BCIT January 2017

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Just wanted to start a group for students applying for the BCIT January program!

Hi Twinkyswirl, I'm exactly in the same case as you, did you have your question answered??????

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They say right on their website that midterm grades are not accepted for foundation courses.

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If you have questions specific to the program, I encourage you to email the department as many people who use this forum are students not yet in the institution/without much info they can offer you.

I've mustered up the courage to email them about the ranking system just to be able to pass that knowledge off to my students (i'm a post secondary mentor) :)

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Hi,

Has anyone been emailed a "Top Priority Holdlist"? As in top of the top 10.. not just a general top 10.

Also, has anyone on the waitlist been contacted yet?

Thanks!

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Question on the immunization review form

It says that we can email in the form but we nee to fill out a required consent and add that as an attachment to the email?

Does anyone know where is the consent form?

Thanks in advance!

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I think it's on d2l

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Hello everyone,

I'm having issue with my criminal record check application, the online process won't request the check for me and i have to do it manually, such as that i have to print out the form and go to bcit and then mail it to the government.

I'm wondering if anyone else is encountering the problem?

I will be calling BCIT tomorrow to double check ( pray that it will work). Just wondering if anyone online right now knows about it or is having the same problem.

Thanks in advance!

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Has anyone on this thread been accepted FROM the waitlist?

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Hey guys. I emailed a BCIT advisor about how they rank the applications. Here's what they said:

Applicants are ranked on a point system in the application review. Highest points to academics, second to work experience, and third to completion of LIBS 7001/7002

No points are actually awarded for volunteer experience, however, this is what sets applicants apart at the end.

· Applicants are first prioritized based upon academic qualifications. Short listed candidates require a minimum 1 year of post-secondary education or more depending upon the application pool. Recent short-listed applicants have had 45 to 60 credits of post-secondary study completed at time of application. LIBS 7001 and LIBS 7002 can be taken in advance.

  • Those with related work experience such as, care aides, paramedics and LPN's will be given highest ranking, second to medical assistants, third to life guards.

  • GPA of short-listed applicants is taken into consideration (no specific GPA requirement, but students with poor transcripts will not be short-listed)

  • Having a degree or large number of post-secondary credits does not guarantee acceptance. The department is looking for a student who fulfills the minimum entrance requirements, post-secondary requirements, related work experience & related volunteer experience.

Successful Applicant Profile:

  • Communicates effectively: Applicants must be fluent in written and oral English.Students begin clinical in week 2, must be able to communicate in a large setting and take leadership of a team to communicate demands
  • Mature, able to handle high degree of responsibility
  • Leadership skills (takes initiative, problem solver)
  • Assertive (due to responsibilities in hospital; the need to communicate with patients, families and health care professions; and the PBL strategy, passive students often have difficulty in program)
  • Team player
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Professional
  • Compassionate/empathetic
  • Understanding of shift work, being on your feet for long periods of time, loud and fast moving environment
  • Have had volunteer or related work experience
  • Understand the program and PBL (problem based learning)
  • Math Skills: Review basic math skills such as: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and decimals, ratio and proportion and have the ability to solve word problems.

I hope that helps any future applicants!! :)

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Hi baiyujen,

I was also having troubles with the online criminal record check. If you answer the identity verification questions wrong two times, the system locks you out for 72 hours. You have another two chances after 72 hours to try again, etc.

For the online check to work, you have to meet those requirements on the website like having lived in Canada for x amount of time and have had a bank account and so on.

The questions were all related to my credit card and one was asking about my account balance. I called them, and it turns out the reason I kept answering the question wrong was because it was asking the balance of my last monthly statement, not my current balance. So watch out for that one.

I did finally get it to work, hopefully you can too :)

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Hello Nina35,

Thank you so much! I called them and they said it was website connection error. I have resubmitted it today and it worked!

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I am sorry for the late reply,

first time was actually to UBC I applied for September 2016 Cycle.

- Number of credits - 90

- sorry dont know what you mean by gap

- volunteer/work experience - nothing health related, but some work experience as a research assistant at a psych lab at UBC, community policing centre volunteer about a year

- average around A-

Second time was actually my first time applying to BCIT (for Jan 2017)

- number of credits: over 120. Obtained Bachelor's already.

- volunteer/work experience: same as last time. I was pregnant and sick the whole year so didn't or couldn' do much other than full-time studying.

- marks were A+ for anatomy and physiology and As and B+s for everything else.

To be really frank I believe I had a much higher chance at BCIT as BCIT doesn't necessarily require your volunteer experience as part of your application. It is just my personal opinion though.

If you have good scores for the pre-reqs and don't have much work/volunteer experience, I would say your best bet is Langara because they only look at the grades :)

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