Questions regarding Maricopa CC's Nursing program

Knit1Purl2 · Nov 7, 2006

Can anyone add any insight to the Placement White Board for MCCC?

Have they added new classes, it seems like the amount of spaces has doubled for a couple of colleges?

Also, does anyone know when Rio Salado's classes start in the school year and how many do they normally take?

Just one more question I see where there are about 50 applicants that had less than a 6 month wait, is that dependent on their program choices? The ones that were placed within less than a week of their time stamp, I just wonder how the majority of the others waiting didn't have the same choice?

Thanks for any and all responses.

NewJA · Nov 7, 2006

One class, or a few classes at a time, may we all get it done eventually.

I really look forward to completeing it, myself.

NewJA · Nov 7, 2006

issue resolved - and no useful information in my post, hence no need for it here

Knit1Purl2 · Nov 7, 2006

As much as I hate to admit it, I don't really understand most of your questions. I don't know what a whiteboard is, and am yet to figure out the function of a time-stamp. I am also unclear as to what choice you are referring.
All I know so far is that I am registered for CHM and A&P I for the Spring semester. After that, I'll start worrying some more about the rest. So far, my questions to the advisors have led only to further confusion, contradiction, and uncertainty.

Jeff the Whiteboard is the Placement Grid that shows how many Maricopa CC students are waiting to be placed and how many have been placed for the upcoming semester. Here's the link, check it out.

http://web1.dist.maricopa.edu/CFIDE/docs/hcies/placementWtBd.cfm

Anyone else on my previous questions? I really appreciate any insight you have and are willing to offer.

boomerfriend · Nov 7, 2006

The whiteboard is very difficult to interpret. Some people get placed because they put down all five choices and got one of them. Some people happened to get placed because someone forfeited their spot.

I listed 4 choices and got my 4th choice. There were people that were offered a spot in our class one week before class was to begin.

peeesh · Nov 7, 2006

sooo im a little confused about this... which chart should i be looking at i applied 6/26 so thats the 134 days... should the bottom chart give me a idea of where i stand (i guess chart #4)??...i really cant understand what the top four charts are tryin to say.. lol

actually take that back... out of charts 3 and 4 which chart should i be lookin at? lol

AZmom · Nov 8, 2006

http://healthcare.maricopa.edu/pdfDocs/placement_vs_capacity.pdf

Knit1Purl2 · Nov 9, 2006

Can anyone point me in the direction or link of Maricopa CC's Nursing program schedules? I have found traditional, accelerated, part-time but what exactly does that mean in days during the week, weekend, clinicals etc.?

Thanks for helping me with my frustration level. :bluecry1:

Staric · Nov 10, 2006

I've been waitlisted through MCCC... Its been 7 months and counting... I am ready to "SCREAM!!!!!"...I just saw on the Website to "check your status" that starting Nov 11 they are randomizing numbers- WHAT DOES THAT MEAN.. ANYONE KNOW>>>>

>> Pay the teachers MORE!!!! >>> Get more programs.....

I also think they should interview potential students- How many times has someone heard something about an AZ student planning to move back HOME.. Then go HOME and get schooling, Save the AZ spots for AZ nurses..Just my thoughts... (no offense to out of staters.. but I am deseperate and frustrated..)

selaz · Nov 10, 2006

I've been waitlisted through MCCC... Its been 7 months and counting... I am ready to "SCREAM!!!!!"...I just saw on the Website to "check your status" that starting Nov 11 they are randomizing numbers- WHAT DOES THAT MEAN.. ANYONE KNOW>>>>
>> Pay the teachers MORE!!!! >>> Get more programs.....
I also think they should interview potential students- How many times has someone heard something about an AZ student planning to move back HOME.. Then go HOME and get schooling, Save the AZ spots for AZ nurses..Just my thoughts... (no offense to out of staters.. but I am deseperate and frustrated..)

The "randomizing" to which they are referring only applies to those who submitted their applications during the October application week. From your post, it seems you have been waiting for seven months. This will not affect you at all.

NewJA · Nov 10, 2006

The "randomizing" to which they are referring only applies to those who submitted their applications during the October application week. From your post, it seems you have been waiting for seven months. This will not affect you at all.

I rest my case. That paragraph just perfectly sums up my thoughts on their system better than I could have done myself. They have taken what should be a very simple application process where people wait their turn to be admitted (in which case, they should be able to give everyone a clear idea of when they will be admitted), and they have made it ridiculously and unnecessarily complicated, accomplishing nothing at all in the process other than leaving all of the future students out there without a clue of when they will get in.

Of course they do have some advisors which, from my experience, tend to provide confusing, contradictory, and sometimes outright senseless explanations of things....

With some luck, I will be doing my nursing school elsewhere anyway... There is a slim chance that I may be moving soon. Of course, that's not to say that where I may be going next won't have as badly a dicombobulated system.

Apologies for the negative rant. It's just that I see a lot of people here, including myself, asking questions which we should be able to have answered very easily by someone at MCC, and in most cases these are questions that we absolutely shouldn't have had to ask in the first place. However, I already know from experience that it doesn't seem to work well that way at all (calling MCC). I get better info here, and get it more easily.

peeesh · Nov 10, 2006

Well.. i have called the number on the application page seeing if i was able to see what number in the pool of applicants i was currently at.... they said its impossible for me to find out... with that said.. i have been waiting since june and who knows if i will get in next fall... this is insane, people have no idea when there gonna get in for sure... and i bet its only going to get worse...

that confusing thing on the whiteboard... gives u a rough idea... but there is still a possiblity u wont get in when you think.... there is a chunk of the total number of nursing spots that are .. employed placement... accelerated weekend....blah blah blah... so really... u think there is alot of spots there really is not...especially for the regular traditional applicants... grr........ :uhoh3: :uhoh3: :uhoh3:

ohh and another one of my concerns was... i asked the advisor.. just a what if question... what happens when people who have been waiting so long there NET test expires..(they expire after one year of taking it) which is getting pretty close for some of the people who have been waiting a while... and i get this answer..."oh that has never happened before.." well it seems to me a lot of people would be pissed off including myself i had to retake that test again...and everyone usually takes it a month or two before the apply....with the number of applicants and increased wait times..re-testing better not be the case...