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welcome to uic college of 
nursing's online presentation  

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on our bachelor of science in nursing program

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i'm michael belke assistant director of 
recruitment for uic college of nursing  

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thank you for your interest 
in our traditional bsn program  

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if you have any questions about the content of 
this video please feel free to contact me directly  

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preferably through email at mbehlke@uic.edu 
you may also direct your questions to  

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conapply@uic.edu you can find more information 
about the college of nursing including  

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all the information on the different graduate 
programs we offer and all the incredible  

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research that our faculty members are currently 
conducting on our website at www.nursing.uic.edu

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this presentation will discuss what nursing is 
the differences between the degrees and licenses  

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associated with nursing provide an overview of uic 
provide an overview of the college of nursing and  

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the college of nursing's programs and then review 
the admissions process for the college of nursing  

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nursing is a varied health care field with 
nursing responsibilities ranging from making acute  

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treatment decisions to providing inoculations in 
schools registered nurses provide patient care  

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perform physical examinations and health 
assessments educate patients and advise and  

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provide advice and support to patients nursing is 
a field that combines science and technology with  

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art of caring and compassion nurses are lifelong 
learners in order to keep up with the latest in  

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medical and nursing sciences nurses work closely 
with physicians and other healthcare professionals  

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nurses administer patient medicines 
and treatments they assess  

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diagnose plan patient care implement the plan 
and evaluate the progress of the patient plan

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after earning the degree 
graduates of our bsn program  

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must pass the nclex rn exam to obtain 
their registered nursing license  

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according to the united states bureau of 
labor statistics occupational outlook handbook  

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the median national annual salary for 
registered nurses in 2020 with 75 330 dollars  

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with almost 3.1 million jobs the actual salaries 
may vary depending on location years of experience  

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and a variety of other factors employment of 
registered nurses is projected to grow almost  

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nine percent between 2020 and 2030 which is much 
faster than the average for other occupations

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so there's different levels of nursing 
education ranging from a certified nursing  

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assistant to a doctoral program such as a dnp or 
phd program so there's the the certified nursing  

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assistant program which is usually a semester at a 
community college or a private private cna program  

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there's the lpn which is a licensed practical 
nurse which we do not offer at uic college of  

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nursing we also do not offer ADN program 
which is associate's degree in nursing  

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but we do offer the bsn the also the rn to 
bsn program for applicants that are already  

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nurses through an associate's program and then 
there's the msn or ms degree in nursing programs  

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the ms program at uic college of nursing 
is a generalist master's ms in nursing  

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so it doesn't offer the advanced practice focus 
areas that you would find in the dnp program  

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then there's different certificate options for 
nursing such as the school nurse certificate and  

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then the two doctoral programs is the dnp and 
the phd program so there's different advanced  

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practice focus areas you could find within dnp 
programs such as like the fnp which is a family  

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nurse practitioner or midwifery and then there's 
the phd program which is more research focused

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the university of illinois at chicago is among 
the nation's top research universities offering  

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more than 80 undergraduate majors and has 
all the major health science colleges such  

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as the college of medicine and the college of 
dentistry uic is mission focused on serving a  

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diverse urban community and is the state's public 
academic health center and the second largest  

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university in the state of illinois with more than 
34 000 students uic college of nursing offers bsn  

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certificate ms dnp and phd programs and has 
significant strength in research the bsn program  

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is offered in three locations chicago springfield 
and urbana illinois we're credited by the ccne  

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which is a commission on collegiate nursing 
education we're approved by the IDFPR which  

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is illinois department of financial and 
professional regulation we're a member  

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of the aacn which is american association of 
colleges of nursing and we're consistently  

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ranked in the top 25 of all nursing schools in 
the united states currently ranked at number 19  

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by u.s news and world report and their rankings 
of in 2022 of undergraduate nursing programs

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the mission of uic college of 
nursing is a transform health  

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healthcare and policy through 
knowledge generation and translation  

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and the education of future 
leaders from diverse backgrounds

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students enrolled into the bsn 
program here at uic college of nursing  

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come into the program from three different paths 
first many applicants are admitted to the program  

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after taking the 16 prerequisite courses 
at uic through another uic college such as  

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the college of liberal arts and sciences other 
applicants come into the program after taking  

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the prerequisite courses outside of uic at a 
community college or another for a university  

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lastly we have a small number of students 
that come into the program through uic's gppa  

