Bellevue College 2012 hopefuls

margritamix · Mar 7, 2012

Thanks guys for the replies!

So from BC's website it says that the people who are qualified will take the Compass E-write, so I am assuming that we would have to be told if we are accepted or not before we have to worry about taking this E-write deal.

Also, please post on this thread if you have received any news about if you got into the program or not (so we can all celebrate or commiserate with you, although I do hope we all celebrate )

downton · Mar 7, 2012

Did anyone make it to the info session today?

Fishgirl1983 · Mar 7, 2012

I didn't get a chance to, work got in the way :madface: ......I doubt that they have the averages of the scores yet, but perhaps they do? I don't really want to annoy them with phone calls, but it sure is tempting! April seems far away

rnjenn14 · Mar 7, 2012

i just wanted to respond to margritamix's comment (below) about the two percentile scores on the teas... one is "national" and one is "program". the "national" percentile is your percentile among everyone who has taken the teas. the "program" percentile is your percentile among everyone who has taken the teas for the same type of program. it is not specific to the bellevue college program, but rather to any 2 year adn program, as opposed to a bsn program or a lpn program. when you filled out the application to take the teas, it asked for that information.

i am also very happy to see people joining our discussion! hi everyone! i hope we all get to meet at orientation!!! :w00t:

jenn

mar 4 by margritamix mar 4 by margritamix a member since jun '11 - from 'seattle,wa'. posts: 55 likes: 2

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hello everyone!

i am so glad that more people have responded to this thread :)

to answer some questions, i have been looking at my score report from my last teas test and there are two percentile scores: one of them is for bellevue college specifically and one of them is for nationally.

Fishgirl1983 · Mar 7, 2012

just out of curiosity rnjenn….what was your percentile? since your score was so high it would be interesting to know! did you hit the 100^th?!

margritamix · Mar 7, 2012

Ha ha, my bad!

Thanks rnjenn for correcting me :) but yeah, since you got a pretty high raw score, are you part of the 99th percentile?

rnjenn14 · Mar 8, 2012

I had interpreted the national and program scores to mean the same thing as you... I can't remember who, but someone explained it to me so I thought I would just pass the info along.

My scores were 99th percentile. :)

downton · Mar 8, 2012

Does anyone know why it takes so long for them to determine who is accepted? I mean, it's based on a single score, so I don't understand why it takes near two months for acceptance letters to get mailed out.

margritamix · Mar 8, 2012

Agree. You'd think by now they will know who have been accepted into the program or not especially since they're only basing it on TEAS scores. Oh well, a few more weeks to go.

Did you guys apply anywhere else or is Bellevue your top choice?

downton · Mar 8, 2012

I'm counting on Bellevue. I think my score should be enough to get in. I looked into Seattle Central, but kept getting the run around regarding questions about credits, etc. I went to an info session and the woman running it could barely answer any questions, and kept telling us to email the department. (I did, and never got a reply.) I guess that left a bad taste in my mouth, because I haven't made much of an effort towards my application there.

Meanwhile, everything at Bellevue seemed to go so smoothly. Prompt email replies, excellent answers during info sessions, loads of help with the application --- everything feels much more organized and straight forward.

margritamix · Mar 10, 2012

Yeah, I heard that Seattle Central had some organization problems within their RN program as well.

Now all we can do is wait and hope we all get in :)

CyndyRD · Mar 10, 2012

Hi,

Is anyone doing the CNA program at BC this spring?

I am in hopes that I also get into the nursing program!

Cynthia