Centennial College Flex RPN Winter 2018

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Hi All!!!

I've been accepted and will be starting the Practical Nursing Flex Program at Centennial College in January 2018. Just wanted to know if anyone else has been accepted into the program or if any past/current students have useful tips.

Specializes in esthetics.
24 minutes ago, kim1l said:

Flex runs through the Summer while the full time students gets summers off. Running through the Summer is how they’re able to finish the same time as the full time path.

thanks. I guess what I'm confused about is that the non-flex path would only have 1 semester off after the first two (aka their Summer) right, so in total they'd take 5 semesters to graduate so is what would be their "second Summer" after their 3rd & 4th semester where that 6th semester in the flex program comes from?

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Specializes in esthetics.
On 5/3/2020 at 4:40 PM, kim1l said:

Flex runs through the Summer while the full time students gets summers off. Running through the Summer is how they’re able to finish the same time as the full time path.

On 4/12/2020 at 11:42 PM, kitkat4025 said:

There are total of 6 semesters for Flex. It is manageable in the beginning of the program. I work full time and found it to be manageable during Semester 1A, 1B, 2A. For Semester 2B, this is where you start the first clinical placement. It will be 2 days per week (in my case, it was on Tue/Wed, 7hrs per day). My work was kind enough to let me attend clinical placement during the week and I can make up my hours as soon as I'm done the shift. It gets stressful and school work will pile up. So it is important to keep up with readings. In my experience, Flex works well for me because I would not be able to handle the amount of school work each semester and working almost 60hrs per week. As kim1l mentioned, it really depends on your situation and how much you think you can handle. Hope this helps.

I wish the semester structure was more clear on the college's website but since it isn't I would just like to ask why are semesters 1 & 2 broken down into 1A/B & 2A/B but the 3rd and 4th semesters aren't? sorry to be a bother but I'd appreciate the help as I'm just trying to figure out how the 6 semesters are set up in comparison to the 4 semester PN program.

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1 hour ago, Nurse1stPurse2nd said:

I wish the semester structure was more clear on the college's website but since it isn't I would just like to ask why are semesters 1 & 2 broken down into 1A/B & 2A/B but the 3rd and 4th semesters aren't? sorry to be a bother but I'd appreciate the help as I'm just trying to figure out how the 6 semesters are set up in comparison to the 4 semester PN program.

Fourth semester, the final semester (6th semester in Flex) is consolidation (pre-grad clinical) so that cannot be broken up into 2 semesters. Therefore 3rd semester (5th semester in Flex) also isn’t broken up.

Yeah the website doesn’t make it clear but basically full time students take approx 5-7 classes per semester while Flex takes approx 3-4. That’s all it is. It’s meant to be Flex(ible) so less course work if that’s your preference or if that’s what your lifestyle calls for.

I’ll give an example of when I took the program full time.
January-April semester 1 (full time)-5-7classes
January-April semester 1A (flex)-3-4classes

May-August (full time)-no school

May-August semester 1B (flex)-the remaining classes you didn’t take from January-April

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Hey! 

I know I’m late but what average did you guys get accepted with? Looking to apply in May 2021 ?

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