Questions about Ivy Tech Bloomington...

[Fast]

WARNING: I'm a newbie with several questions, some of which may seem silly!

I plan to enroll for prereqs. at Ivy Tech Bloomington sometime in 2009 and have so many questions! Anyone who can answer ANY of these, it's very much appreciated.

1. How do you know what the maximum amount you can borrow (student loans) per semester is? My husband is a student (business) and hasn't been able to find an exact number for himself, either.

2. Were/have you been able to work full-time while being a student? Just during pre/coreqs. or the entire time?

3. I've read a bit on here about a point system for grades/program acceptance rather than a GPA. Other than grades, what factors into this (TEAS, etc.)? And what range is the goal?

4. Exactly how difficult is it to be accepted in the RN program at Ivy Tech Bloomington? I've heard horror stories about how competitive it is. Are only a set number of student accepted per semester/year?

5. When accepted into the RN program, do you have to take your classes in a specific order?

[IVleaguenurse]

Ok guys all what I have to say is:

Please come to Florida!!! Here you can take all the pre-requisites in any Florida Community College, and apply to any of the Nursing Programs with at least 2.5 GPA and be accepted. No waiting list, no competition etc.

We need nurses now!!!

They need to start employing more nursing instructors and pay them a little better, and stop putting all the pressure on students. Nursing is already very stressfull and we don't need to add more stress to it. Good Bye Old School nurses, and Welcome new views, new horizon for nurses in this country. :chuckle:yeah:

[kgle]

kgle- If you don't mind my asking, what other campuses to you plan to apply to?

Just curious because I live in Bedford and anything other than the Bloomington campus would be a somewhat wicked drive for me, but it seems that some campuses are easier to get into right away.

Well I am in Indy so I think that gives me a couple more options luckily. I am looking at applying to Columbus, Indy/Lawrence, and Anderson. Muncie could also be another option but I haven't decided on that yet. Indy and Anderson would be main ones for me because Anderson is only about 35-40 min from me and Lawrence is a good 20-25 min.

[kgle]

Ok guys all what I have to say is:

Please come to Florida!!! Here you can take all the pre-requisites in any Florida Community College, and apply to any of the Nursing Programs with at least 2.5 GPA and be accepted. No waiting list, no competition etc.

We need nurses now!!!

They need to start employing more nursing instructors and pay them a little better, and stop putting all the pressure on students. Nursing is already very stressfull and we don't need to add more stress to it. Good Bye Old School nurses, and Welcome new views, new horizon for nurses in this country. :chuckle:yeah:

I wish they did that here! It would be much less stress!

[ajessrn, BSN, RN]

basically you need to meet with a financial aide advisor and go to the information session for the program you are wanting...

once you are excepted to the program you should look into getting on as a student nurse at a hospital because that is a good way to get paid while really learning. clinicals are very limited, or at least it seemed so for me. i went to ivy tech in columbus.

there is a lot of red tape to the program, but just be diligent and seek out the correct information, or at least as close to it as you can. i got the run around at ivy tech columbus too, from financial aide to the business office, to the program chairs themselves at times. they don't make it very easy. but don't worry if you do well in your prereqs and have them pretty much done before you apply you should get in. the test you take now is different from what i did, but you should do fine with that too.

just have faith in yourself and work hard! good luck!!