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program gppa stands for guaranteed professional 
program admissions the gppa initiative allows  

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a limited number of first-year students to be 
admitted to uic with guaranteed admission to  

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one of uic's graduate or professional degree 
programs students follow specific curriculum  

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and meet established performance criteria to 
maintain their admission guarantee so for  

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the gppa nursing program the gppa students 
come into uic as a freshman honor student  

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complete the prerequisite courses 
through their first two years at uic and then  

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they're saved a seat for their junior year as long 
as they satisfy their conditions of acceptance  

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such as maintaining a 3.4 cumulative cumulative 
gpa while they're in their first two years at uic

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this full-time program only starts in fall 
semesters and takes two years to complete  

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with no summer required the curriculum is 
a blend of clinical and didactic coursework  

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we expect that nursing school is our student's 
number one priority while they're in the program

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our bsn students start their clinical experiences 
after the third week of their first semester for  

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those first few weeks new students are learning 
nursing assessment skills in our simulation lab  

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before beginning their clinical assignments 
each of those clinical rotations are roughly  

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seven weeks long and typically include 12 to 
16 hours of clinical time each week students  

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are assigned two six to seven hour rotations 
typically but there are some 12 hour rotations  

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there are a variety of clinical locations 
around the chicagoland area for bsn students  

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attending the chicago location including 
university of illinois medical center  

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university-chicago hospital mcneil advocate and 
lori's children's hospital urbana students are  

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mainly at carl hospital and springfield students 
are typically completing those clinicals and  

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memorial hospital in springfield a lottery system 
determines clinical placement and assignments  

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launched by a generous 5 million donation from 
m christine schwartz the college of nursing  

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opened a new simulation lab in september 
of 2019 the expanded m christine schwartz  

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experimental learning and simulation lab 
for which we broke ground in fall of 2017  

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features 15 000 square feet of experimental 
teaching and learning space all designed  

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with students in mind a highlight of the lab is 
the juanita and philip francis birthing suite  

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generously funded by a 1 million dollar gift from 
the francis's the new lab space includes a home  

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care setting that will also allow instruction 
on care for patients in home environments  

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in addition to the birthing suite and home space 
there are exam rooms standardized patient rooms  

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control seminar debriefing rooms a new student 
lounge a classroom big enough for 74 students  

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a lactation room meditation room a laundry 
room and additional office space for faculty

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the college of nursing offers career services 
to current nursing students we provide resume  

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workshops mock interview opportunities 
we have an internal job board for for our  

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student nurses we have a nurse manager panel 
which is career advice from a panel of experts  

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and we do have two job fairs every year once in 
the fall semester and once in the spring semester

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the admission applications for uic college 
of nursing's traditional bsn program  

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are available between august of the prior year to 
january 15th of the start year if you're ready to  

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apply to the program and you are a current uic 
student you could apply through the internal  

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college of nursing application process and you can 
request that internal application through the link  

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on the slide if you are not a current uic student 
you can apply to the program through uic's web  

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application as a transfer applicant and you can 
find that link to the application on the slide as  

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well through the applynow.uic.edu website there's 
no application fee if you're a current uic uiuc  

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or uis student otherwise there is a 60 application 
fee for transfer applicants so let's talk about  

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some of the required documents that's required 
for either application process such as the five  

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essay questions there's five essay questions that 
are built into the application you can also find  

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those on our website at nursing.uic.edu there's 
also a requirement to for every applicant to have  

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two recommendations i would suggest that you use 
a combination of academic as well as professional  

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references so be an applicant you please list the 
contact information for those two references on  

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the application so that way the college will reach 
out to those two recommendations uh recommenders  

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to obtain the the letters recommendations from 
those two recommenders they are also required  

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to be submitted by the january 15th application 
deadline so i would suggest that you do not wait  

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until the last minute to list your recommenders on 
the application because you want to make sure that  

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you're giving them enough time you could also 
send out reminders or change your recommender  

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altogether on the application itself too so you 
could always check your application status after  

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you apply to ensure that those recommendations 
are coming in in time we also have a  

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prerequisite self-evaluation table built into the 
application which is a table that lists the 16  

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prerequisite courses for the bsn program and the 
applicant lists the courses on the self-evaluation  

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table that they took to fulfill each one of those 
16 prerequisite categories and as a quick reminder  

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please remember that the besides the upper 
division elective those 16 prerequisite classes  

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have to be completed by the end of the spring 
semester that precedes at the start of the program  

