I am applying this summer for Spring 2011 admissions for COC. I know they choose their students based on 2 criteria. i wanted to know for those students who have been accepted, what were your stats. Do you have a prior degree? What was your GPA for your undergrad, and for your pre-reqs? Have you worked in a hospital? Their application has a section where you can mark off if you were a first generation college student, if you had emotional circumstances or economic challenges. How will that affect the applicant?
I know this other question should go under a different topic, but what is their nursing program like? i tried searching the classes for each semester to simulate what their class/clinical schedule would be like but I got confused with the "short term" classes and the different lectures for each class. Could anyone tell me what a typical week is for a nursing student at COC? where clinicals are practiced? When I was getting my training at COC for CNA we did Henry Mayo hospice.
Sorry, I know it's a lot of questions but i really want to get a picture of the future, lol. I'm getting old and wish to get my new career going. I've got a degree in Biology from MSMC that has really gotten me no where, and since I've always been interested in medicine and have had some experience as a CNA I think nursing is a great choice. I've spoken to my friends who graduated with me but they got their degree in Nursing, and they just love what they do. they have given me real facts on the pros and cons and this seems like the right move. Thank you for your imput. :-)
Well I have all my blood work/physical/health things and CPR done from my phlebotomy certification this past July... but I still haven't signed up for a fire class yet. Are you doing the one this coming Saturday? I tried calling last week and they were already full so I have to try to find one closer to Long Beach I think. Fingers crossed that about 30 or so people forget to turn in their packets on the 17th!!
I am doing my fire class this Saturday. It is good for 4 years so I will be good to go when ever I get in. The physical and blood work I will get done when needed. Yes, fingers and toes crossed that we hear something soon.
I was waiting for my husbands transfer to go through, but it just doesn't seem like it's going to take place and it's unfair to keep the alternates waiting since they need to do their requirements, thus I declined now rather than waiting and doing it later. I don't know if I mentioned but I've got a toddler at home and driving to the campus wasn't going to be an issue, it was the clinicals since I live in the Antelope Valley. Since my husband was going to get transferred up here, it was going to be okay for me to leave her and go to the clinicals, but since that just isn't going to happen I can't do it. :-( Seems like I'll have to wait till next fall and take my spot for the Antelope Valley Nursing Program. I believe in destiny,so it's not so bad since I know everything has its purpose. I really do hope you have a wonderful time in the COC nursing program and wish you the best. By the way, were you able to spot me out that day at orientation. I was the only one there of my kind, well at least dressed like that of my kind. lol.
I am sorry to hear that you had to decline your spot. Like you siad everything happens for a reason. I actually hear AVC nursing program is better then COC.
I actually wanted to ask you about AVC, when did you apply there? To get a Fall 2011 spot
I cant sit around and wait for a spot to open up at COC so I wanted to go up this week and apply at AVC.
Kurt-->thank you very much and I was the one wearing the head scarf, lol.
Five10fever--> Thank you. I have heard the AVC nursing program is really good, but of coorifice wont know till I try and even then won't be able to compare, lol, but I do love their schedule options.
I submitted my application the beginning of June 2010 (a week or so before semester ended, so got it in before the Spring semester batch of students who were finishing their last requirement did).
They told me then its a 3 semester wait, but sometimes things change, and you never know could be before that b/c when I spoke to the lady last time she told me my new wait # and that I was looking at Fall 2011.
Plus I won't have to take the test again since they will take my TEAS score from COC.
I didn't do all my pre-reqs there, and they don't care where you did them as long as they are the right ones. The Micro I did there was a 5 unit class, and the Human Physiology I did there, but the Anat I did at West LA College (saturday lecture n lab).
If u have all ur pre-reqs just mail in ur transcripts to the College, schedule a mtg with a counselor (its a pre-req) and he/she will give u a form clearing u so u can turn ur app to the nursing program. Ohhh, u have to turn transcripts to the Nursing program as well (like how COC does it now) but you can request them to come to you and I suggest you turn them all together with your application to make sure everything is in order. They have open enrollment, so you can turn the app any time.
I too didn't want to sit around and wait just in case COC didn't accept me, so thought it wouldnt hurt to just turn my app in and see what would happen. lol.
