Finally..here I go! and a word of warning

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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After a LOT of hurdles and discouragement I finally got accepted into my community college and registered for classes today. I will begin finishing up my pre-reqs starting in two weeks. I got a little discouraged because I found out there is no way I will be able to apply for the clinical sequence until next Fall 2013 and if I am accepted it will be 2014 before I can start clinicals. At 47 I want to do this NOW but I know all good things are worth waiting for. :) I'm so excited to begin this new chapter in my life!

On a different note, when I went in today I discovered that someone else's SAT score had been entered onto my record! They were acting so odd and telling me I couldn't take the classes I wanted and finally they said it had to do with my terribly low SAT score. I have never taken the SAT in my life! They had a score of 200 on my file! I couldn't believe it! They argued that I had taken it this year!! After a lot of back and forth, they finally agreed that I have never taken the SAT and my ACT was taken in 1980 and I had an excellent score (not that it matters they won't accept an ACT that old) Anyway, I just wanted to tell everyone to make sure and check what is on their record!! If this hadn't come to light I could have been denied admission completely to even to the prenursing program all because of faulty data entry! So returning students beware!

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Somebody told me today that they looked up my file and I had received my Associates degree in 2010... I actually got my associates in 2007 haha.

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Wow that's crazy and sadly not very surprising! Good thing you found out! Good luck with your classes!

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.

Unfortunately, for those of us who did undergrad work before the "era of computers", we're having to deal with a lot of data entry errors. When my previous school switched from typed files to computers in the mid 90s, they made an error on my transcript. It showed an F in English!!! :eek: I graduated cum laude and only had 2 B's, the rest were A's. I had to go through a BUNCH of red tape with the college to get it fixed. The good news is that my cum. GPA was entered correctly. I had to keep pointing out that if you added up the scores, it didn't match. Luckily, I kept a copy of my last report card (when they still issued report cards!!!) so we were able to get the grade changed. What a hassle!!!!!

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