Galen Houston Campus Winter Start date 2023

chempansy · Oct 2, 2023

Hello,

I probably can't help you much since I just started the program for the Winter 2023 session today. I live in Houston, but I'm doing the Austin cohort. I'll be moving to Austin very soon. The enrollment process was very smooth for me, for the most part. There were a couple courses they didn't accept for transfer so that was kind of annoying. But I just decided to suck it up and bite the bullet. I'm ready to start school and I'm exhausted with admissions processes and going back and forth between different programs. Thankfully my HESI/TEAS scores from 2019 were still good enough for them to consider.

I had no interest in retaking those exams anyway. The school seems to be pretty established, legit. Looks promising other than the skyrocket tuition. That's the only thing that scares me, to be honest. However, it seems that is the price to pay for all of those private schools. This is definitely my last resort and I'm also growing tired of the entire process--just ready to start working. Did you decide to begin with the Houston cohort for Winter 2023? How's the admissions process been for you?

Futurernm1, CNA · Jan 26

chempansy said:

Hello,

I probably can't help you much since I just started the program for the Winter 2023 session today. I live in Houston, but I'm doing the Austin cohort. I'll be moving to Austin very soon. The enrollment process was very smooth for me, for the most part. There were a couple courses they didn't accept for transfer so that was kind of annoying. But I just decided to suck it up and bite the bullet. I'm ready to start school and I'm exhausted with admissions processes and going back and forth between different programs. Thankfully my HESI/TEAS scores from 2019 were still good enough for them to consider.

I had no interest in retaking those exams anyway. The school seems to be pretty established, legit. Looks promising other than the skyrocket tuition. That's the only thing that scares me, to be honest. However, it seems that is the price to pay for all of those private schools. This is definitely my last resort and I'm also growing tired of the entire process--just ready to start working. Did you decide to begin with the Houston cohort for Winter 2023? How's the admissions process been for you?

Hello, I'm considering Galen and have a number of courses I'm looking to transfer, which of your classes didn't transfer?

chempansy · Jan 26

Futurernm1 said:

Hello, I'm considering Galen and have a number of courses I'm looking to transfer, which of your classes didn't transfer?

Well, outside of the mandatory galen pathway success course, they made me take the cultural diversity course, principles of communication, college mathematics, and pharmacology. I tried to fight for the cultural diversity one, the pharmacology and the statistics one.

But they wouldn't take them. If you have a college mathematics or college algebra credit, they should take that for math. If you have a general communication course, they might take that. If you have an elementary probability and statistics course, they might take it.

And unless you have a course specifically titled cultural diversity, there's probably no way to get them to take it. I even showed them the syllabi from the courses showing the same material covered but they wouldn't budge. It's honestly a money grab so you'll just have to suck it up and take them. Or look at another school. They actually weren't bad at all, and fairly easy courses. I learned some things in them. I guess I cant complain since they took most of the courses they could be transferred. I'm already done with those (outside of the statistics one) and moving on to actual nursing courses in April.

Futurernm1, CNA · Jan 27

chempansy said:

Well, outside of the mandatory galen pathway success course, they made me take the cultural diversity course, principles of communication, college mathematics, and pharmacology. I tried to fight for the cultural diversity one, the pharmacology and the statistics one.

But they wouldn't take them. If you have a college mathematics or college algebra credit, they should take that for math. If you have a general communication course, they might take that. If you have an elementary probability and statistics course, they might take it.

And unless you have a course specifically titled cultural diversity, there's probably no way to get them to take it. I even showed them the syllabi from the courses showing the same material covered but they wouldn't budge. It's honestly a money grab so you'll just have to suck it up and take them. Or look at another school. They actually weren't bad at all, and fairly easy courses. I learned some things in them. I guess I cant complain since they took most of the courses they could be transferred. I'm already done with those (outside of the statistics one) and moving on to actual nursing courses in April.

Thanks so much for responding!! I have college math, math 1342 which is statistics, humanities 1301 gothic culture, rnsg 1301 pharmacology, and intro to speech. Hopefully they take these. I see there are 2 elective courses that's part of the curriculum, would you happened o know which electives they take? Thank you so much again for all the help you're able to provide.

chempansy · Jan 27

Futurernm1 said:

Thanks so much for responding!! I have college math, math 1342 which is statistics, humanities 1301 gothic culture, rnsg 1301 pharmacology, and intro to speech. Hopefully they take these. I see there are 2 elective courses that's part of the curriculum, would you happened o know which electives they take? Thank you so much again for all the help you're able to provide.

The math ones are probably good to go. However, based on how vague they are on their transfer equivalency process, they will probably make you take the rest of those you listed. I also had a nursing pharmacology course from another school, but they told me they do not take nursing courses from other nursing schools. This seems to be the standard though with most programs regarding nursing-specific courses. If anything, they'll use those other credits you listed to satisfy the elective requirements.

They COULD take the speech course but don't be surprised if they don't. Like I said, I think it's purely a money grab but it's a private school so you're at the expense of their rules.

Your first quarter will probably look something like this: galen pathway to success, principles of communication, cultural diversity and pharmacology. After that you would move on to regular nursing courses for the program.