willing to do whatever it takes to try again.

Congratulations to those accepted, and I do truly hope no one else has had this experience.

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8 minutes ago, rn409 said:

I didn’t have a good experience with them at all. I applied for ACAG, so no interview. But I called to see what I could do to strengthen my application for next year— they were incredibly rude and flippant. I was told (along with some other very discouraging comments) to “find a school with lower expectations.”

I do know the applicant pool was double what it has been in the past, and there were more highly qualified applicants. However, I was disappointed (as someone with quite a bit of experience, CCRN certification, carefully written essay, and very strong references) by their responses to an honest inquiry from someone willing to do whatever it takes to try again.

Congratulations to those accepted, and I do truly hope no one else has had this experience.

rn409,

I am sorry to hear that you had a poor experience with Vanderbilt. I also applied for ACAG (pre-speciality). I was waitlisted, which I did not accept. I did not call them regarding my application. However, every interaction I had with them regarding the application process was poor. I was frequently given miss information or the vague, "I do not know." My final interaction was via phone call and they hung up on me ( I was asking about how admissions decisions would be released). As unfortunate as these interactions were they helped me decide that I did not want to be waitlisted or even accepted. I could not handle paying this institution a large sum, when they can't even communicate effectively or respectfully.

On a side note, congrats to those accepted. While I had a negative experience, I hope all of the applicants/admitted students had only positive interactions with Vanderbilt ?

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Congrats all accepted.

Thanks for sharing your interview experience. If you recall I was the person with a 12 min interview. I was not accepted either.

On the day of my interview they called 10 mins late and proceeded to rush though questions. I honestly felt so rushed I did not really get to say anything to them. At one point she even interrupted me to rush me along. The questions weren't the best either seeing the did nothing to actually highlight why I would be a good fit. I was over prepared and ready to talk about research interests etc.

Needless to say, I'm still going to start my PMHNP this fall. I've been a bachelors prepared RN for 9 years, board certified mental health nurse and active duty military. I know I would have excelled beautifully in their program but also know I will still get the same job and pay after school. ?

Cheers!

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