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Hello everyone!! I have been doing my support courses for the last year and a half and I'm going to apply for the nursing program at Brookhaven this month. Though I'm not really stressing about it I am a little worried. This is my 3rd attempt at college and the first 2 times I did horrible!! Since I made the choice to go to nursing school in Summer of 2009, I've brought my GPA up from 1.76 to 3.0. And, all my grades in my support classes have been A's and B's except 1, Nursing Pathophysiology. I made a C in that class and it would have been a B if I had not made one mistake at the end of the course. So, my question is does anyone think that C in that class will hinder me much? If anyone can offer any insight it would be great. Thanks!!

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Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem - I've been taking my prereqs all over DCCCD, wherever that class is offered and fits my schedule! As long as you're taking exactly the same course or you get it approved by an advisor, I wouldn't worry about it.

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Thank u

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Thank alum for letting us know about the Mountain View program potentially starting back up! They are waiting on approval from the Texas Board of Nursing so they can start their own program in August, which is probably why the application deadline is so late. This is good for us because we will know long before then whether we were accepted to the Brookhaven program! They also use a different point system that is more about support classes and grades rather than HESI scores so that might help some people as well.

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How was the HESI test? I have to take it for the next application period and I have only taken the TEAS. Is it similar, hopefully easier!

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The HESI is not too bad, but the anatomy section can be difficult. If you study the evolve book for all the other sections (making sure to know all the standard to metric conversions for math!) then they are pretty easy. The anatomy you have to study more than just what is in the evolve book to do well. If I have to take it again I will buy a more in depth study guide for the anatomy section. I would say that the TEAS and HESI are close to the same, I made the same on both (when not including anatomy, which I wasn't required to take for the TEAS). I think the math is easier for the HESI if I'm remembering correctly.

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For the Hesi - A&P was the most difficult. They were basic questions - but if you don't know the answer you're screwed. I suggest using all our A&P notes in addition to the book. The math is really basic. I would say about 65% of the questions are ratios. If you still have your dosage calculations book the formulas are good to know (they aren't in the HESI book - but I saw them on the test). I didn't like the reading - just because I have ADD and I got really bored with it - so that was hard for me - just sitting through the boring stories.

For Mountain View - yea I was really excited about applying there and then the adviser told me I couldn't apply because my science courses were older than five years. Blah!

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Oh yea that stinks! I'm still hoping for Brookhaven though so I can be done sooner! :)

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so Mountainview doesnt accept you by the hesi score?? I tried looking online about MV nursing but there isnt much info yet... how does the "point" thing work yall are talking abt??

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I found it on the website but it took a lot of clicking around before I came to the page that tells you how they determine your amount of points. There the HESI isn't weighted near as heavily, 1 point for scores below 88 and 2 points for scores above 89 I believe. Here is the link:

http://www.mvc.dcccd.edu/Academics/acaddivisions/sape/nursing/Pages/AdminRanking.aspx

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thank u

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At Brookhaven: For Spring 2011, the lowest number was 31.75, and they only accepted 40. For the fall they may accept 60 which may bring the number down a little bit, but I would bet money that you need to have at least a 30.5, maybe 31. There are hundreds of applicants that apply in the fall and many with point differences in the hundredths. They then go into a tie breaker, which is usually how many support courses you have done. Last year they were only going to take 40, then decided after they accepted the 40 to let 20 more in. That extra 20 only brought the point range down by 1! And every year the average increases a little more with more people coming prepared with support classes.

I am in my first semester, and applied 3 times, so I have followed the trend pretty well!

Good luck to all!

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u had to applied 3 times?? wow, long wait huh?? so how many times can u apply in a year? only one or both semesters??

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