I thought I'd make this thread for the new application group... even though it's a bit late since we have to all apply soon!
Anyway! I want to apply for the Fall 2012 term but I had some questions. I am an current CSULA student that transferred to CSULA in Fall 2010. I'm a Psychology major but am applying for Fall 2012 Nursing. I haven't taken my TEAS yet, but I'll be taking that on Friday (!!), so I'm very nervous about that.
That said, this is my first question:
I've been getting mixed info from different people. When I visited the Academic Advising Office last Spring (2011), the adviser told me that as long as I did not graduate from CSULA BEFORE I graduated, I could apply to the SON as a BSN applicant. I called SON to see if I could even apply for the ELM program and they told me that as far as they knew, I could not because I did not have my Bachelor's Degree yet.
So right now, I have approximately 2 quarters left in order to finish my Psychology major, approximately 6~8 classes. Ideally, I could finish by Spring 2012, but depending on my other workloads, I could push it back to Fall 2012. The problem is that I'm not allowed to graduate if I want to go into the basic program so I can't apply for graduation just yet. But IF I don't get into the BSN program, then I have to wait another two quarters after May or June or whenever they send out acceptances in order to officially graduate.
So I went to go and talk to my adviser about graduation and if I should even bother applying for Spring 2012 graduation and she tells me that no, I'm not allowed to apply for a BSN but I can go for the ELM program.
Does anyone know which is true? The CSULA advisers tell me that I can't apply for the Basic program but I can apply for ELM while the SON says that I can't apply for ELM because I don't have my Bachelor's degree yet and I should apply for the BSN program. Other graduate schools like APU and UCLA have also told me the same thing - without a Bachelor's, I cannot get apply for the ELM program at their school.
I spoke with ----- today and asked regarding this matter.
She said that emails were sent out around yesterday and will be done hopefully (she emphasized) by tomorrow or end of tomorrow.
Also, I asked whether acceptance is only received by e-mail first and she said it depends, it could be sent out by e-mail and/or letter first.
And, I asked how many students can be in the program and she said 60.
Lastly, I had to get this out of her but I asked whats the average/lowest score of acceptance and she said "i don't know...i don't know..." but I just said AROUNDDD.. and she said. "maybe 22.., I can't say because whoever doesn't accept the acceptance will bump down the score..meaning if a student with 22 or 23 declined, it might lower to 20~21.
At least that's what I got from her explanation..
As much as its stressful and hard not to think about it, hang on tight.
That's all we can do.
I went in and asked the exact same questions to ------ and got the exact same answers about everything. I wanted to know because my friend with a 25 didn't get his acceptance yet and she made it clear that the cutoff for acceptances was 22. She said they sent some by letters but they've already made their final decisions. The letters however might take a day or two to finish but they want to make sure everyone can confirm by May 1st. The alternates for the wait list will just have to wait to hear anything until people decide they don't want to go to csula for nursing. And I asked her if they were going to be short on clinical spots but she said that there is no way they would accept a higher number of students than they would have spots for. They like to accommodate every one of their students and make sure they graduate on time. So idk if thats a rumor or something but its not the case with csula.
But the final thing she stressed about was that she hoped that anyone who didn't want their spot should tell her asap so she can relay the news to another hopeful applicant since she knows that the wait can be stressful. In her experience, some people just never sent in their letters so they never knew if they wanted their spots or not and the alternates were only informed a couple weeks before school started. So yeah anyone who doesn't want their spot should definitely tell csula son asap!
The CSULA advisers tell me that I can't apply for the Basic program but I can apply for ELM while the SON says that I can't apply for ELM because I don't have my Bachelor's degree yet and I should apply for the BSN program. Other graduate schools like APU and UCLA have also told me the same thing - without a Bachelor's, I cannot get apply for the ELM program at their school.
Buddyxboi
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wow nice information you pulled out joyest. Great job. Hopefully, I still have a chance to get in then.