Information meeting at WCCCD

For starters, starting in Spring 09 all transfer students will need to have completed 12 credit hours before the college will evaluate their transcripts. This is a college policy already for general transfers, however, the nursing department waived it for those applying to the program.

Based on this new policy, transfer students will not be able to apply until May of 09 because they will need to complete the 12 credit hours BEFORE they can even submit their transcripts...The deadline for transcript submissions for the nursing program for Spring 09 is 08/01...which means they won't make the deadline even if they take 12 credit hours in the summer semesters.

IMHO, this is a huge change for the nursing department because now it gives residency status to students who completed their prerequisites at WCCCD like myself. There were a lot of people who were upset because they missed the deadline for submitted their transcripts to the college for evaluation for Fall 08 and the new policy prevented them from applying for Spring 09.

I have to agree with you! Even universities like Wayne state are giving residency status to students who have taken their prerequisites at WSU for their nursing program now. I believe it is about time that WCCCD does the same and rewards their students for sticking with them from the beginning!

This policy would have been horrible for a good friend of mine who is graduating from WCCCD's nursing program in a few weeks because she was a transfer student from SCC at the last minute and got in. However, another friend of mine didn't get in on her first try because her GPA was good, but not good enough compared to all the transfer students.


So WTG WCCCD!!!!