Vanderbilt Prespecialty 2011 Accepted Forum

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no, you don't wear scrubs to class. for class, look put together. no sweats, rarely jeans.. and if you do wear jeans, make sure they're not ripped. scrubs are for when you start doing clinicals in the hospital. you wear dark blue. i think the white are for baptist or st. thomas.

aw yay! it's so good to know somebody. are you set on vandy?? you're going to the open house, right? :)

Yes I'm actually waiting for my connecting flight at the Cincinnati airport as I type this! Hope to see you tomorrow!

I hate I'm not going to be there this weekend. I on a work trip until Wednesday.

Please post about it!

Thanks!

no, you don't wear scrubs to class. for class, look put together. no sweats, rarely jeans.. and if you do wear jeans, make sure they're not ripped. scrubs are for when you start doing clinicals in the hospital. you wear dark blue. i think the white are for baptist or st. thomas.

No sweats??? No jeans??? Do people really wear skirts or slacks every day? I don't think I've worn an outfit that doesn't contain an elastic waist band for years. Better get to shopping.

Anyway, glad to hear the white scrubs are only for one hospital. I was already worried about what catastrophe would happen to me if I tempted the fates in an all white outfit.

How was the open house??? I am dying to hear about it!!

hey guys! just got back from nashville this morning, and am now trying to catch up with my very delayed school work.

Anyway... the open house:

I got there at around 8:30, and was greeted and given an info booklet. There was a continental breakfast, everyone seemed super nice. Also, some people from the bookstore were there, so you could purchase Vandy gear.

Then each of us went to a separate room, depending on the program we were interested in (prespecialty, direct entry, etc). We had a video greeting from the dean, and then had other people talk.

The lady from financial aid told us that they have partial scholarships (up to 6,000$/year), and 3 full scholarships, one for a minority student, one for a prespecialty student.. and someone else, but I forgot. These are based on GPA/GRE scores, and then the top people are invited to write an essay and then selected. The rest of the aid is in the form of loans (federal loans).

Then we had a student panel... very different people. I think Meredith09 might have been there! (there was a Meredith there... not sure if it was her though, but highly likely). Everyone seemed to like the program a lot.

In the afternoon each specialty had its own room... i went to the midwifery one. It was amazing because the professor who gave the talk was two or three minutes late, and she was like "i'm sorry, i just delivered a baby five minutes ago". so it was cool. she seemed incredibly smart. She told us about the midwifery program, and said that your clinicals the first year can be up to 4 hours away, and then the next clinicals can be all over the country. If your clinicals are 4 hours away, you usually go there sunday night and spend monday, tuesday and wednesday there. Scary!

She also said that if you want to be a midwife, plan to not stay in Nashville, because there aren't many jobs there.

This is all I can remember now (i'm exhausted, drove 12 hours back!) but if anyone has any specific questions, let me know :)

Hope this helps a little!

-KT

No sweats??? No jeans??? Do people really wear skirts or slacks every day? I don't think I've worn an outfit that doesn't contain an elastic waist band for years. Better get to shopping.

Anyway, glad to hear the white scrubs are only for one hospital. I was already worried about what catastrophe would happen to me if I tempted the fates in an all white outfit.

Actually I spoke to current students and most of them do wear jeans to class.

Thanks for the info, Kate! I wish I could have gone this weekend.

did anyone attend the adult nurse practitioner program? did they have any information the gerontological nurse practitioner option? I don't have my admissions decision yet (I was a late applicant) but really wanted to go this weekend. I applied for the pre-specialty to ANP/GNP so information about that sub-specialty would be amazing.

Hi folks. Has anyone who has sent in their deposit gotten any additional information from the school? An email or password or anything?

I heard we should be getting our emails and stuff about three weeks or so after the deadline for the deposit.

What specialty are you, evaamber?