<p>hey guys!</p>
<p>so i just got into penn nursing and am ecstatic because it definitely seemed like a superb fit for me =) but i notice that literally nobody writes anything about penn nursing on college confidential...i understand that it's the smallest school at Penn, but I find it very very verrrry difficult to find anything out about it online.</p>
<p>can anyone tell me any information about it? how is the curriculum? do the students enjoy it? how hard are the courses? etc. etc.</p>
<p>nothing? 10char</p>
<p>It’s one of the very top nursing schools in the country, fully integrated into a top Ivy League university that includes a top medical school and a top hospital system. And it’s a superb fit for you. What else do you need to know? :)</p>
<p>Seriously, though, I’ve never heard of a Penn Nursing student not being thrilled with it, here on CC or anywhere else. Hopefully, one or more of them will post here.</p>
<p>anything else? bump bumpp</p>
<p>I am a freshman nursing student. I agree with 45 percenter. The course load is vigorous and you may have a tighter schedule than some of your friends in other schools, but you learn so much about the application of the material you learn and I’d imagine at the end I would feel ready for anything a hospital can throw at me. </p>
<p>If you have any specific questions, feel free to pm me 
Also, I hope you are coming to the nursing preview weekend this Friday. That really helped me a lot when I was a prospective student, as they provide much needed information on the school. That day helped me finalize my decision :)</p>
<p>can you tell me what are the stats they are looking for?</p>
<p>Fun stat: of the four undergrad schools (Wharton, College, Engineering, Nursing), Nursing has the highest average starting salary by a good margin. You will get excellent, hands-on training. You might have less class than a lot of other students during the normal work week (M-F, 9-5) but you will have long clinical shifts at other times (nights and weekends). Once you get past the intro classes, all your clinical classes are limited to really small sizes ([NURSING](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/registrar/timetable/nurs.html]NURSING[/url]”>Office of the University Registrar | Penn Student Registration & Financial Services| Penn Srfs)</a>). A lot of students stay an extra year to get more experience and work towards an advanced nursing degree. There are also a wealth of options if you decide you want to dual degree with another school (engineering, wharton, college) or ultimately want to do something else (law school, med school, business, etc.).</p>
<p>In addition to the dual degree programs there are minors with other schools as well - my daughter is graduating in May with a minor in Health Services Management through Wharton. Many of her classmates are going directly to grad school - Penn has a sub-matriculation program where some of your senior year classes will count toward your Masters. And yes, my daughter has a job!!</p>
<p>One person I know at Penn has made the comment that Nursing is almost its own world at Penn, he was joking around about it and how all the nursing kids stick together, but there might be some truth to that idea. I don’t know much about the nursing program so I could very well be incorrect, but from what he said, nursing kids form a pretty tight knit community, I don’t know if thats a good thing or a bad thing.</p>