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okay we also have a resume requirement so 
please upload your resume to the application  

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and then we do require official transcripts 
from all colleges and universities attended are  

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submitted to uic admissions please do not submit 
the transcripts to the college of nursing itself  

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the official transcripts go to uic admissions 
office at the 1200 west harrison address if  

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you are applying as an internal application 
internal applicant to do the internal application  

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you do not have to submit your official 
transcripts to uic admissions because  

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they should already have that so please 
upload a copy of your academic history  

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in the appropriate section of the internal 
application where it asks for those documents so  

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if you're a transfer applicant again those 
official transcripts are sent to uic admissions  

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at 1200 west harrison and then if you're internet 
applicant you would be uploading a copy of your  

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academic history at uic to the application

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an admissions interview is a required 
step within the application process  

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and the bsn interviews are scheduled to be 
conducted this year in mid to late february  

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with the interview invitations scheduled 
to be sent out at the beginning of february  

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only qualified applicants that submitted fully 
completed applications by the application deadline  

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will be invited to interview each invited 
applicant will participate in a small group  

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interview with four to five applicants 
with up to two faculty members there's  

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also a small writing assignment that's 
also part of that interview process

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this slide shows some of the prerequisite courses 
that are uic's general education requirements  

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such as the english composition 1 and 2 which is 
our english comp 160 and 161 understand the past  

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understand the creative arts understanding world 
cultures individual and society and us society  

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many of our applicants do take introduction to 
psychology or introductory psychology for the  

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individual and society prerequisite many of 
our applicants also take intro to sociology  

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or introductory sociology for the u.s society 
prerequisite please click on the link at the  

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bottom of this page for more information 
about the general education requirements  

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we do require applicants to come 
in with at least 57 credit hours  

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by the end of the spring semester of the year 
they're applying for because basically students  

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are coming in as rising juniors into our program 
we do require that all these prerequisites except  

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for the upper division elective to be completed by 
the end of the spring semester preceding the start  

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of the program for example if you are applying 
for a program starting fall 2021 you would require  

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those prerequisites except for the upper division 
elective to be done by the end of the spring  

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semester of 2021 and as i mentioned before in a 
previous slide please use transferology.com to  

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help determine which of the your transfer courses 
would be acceptable for these prerequisites

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in addition to the general education courses 
listed on the previous slide these are additional  

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prerequisites for for our bsn program such as the 
general chemistry with lab organic chemistry with  

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lab anatomy of physiology 1 and 2 with lab and 
microbiology as you can notice the microbiology  

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science prerequisite is the only science 
prerequisite that does not require a lab component  

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we also do require applicants to have nutrition 
statistics lifespan development or developmental  

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psychology and the upper division elective now 
once again the upper division elective can be  

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taken after starting the bsn program however 
we strongly encourage applicants to have that  

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done prior to starting the program because then 
they would have to add that class into already  

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full-time bsn curriculum we do require applicants 
to have at least three out of the five science  

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prerequisite courses completed by the application 
deadline of january 15th the last two prerequisite  

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courses science prerequisite courses can be taken 
that spring semester we do have a seven-year  

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expiration on science prerequisites from the start 
of the program for example if you are applying for  

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fall 2021 those science prerequisite courses would 
have to be taken from fall 2014 or more recently

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now i'd like to talk about the review 
process here at the college of nursing  

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the faculty admissions committee 
looks at factors such as academics  

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writing ability and nursing 
suitability for all of our applicants

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regarding the academic consideration for admission 
we do require that applicants have at least a  

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2.75 cumulative gpa in a 2.5 science gpa the 
cumulative gpa factors in all previous college  

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courses completed by the application deadline 
the science gpa considers only the five science  

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prerequisite courses needed for the bsn program 
if a science prerequisite course was retaken then  

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we would factor in the most recently completed 
grade as stated in my previous slide we do require  

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that applicants have at least three of the five 
science prerequisites completed by the january  

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15th application deadline even though our minimum 
cumulative gpa for maximum consideration is a 2.75  

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the average admitted applicant 
has has a 3.4 cumulative gpa

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regarding the writing ability consideration 
for admission into the program  

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our admissions committee does review each and 
every one of the essay responses from the five  

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essay questions listed on the application as 
well as the responses on the writing assignment  

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that applicants complete during the interview 
process the admissions committee also looks at  

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the communication ability of the applicants plus 
the essay content of those five essay questions

