BCIT January 2014 Applicants

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Hi guys,

I thought that now would be an appropriate time to start a new topic for the prospective BCIT nursing students for Jan 2014 (similar threads for previous intakes are also a great source of information).

Hopefully we can share tips, answer questions to the best of our ability, and communicate with each other about when status changes are released and whatnot. Now we can all play the waiting game together, haha! ;)

The August 2013 intake didn't have a time limit but the January 2014 intake does. It explicitly states in the instructions that as soon as you begin the questionnaire, you will have 90 minutes to complete i.e. you cannot stop and save in the middle. I'm sure the admissions staff wanted our answered to be as spontaneous and as "fresh" as possible.

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Does anyone know how many people applied and how many were short-listed? I think I recall last intake being somewhere around 500/200.. I'm assuming the number of applicants has significantly decreased this time around what with the changes in prerequisites for Jan 2014..

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Specializes in Emergency.

^ There were at least 700+ applicants for the August 2013 intake and you're probably right, the number of applicants should have gone down with the updated pre-reqs... I'm not too sure about the numbers of short-listed applicants though.

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I was one of 176 applicants short-listed for the August 2013 intake. It seems like a ton of people, but I believe they take about

98 students?

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I think it's 96?

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96 but there will also be people that deferred. My class has around 90 I believe. You also have to pass the first 6 weeks to continue. I think we had over 700 applicants and they shortlisted 176 - it should say in your letter!

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Ohh so the number of people that have deferred has no bearing on the number of seats available? It's always 96 plus the deferred students?

Can I ask how you're finding the course work? Are classes pass/fail? What determines whether or not you make it past the 6 week mark? Exams?

I'm sorry for bombarding you with questions haha I just feel so in the dark about everything. Does anyone else feel like the time between getting notified of acceptance and beginning of class is so short? Assuming we find out late October, that just leaves a little over two months to absorb everything and get all our ducks in a row!

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@Caroline1991 I feel the same way!! It seems like it's all going to happen so quickly and that we're kind of kept in the dark about everything until we're accepted. There's some stuff that I would really like to know now!

Also, just completed the questionnaire. It wasn't that bad. As stated before they're slightly situation related but more open ended. They just want to know about professionalism, leadership, self-wellness, and interpersonal skills which makes sense because they all directly relate to nursing. As long as you have an example for each of those you should be set to answer it. If you think you exemplify all of those and would be a good nurse then you shouldn't have any problems. Only problem that I had was trying to keep them within the word limit. I definitely went over a few times and I'm really hoping they don't get upset over that. 250 words just isn't that long to fully describe a good example!

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Specializes in Emergency.

I agree with @Caroline1991, 2 months is a relatively short time frame to get all of your clinical and course supplies, paperwork, and whatnot ready. For those of us who are full-time students we're also going to be busy with December exams and then we'd have to take care of the whole transferring out process... FUN.

Anyways as for the classes, I attended a UFV nursing info session last week and I assume their grading system is similar to other nursing schools: theory classes are graded but clinicals are not (i.e., they're pass/fail) since it'd be too difficult to determine whether a student should receive say, a 75% or a 76%. Someone correct me if this isn't the case for BCIT though!

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The first 6 weeks is clinical assessment (a course) and if you don't pass that then you cant continue in level one clinical ( id say almost everyone passes maybe 3 didn't) . Assessment is a pass/ fail course. I would imagine there are still 96 seats because people will defer from january to august and even it out. I really like the program - you just have no time to do anything else. It is extremely BUSY. Also look into PBL ( Problem Based Learning) and see if it fits with your learning style as you will be doing it for two years.

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^^thank you so much for the reply! Okay I'm a little reassured that only ~3 people didn't pass haha

I just had another question (I really hope you don't mind me asking!) but in terms of the hospital that you're placed at, is it done randomly? Or do they try to place you near where you live?

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For Level 1 its the closest one to you where you live.. then its random for the next 5 levels.

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