Do these things as soon as possible, so God willing you can get your stuff in before the semester ends and the new batch of students turn in theirs.
thanks for replying. i have been trying to get an appointment with a counselor and no one will return my call. i will just go there with my transcripts and hope for the best. when i called the nursing department a few weeks ago she said the waitlist was at spring of 2012 so it's a wait but a guaranteed spot which helps me sanity.
i have talked to a former coc nursing instructor and she said that if avc would have an opening she would take it there. i also worked with someone that was in the third semester at avc and he loved it. he was actually able to work fulltime and go to school. that impressed me because i am really worried about not having income when i am in school.
good luck and everything will work out for the best.
Yea, you know the only thing I hate about AVC nursing program, is the College Service itself. I want nothing to do with them, and I won't say more b/c I need to hold my tounge. lol. But the instructors are awesome and like you said I've heard the program is good.
I never leave them messages bc they never get returned, and during registration/pre-registration the counseling center goes crazy and they will take students waiting in line as priority to answering their phones. To schedule an appointment Via phone they tell you to call between the hours of such and such, but even if you do its impossible to get an appointment bc of those students in line who are physically present. Again, this is during the registration period. So if that's whats happening now, I suggest you go there personally.
This is what happened to me, and I had to go and wait in line at 7am in the morning (waiting outside in the cold bc they dont open till 8), only to get an appointment towards the end of June (tis y I had to turn my app so late in the semester). It's very chaotic how they operate in those offices (not the nursing proram, i mean the student services).
As for the transcripts, for the college to have them on record, I am not sure if its required that they be sent by the school from which you took the classes or if you can persnonally turned them in. But the nursing program itself, you can hand deliver them with your app.
Yes, it will be a wait, but you'll have your spot as long as you meet the pre-reqs, which I am sure you have. It's nice bc you'll know for sure you'll be in a program within a year or two. In the mean time you can just continue working, saving your money if you don't plan to work during school, or whatever it is you need or want to do. :-) Plus, I'll give you the heads up if I start the program before you :-)
skybmonkey: hi there, i just want to send a belated thank you for your reply re: the teas test info. i didn't get an email notification letting me know that someone actually responded to my last post (and i just logged in today), hence the late response. :) anyway, i will be sure to call the individual schools to get the info re: which teas version they will be administering. :)
by the way, i was reading your other posts on this thread, and you had mentioned that you have a 3 yr old toddler at home? so do i! i know it's a challenge to go to class when you have a little one. that's one of the reasons why i had to put off taking the rest of my pre-reqs for a semester and a summer! additionally, you mentioned you had taken an anatomy class w/a sat. class/lab @wla college??? i also took anatomy there on a sat & was curious if maybe you were in my class? :) well, i know you had to decline your spot at COC, but i'm sure your schedule will work out for the best (like you said, everything happens for a reason). i really do hope i get into that school (or any decent nursing school, at that). i have a rather unique situation when it comes to my academic background...so hopefully it will work out for everyone trying to get into a program. :)
once again, i wish you (and everyone on this site) the best!
Ohh wow, we've got lots in common. Yes, having my daughter is the reason why it's taken me 5 years to finally know I'm going somewhere, but it's worth it bc like with everything that I do, I put 110% into it. And with my child, well she is my priority in life, so you can imagine.
I took the Anat at West LA in Spring of 09, the instructor was (probably still is) Carrie.
As for the Teas Test info, lol, well I got more info on that. about a month ago or so I spoke to the lady from AVC in the nursing dept, and mentioned to her my concerned of them not accepting my scores for COC since the version was 3, and she told me no community college in California is administering the version 4, only 3. I thought, wait a minute but County nursing program is doing version 4, and they are but they are not a community college, they are just a school for La county. so hope that helps you too. ;-)
additionally, you mentioned you had taken an anatomy class w/a sat. class/lab @wla college??? i also took anatomy there on a sat & was curious if maybe you were in my class? :) well, i know you had to decline your spot at COC, but i'm sure your schedule will work out for the best (like you said, everything happens for a reason). i really do hope i get into that school (or any decent nursing school, at that). i have a rather unique situation when it comes to my academic background...so hopefully it will work out for everyone trying to get into a program. :)
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Well I have all my blood work/physical/health things and CPR done from my phlebotomy certification this past July... but I still haven't signed up for a fire class yet. Are you doing the one this coming Saturday? I tried calling last week and they were already full so I have to try to find one closer to Long Beach I think. Fingers crossed that about 30 or so people forget to turn in their packets on the 17th!!