CT Students!!!

[ReneStovoL]

Hi everyone. So I started my prereqs for nursing last spring. I was having a conversation about a week ago with a nurse I met at the supermarket. She began to tell me that I probably wont be able to transfer my credits from manchester community college to Capitol community college. She also said that unless you take the prereqs at the school that offers the nursing program you will not be accepted. Im so upset. I tried calling capitol to see if any of this was true, but like always I have yet to recieve a call back. Also my grades are not the greatest but my gpa is 3.0, do you think that is good enough? Do the nursing school prefer students who attend the actual school over the out of district students?? What type of GPAS did you stuents have when applying to the nursing program. THANKS EVERYONE, HOPEFULLY SOMEONE HAD SOME POSITIVE IMPUT:crying2:

[OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN]

First I would like to say try your hardest not to listen to gossip because tahst all it is. Talk to a counsler at teh school you want to attend and find all the info. out from them. They will probably be able to give you a good idea of what kind of GPA's usually make it in. Most of the schools by me give teh students taht have taken pre-req's there preference but not all, so you will definately have to find out from your school.

[Dynas12180]

I too would ask the school, but just for an example I transferred all of my pre-reqs from a NY school to a VT school and had no problem. Good luck :)

[SC APRN, DNP, APRN, NP]

MCC and CCC are both part of the CT Community college system. You must transfer your transcripts to the college of first choice, you can do that online, for free by logging onto the self-service page. The fall information session schedule has been posted for the CT CCNP schools, read the information on the website and attend a session.

[SCSUStudent]

Ok first of all, you CAN transfer pre-reqs from one CC to another, especially because, like the person above me said, they are both part of the CT community college system. You'll have to submit your Common Nursing Application and transcripts to the College of first choice ONLY. On that application, you can write down a few more CT Community colleges to be your second, third choice.

Your GPA is very average. One word of advice - STUDY FOR YOUR TEAS! DO VERY WELL ON THEM.

TEAS alone will count for 25% of your addmission score!

Another 25% will be your A&P 1 Grade.

The rest 50% of your admission score will be your GPA.

If you have any outstanding pre-reqs you are completing now - do your best to do well on them too.

Most of your success on getting in will depend on where your "admission score" ranks in comparing to other students applying. 60% of the nursing class will be filled by ranking ppl and taking the best.

But even if you don't get in with your grades... guess what?

40%!!! of people applying who simply meet minimum requirements will be chosen at RANDOM. So you can still get lucky.

I had a cumulative GPA of 3.1... had an A in Anatomy and physiology, and a 92% on my TEAS and got in at the CC of my first choice. But... I chose to go to SCSU (also a two year program) , which I LOVE!

Good luck!

[SC APRN, DNP, APRN, NP]

But even if you don't get in with your grades... guess what?

40%!!! of people applying who simply meet minimum requirements will be chosen at RANDOM. So you can still get lucky.

ha ha, I think that part stinks!!

[Neelie9]

The nurse you met in the supermarket was misinformed. I transferred credits from one CT community college to another with absolutely no problems & got into the nursing program just fine. They're both within the CT Community College system, like the other posters mentioned above.

StudentNurseCT- I'm shocked to read that 40% of people applying who simply meet minimum requirements will be chosen at random.

This for sure wasn't the case when I applied. Everyone was ranked. Has it changed recently? I'm graduating this December, so it has been a while since I went through the application process, so it's possible... but I'm just shocked to hear that!?!

[JBMmom, MSN, NP]

Not only are pre-reqs from other community colleges accepted, coursework from all accredited schools will be evaluated for credit or straight accepted. And yes, 40% of the class is random. I don't like that part, I think that the top applicants should be accepted, but as a first semester student I have to say I can't sit in the class and pick out the difference between those that were ranked and those that were lottery.

[SC APRN, DNP, APRN, NP]

JBMommy, I think I've met a few lucky lottery winners?? You could be the lowest ranked person and beat out the one that is next on the waitlist, but never gets in.

[Neelie9]

JBMommy, I think I've met a few lucky lottery winners?? You could be the lowest ranked person and beat out the one that is next on the waitlist, but never gets in.

I think that's exactly what bothers me about the idea. If you were 25th on the ranking, you'd most likely not get a seat. You have just as much of a chance as the person at the bottom of the list-- Out of 40 seats, 24 would be determined based on ranking and the other 16 would be lottery seats.

[JBMmom, MSN, NP]

I have heard an explanation given that they're trying to increase diversity by having the lottery component, but I'm not sure how that's reasonable. Are they saying that minority applicants are less likely to get in with the ranking system? That doesn't seem quite right. My guess is that they're just trying to attract as many applicants as possible, but given the number of applicants that don't make it off the waitlist, low number of applicants doesn't seem to be a problem. If I hadn't gotten in, I would at least want to know that it's because all the students that were accepted had higher qualifications than myself. But in some schools in other parts of the country, there is not ranking component, you meet the minimum qualifications and then eventually get in off a waiting list. So maybe they're trying to fall somewhere in between. Oh well.