CCRI Acceptance for Fall

am11699 · Jul 16, 2011

Hi, I talked to the person in charge of the lincoln applications, warwick is completely separate. I didn't hear anything today, I am taking it I didn't get in

She also told be that they do not notify you if seats are available at other campuses, you have to reapply. Oh well, I guess I will have to wait and see and maybe apply for the spring semester. My GPA isn't the greatest so I am not getting my hopes up. I wish you luck. If you didn't get it, don't give up you will get it eventually :)

violin9 · Jul 16, 2011

Hi - Thanks again for the info. My gpa is 3.79. - not as good as it could be, but not too bad. If you look on the ccri nursing program website, you will see from Spring 2012 to 2014 the criteria they use for deciding is listed. Everything has a point value. - so many points for getting this accuplacer score, so many points for getting this gpa, so many points for getting this TEAS score. If I don't get in for the fall, I was considering taking the math TEAS over since it was passing, but low passing. I won't get any info from them until Monday, now that it's Saturday. So I'll just relax for a few days about it. I am an older student and the big picture is also how long I want to put myself through this emotional rollcoaster. I will be thinking about that one. - I have a bachelor's in French and Italian from a fairly prestigious university and have taught, done translating, and worked as a paralegal. The only one of those three that I have succeeded in was the translation. However, there is more demand for translation in Portuguese, SPanish, Cambodian, etc. here than for French and Italian. I don't feel I was of much service doing that anyway. As a paralegal I was awarded absolutely no appreiciation and was even emotionally abused a bit. I also play violin but unless you're a professional, there's not much work in that. I'm an advanced amateur and have played at weddings, funerals and nursing homes, but I don't have the training necessary to play for a professional orchestra like the philharmonic. My saving grace is that I'm married with great kids and a great husband who makes enough that I really don't have to work. I do, however, want to make an impact on the world which I haven't yet done. Maybe I'm chasing a silly dream.

am11699 · Jul 17, 2011

A 3.79 GPA is really good and you should get it , if not, you will definately get into the spring. August is the first application period for spring and they usually always have seats left over. Good luck.

violin9 · Jul 17, 2011

Thanks for your encouragement. I'm probably worrying needlessly. I will feel better, however, when I see it in black and while. I will try to just forget about it for a while. Let me know how you do. Take care and good luck!

violin9 · Jul 18, 2011

ok here it is July 18 and I still haven't heard. I called the Knight Campus nursing office who referred me to enrollment services. I gave enrollment services my student no. and social sec. number. They apparently looked me up and said no decisions was rendered yet. unbelievable.

violin9 · Jul 18, 2011

July 18 - still no answer from the June application period. Enrollment Services told me that a decision has not yet been made, after having looked me up with my student number. I don't know - here's hoping. The month is now half over.

am11699 · Jul 19, 2011

I just receivied an email from the person in charge at lincoln and she is now telling me that notifications will go out by the end of July. Grrrrrrr, this is so frustrating!

violin9 · Jul 19, 2011

After having called yesterday, July 18, I received an email late last night that rejected me from the Knight Program stating that their program was now full. I am going to appeal this. I have an excellent gpa, a degree from Georgetown university and great Accuplacer and TEAS scores. At this moment, I am waiting for 9 am to come so that I can take advantage of the walk-in appointments at advising and counseling on the Flanagan campus.

I am livid.

TonyR · Jul 19, 2011

Hi,

I am very interested to hear exactly what you were told at CCRI today. I also applied for the fall term and received a rejection email yesterday. I was dismayed to hear you were rejected since you have a better GPA than I do, which seems to suggest that my chances for the spring may not be good either. I too am an older student and I can't even think about waiting another 14 months just to start classes. I actually took my first prerequisite class (anatomy) in 2008, but allowed myself to be derailed when I accepted a job as an electronic tech with the USPS, (I was an engineer in a former life). After 2 years of working there (good pay/benefits, easy, extremely boring and unsatisfying, bad hours,) I decided to go back to CCRI. I have a good GPA 3.84 overall (but 3.65 for the day prerequisites). I got a B in that first anatomy class which seems to now be coming back to haunt me. I didn't take it over because it seemed to me that with so many of my classmates struggling and the rest of my grades being A, A- I thought I would be fine. I guess not.

What really disturbs me though is the extremely poor information (and misinformation) from CCRI. Perhaps some things were available and it may be argued that it is my fault that I did not understand everything sooner, but they really don't help much either. These are some of the things that I was unaware of and I had to "dig" to find out:

1. I have taken 9 other (science math) courses at CCRI, all grades A. I didn't realize the GPA they consider is only the prerequisites (not even the two required PSYCHs even though they are both ultimately required. I got an A in both).

2. I did not realize that the TEAS and Accuplacer are given no weight. I did extremely well in both (they will be considered in the future, but how much?)

3. I did not realize the June enrollment was for just for left over classes. Why do they do that anyway? Why award seats in Feb for fall? Why not simply take all the applicants from Feb through June and then award seats for fall? According to the admissions advisors I spoke with the ONLY deciding factor, assuming all prerequisites done, (up till now) is prerequisite GPA, one number. I'll bet with a simple program I could sort all the GPA's in descending order of all applications of all campuses myself, in 2 hours, but it took them over 2 weeks to tell me be someone had a higher GPA that me for 15 seats at one campus. Really? Why? And this begs another question. Why are there any seats left over anyway? They went from a two+ year wait list to not having enough qualified applicants to fill all the seats (in Feb) and now reject people with 3.79s? How can that be?

