Fresno City College (FCC) - Fall 22/Spring 23

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For all us unselected to keep in touch until next year’s application period open.

To spill the tea and keep informed during the application and selection process January-April 2022. 
 

This will be our turn ? 

13 hours ago, lesett24 said:

I was "unselected" for the third time this year. Does anyone else have a plan B? I am looking into either going to a private school to get an LVN or applying to National University. I can't just sit around and wait for the next application period again. Especially if the outcome is going to be unselected again ?

I am finishing up my CNA class and will take my state test for that at the end of May, hoping to get hired on as a patient care tech at a hospital to get experience and additional points, I am learning Spanish as well so I can get the extra points for that. I am going to apply to National in November and then WHC , COS, and FCC in January. Hoping the CNA and second language will give me the extra points needed to get into WHC or COS, I really don’t want to pay the money out for National but will if I get in there. I hope FCC gets their crap together before next application cycle because I don’t like how they do things and there has to be a more simpler way that doesn’t cause undue stress on us

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48 minutes ago, Ronnyj81 said:

I am finishing up my CNA class and will take my state test for that at the end of May, hoping to get hired on as a patient care tech at a hospital to get experience and additional points, I am learning Spanish as well so I can get the extra points for that. I am going to apply to National in November and then WHC , COS, and FCC in January. Hoping the CNA and second language will give me the extra points needed to get into WHC or COS, I really don’t want to pay the money out for National but will if I get in there. I hope FCC gets their crap together before next application cycle because I don’t like how they do things and there has to be a more simpler way that doesn’t cause undue stress on us

Have you taken the pre reqs for national? I was looking into applying but the pre reqs specific to them would have to be taken there and u don’t get financial aid. So your paying 1300+ and your not guaranteed to get in. But yeah I hate the thought of people getting in after 1-2 years at FCC when people with great gpas and TEAS scores are still waiting after 3-4 years. They should take the amount of years applying into consideration. 

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5 minutes ago, lesett24 said:

Have you taken the pre reqs for national? I was looking into applying but the pre reqs specific to them would have to be taken there and u don’t get financial aid. So your paying 1300+ and your not guaranteed to get in. But yeah I hate the thought of people getting in after 1-2 years at FCC when people with great gpas and TEAS scores are still waiting after 3-4 years. They should take the amount of years applying into consideration. 

I totally agree.. they really should! The only class I would have to take is Bio medical stats at National.. you have 3 times to apply there and get in, it is a lot of money to take that class but I feel like I have to try everything in my power to get into a program

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6 minutes ago, Ronnyj81 said:

I totally agree.. they really should! The only class I would have to take is Bio medical stats at National.. you have 3 times to apply there and get in, it is a lot of money to take that class but I feel like I have to try everything in my power to get into a program

 Nice! That’s worth it if u get in. I would need to take biomedical stats, the English class, and public speaking. I could take public speaking at community college but I wouldn’t finish before the application period. So that’s be about 3300 for me I believe ☹️ After three times your guaranteed a spot? 

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18 minutes ago, lesett24 said:

Have you taken the pre reqs for national? I was looking into applying but the pre reqs specific to them would have to be taken there and u don’t get financial aid. So your paying 1300+ and your not guaranteed to get in. But yeah I hate the thought of people getting in after 1-2 years at FCC when people with great gpas and TEAS scores are still waiting after 3-4 years. They should take the amount of years applying into consideration. 

IF they took into account how many years students have been applying, it would create an amazingly long waitlist for people to get in.

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3 hours ago, lesett24 said:

 Nice! That’s worth it if u get in. I would need to take biomedical stats, the English class, and public speaking. I could take public speaking at community college but I wouldn’t finish before the application period. So that’s be about 3300 for me I believe ☹️ After three times your guaranteed a spot? 

No you aren’t guaranteed a spot unfortunately you can only try 3 times to get in to the program. I took the English class and the library skills class at city college, I am taking the comm 1 this Summer at city, so all I need to pay for is bio stats class

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On 4/28/2021 at 10:12 PM, lesett24 said:

I’m a single mom so I just feel SO pressured to get my career going. Plus every year I always regret that I didn’t use the year to further myself. I think I’m doing the LVN this year.. this way when I do get into an RN program it’ll be a bridge and only one year long ? 

I'm in the position currently where my job is currently a "career" job, but it's not my end goal, but it'll do in the interim and the long run save me a ton of money (and quite frankly not a fan of giving money to a for profit school) avoiding a private college, it really depends on how this year pans out with my job to whether I get desperate enough to weigh more expensive options. I haven't been 100% satisfied with my job and am really worried about moving to Southern California, but I may move to a different team and I got a raise, plus my best friend works for the same company and lives down there, so I may be okay waiting.

The other factor is I may enjoy my job enough to put nursing on the back backburner, I can always become a nurse any time, issue really is having to recall key things like anatomy and physiology 2+ years down the line. I just want to do something I enjoy and not struggle. I'm not into making a ton of money, I just want to live + have a little extra to not feel like I'm in a bind. Just going to keep applying and see where life takes me. 

 

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1 minute ago, Abby Suh said:

I'm in the position currently where my job is currently a "career" job, but it's not my end goal, but it'll do in the interim and the long run save me a ton of money (and quite frankly not a fan of giving money to a for profit school) avoiding a private college, it really depends on how this year pans out with my job to whether I get desperate enough to weigh more expensive options. I haven't been 100% satisfied with my job and am really worried about moving to Southern California, but I may move to a different team and I got a raise, plus my best friend works for the same company and lives down there, so I may be okay waiting.

Whatever works for you! You sound like you're in a secure position. I work as a lab technician for a food safety micro lab. I'm in the same boat, but I'm just ready to take a leap of faith. If you do move to Southern CA they might even have nursing schools that are less impacted!

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4 minutes ago, lesett24 said:

Whatever works for you! You sound like you're in a secure position. I work as a lab technician for a food safety micro lab. I'm in the same boat, but I'm just ready to take a leap of faith. If you do move to Southern CA they might even have nursing schools that are less impacted!

Basically if I can't get into Fresno State in July, I have to for my job, relocation is part of it with COVID winding down. I hear schools in SoCal are even worse... plus I'm trying to pay out of pocket for nursing school (not financial aid because I do not qualify, no loans) and the cost of living down there is astronomical. I am the most impatient person ever, but I'm learning with the whole nursing thing I'm just going to have to be patient, there's no way to speed this up or way to weasel myself into this one short of paying huge amounts of money. 

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Is anyone applying to CoS?

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Just now, Abby Suh said:

Is anyone applying to CoS?

I was going to buy my points are too low 

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16 minutes ago, Abby Suh said:

Is anyone applying to CoS?

I did but I don’t have much hope because my score was 60.5. 

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