Dcccd 2006

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Anybody thinking about El Centro/ Northlake in the DCCCD for Jan 2006?

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Hi NurseSomeday! :) Welcome to Allnurses.com, and our anxious lil', happy letter-waitin' thread! :chuckle

ECC & NLC together accept 110 students each semester. 70 at ECC/40 at NLC.

As you said you've seen already, for the last two semesters, the cut off was 3.77. This past one was 3.77 with 11 support credits finished.

It is definitely harder to get into NLC than ECC b/c of the amount of seats accepted.

If you go through this thread, you will see someone talking about parking at a different part & riding the DART to the school. (Which if you go to ECC, you get a free DART pass.)

I hope they send they happy letters out soon!!!! I getting so impatient! :chuckle

Good luck with your education, good luck getting in ECC, and if I don't get into NLC like I want, I hope to meet you in person in Nursing class at ECC in the Spring! :)

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I am glad I'm not the only one counting the days until my notification letter arrives. Has anyone heard anything about being notified prior to Oct. 15th. A friend of mine applied to DCCCD's LVN program and was notified in 2 weeks. I know this is totally different program, but I was hoping we'd find out before October 15th! I am so afraid I won't make it.

Also, I saw all the info on the GPA cut-off for last application filing period, but does anyone know how may people were accepted? If I remember correctly, in the application packet it said from 40 to 70.

I made El Centro my first choice and NLC second. El Centro is closer to me but I am not looking forward to the parking. Right now I am attending Eastfield.

I appreciate all the good information.

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Do you know what the GPA was on those 11 support credits?

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Specializes in Operating Room.
Do you know what the GPA was on those 11 support credits?

The lady I spoke with didn't know. :(

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Ok, I'm ready for my letter.

It's going fast, yet toooooooo slow!

Hope everyone is doing well with their classes.

22 days...For those of us who get accepted for Spring '06, good luck! For those of us who do not get accepted, let's not give up....good luck to us for Fall' 06!

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I agree! I try my best to put it from my mind, but I'm always reworking what I'll do if I'm rejected. I only took two classes this semester, so I feel like I'm on vacation and the time is just creeping along. On top of all this, I can't wait to quit my job of 17 years and get going with my future plans.

I wish they'd send the letters out early!!!!! One minute I think I'll probably get accepted and then the next I've talked myself into expecting to be rejected. I'm so excited about getting started.

Hopefully, we all have good news on the way! Good luck to everyone!

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Specializes in Operating Room.

Leave it up to me to keep reminding everyone exactly how many days we have! LOL!!! 3 weeks 1 day, hopefully no more than 2 weeks, though!

Wow, I can't imagine quitting a job after 17 years...that's going to seem a little strange to you. Hope you don't get up one morning & drive to your old work, just out of habit. :chuckle

I have two classes this semester as well for my future RN-BSN, but only one at a time. (CHEM ends Oct 21st, and MUSI starts Oct 21st.)

Although, CHEMISUX x 10^10000000 lol! It is definitely keeping me on my toes. I'm hoping the music appreciation class won't be so hectic, so I can relax a little.

GOOOOOOD LUCK!

I only took two classes this semester, so I feel like I'm on vacation and the time is just creeping along. On top of all this, I can't wait to quit my job of 17 years and get going with my future plans.
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I thought I had it figured all out. I am not going to apply until 2010 when my youngest start kinder, so I figured that I would go ahead and take the pre and coreqs for both el centro and brookhaven. I am not sure if I should do this or just take spanish for the last two years that I would be waiting. On one hand, if I finished all the classes for both programs, i might stand a better chance of getting accepted on my first try( but only if I keep my grades up. Patho, dosage calculations and the other 2 classes - I am not looking forward to these classes). On the other, if I take spanish and become more fluent I would possibly earn more money in the long run ( this would also allow me to keep my gpa up since I understand more than I am able to speak). Any suggestions?:selfbonk:

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Specializes in Operating Room.

That's hard to say. If you take coreqs for Brookhaven, then they won't count for DCCCD. (Unless they will accept them, I'm not sure...)

Spanish is always a plus. I haven't heard anything about nurses getting offered more money for being bilingual, but it may help land a job easier. I'm a "una palabra a una vez" type person. I can understand some, and I can speak some, but it can't be rapido!!!! lol

Good luck in whatever you decide to do. Either way, I guess if you do the Patho and Pharm for Brookhaven, and it doesn't count for DCCCD, then at least you will have an idea of what to expect for those classes at DCCCD. :rolleyes:

I thought I had it figured all out. I am not going to apply until 2010 when my youngest start kinder, so I figured that I would go ahead and take the pre and coreqs for both el centro and brookhaven. I am not sure if I should do this or just take spanish for the last two years that I would be waiting. On one hand, if I finished all the classes for both programs, i might stand a better chance of getting accepted on my first try( but only if I keep my grades up. Patho, dosage calculations and the other 2 classes - I am not looking forward to these classes). On the other, if I take spanish and become more fluent I would possibly earn more money in the long run ( this would also allow me to keep my gpa up since I understand more than I am able to speak). Any suggestions?:selfbonk:
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Well Brookhaven is a DCCCD school.

I know they have their own nursing program, but the General Ed classes (Psych, Algebra, English Comp, Speech, Microbio) you should have no problem tranferring.

it is the individual nursing programs that decide what they require for a degree from that school. I wish they were all on the same page, but alas!

In truth they don't actually "transfer" credit between DCCCD schools since they are all technically a part of a big consortium. You know, one-school-in-seven-locations.

I know folks who took the Brookhaven Patho and dosage calc course and went through the EL Centro/Norhtlake program. No they did not get credit in the El/NL nursing program for them, but it was still on their DCCCD transcript. They also told me those classes where a great help and put them ahead of some of the other students.

Of course if you take, say, Chemistry at Brookhaven, it will transfer to El Centro or Northlake (or any other DCCCD school), but since you don't need Chemistry for the El Centro/Northlake program it would be just extra credit. Of course you could use the class when you get your BSN and education is never a waste.

If you have the time and money take all the classe you can. HTa way you can play the odds and apply to more than one program. If you don't pick a progam and concentrate.

Personally, I'd got with El Centro/ Northlake and take Spanish.

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Well Brookhaven is a DCCCD school.

True, but you know what I mean. lol

21 days until the letter deadline, 27 days until the last day of my chemistry class. I sure hope I get accepted, that way I won't blow the last chem exam from being too upset...then again, I may be too excited to concentrate. :chuckle

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Wow the days are going by really quickly it seems. Almost less than 20 days left!! For me, taking 3 classes has helped me make the time go by quicker but it hasn't helped in thinking and stressing out about getting accepted or not. I wish they would send out the letters early but from what I heard they don't.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

*19 Days*

We have officially lived

out the 20's!

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I sure hope they send the letters out on Friday, the 14th, and not the Monday after! lol Of course, they may go in on that Sat to finish up...or just wait until the 15th to mail them...just because! lol

GOOOOOOD LUCK!

Wow the days are going by really quickly it seems. Almost less than 20 days left!! For me, taking 3 classes has helped me make the time go by quicker but it hasn't helped in thinking and stressing out about getting accepted or not. I wish they would send out the letters early but from what I heard they don't.
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