4. I did not realize that they only have enrollment at the 2 campuses in the spring (the ones that have the two evening campus in the fall).

5. I did not realize they offer evening classes at 2 rotating campuses in the fall only. This really hurt because I wasted an opportunity to retake anatomy this spring because I took the Psych instead. This was a waste because the only evening classes until the fall of 2012 were 5-6 seats in Newport. I live in Providence and wasn't planning on going to Newport. And for anyone who applied in Lincoln or Providence for fall, THERE WERE NO SEATS SO YOU HAD NO CHANCE! Actually I was told I could still apply and hope someone dropped and then hope I was the next candidate on the list. This brings me to my biggest issue. They do not provide any information about seat availability at any campus, but only allow you to apply to one (again, why do we have to apply per campus anyway? Why not one application for all campuses with an order preference on where you would prefer to attend? If you list Lincoln as a first choice and it is full and Providence is your next choice and there is a seat why shouldn't you get it? Instead it's sorry you choose wrong. Sure I live close to Lincoln, but I would travel to Newport if necessary, yes it would be inconvenient but, well, you know, it's only MY BEST HOPE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I think I could have lived with that. I was actually going to apply to Lincoln this fall but happen to track down Ruby (the nursing admissions person in Lincoln) with another question and she "happen" to tell me there were no seats left in Lincoln, and further more the only way to find out was to go to each campus, find the nursing admissions person and ask if there were any seats, which is what I had to do. As an aside, even thought I went to the orientation with Ruby in Lincoln and spoke to her a number of times over the last 3 years, she is definitely one of the least helpful (and almost snobby) and was the source of much of my confusion and lack of information. The nursing admissions person in Providence (his name escapes me at the moment) was extremely helpful and finally explained everything to me, unfortunately a bit too late.

6. Lastly, I feel sorry for all those who may not be the best students and think they are going to get in (without taking most of there classes 2-3 times for better grades). Why don't they publish statistics on the kinds of GPAs/grades students are getting to get in? I remember saying to Ruby once that I thought (at the time) my chances were decent because I thought I had a good GPA, to which she rather smugly remarked that she had 8 applicants with 4.0s.

I sadly also waited and lost a semester to let my daughter who is also perusing nursing catch up to me. We were taking classes together and I didn't want to miss a unique opportunity. But since she is really a B student so she decided her chances were not realistic, so she enrolled in St. Joseph's and starts next month. She was right but she probably didn't know how right.

I still don't get the admissions process. If you are not going to take life experience, test grades, other academic achievements, or anything else why is the process so cumbersome? What takes so long? It makes you wonder if there isn't something else in the process they don't tell or admit to. Are there seats saved to satisfy other agendas? For instance the demographics of Providence students and Newport students are clearly different. By not allowing a single application to cover all campuses may in practice "save" seats for applicants since some students with lower GPAs may get a seat based on a guess or choice of where to apply. I hope things like that are not true but something is clearly odd.

This has been a long and frustrating trip and I don't know how much more I can take. I am 51. I had better get in in the spring or this dream may be over for good.

auntyk · Jul 19, 2011

Dear Violin,

Having been in your position for the last 2 years,I feel your pain. After applying 3 times,with a 3.8 GPA I was finally accepted into the Knight program for Fall 2011. Each time I was rejected I felt more and more upset,confused and mad. Like you, I also marched myself down to the advising and counselling office in tears and demanded answers. It never got me anywhere.But this is what I DID learn in the process. You need to apply in the first tier of applications. ie: Feb 2,for Sept enrollment. The later application dates,June,August are only for left over seats. I woke up early last Feb and drove in a snowstorm to be one of the first applicants. When I arrived the actually TIME STAMPED my application. I asked if they had received any other applications and the woman told me that she has already received 31! Considering there are less than 50 or so seats available.You can understand why the June and August seats are very limited. I hope that I have shed some light on the CCRI application process. And that you feel a little better knowing that it is basicallyall in the timing . Do not get discouraged. If you want it bad enough, keep applying until you get in. Dont give. Keep the Faith.It will happen! Good luck to you!

am11699 · Jul 20, 2011

Now I am very infuriated. I apply in June for the fall at lincoln campus. Ruby was there and because CCRI lost my transcript she told me I needed to have it in immediately or she wouldn't even look at my application when she started reviewing them, which was going to be the next day. I rushed all the way to my former high school and rushed back with the transcript that day. Why did she make me go through all that if there were not any seats left, grrrrrr. I think maybe i will apply at St. Josephs come Feb.

violin9 · Jul 20, 2011

My sympathies with this. They are not very professional at ccri. My husband was convinced I was being discriminated against because of my age. I didn't get in. I got the email last night. I talked to a guy named Rob Giovino who didn't give me any satisfaction. He told me that every student who got accepted had a 4.0. Well excuse me! A 3.79 isn't good enough. I was thinking of St. Joseph too. You have to take another test like the TEAS. They won't accept the TEAS. $100 application fee, a few letters of reference. Chemistry is required too. Check their website and you'll see. good luck. You're young. You can do it. I'll apply again in August and then that's it. I can't take this anymore!