Curious about how long you all have been waiting to be accepted

peytonsmom · Oct 21, 2008

I know that he university i'm looking to get into has had a 3.30 cutoff the last two years. They look at your entire GPA from the beginning of time which hurts me because I didn't exactly apply myself in my courses from my first AA degree. I figured if I could get a B/C w/o trying then why bother working hard! In my defense I was all of 15 when I started those courses so I wasn't really thinking long term!!

So as long as I bust butt on the remaining pre-reqs I have I should be able to hit that 3.3 or hopefully a little bit higher and get in w/o waiting.

It does obviously depend on the school though. If I would try and get into the program at the CC where I'm taking my prereqs I'd be looking at a 2-3 year wait list even w/ a 4.0GPA (I found out yesterday that this CC has the highest # of student turned down due to lack of seats in all of Ohio. Last year they wait listed over 730 people!!)

Ladypie · Oct 21, 2008

I also have a English degree, and was able to transfer over all my prereq classes. It took me a couple emails to get the math straight, because the college was not sure if the course from 15+ years ago in another state was the same content as the current courses. I had the math dept head from my old college email the admissions office with a list of items covered in that class. It was accepted.

The CC that I am going to now also accepted my sciences that were over 10 years old. Many colleges expire them at 5-10 years. I was glad about that.

Here's the kicker--even though I had B's in my prereqs that transferred, I had to retake 6 classes because my gpa was not high enough. That kind of bummed me out, because I didn't want to have to pay for classes again that I got B's in the first time.

I have heard many horror stories about wait lists and huge applicant pools. My CC is easy by comparison. No entrance tests at all, no time limits to transfers, etc.

My school has about 250 applicants for maybe 60 seats. Not so bad. It is a good school, meaning their board pass rates are very very high. They also have a good rep. People who go there really seem happy with the program.

Your grades are very good, so just make sure you keep them high like that if you have to retake anything. You can also ask the school to let you know what the previous year's stats were: how many applied, and what was the gpa cut off. If the cutoff is higher than your current gpa, then you may want to proactively retake something. Chances are, the next year's gpa cut off will be even higher. (the people who didn't get in the previous year will work hard to bring up their gpa)

studentmom2007 · Oct 21, 2008

Thanks for the info. In Oregon, most of the local CCs to me are joining OHSU where students can get a 2 year degree and sit for the boards and have the option of 1 more year to get a BSN. You have to have all pre-reqs and electives done before starting the nursing classes. Once local school has a lottery so that helps the lower GPA students b/c you get a number and they just draw numbers. They will do that 1 more year and then join the other CCs for the consortium program.

I am going to apply to the lottery school and OHSU, which last year had 750 applicants statewide, 425 in my city with 165 accepted statewide, but only 27 in my city. The avg GPA was 3.7, which means in my major metro area of Portland, the GPAs were probably more on the 3.9 mark.

We'll see. I'm not in a rush, but I don't want to have to take classes over again either.