Ysu/ St Elizabeth CRNA 2018

jmelinte · Feb 3, 2018

How was the mix of personality vs technical questions during the actual interview? Do you mind elaborating a little on the structure (panel vs short sessions, etc.)? I've read multiple places that the written quiz is pretty tough.

Thevigilante · Feb 3, 2018

I've. Read that too. Idk, not as hard as I expected. There were three interviewers and you sat at a long table. Mostly personality questions, but they will throw in a couple technical ones in the interview.

jmelinte · Feb 4, 2018

Excellent, that's exactly the info I was looking for. There are some old threads for this particular school that reference students being unhappy with the program. I'm curious to hear some more recent insight from current students or recent grads. Obviously no CRNA program is going to be easy, but is YSU particularly worse or tougher than other programs for some particular reason? Good luck in the rest of your admission process, and maybe we'll meet at the start of school!

Thevigilante · Feb 4, 2018

I think it's harder. If you look at the number of clinical cases it's double what's required. Well see hopefully, because I'm down for whatever

Ccrnuh · Feb 5, 2018

Thanks for the insight, I interview later this month. What should I study for the quiz? Besides basic math? Thanks. I hope we all get in and get to meet each other.

Ccrnuh · Feb 13, 2018

Anyone else have interviews this week? How did they go? Any pointers? Thanks!

jmelinte · Mar 5, 2018

Has anyone heard back yet? I think my interview went fairly well, and I believe the last one is mid-march. The director said no news is good news until then, but that some rolling admissions are extended on occasion.

Ccrnuh · Mar 5, 2018

Not yet either. I thought Feb was the end of interviews?

jmelinte · Mar 5, 2018

That's what I thought as well, but Dr. Bruno mentioned the last interview being mid-march. Maybe they extended their dates from when I initially scheduled mine.

Johnpropofol · Mar 8, 2018

Congrats to all on your achievements, interviews, and tenacity!

I repeatedly hear "no news is good news", but understand waiting is extremely difficult. My interview took place in early February, and I heard back with an acceptance letter this previous week for August 2018. From what I understand, they are still interviewing into the middle of March. My interview was paralleled with all of yours if that helps to calm any nerves. This included the pre-interview quiz that was marginally difficult depending on your background, and the board interview which held many difficult questions. Truthfully, I do not recall the exact questions on the quiz because I was rushing and contemplating the various answers. The interview was not extremely clinical, but did require some soul searching and behavioral reflection. I gave my best effort to remain calm, cool, and collect my thoughts before answering.

From what I hear, at least 4-5 nurses have been accepted (including myself in that number). All from various acute care settings and coming from various hospitals. This is all through the grape vine however, so I'm not sure how many letters have been sent. I have not spoken to anyone affiliated with the program to fully understand the depth of their admittance.

I imagine the entire program will not be admitted until interviews are finished so they can gather all of the applicants and ultimately decide on what type of class they're building. They explained their "rolling admittance" protocol during the interview, and I'm sure they will have some applicants choose other schools they get accepted to.

Again, congratulations to all for making it this far, and best of luck on all of your applications. Keep applying everywhere you can.

jmelinte · Mar 9, 2018

Congrats! My interview was at the end of February, so by your timeline, I'm hoping to hear in the next few weeks. I'm hoping the quiz doesn't hold too much weight. I definitely had to guess on a couple of the questions, but I made a slight mistake on the math problem, which keeps bothering me. Hopefully they take my good math GRE score into account more than that.

Johnpropofol · Mar 9, 2018

Congrats! My interview was at the end of February, so by your timeline, I'm hoping to hear in the next few weeks. I'm hoping the quiz doesn't hold too much weight. I definitely had to guess on a couple of the questions, but I made a slight mistake on the math problem, which keeps bothering me. Hopefully they take my good math GRE score into account more than that.

Thank you ! I wouldn't beat yourself up over the quiz, especially if you performed well on the GRE. Something has to give here within the next few weeks, as interviews are coming to an end. They say "they believe in looking at the application as a whole, and not one particular piece". Best of luck to all of you and hope to see you in the fall !