Coastal bend college- lvn and RN bridge May 2018

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Hello!!

I've searched this forum 100 times and there is so little(last thing I found was 2012&2016) about CBC I thought I would share my experience so far. I've applied for the LVN program and plan to bridge to the ADN later.

The application was really easy, the TEAS exam needs to be taken on campus at one of cbc's four location. I previously took it at a campus in San Antonio and received an 82, cbc had me take it again and I scored a 78. I was told a 78 is very competitive for the LVN program (requires a minimal 55, minimal 70 for bridge later). Once I scored high enough on the exam I was granted the application and turned it in a few days later after gathering my transcripts.

The deadline was Feb 14, 2018 and I've been informed the committee will meet the first week of March to make decisions and mail out letters. The program is planning to take 40 candidates(at the campus I plan to attend) according to a pretty good source. After that supplemental items(vax record/physical etc) are due within a few weeks. School will be starting the third or fourth week of May(I'm still not clear on this) and will be Monday-Thursday 8-5 with clinicals included for a year with the exception of school holidays. There may be online work on Fridays or evening/weekend clinicals as things advance to get all experiences needed.

The bridge program doesn't have much information out but requires stanrdard prereqs (A&P 1/2, micro, comp 1, psych, g&d etc) then two semsters of online course work with clinicals.

Since CBC is a small college (5k students across 4 campuses I believe) the start dates aren't consistent. It seems LVN programs usually start once per year in May or August and the bridge has a fall start or Spring start depending on the campus.

That is most of my current info for anyone looking like I was! If you're a current or former student and would like to add extra info or share insight, please do. I know the program has been under speculation in the past so please no bashing. I plan to try and make the best of everything because this is the best fit for my family currently.

Hope to hear from other applicants soon!

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did you get accepted? i am interested in applying at this school.

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I did get accepted. I declined the offer because we recently found out we are expecting a third little one and there is limited financing options for me. I already have a bachelor's degree so I was limited to private loans and didn't want to take the leap with the things I've been following about the program. They have cut down the full time staff and took in a lot more students to increase grant money without increasing staff. There are also talks of restarting the direct RN program soon and not making students take the extra lvn hours then bridge like they require now. There have been a lot of people reporting things to the board of nursing apparently so I don't know if that will ever actually happen. You can read about all the updates on a Facebook page called "rebuild coastal bend college". My plan is to monitor how things play out and reapply in a year if things get organized. Hopefully they can get the direct RN program up and running by then.

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Wow! ..i just read the FB posts about CBC, thanks for replying with this info, I will definitely reconsider a different nursing school, CBC is crazy

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New things:

Cbc seems to be working really hard to get things together, they have new staff and a director. They've also restarted their generic rn program at the Beeville campus that is 4 semesters with two days a week for core classes and two days for rn specific... Then a clinical day to my understanding. The teas requirements are the same. There is also an evening LVN class starting at the Pleasanton campus, three days a week 530-930p with Saturday clinical for 4 semesters.

The programs have both accepted their fall 2018 cohorts but will be accepting for fall 2019 beginning in the spring. The website should be updated soon but calling directly to the nursing program yields a great deal of quality information.

All in all there still seems to be some political turmoil rumbling around at Cbc but it seems they are making great strides to respond appropriately and do their best to help students.

Hope this helps someone!

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Hello, I would love to hear any recent experiences. For the LVN-RN at coastal bend preferably the Pleasanton campus. I'm thinking of applying next Spring. There's not much of reviews.

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