<p>How good is Georgetown's nursing school program?</p>
<p>I would LOVE to go there, but don't think I have a shot at all. How high is there acceptance rate? Is it the same as the school's? around 20%?</p>
<p>Any information you can give me would be great :)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Class of 2011
acceptance rate: 21-22%
Average class rank: 94-95%
SAT CR mid 50%: 690-740 (EA); 640-740 (RD)
SAT M mid 50%: 660-730/740</p>
<p>Georgetown</a> University- Office of Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>Georgetown NHS generally competes with Penn Nursing for applicants and matriculants. It is a pretty rigorous program, combining liberal arts, basic science, and clinical experience, all from the first year. You'll start your clinicals at GU Hospital in the second semester of freshman year. Currently, the science courses except for pharmacology (human biology I and II (anatomy and physiology), pathophysiology, and microbiology) are all taught by the infamous Dr. Angerio. Browse his reviews at ratemyprofessor.com. His courses are VERY rigorous, and taught at a pretty high level. They're really difficult, but you'll learn a lot more than you would at other programs. </p>
<p>NHS has its own computer lab, as well as a new basic science laboratory for your science lab classes (human bio and microbio). There's also the clinical skills center, which includes GUS, a human patient simulator. NHS also just purchased a pediatric patient simulator as well, so you'll be able to practice your clinical skills, see effects of drugs, listen to heart and lung sounds, etc. all on a fake patient before you do it on a real person.</p>
<p>If you're interested in advanced practice nursing, NHS has many top programs in those areas, especially a Nurse Anesthesia program. NHS offers an early admission program for juniors to apply to so that you can be assured admission to the program after you graduate.</p>
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<p>If your plan is just to become an RN and stop there, I would definitely caution you against schools like Georgetown (and Penn) for Nursing unless you are loaded and money is no issue or you are poor enough to receive copious amounts of aid from Gtown. I'm not trying to detract from any of the Nursing majors here (they put so many long hours into clinicals, I could never do it) however, if your ultimate goal is just to be an RN, Georgetown won't really give you enough of a leg up to justify the difference in cost than say your state university. </p>
<p>That being said, NHS is an often forgotten gem at Georgetown. The International Health and Healthcare Management and Policy programs are extremely unique to Georgetown, taught for the most part by very capable and qualified faculty, and superior programs if you want to get involved in the healthcare field, regardless of whether or not you dream of getting an MD. On the same token if your sure you want go to med school, the Human Science major is pretty much as close as you'll get to Med School as an undergrad. And agian, as Jason said we have a fabulous nursing program, as well as a top grad program too. My opinion is just to do a bit of a cost/benefit analysis before you cough up $200,000+ to become a nurse.</p>
<p>yeah definitely. You can become an RN with a 2 year ADN degree from a community college, and get the same job as a BSN from Penn/Gtown/etc. The difference is in resources, quality of education, facilities, etc. Also, if you think you'd be interested in advanced practice nursing later on, you'll need that BSN. Some of the ADN nurses I work with are doing RN-BSN programs to finish off those 2 years so they can keep options open.</p>
<p>Starting nursing salaries are pretty darn good; it is a good investment. ADN programs take 3 years anyway. There are lot of nursing scholarships available and pay off programs if you will serve in certain areas. I think it is a great investment! You can't say what you will want to do in 20 years. It is probably LA majors who had better question whether a Georgetown or similarly priced education is worth it.
You will get a superior education. I'm a UW grad (#1 nursing school) and though I'm just an RN, the prestige of that is still helpful 15 years later. I had my full tuition for my last 2 years paid for and received $600/month stipend from the VA; I graduated with no debt at all.</p>
<p>I have to differ with mikey above. I spent 4 years at college and received a BSN and it has paid me back over the years. There are many majors for 200,000 that are much less valuble. In fact, I am reccomending a BSN tract for my son who wants to go to medical school because it is such a worthy degree and really a growing experience. It is well rewarded with job opportunities, challenging, lucrative and interesting. It is a great education. Good luck to you and feel good about your path.</p>
<p>pre-med nursing is an interesting idea. If you end up not getting into med school, you can work as an RN, making money, while doing an SMP or post-bacc to better your application. You also get some clinical experience to be sure you want to be in the field. On the other hand, it may be better to take other routes to getting clinical experience, such as being an EMT (GERMS-Georgetown EMS) or a clinical technician (I'm one and we do many basic nursing functions, such as IVs, drawing blood, EKGs, vitals, oxygen, begin triage, foleys (...), splinting, supervised NG tubes, etc.), and save your sanity since you won't be doing early clinicals and trying to get good grades in orgo, haha. NHS seems to support the idea that you can be pre-med and nursing, and if I had to do it again, I might have done that (and probably work per-diem during med school). </p>
<p>But yeah, the experiences you'd get at Gtown Nursing and other great BSN programs far outweigh the cons.</p>
<p>On a side note, the average salary of an NHS grad is the highest out of all the schools. I'm sure it's all the nursing majors that pull it up. Some of my friends are working at places like Georgetown Hospital ED, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (PICU), Johns Hopkins Hospital, New York Presbyterian ED, Hospital of UPenn, etc. All great, top hospitals. Some also go directly into nurse practitioner programs, right at NHS. There are many doors that open with a georgetown degree and a BSN.</p>