RN-BSN & MSN Prospective Student Advisement Sign Up
Thank you for your interest in our School of Nursing programs! This page is for RN to BSN prospective students as well as prospective MSN students interested in any of our MSN tracks. You will be able to schedule a 20 minute one-on-one session with one of our advisors to go over your program of interest. Advising sessions can be scheduled over the phone or via Zoom. If you are interested in the Accelerated BSN or Traditional BSN programs, you will need to sign up for a session with your assigned advisor HERE.
AS AN ADVISEE, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO:
1. Research your program: Learn as much as possible about School of Nursing admission requirements that affect you. The TTUHSC School of Nursing Catalog, located on our website here, contains a wealth of important and useful information. Academic requirements change, but the current catalog is your contract regarding the program requirements you must meet.
2. Be Prepared: Prepare for our meeting by making a list of questions and topics you want to discuss related to the TTUHSC School of Nursing. These topics may be related to general education requirements, preparing for an interview, the academic calendar, or cost of attendance. If selection of prerequisite classes is one of the topics, you should have specific courses and SON application deadlines in mind before your advising meeting.
3. Be punctual and communicate: What applies to your admissions coach applies to you as well. When you schedule an appointment, you are expected to keep it. If you are unable to keep your appointment, you are expected to notify the office in advance. We understand that emergencies arise, but it is your responsibility to inform your admissions coach that you will be unable to make your appointment.
AS YOUR ADMISSIONS COACH, YOU CAN EXPECT ME TO:
1. Be Available: As a prospective nursing student, you need to be able to see an admissions coach as needed throughout your pre-nursing journey, not just at the time of application. It is not reasonable to expect a student to cut a class to accommodate posted office hours. Therefore, admissions coaches will be accessible through voice mail and electronic mail, and should respond to messages within one business day.
2. Be Knowledgeable: As an advisee, you have the right to expect your admissions coach to give you accurate information about TTUHSC SON, program requirements, procedures, policies, and deadlines.
3. Care: As an advisee, you have the right to be treated by your admissions coach in a respectful, caring, considerate manner. Information can be dispensed in many ways, but advice can only be given through an interactive process in which the goals, abilities, successes and shortcomings of you as the advisee are known and respected.
Please note that admissions coaches do allow a grace period of 7 minutes after your scheduled start time to begin your advising session. After the grace period is over, you will be required to reschedule your appointment to respect the time of other prospective students.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. Department chairs and the office staff at your current institution of higher education know a lot about policies, processes, and paperwork connected with strategizing good academic outcomes and dealing with emergencies, including:
· add-drop and withdrawal issues/deadlines;
· degree requirements outside the pre-nursing major;
· illness or family issues that affect a student’s academic work;
· classroom or grading issues;
· academic standing;
· double majors and double degrees;
· graduation, etc.
A call to your department chair or academic advisor can often quickly connect you with accurate information about academic policies and with resources to help you solve problems.
2. Admissions coaches are not personal counselors. You should not expect your coach to help you sort out personal problems. Admissions coaches are not trained to help with these situations; your institution of higher education has professional counselors that are trained and students should be encouraged to take advantage of those services through the Counseling Center or Student Affairs.
3. Admissions coaches are not tutors. You should not expect your coach to give supplemental or remedial instruction in their academic courses.
4. Admissions coaches are friendly, but should not be expected to be friends. You should respect the fact that admissions coaches are actively engaged people whose time is important; you should not plan to “drop in” on an admissions coach without an appointment.
