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1. New District School Nurse - Help

   scistav replied to elprup's topic in School

   Vision Screening for CA Schools Guide: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/documents/visionreport.pdf

2. New District School Nurse - Help

   scistav replied to elprup's topic in School

   Elprup, I am a school district nurse in the Bay Area and would be happy to answer some questions for you. You are qualified to perform the vision screenings. In CA, you are only required to screen for distance vision with a Snellen chart. Passing sta...

3. are prerequisites for an adn program harder at cal states than community colleges?

   scistav replied to findingmyway's topic in California

   I don't think so. I've attended a UC, a CSU, and a community college and some of the most difficult lower division science classes I took were at the community college.

4. How to pursue a second bachelors degree?

   scistav replied to bluenyellow's topic in General Students

   My BA degree is in biology. I also have units from a teaching credential program. For me, as a second career person with small children, time was more important than money. So I chose a 12 month accelerated program at Samuel Merritt in Oakland. I'll ...

5. How to pursue a second bachelors degree?

   scistav replied to bluenyellow's topic in General Students

   Some ABSN programs look only at your last 60 units not your entire academic history. I enrolled at CSUEB as an unclassified graduate student for my pre-requisites. It was easy to get in and as a graduate student I had priority during registration so ...

6. Samuel Merritt University ABSN Program Prerequisites

   scistav replied to sholmsen's topic in General Students

   My overall GPA was 3.8, science GPA 3.7, NET score 93. I have no healthcare experience. No interview was required!

7. Samuel Merritt University ABSN Program Prerequisites

   scistav replied to sholmsen's topic in General Students

   Hello Sholmsen, I'm in the Summer Oakland cohort. We start on Tuesday! I also feel like I didn't learn much with online path and pharm though I received A's in both. It was a pretty common worry at our orientation. Two students from this year's gradu...

8. Samuel Merritt ABSN San Francisco

   scistav replied to rachelzheng82's topic in California

   At my admissions counseling appointment, it was explained that the NET is the first thing they use to eliminate candidates. They establish a cut off score and if you fall below the score, the rest of your application won't be looked at. I was told th...

9. Samuel Merritt--Campus Declaration

   scistav replied to bluechick112's topic in Pre-Nursing

   The campus choice is right at the top of the first page of the application. It does depend on what entry date you applied for. I believe that only the San Francisco campus has a fall start date. So if you applied for fall, you should be fine. The sta...

10. 3 week Anatomy class at Samuel Merritt

    scistav replied to ChanelCinq's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I considered taking both Anatomy and Physiology at Samuel Merritt last summer. I needed to finish my pre-reqs quickly to apply for this summer's ABSN. Instead, I took A&P 1 and A&P 2 at CSUEB. They were offered back to back, five weeks each l...

11. Samuel Merritt ABSN San Francisco

    scistav replied to rachelzheng82's topic in California

    Hello, I'm in the Oakland May 2009 cohort. Here's the explanation of reclassification that we received in an email from SMU. If you are waitlisted for the summer 2009 program: You have the possibility to reclassify your application by completing ...