Application Process Changing?

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Hi everyone! This is my first posting here at this forum after being a lurker for a while. Anyway, I'll get down to my first issue so far I've had with the nursing school process...I had been looking forward to applying for the RN program at my college this past Feb 1, and was disappointed when I had read the notice on my school's nursing website that nursing applications had been delayed due to the need of revising the process to meet federal standards. They were very vague with details (website is here http://www.deltacollege.edu/div/hs/adnhome.html) and now I'm freaking out thinking that they're probably going to add more prerequisites or make the process harder...which is really disheartening because I have worked so hard this past year and a half to get this far!! I've looked at other local community colleges and one so far has listed that they cut their application dates from two times a year (spring and fall) to only once a year (spring). I'm not sure if this is all due to a failing economy, resulting in an influx of people wanting to go back to school, especially for RN. So, my question is, what do you all think? Should I not be worried? Or just deal with the consequences of being a disadvantaged student who always has bad timing? (lol)

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Fretting over it is not going to change anything but make you unhappy. If you can not manage to apply under the old rules, just resign yourself to having to deal with the new criteria, whatever they may be. Normally whenever anything changes it becomes harder or more cumbersome in some manner, so I would expect the worst and maybe you will be pleasantly surprised.

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A little Googling suggests this is more likely what the school is reacting to:

San Joaquin Delta College slid one step closer to losing its accreditation this week when a peer review commission placed the school on probation.

"That Delta was placed on probation signals that the commission has become much stricter because of pressure from the federal government to keep schools in line with accrediting standards, Delta President Raul Rodriguez wrote in an e-mail to school employees last week."

Federal laws usually don't address admission standards in terms of academic pre-requisites. They're usually aimed at things like racial quotas or financial aid.

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A little Googling suggests this is more likely what the school is reacting to:

San Joaquin Delta College slid one step closer to losing its accreditation this week when a peer review commission placed the school on probation.

"That Delta was placed on probation signals that the commission has become much stricter because of pressure from the federal government to keep schools in line with accrediting standards, Delta President Raul Rodriguez wrote in an e-mail to school employees last week."

Federal laws usually don't address admission standards in terms of academic pre-requisites. They're usually aimed at things like racial quotas or financial aid.

This type of info known beforehand would cause me to give serious thought to putting my interests elsewhere. I went to a school that went through gyrations about "equal opportunity" and the students who had nothing to do with the problem suffered because of it. Best to avoid institutional problems. Nursing students have it hard enough as it is.

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That makes much more sense...I didn't know my school is on probation. Sheesh. And I've been told numerous times Delta has one of the best nursing programs in the area. There would definitely be an outrage if my school lost its accreditation...I'm assuming students course credits would become worthless.

Also, I've known that the school's administration has been in hostile grounds with the teachers, over pay and other things. The administration had been accused of distributing funds unfairly and poorly (such as pay increases within the administration staff) So I'm sure it has a lot to do with that as well.

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I didn't mean to suggest that equal opportunity or financial aid is an issue here, only that federal laws don't address things like pre-reqs.

I agree, though, that the school's situation would give me pause. Should the school lose accreditation, students would have problems getting into graduation programs that demand prior education from accredited programs only. Even if the OP doesn't think that's something to worry about now, it's best to preserve all options for the future.

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