Rio Salado Placement Policy

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hi everyone! - i'm new to the board and after looking through many threads i didn't come across this topic.

i just got off the phone with one of the advisors at rio salado (where i took the majority of my pre-reqs for the nursing program with great success :typing). i called in regards to their placement policies since i'm about to take my net test and (fingers crossed) start applying to schools.

based on everything i've read both here and on the main maricopa nursing program site, the time date stamp enters you into the maricopa nursing database from which you can track your application status to the colleges you've applied and that it is still a random lottery system.

this advisor informed me that rio salado's policy is 'first come first serve' and their current wait time is 1 1/2 to 2 years! cripes! :banghead:

she did say that that is only their policy.

isn't it done the same way with all cc's in maricopa county since it's a countywide program? :confused:

my hope was that if i got my net test results by july 31st (the end of this current application/time-date stamp time frame), i could apply and possibly be considered for next semester. *

*yeah.... i realize this is wishful thinking, but i figured i could maybe do some ritual chant or :bowingpursacrifice something on that off chance i might get in.

hi everyone! - i'm new to the board and after looking through many threads i didn't come across this topic.

i just got off the phone with one of the advisors at rio salado (where i took the majority of my pre-reqs for the nursing program with great success :typing). i called in regards to their placement policies since i'm about to take my net test and (fingers crossed) start applying to schools.

based on everything i've read both here and on the main maricopa nursing program site, the time date stamp enters you into the maricopa nursing database from which you can track your application status to the colleges you've applied and that it is still a random lottery system.

this advisor informed me that rio salado's policy is 'first come first serve' and their current wait time is 1 1/2 to 2 years! cripes! :banghead:

she did say that that is only their policy.

isn't it done the same way with all cc's in maricopa county since it's a countywide program? :confused:

my hope was that if i got my net test results by july 31st (the end of this current application/time-date stamp time frame), i could apply and possibly be considered for next semester. *

*yeah.... i realize this is wishful thinking, but i figured i could maybe do some ritual chant or :bowingpursacrifice something on that off chance i might get in.

you are correct that is the same for all the mccd schools. however, the more options, you get up to 5, you put down, the sooner you will probably get in somewhere. flexibility is the key. i do believe that rio only admits once a year, so if that is the one and only program you are wanting to get in....you will wait. isn't that great?! i am in your same position. i am taking the net next week and will be able to submit my application by the end of august. however, i am also keeping my options open and applying to schools outside the mccd system as well. i really want to get into the part-time program at gateway that starts in january, but i realize that probably isn't going to happen, considering there are over 1500 people already in the queu ahead of me and that number growing daily. i am still optomisitic and crossing my fingers though. but, again, i am covering my bases by applying elsewhere so that i am not sitting around waiting for 2 yrs waiting to get into one of the mccd programs .

good luck to you!!!

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