Anyone starting UCC / Trinitas program - Jan. 2010?

Hi

I'm also enrolled in the Trinitas nursing program and I'm waiting to receive an invite to take nure 130. I'm hoping I'll be able to take nure 130 in january. I'm taking A&P 2, Chem 105 and Soc 101 in January. The only tip I have for you is don't take on more than you can handle and you should be fine. Good luck

Hi

I'm also enrolled in the Trinitas nursing program and I'm waiting to receive an invite to take nure 130. I'm hoping I'll be able to take nure 130 in january. I'm taking A&P 2, Chem 105 and Soc 101 in January. The only tip I have for you is don't take on more than you can handle and you should be fine. Good luck

Thanks! Good luck to you in starting Nur130 :)

Have you taken Intro to A&P? Is it needed? I know that its an online class you those who have not had science in a while. Would it help much to take Intro to A&P before A&P1, or I could just jump right into A&PI? Any comments pls let me know.

Just a tip guys... if you have a lot of pre-reqs to take get them done first... because once u start it's no joke. And there is no stopping. I just finished 131 and had a 4.0 average before I started the actual nursing classes. It took alot to get a B in this class. And I took it alone. Remember your science courses will be like 2 seperate classes on top of all the reading for nursing, it's nuts. If you got an invitation letter you might be better off gettig the other pre reqs done and waiting the semester. I didn't and had to take micro and a&p II over the summer. Good luck guys!

I hope Im not getting ahead of myself here but if you are considering rn-bsn take statistics (mat127) as soon as you can during the summer and get it over with. im in the rn-bsn program at CSE and there are so many people struggling with completing stats because now they are working and having families and as we all know math class can be time consuming and challenging. so good luck, trinitas is challenging but it will prepare you well for the boards.

I hope Im not getting ahead of myself here but if you are considering rn-bsn take statistics (mat127) as soon as you can during the summer and get it over with. im in the rn-bsn program at CSE and there are so many people struggling with completing stats because now they are working and having families and as we all know math class can be time consuming and challenging. so good luck, trinitas is challenging but it will prepare you well for the boards.

Hi! Thanks for the advice! It's funny - it comes at a good time. I was researching nursing programs to consider once I have my RN (which will take long enough!), and I realized they all require stats. I took stats in college, but that was too long ago to get the credit now So I was thinking I really should take stats next summer by itself. I definitely agree with you - wth family responsibilities and everything else, much better to take this by itself when I can focus. This summer I am taking AP II . .

Thanks for responding to my post. Forgive me, but what school is CSE? - drawing a blank . . .

What were your gpa's upon being accepted to trinitas?

this is a run down of getting into trinitas nure 130. i just had the first class this monday, jan of 2011. it's great to finally be in and doing it. 5 more semesters and i can move on with my life. the process was a little confusing and none of the counselors seemed to know anything, except one. this post is a little longer so folks can see what was involved and get their questions answered.

talk to janet rocco at the plainfield campus. she is the only really nursing-school-competent counselor at the entire college. no lie. i got little help from any other counselor and even have a friend who was guided into a couple useless classes for her major and has to take 2 extra semesters to make up for it. double check everything a counselor tells you to make sure its correct. assume they are all probably wrong and you'll be better off. janet is really passionate about students and very competent. probably too much for her own health but it helped me so i won't complain.

trinitas, a diploma school, lets ucc do all the screening and admissions. there is no interview or pleading letter to get in, lying about your devotion to nearly dead people and how you like wiping adults' butts. i didn't go to muhlenberg because i heard the trinitas program is easier for the working adult student by having more night and weekend classes. my class is monday from 6pm to 10pm so this has been true so far. to be considered for the school, you have to declare nursing as your major. having nursing as your major will cost you about $500 extra per semester, even if you never get accepted. there is a point system to get in. it works this way:

gpa + 1 point per 3 credits earned at ucc +2 for nj residents

how many points do you need to get the invitation letter? no one knows but those sending them out. there are 230 seats in the opening class nure 130 and about 60 graduates at the end. to fill the class, i've been told about 600 consideration letter letters are sent to those with the highest points.

