Mature Student Applying for George Brown College Practical Nursing

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Hello,

I'm hoping someone out there might have the answers I'm looking for. I am a mature student and have applied for January 2015 Practical Nursing program at George Brown but I don't have chemistry or biology high school credits. I understand that I would need to take the assessment test for English Science and Math as a mature student.

My first question is would it just be better for me to take adult day courses for chemistry and biology and get my credits because its been ages since I've taken a science course.

My second is if I was to apply for September 2015, and I applied in January but I plan on taking a chemistry high school credit (also in January but finishes early March)would it affect my chances of getting into George Brown because admissions would like to see my grades before hand?

Thank you

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I think an admissions person at the school in question would be the person to ask. They can give you a definitive answer.

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From my experience, I am a mature student as well, you have to at least finish the coursese before your college semester starts. They might give you a conditional offer, but the condition will state that complete the course before school starts. Different colleges have different policies. Ask their admission. I tool 12 grade English, math, biology and chemistry.I applied for Seneca and Centennial and I found out that Seneca only need me to provide transcripts for biology and chemistry and their pre-admission will replace English and math. So I took the admission test. I got the offer. But I finished my English and math any way. Centennial needs the transcripts for all four courses plus English proficiency proof which could be obtain by writing a test at their campus. I did as well and they gave me a conditional offer because at that time I still had math to finish. The condition requires my to provide math (at 75%) before Jan 2015. This is just for your reference. Ask their admission is the best. I applied for George Brown as well and never got any feedback from them. Be sure to apply from OCAS as early as possible. Now the application from Jan 15 is closed for almost all RPN programs. You are looking at Feb 1, 2015 as the deadline for Sept 2015 application

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Mature students can just take the four pre-admission exams for George Brown. I think the better option is best decided based on your learning techniques. To my knowledge we don't need to take straight up biology or chemistry in the program so it would be a lot of time spent on credits you may not ~need~ when you may be able to study more efficiently on your own. You'd also be able to focus more on the sections that nurses would need to know (human biology).

I'm a little hazy on your second question - you're planning on taking chemistry if you don't get into the January intake you mean?

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