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Comment posted Which College Would Fit My Criteria If I Want To Pursue A Bs In Nursing In California? by teknique.

You have pretty good stats and good enough for all 4 of those schools.
I’m not sure if UC Davis offers a nursing degree for undergraduate, or at least I’ve never heard of it. I know that UC Davis has just received 100 million dollars to start a separate professional school, the 6th for UC Davis, specifically for nursing (Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing). I believe they’ll enroll students starting from Fall Quarter 2008, but those students should already have a 2/4 year degree with the pre-requisites for nursing school completed. Here is a website with some more information: http://advisingservices.ucdavis.edu/advi…
Good luck!

teknique also commented

  • USF I believe is considered to have the best nursing program here in CA but the school is private and really expensive but is located in the Bay Area.
    Out of that list of colleges i suggest Berkerly would be the best choice and also the hardest one to get into
    Next I would say its Davis and they have a huge Davis Medical Hospital in Sacramento and then I would go with Irvine.
    I think you have a really good shot at getting into Berkerley depending on your SAT scores. Also you should probably be a shoe-in for Davis and Irvine and any other UC besides UCLA.
  • My ex-gf is a nurse. She graduated from Samuel Merritt/St. Mary’s college. The truth is that it is meaningless where you graduate from. Nursing is on the boom and will give you a job wherever you go. It would be MOST adviseable for you to go to a University close to where you believe you’ll want to work. Why? Because you can do internships in the nearby hospitals to get a job.
    Honestly, saying you graduated from Davis or Berkeley is just a pride thing, not a salary thing.
    EDiT: Another thing I forgot is to tell you not to go to State school because there is such a demand it may take you 4 years just to get to nursing school. This happened to a friend of mine. I suggest you go to a private university if you can afford it.

Recent comments by teknique

  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    I understand it completely. I’m a nursing student (LPN). In Oregon, it is crazy to get into any sort of nursing program. LPN is a little less competitive, but most people want that RN first and are willing to spend two years on a waiting list cooling their heels rather than becoming an LPN first and bridging up to RN.
    It was still crazy to get into the LPN program. I had to take a test, write an essay on the spot, then right five more and submit them, have two letters of recommendation, and do an interview with the program director.
    I think the biggest reason nursing is so competitive is because of the nursing shortage. In such a such @$$ economy, it is a relatively secure job.
    Good luck.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Actually, this is one career area where the place you obtained your RN from is not as important as the fact that you have the RN. And, it is a well known fact that community colleges and some of the Cal States turn out far better nurses (in terms of clinical hours experience) than the UCs where they are heavy on theory but not so much on clinical experience. I spent 3 days a week on the hospital floor in the CC; but my friend at the UC spent 1/2 to 1 day a week in clinicals. She actually had to take some outside nursing extension courses after she was done to get a bit more experience. Once you start staff nursing, almost no one will ask or care where you got that RN from–all they want is a competent nurse on the floor. FYI-CSULB has a really tremendous nursing program–your family does not understand the nursing career path.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    No!
    Most recruiters ask if you have a license.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Nursing is a regulated profession. Everyone who enters the profession must write the same exam to get a license.
    Therefore everyone starts at the same level of competency as tested by the exam.
    The school you go to does not matter – if they could not prepare nurses who pass the exam they would not be in business.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Nope!
    An RN is an RN and will be an RN. I’m a pre-nursing student at a CA community college and I got accepted to CSU, Bakersfield for their BSN program! With that said, I will be transfering to a CSU and am on my way to be an RN. In the field of nursing, it really doesn’t matter where you get your degree, as long as you are an RN. The nursing field has a shortage unlike other majors, and once you are an RN, you will be working side by side with other RN graduates from top tier universities such as Yale along with community college graduate RNs. If those people tell you to go to a top tier university for nursing, do not listen to them, because they do not know much about the nursing field. Nursing school should never cost you an arm and a leg, so you go to which ever school is the cheapest and convenient for you. Let those other people brag about their lives and their level of education, but one thing they will never understand is that experience teaches.
    Good luck with your endeavors!

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  1. Bottom Contributor on November 23, 2009 9:45 pm

    My ex-gf is a nurse. She graduated from Samuel Merritt/St. Mary’s college. The truth is that it is meaningless where you graduate from. Nursing is on the boom and will give you a job wherever you go. It would be MOST adviseable for you to go to a University close to where you believe you’ll want to work. Why? Because you can do internships in the nearby hospitals to get a job.
    Honestly, saying you graduated from Davis or Berkeley is just a pride thing, not a salary thing.
    EDiT: Another thing I forgot is to tell you not to go to State school because there is such a demand it may take you 4 years just to get to nursing school. This happened to a friend of mine. I suggest you go to a private university if you can afford it.

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  2. Jay (Ja-ja-ja-j UNIT!!) on November 23, 2009 9:51 pm

    USF I believe is considered to have the best nursing program here in CA but the school is private and really expensive but is located in the Bay Area.
    Out of that list of colleges i suggest Berkerly would be the best choice and also the hardest one to get into
    Next I would say its Davis and they have a huge Davis Medical Hospital in Sacramento and then I would go with Irvine.
    I think you have a really good shot at getting into Berkerley depending on your SAT scores. Also you should probably be a shoe-in for Davis and Irvine and any other UC besides UCLA.

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  3. teknique on November 23, 2009 10:38 pm

    You have pretty good stats and good enough for all 4 of those schools.
    I’m not sure if UC Davis offers a nursing degree for undergraduate, or at least I’ve never heard of it. I know that UC Davis has just received 100 million dollars to start a separate professional school, the 6th for UC Davis, specifically for nursing (Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing). I believe they’ll enroll students starting from Fall Quarter 2008, but those students should already have a 2/4 year degree with the pre-requisites for nursing school completed. Here is a website with some more information: http://advisingservices.ucdavis.edu/advi…
    Good luck!

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You have pretty good stats and good enough