Farmingdale Spring 2020

emily3142 · Oct 21, 2019

I also applied to Nassau. Farmingdale is my first choice, so fingers crossed! For everyone!?

WuTangLan, BSN, RN · Oct 26, 2019

Has anyone had a status change yet? Mine still says "Complete-ready for review"

Katiewithab · Oct 26, 2019

Nope, nothing. I am freaking out and trying to wait patiently lol. Hopefully we do hear something on November 1st.

Catsweeney · Oct 29, 2019

Hi all! So I stumbled upon this thread randomly but I am currently a nursing student in the Farmingdale program. I started this past January and just wanted to let you guys know that I found out my acceptance October 31st last year. Just figured I’d pop in and let you guys know it’s coming soon! Stay strong and good luck! Feel free to ask any questions I’d be happy to answer them. I know how it feels!

emily3142 · Oct 29, 2019

3 minutes ago, Catsweeney said:
Hi all! So I stumbled upon this thread randomly but I am currently a nursing student in the Farmingdale program. I started this past January and just wanted to let you guys know that I found out my acceptance October 31st last year. Just figured I’d pop in and let you guys know it’s coming soon! Stay strong and good luck! Feel free to ask any questions I’d be happy to answer them. I know how it feels!

Hi! Thank you for writing on this thread! If you don't mind me asking, what grades did you apply with? I'm worried my TEAS score might not be high enough but I wasn't able to take it again. I'm so nervous and am really really hoping I get in!

Catsweeney · Oct 29, 2019

22 minutes ago, emily3142 said:
Hi! Thank you for writing on this thread! If you don't mind me asking, what grades did you apply with? I'm worried my TEAS score might not be high enough but I wasn't able to take it again. I'm so nervous and am really really hoping I get in!

So I got I believe an 85 on my TEAS. My pre-req grades were a 3.8 BUT my overall GPA was god-awful. (I didn’t do so well when I was right outta high school and 18 because I just didn’t care at the time but now that I’m in my 20s I went back to school and got my stuff together lol) There’s definitely people in the program that got mid 80s on their TEAS. I know that all the info is put in a computer and that generates a list. I’m not sure what the exact formula is but it varies. Some people had better TEAS scores and average grades or better grades and average TEAS scores. It really depends. And it also depends on everyone else who has applied. Unfortunately a lot of these programs look at things that will make-up the “prime student” to pass the NCLEX. But there’s definitely a lot of different factors that go into it.

emily3142 · Oct 29, 2019

1 minute ago, Catsweeney said:
So I got I believe an 88 or 89 on my TEAS. My pre-req grades were a 3.8 BUT my overall GPA was god-awful. (I didn’t do so well when I was right outta high school and 18 because I just didn’t care at the time but now that I’m in my 20s I went back to school and got my stuff together lol) There’s definitely people in the program that got mid 80s on their TEAS. I know that all the info is put in a computer and that generates a list. I’m not sure what the exact formula is but it varies. Some people had better TEAS scores and average grades or better grades and average TEAS scores. It really depends. And it also depends on everyone else who has applied. Unfortunately a lot of these programs look at things that will make-up the “prime student” to pass the NCLEX. But there’s definitely a lot of different factors that go into it.

Right, I understand. Well thank you for sharing and for giving any information you could I really appreciate it! Still have my fingers crossed? I would be so extremely happy if I got in!! But the wait is killing me lol

Catsweeney · Oct 29, 2019

Edited my TEAS score to 85 because that was my overall*** the 88/89 was on individual sections! Sorry for the confusion!

GzLove10 · Oct 29, 2019

13 hours ago, Catsweeney said:
Edited my TEAS score to 85 because that was my overall*** the 88/89 was on individual sections! Sorry for the confusion!

Thank you for the response, how was the first semester of the program because they said its fulltime but we have to pick the classes, is it just 5 days a week but a few hours each day? im stuck between Suffolk and farmingdale, and i still have a lot of pre-reqs to take towards the program. can you give us a little more insight. the wait is killing all of us since there is over 400 applicants since i have been calling every day. was your deadline the same as ours oct 15th.?

Catsweeney · Oct 29, 2019

1 hour ago, GzLove10 said:
Thank you for the response, how was the first semester of the program because they said its fulltime but we have to pick the classes, is it just 5 days a week but a few hours each day? im stuck between Suffolk and farmingdale, and i still have a lot of pre-reqs to take towards the program. can you give us a little more insight. the wait is killing all of us since there is over 400 applicants since i have been calling every day. was your deadline the same as ours oct 15th.?

Yes our deadline was also Oct. 15th. The first semester is the most time consuming. It is 5 days a week but there are 2 options. A morning and an afternoon(classes were from like 12ish-4ish) I was in the early morning option. My schedule was like Monday 8am-12:30, Tuesday 8am-2 (with a break in between), Wednesday 9am-12, Thursday clinical 7-3, and Friday 8am-12:45. I’m not gonna lie the first semester is ROUGH but once you get through that the schedule lightens up a ton. This semester I’m only in class Monday and Friday 9:30-12 and clinical 7-3 on Tuesdays. That’s it. And that’s how most of the semesters are.

As for the other classes to take that aren’t nursing classes, I would suggest doing them in the summer or after the first semester when the schedule isn’t so hectic. A couple of my friends are taking extra non-nursing classes that they need this semester because the time allows for it.

I also was between Farmingdale and Suffolk but ultimately chose Farmingdale because it’s a BSN program, but you have to do what works best for you and your schedule/life.

ccs2000 · Oct 29, 2019

Hi guys, I also applied to the nursing transfer program at FSC.

My stats:

Prerequisite GPA: 4.0

Cumulative GPA: 3.9

TEAS test: 79.3

I have been really anxious the last few days about being accepted or not. I really just want to know the answer already. I cannot stop thinking about it. I am so worried that I will not get accepted and then having the disappointment of not getting in. Im so nervous. I hope we all get in!

GzLove10 · Oct 30, 2019

hi everyone so i just spoke to the nursing department apparently we will know definitely by November 1st. with only 50 seats open we can get one of 4 decisions made....

Waitlisted, accepted, denied, canceled! basically wait listed means you were not in the top 50 of the selection but if someone denies their seat at farmingdale than you can get accepted & you wont know what number you are on the wait-list its basically a waiting game. Good Luck to everyone!