Connecticut Community Colleges - Applying for 2014

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I've read through last year's version of this thread 100 times, so I thought I'd start a new one. I'm planning to apply for NCC's 2014 program. I'm taking A&P I right now (A- midterm grade, hoping to make that an A!) and will need to do the software applications class online in the winter session, so I won't be able to submit my app until final grades are out for that. Hopefully I won't be cutting it too close to the Feb 1st deadline! I'm taking my TEAS on November 18th.

Who else is applying? Where are you in the application process? Post your TEAS scores and GPA stats if you know them! My nursing GPA will be almost a 3.8 with an A- in A&P and an A in CSA105, but I dropped out two semesters in a row in 2006 (one semester medically excused but still on my transcript, the other no excuse, just screwed up being 19 and not very serious about my education at that time) I hope those hiccups won't count against me too much, luckily none of the classes I was taking at the time applied to the nursing program.

The waitlist is not random. It says in the info packet that once all seats are filled, the remaining applicants are assigned a number based on their original rank number.

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Hey guys, how many students are in the waitlist for the schools you applied? I applied for Gateway as a first choice and Norwalk Community College as a second choice. I got a letter from the gateway indicating that I'm #35 out of 175 students. Does that only comprise of Gateway students or does that include second choice school as well or maybe all 6 schools? Do we get wait list from the second choice too? I mean what is the point of Gateway having wait list of 175 students, if 3/4th of them are not going to be accepted anyway? I mean I don't even know whether I'm in wait list for second choice. By the time the first choice school spots are all filled, the second choice school spots would be filled. Sorry it was a lot of question, but I hope someone could help me with this! thanks so much!

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Hey guys, how many students are in the waitlist for the schools you applied? I applied for Gateway as a first choice and Norwalk Community College as a second choice. I got a letter from the gateway indicating that I'm #35 out of 175 students. Does that only comprise of Gateway students or does that include second choice school as well or maybe all 6 schools? Do we get wait list from the second choice too? I mean what is the point of Gateway having wait list of 175 students, if 3/4th of them are not going to be accepted anyway? I mean I don't even know whether I'm in wait list for second choice. By the time the first choice school spots are all filled, the second choice school spots would be filled. Sorry it was a lot of question, but I hope someone could help me with this! thanks so much!

I75 is for gateway only. I know it sounds crazy that each school has such a big list, I bet almost no one gets called for their 2nd choice. 10 to 15 years ago they virtually had no wait lists or short ones, so people got pulled to their 2nd choice school.

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Last year I was 22 out of 125. I wonder why they added 50 spots for waitlist.

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Congrats poly! I think you'll probably get a call from Gateway, so you'll have a choice to make. Toonsis I bet you'll get a call as well!

Anyone who doesn't get rejected for an incomplete application or for not meeting the requirements will go on the waitlist. So they didn't add spots, there were just more "qualified" applicants this year.

The more I read here and the more I talk to students, the more I think they REALLY need to ditch the lottery. I heard a girl at my school saying she got in with a 2.8, C+, 70 TEAS. How is that even fair? If we're being honest, how is someone who obviously only cares about doing the bare minimum going to make it through the program?

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Thankn youuuu! I'm thrilled about it! So happy! I totally agree with you. I know people that got in with the minimun too. Not fair. I'm sending my acceptance to the program with the deposit today. My friend who graduated from Gateway told me to stick with BHSON. I think I will though is far from from home compared to GCC.

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Your second choice school must exhaust their waiting list before you get a seat. Also, just because someone who has a 2.8 doesn't mean they won't pass the program. They may have had issues in personal or work life that interfered. Not everyone can just go to school full time. Doesn't mean they'll be any less of a nurse than someone with a 4.0. I recommend you lose that thinking, or you may rub other students in your program the wrong way. My friend is finishing up her first semester at TRCC, and a girl was dismissed from clinical who had a 4.0, but had no clue how to deal with a patient when an emergency arose on the floor with the patient. I have been a CNA in the ICU for 4 years, I'd rather have a nurse who passed school with more common sense than a 4.0 nurse who doesn't have a flipping clue.

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Your second choice school must exhaust their waiting list before you get a seat. Also, just because someone who has a 2.8 doesn't mean they won't pass the program. They may have had issues in personal or work life that interfered. Not everyone can just go to school full time. Doesn't mean they'll be any less of a nurse than someone with a 4.0. I recommend you lose that thinking, or you may rub other students in your program the wrong way. My friend is finishing up her first semester at TRCC, and a girl was dismissed from clinical who had a 4.0, but had no clue how to deal with a patient when an emergency arose on the floor with the patient. I have been a CNA in the ICU for 4 years, I'd rather have a nurse who passed school with more common sense than a 4.0 nurse who doesn't have a flipping clue.

I agree with you. I was talking about the selection process. I'm a small bhdiness owner, work full time, have 3 kids, a husband, take care of my mother in law who suffers from cirrhosis of the liver, my father in law who has cronic depression and my oldest son who is bipolar. Of course I couldn't go to school full time. Believe me, my house it's a hospital. I didn't mean to lose value of anybody, I'm not that kind of person. I still believe that the selection process has room for improvement though.

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Not everyone with good grades is "just going to school full time." I have a 3 year old, work, and go to school. I also know as well as anyone that things happen and I've been through plenty of personal and medical issues in my life. I failed out 7 years ago, came back and worked my ass off. I never said a bad GPA makes for a bad nurse, but I think *common sense* (people with 4.0s can have that too you know) says that someone with poor grades is more likely (not guaranteed, as we both agree some people have extenuating circumstances) to have a harder time in the program. The lottery doesn't account for personal problems either. It's completely random and the sad thing is that someone who really doesn't give a flip can get in over someone who works really hard.

I don't know why I'm engaging with you though to be honest, because your post history points to a combative person who seems to get jollies from disagreeing with or talking down to others. Talk about rubbing people the wrong way.

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I don't think anyone going in the program should think they're better until they have that RN behind there name. Good luck to us all in the program! ;)

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I don't think that has been said here. We'll be wonderful nurses! I'm sure.

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Thanks for the reply. Yeah it was kind of confusing. I mean I don't see the point of having that much students in a wait list. If they put students as #150 or even #175, it's kind of cruel. How about just rejecting them and have 40 waiting list people? That makes more sense. I haven't seen any students registering for Gateway for some reason. Most of the nursing school are being filled up.

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