Vanderbilt Pre-Specialty Applicants 2014

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Hey everyone! I couldn't find this thread anywhere so figured that I would start one for all of us who applied to Vanderbilt's Pre-Specialty Entry program (for non-RNs) this fall. I applied for the PMHNP specialty. What about you?! :)

Okay it seems like it is protocol. I can breathe again! To quote Tom Petty "The waiting is the hardest part...."

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Hello. I wanted to know if anyone has heard anything from the Women's Health/Adult-Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program for 2014? Are they requiring interviews? Do they get a lot of applicants, if so how many do they accept a year? If anyone is in the program how is the schedule and intensity of the program? Well I wish everyone luck and much success. Thank you in advance for answering any of my questions.

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Hi Sls,

I went to the open house in October and this is the number quoted for the Womens/Adult program approximately 24 dual focus students were accepted last year.

Schedule - via student handbook credit hours for Fall: 13, Spring: 13, Summer: 15, Fall #2: 6 and Spring #2: 9. Total hours 56. Total cost for one year in tuition and fees: $51,781. That's straight from the handbook. Hope this helped.

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Since Im mental health I'll share that as well. I went to the meeting for PMHNP and they said as of October there were 43 applications for this specialty. They have the space for 50 students it would be a stretch but they have the space.

Okay, hours: Prespecialty year - Fall - 16, Spring 15 and Summer - 12. Specialty year Fall - 15, Spring - 13, Summer -12. Total hours - 83. Total tuition and fees for 1 year $50,621.00

Other things mentioned at open house - they try and place you for the majority of your clinical hours with the population you specified. However, we also do rotations through the other areas as well. Clinical are within a 2 hour drive of Nashville. Job placement? 38% of students have jobs before they graduate. 34% within three months and 16% within six months. I met a PMHNP with a private practice in Oregon serving 3,000 patients. She enjoys the autonomy.

Financial aid? Mostly loans. Students get a scholarship for books between 1,500 - 6,000 depending on need etc. I also have a list of outside scholarship opportunities I'm willing to share if I can figure out how.

P.s. Sls, the hours I quoted were in addition to prespecialty year.

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Specializes in Mental Health.

They said they have space for around 50 PMHNP students for Master's entry? I didn't realize they accepted such a huge number. Other schools I applied to take around 15

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Yes that's what they said when I asked the representative from PMHNP at open house.

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Any idea how many people are accepted for the CNM/FNP program? 50 seems like a lot for one specialty track... do the numbers they gave you include master's entry and pre-specialty students together?

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From my understanding Psychiatric NP is in very high demand so they have grown to meet it. I'm not sure if this is with direct entry or not. They had an entirely different orientation/open house. When I asked the representative she did not mention direct entry students, so I don't believe we are in competition for slots with them. They take approximately 180-200 hundred students in total across the disciplines. Some like midwifery only have 15-20 spots due to little demand. Others like Psych, Peds, FNP and Acute are slotted a bigger cohort size. Dual focus programs usually have 10-20 depending on availability.

Given Psychiatric NP is one of the specialties that can be completed at a distance the bigger cohort is factoring those students that wont be attending Vanderbilt campus in.

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TarraLune, thanks so much for sharing the info you learned at the open house. It seems like having a car is helpful (maybe essential) while in the program. I'm so excited/anxious to hear back... Feb 24th can't come soon enough! If you'd be willing to share, I'd also be interested to hear about the outside scholarship options that you've found (I can't PM yet, maybe later on!) :)

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I'm applying for CNM/FNP, so maybe it's different, but I know for us, specialty clinicals are within 2 1/2-3 hours of Nashville. The midwifery integration semester is out of state. Since I have small children, all the travel may be a deal-breaker for me. I don't mind being gone for the integration semester, but spending so much time traveling every semester would mean even less time with my children. I don't know about the pre-specialty year, but I think Nashville is, in general, a place where a car would make life a whole lot easier.

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Hi all! Thanks for all the input from everyone who went to the open house. If I get in I will try to go to the open house on March 1st...I have a FAFSA question, hoping one of you can answer--Are we considered 5th yr undergrad or 1st year grad students for the direct entry program at Vandy? I am having the hardest time figuring out how to fill out the FAFSA for both types of programs. I am applying to both BS/MS programs and direct entry...has anyone else run into this problem?

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Prespecialty students are grad students the whole time

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