when i got the letter i had 4+5.7+2=11.7 points. (i had 17 credits divided by 3) i'm guessing the 10-15 point range is where we're at right now. janet rocco says this points amount will go up or down depending on the backlog of students. only the top 500-600 get consideration letters, then of those that reply a smaller amount get registration invitation letter, and only 230 get a seat on registration day. when you register, you go at different times of the day. the earlier in the day you register, the more likely you are to get the schedule you want and even a seat, since more are invited to register than there are spaces for. you are assigned a registration time and it looks like it is all points based. highest points go at 9am, second highest at 11am and so on. you are also given a registration number so there is no cutting lines during your time slot. my high gpa did not get me into an earlier registration time. i was assigned 11am as my registration time, #33 as my registration number, and my gpa is 4.0.

many don't respond and want to wait another semester and many don't make the final point cut to get into the program. i've never heard of someone putting nure 130 off a semester to take bio 106 or 108 and then not get in the next semester. it seems they always do if they keep their grades up, but i don't know that for sure. also, since nure 130 has a larger drop out/failure rate, last year there was a summer 1 and summer 2 nure 130 offered to help fill nure 131 in the fall. it may happen again this year. janet rocco says it probably will. my nurse instructors say it was a fiasco and they aren't sure if they will do it again. money will probably make them do it, if they can. they want to get as many in to nure 131 as possible. more that can get into nure 131, big dollars for sure for them.

it seems the big bottle neck right now is the typing class (adm 110) they are requiring by jan 2012. i took it because they said it was a pre-req. for jan 2011 but that wasn't true. this was a horribly boring class that i wish they would just allow us to test out of it. i would've paid the full tuition even if i could've gotten out of the class. i kissed a lot of saturday afternoons goodbye for this one. take this class. don't let it hold you back.

last summer i was told by another student who had just gotten her consideration letter that she heard if you take chem 105, you'll get flagged for the program a little sooner. so i changed my fall 2010 semester from bio 108 to chem 105 and i did get a letter. however, a girl who sits next to me in class hasn't taken bio 106 or chem 105 yet and she got in too. so the chem 105 rumor is probably just a rumor. (she's doing nure 130, bio106 and chem 105 all this semester!!!! i would blow my brains out.) i don't know her point standing but i think it is similar to mine. she started last jan, like me, but took the summer off. i clep'd eng 101 and she didn't.

my gpa is 4.0. i don't think this helped me get a letter other than for the points themselves, but i don't know for sure. i got an 89.8% in bert atsma's summer1 a&p1 and 88.9% in prof sands' summer2 a&p2 but they both gave me the "a". very cool of them. i talked with them a little after class about questions i thought of during class and complimented them on their teaching style or dealing with unruly students (i was genuine). i think this helped. i really liked atsma's way of teaching. intellectual, visual, had great notes prepared and kept the class moving along. he'll tell you "sorry if you don't pass. this is the summer session and it's a tough class. that's all there is to it." i did not like sands way. she told too many stories. the girls in the class really liked her and her style. the stories helped them remember the kinds of pathogens and diseases, though i found it boring especially at 10:10pm after hours of listening. she is a very informed intelligent person and i like her as a person. both took no sass from anyone, which i liked. shut up and listen or get out. we need to show some maturity as medical professionals. just over 50% passed either class. 32-35 per class out of 60. there were 8 a's and 7 a's in those 2 classes respectively. starting at 60 students in each there were 8 boys and 9 boys respectively. only about 4 boys left in each by the end. there are 13 men out of 70 total in my nure 130 class.

if you graduate with b+ average, trinitas offers a scholarship for your last semester. i think the kellog benefactor for whom the kellog building is named is the originator of the scholarship.

i would probably have taken the chem classes allowing one to go for the bsn later, chem 113 and 114 i think. that's the only thing i would've done different. i will have to take them next summer if i can. good luck every one. hope this has been helpful.

Thanks for the informative information. I just registered today ( chem113/Math127stats=8 credits)I basically completed everything AP1/AP2,Micro,CHem for Health,tro Psy/Lifespan,Sociology,computer.I figured to take chem113/Math127 to get my GPA counted because I took all the prereq. from Middlesex County College. Anyone have the same situation and got invited to Nursing 130? I'm quoted as "EGHN".

Remember, the UCC to Trinitas acceptance system will only give you points for courses you took at UCC.