Alternate List for RCC

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hello all,

this is my first post but i've looked around on this site many times before joining. i have found it to be very helpful so thank you.

so i have applied to 7 nursing schools for this fall 2010. on a waitlist for valley, and denied at two other schools (i didn't know that cod doesn't accept you if you repeated a science class). i just received my alternate/standy email yesterday from rcc. i am really excited about it but also really nervous about it. i know it is a very good school, but very hard as well which is ok because i want to be a great nurse.

my question is... what are the odds that i will actually get to be in the program if i am on the alternate list?

i hope i get in, it's all i've ever wanted to do.

thank you!

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I am also on Valleys wait list as #122 and on Rcc's fall 2010 alternate list. I was in rcc's program before and had to leave it for personal reasons, so i am sure an alternate picked up my spot. My email says i am close to the top of the alternate list so i just have my fingers crossed.

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Congrats!

My email said the same about being at the top of the list but when I went and spoke with him, he said they all say the same and that I am actually in the middle. Totally bummed me out :(

I hope you have a better chance.

Your number is pretty close at Valley too so thats good news! My number is far away. Ugh!

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Well i wen't from #234 to #122 in one semester when i know they only take 50 a semester so that means people are droping off the list or getting into other programs. If i do not get into rcc this fall i am pretty sure i will be starting at valley by next fall. I need to go into the nusing departmrnt at rcc and ask where i am on the list because i really need to know how prepared should i really be to start this fall because from previously being in the program i know there is alot of things that need to be done before the program actually starts.

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Exactly! From back ground checks to immunizations along with other random stuff. He said to save money for all of that. Are you going to the meeting on June 15th? Did you get to take a few quarters at RCC or you never began the program? I'm actually really scared but excited at the same time. I took all my pre-reqs at RCC then re-took A&P at CSUSB. RCC's classes were so much harder! You'd think it would've been opposite.

As for Valley, that's awesome by how much you moved up! My friend moved up the list fast as well and starts this fall... Lucky!

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Yeah it is going to be alot of money up front about 1,500 to 2,000 dollars. Something that they did not tell us at the orientation when i was in the program in spring 09 was that we were going to have to spend an extra 400.00 dollars by the second week of school on ATI books needed for the N-Clex test, which we use through the semester. These ATI books are very helpful, but they basically just told us the first day of class so buy a 400.00 set of books by next week after we had just got done spending over 1,000 for our text books and everything else. I am going to the metting on June 15th. I was actually in the first semester and did not make it through. I had a baby right in the middle of the first semester of the program. It is a good program, but alot of work so be ready. It's nothing like all of the other classes taken it's a program that you have to stay in line with what they say, but it will pay off in the end.

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OMG $2,000?!? That's alot more than I thought :( Thank you for the heads up! Man I feel bad for the people who can't come up with the money. That's so sad.

I'm sure it's really hard, but it'll be worth it in the end. I've been trying to get in a program forever, so i'll do whatever it takes.

Congrats on your baby! That's exciting!

Well maybe we can meet up at the meeting and keep out fingers crossed together! :)

Thank you again for all the info. It really helps!

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