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regarding the nursing suitability consideration 
for admission into our bsn program  

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the admissions committee considers 
employment history volunteer experience  

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leadership ability and also the two 
letters recommendations again we ask  

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that applicants list one academic as well as 
one professional reference on their application  

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the applicant's references are then sent to email 
after the applicant lists those references on the  

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application and the recommenders then submit 
their responses through the email requests  

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that they receive from the college of nursing 
we do require that the recommendations are  

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received by our office by the application 
deadline of january 15th therefore you  

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will want to enter in your recommender's contact 
information well before the application deadline  

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in order to provide your recommenders 
enough time to respond to that email request

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listed on the screen is the most recent 
tuition and fee information available  

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for the chicago campus as you can see in-state 
tuition and fees cost just under forty thousand  

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dollars for the two-year program the student fees 
in urbana and springfield are slightly different  

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in addition to other financial aid that a student 
may be receiving such as the federal pell grant  

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or illinois map grant uic college of nursing 
offers their own college of nursing scholarship  

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the scholarship application opens in december 
and the deadline is the beginning of march  

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if you are applying to the program i would highly 
recommend that you apply to the scholarship even  

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though admission decisions would not have been 
made by the scholarship application deadline  

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you could find the scholarship application 
through the link at the bottom of this page

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the college of nursing offers a college nursing 
scholarship for applicants and current students  

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the application for the scholarship opens 
in december and the deadline to apply  

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is early march please contact 
my colleague monique williams at  

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mwill8@uic.edu with any questions you 
have about the college nursing scholarship  

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one of the requirements to be considered for the 
scholarship is to have completed fafsa on file  

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you could visit financialaid.uic.edu for more 
information about financial aid at uic you  

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could also find more information pertaining to 
the college of nursing scholarships including  

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external nursing scholarships through the link 
at the bottom of the slide so please click on  

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the link for more information about scholarships 
and external scholarships at college of nursing

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so again january 15th is the application 
deadline regardless if you're applying as  

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an internal applicant or a transfer applicant and 
everything is required to be submitted by january  

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15th including those transcripts as well as those 
recommendations so right now if you are applying  

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to the program make sure that you're finishing up 
any prerequisite courses that you have outstanding  

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again please be cognizant of the two uh deadlines 
when it comes to the prerequisite courses  

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one being that you have to have three of the 
five science prerequisite courses completed  

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by the january 15th application deadline and 
then the rest of the prerequisite courses  

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except for the upper division elective have 
to be done by the end of the spring semester  

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preceding the center of the program you also 
want to start working on those essay questions  

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as soon as possible connect with your recommenders 
make sure that you're collecting the correct email  

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addresses again if you're not providing us with 
the correct email address for your recommenders  

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they're not going to be getting the email 
from us for their recommendation request  

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so please make sure that you're 
collecting that information accurately  

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you could also check your application status after 
you apply to make sure that those recommendations  

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are being submitted by those two recommenders 
that you use and also make sure that those  

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transcripts are also received by january 15th so 
if you're applying to the program we will need  

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those false transcripts and if you're admitted 
into the program you would also have to submit  

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your spring spring transcripts if you're taking 
any spring classes that that last spring semester  

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so regardless again if you're applying as an 
internal applicant or a transfer applicant  

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please continue to check your application status 
after you apply to make sure everything is  

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marked as being completed the interviews are 
going to be again scheduled for february mid  

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to late february so if you do not receive an 
interview invitation but from us by mid february  

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please reach out to our office you know it could 
be again that you were denied for being ineligible  

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or incomplete but also it might have gone to 
your spam or junk folder so please reach out  

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to our office if you think that you submitted 
a completed and eligible application by the  

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application deadline to make sure that you're not 
missing out on the interview and we're planning on  

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sending out the admission decisions in middle in 
the in the middle of april so please be cognizant  

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of this timeline you know january 15th is the 
application deadline interviews in mid-february  

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to late february and then notifications on 
admission decisions in the middle of april

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if you have any questions about the 
application process or the program itself  

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please feel free to contact me through phone or 
email the office phone number is 312-996-9645

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but my preferred method of contact is 
email my email address is mbehlke@uic.edu  

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so m-b-e-h-l-k-e @uic.edu 
you could also email me at  

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conapply uic.edu and you can find more 
information about our program at nursing.uic.edu

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thank you so much for listening to the 
presentation on our traditional bsn program