Connecticut State Community College (CT State) Fall 2024

I think your stats look good and great TEAS score! I applied to Capital for the upcoming fall. Good luck 

If I'm including all the courses I'm supposed to into the nursing GPA:

Nursing GPA: 3.62

TEAS: 78.0

A&P 1: A

I believe this makes my overall "points" out of 100 for my application profile 89.75/100. I expected to do a bit better on the TEAS! All those chemistry questions really got me! I applied to NCC ?

Hi, how do you calculate your points out of 100?  Thanks!

GPA = 50%

TEAS = 25% 

A&P1 grade (GPA) = 25%

So:

(GPA x 25 x .5) + (A&P I GPA x 25 x.25) + (TEAS x .25) = X

Side note - unfortunately, I realized I hadn't been including all the courses that are actually included in the nursing GPA in my calculation, so my nursing GPA is actually 3.37, which means my overall "points" out of 100 are 86.625

ah.  by that I only have an 80.4

they count A&P twice, right?  once in the calculation for nursing GPA and once by itself?

any idea what kind of scores last year's class had to get in?  thanks!

big_dave said:

ah.  by that I only have an 80.4

they count A&P twice, right?  once in the calculation for nursing GPA and once by itself?

any idea what kind of scores last year's class had to get in?  thanks!

As I understand it, yes - A&P1 is included in the cumulative nursing GPA, and also it alone counts for 25% of the total. I commented on every old thread I could find to find an answer to that same question haha but I haven't gotten any replies yet. In the threads I read through, I did see a couple people say they had around 85 - 90 points and were accepted. It's hard to say! Especially because it will depend what the rest of the applicant pool's stats are this year, but I think 80 points should give you a fair shot at getting in! Which campus are you applying to?

Capital.

I'm a career changer with a master's degree.  I had no idea community college would be so competitive!  ack!

big_dave said:

Capital.

I'm a career changer with a master's degree.  I had no idea community college would be so competitive!  ack!

Same but I only have a bachelor's degree! Agreed, but at the end of the day it's a good thing because it means not just anyone can walk right into becoming a nurse

yeah but all we hear about are nursing shortages...  ?

by the way, that formula you shared with me.  that means if someone has a B, a 3.0 GPA, it would only count as 75%?  when we know a B is more like an 85%?

interesting...

oh well, if I don't get into RN I guess I will try for the accelerated BSN.  at least there I get to tell my story with a cover letter and letters of recommendation, not just numbers that I got in college 20+ years ago!  ?

big_dave said:

yeah but all we hear about are nursing shortages...  ?

by the way, that formula you shared with me.  that means if someone has a B, a 3.0 GPA, it would only count as 75%?  when we know a B is more like an 85%?

interesting...

 

oh well, if I don't get into RN I guess I will try for the accelerated BSN.  at least there I get to tell my story with a cover letter and letters of recommendation, not just numbers that I got in college 20+ years ago!  ?

 

In the nursing info packet, it shows the number of grade points for all grades, including grades with a + or - (I.e. an A is a 4.0, an A- is a 3.7, a B+ is a 3.3, a B is a 3.0, and so on). The actual number of the final grade you got in a given class, and how that transferred into a letter grade would depend on the grading scale of the institution where you took the class because all that appears on the transcript is the letter grade.

Accelerated BSNs are a good option too, but I haven't seen any that would allow me to work much during the program, and an ADN is more affordable by a long shot, so those are the main reasons I'm going this route - plus, it's a major perk that I won't have to take Chemistry, or even other extraneous classes that some of these BSN programs are requiring these days - Genetics, Public Speaking, etc... I'm looking at you UConn, with your $100,000 BSN program hahaha 

agreed.

if my college grades from my partying days 20 years ago keep me out of an associates degree... I wonder about getting the LPN and quickly converting to an associates...