Community College programs in California

In general, yes. Some CSU schools may have some odd class that meets their prerequisite requirements but isn't transferable., but for the most part, it is standardized. Look at the course catalog - if a course is marked with CAN, chances are it fits. For example, Anatomy/Physiology should be marked CAN 10 and 12 and together fulfill CAN BIOL SEQ B, and Psychology is marked CAN PSY 2. Courses not marked with the CAN designation may be transferable too, but you should double check on those.

It's an acronym for California Articulation Number. http://www.cansystem.org/ has more info on it.

Hi U all I'm an MA. I went to a Commutity College to get info about becoming RN. They told me that i first have to become LVN and brige to RN. To be LVN is about 28 grands. My question is Does anybody know about a Community college in Southern California by the San Fernando Valley.? Because when i went to this Community College the person that interviewed me was so negative and Rude with my friend, i don't know if is true or not, but my friend want to be RN too. She told my friend that she need to be MA first then LVN Then bridge to RN. She mainly told my friend that she would not make it to LVN that she will fail because she is not educated. My friend and i walked out from there very dissapointed. Now I want to find another Community College and a positive councelor. If anydody have any info on this please advice if what she said is true or not.

My question is Does anybody know about a Community college in Southern California by the San Fernando Valley.?

well you can try Citrus college in glendora or Mt SAC in walnut or

you can do Chaffey Callege or Pasadena City College and then there is Rio Hondo too. hope this helps

Thank you so much but those are very far away. I live between Northridge and Woodland Hills. the only one that i know is Concorde but that's were i went to get info. But if anybody or you might know of another one please let us know. Thank You

have you tried a cal state or uc? or even a private and can live on campus?

Yes, i'm going to Pierce college now but it's taking me long and i'm getting older. Can't wait that long. I work full time and i go to school in the evenings, so it very difficult because i have 2 girls and a new born baby boy. i just want to finish as fast as i can, but thank you for your concern

ok well try thses links for schools, maybe if you are not too much into the program you could tranfer to an accelerated program

here is california's nursing programs, (seperated by ADN [top] and BSN [after ADN]) on the side of each school it will have a checkmark if it has weekend classes or night classes or has a fast track accelerated programs:

http://www.rn.ca.gov/schools/rnprograms.shtml

and here is the programs that do RN-BSN

http://www.rn.ca.gov/schools/rntobsnprograms.shtml

so i would look at these sites because they are the off the board of nursing site for CA.

all of the schools are fully accredited.

hope this helps

I found it to be incredibly frustrating to apply and get accepted to nursing school in southern california. They get so many applicants for every class that they can afford to drop a few along the way. If someone was rude to you, I'm not surprised.

It's going to take a lot of organization on your part to get through the process.

I made a word document and listed all the schools I wanted to apply to. Then I got a list from the school of all their prerequisites and the dates by which I had to apply. Then came the immunizations, EMT license, whatever else I needed to have to apply to each school.

Many of the schools required attendance at a pre-application workshop, so I got the dates and locations for each of them. Some schools required registration for and completion of some crappy little class for course credit, so I did that too. There were assessment tests to take for every school, and I had to be accepted to the school before I could apply to the nursing program.

Some schools required their applications to be received by Fed Ex, others required that you hand it in personally.

During the year that I did my prerequisites, I continually updated my document with new information and new dates, new application fees, other classes I had to take, etc.

There's just no shortcut to going through the process and doing all the steps yourself. If you make a mistake and miss a deadline, the school is probably not going to extend anything for you. I think they view any lateness as a reason to toss one more application in the garbage, one less phone call they have to take.

Take your time and be very thorough. I benefitted greatly from visiting every school personally several times, meeting with counselors, getting my prerequisites checked out, everything.