<p>hi! i’m just wondering abotu the nursing program at University of Rochester. Can someone explain it to me?</p>
<p>I was a medical student at University of Rochester. I don’t know any details about the nursing program but I can tell you that the medical system in town is excellent and everyone seemed very well trained.</p>
<p>However, there are some things to consider:</p>
<pre><code> Rochester has some of the worse weather in the US. The sun literally disappears in October and reappears in late April. The rest of the time the sky has ugly grey clouds. Some years it snows a lot (153 inches) other years it is really cold (25 days in a row where the real temperature never made it above 0 degree F. Most of the individuals in my med school class encountered seasonal depressive disorder.
The Medical center (Strong Memorial) and the Nursing School is sufficiently removed from the college campus that there is little interaction with other college students. This has social implications. Most of the interaction will be with other medical center personel which are generally older than the nurses. This can be isolating.
While I was there, I found the city of rochester to be largely blue collar with very little interaction between the students and the people who live there. If there is a single young professional group in town, I never encountered them. Since I attended, many of its major industries (Kodak, Xerox) have fallen on hard times.
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<p>In short, I think you will get a great education in Rochester. However, unless you are from upstate NY or from a Northern Cold State, I would go elsewhere for quality of life.</p>
<p>ty so much for that info! haha im from california, but I do love the cold more than the heat.</p>
<p>anyone else have information about nursing? ty</p>
<p>Okay rads4cure is talking about interaction with regular college students and how we don’t any. </p>
<p>This is rightfully so because the nursing program is unlike typical undergraduate school. They grant bachelors degree in nursing, but only for people who already have bachelors degree in another field or people who are already nurses. The nursing students are not traditional undergraduate students. If you are looking for regular undergraduate programs, its not at Rochester.</p>
<p>I don’t wanna respond to the weather opinion because I just feel like people have this overblown opinion of it that I am really just tired of trying to get people to understand otherwise.</p>
<p>Just know that there are lots of people from California and other warm places at this school. They are doing just fine.</p>
<p>I am quite familiar with the program, not only because I am an Admissions Counselor at Rochester, but also because my wife is a graduate. She graduated from another institution with a degree in bioethics and decided afterwards to pursue her nursing degree. In a 12 month program she recieved a second bachelors, passed her certification exam, and is now a practicing nurse. It is not a program for students immediately out of high school, as Zobasity has pointed out.</p>