I figured someone else would have started a thread by now, but since they haven't I figured I would since the deadline is approaching in less than 2 weeks! I just wanted to know how everyone's application experience is going so far? Hopefully we can answer each others questions and this thread can serve as a place to share experiences especially while waiting for decisions.
I have my background check completed, my fingerprinting is in process, and I'm taking the HESI this week. I am super nervous!
I can't wait to hear from any of you who are applying! Don't be shy :) and good luck everyone!
I am pretty sure for this Fall they are keeping the campuses, BUT they have said they will be making MAJOR changes staring spring. My adviser even told me today that they are going to be focusing more on their current students:
This is a direct quote from the email today:
"we will be taking more and more GCU students and less transfer students. We have very much grown as a program and consider our students above comparable transfer students."
Congrats on being accepted! I'm hoping to start CEP with NAU for the fall. About GCU's cost, I was quoted around $29K and that was before any scholarships. But that's still way more than CEP! I already have $11K in student loans because I was charged as an out of state student for my first year here in AZ. Lame but I didn't want to stall for a year. So I sucked it up and paid Estrella 5K for classes each semester ($387 per credit! Crazy!!)
We were told at the alternate list information session that the total cost of the program if you include books/supplies was around $40,000. If you get the GPA scholarship it would be less, but still way more than what the CEP program costs.
That's crazy! My advisor told me MAX 29K but with scholarships I could save around $1800 a semester as long as I keep my GPA. So that would shave off about $7200 making the cost around 22K. I can't imagine where that additional 20K comes from unless you're staying in the dorms
I am pretty sure for this Fall they are keeping the campuses, BUT they have said they will be making MAJOR changes staring spring. My adviser even told me today that they are going to be focusing more on their current students:
This is a direct quote from the email today:
"we will be taking more and more GCU students and less transfer students. We have very much grown as a program and consider our students above comparable transfer students."
What does that even mean? "consider our students above comparable transfer students"... So a current GCU student with a 3.0 GPA and a 80 HESI could be considered comparable to someone with a 4.0 GPA and a 90 HESI?
And the way she explained the acceptance process was that:
Once they fill their spots with their own students, THEN they look as students who transferred a year ago, THEN they look at students who transferred a semester ago, and THEN they look at direct transfer students.... >
It is insane. I have no idea how they got that number but that is what they said. I think the advisor is telling you just tuiton cost alone, not factoring in the books/supplies. I honestly have no idea how much the books/supplies cost for each semester is....I know the nursing books can get pretty pricey. But $11K extra for that alone seems like a lot.
That is really really messed up to do to their OWN students! It is like we don't care about you as much because you weren't here as a freshman? A college is supposed to be a fostering environment where ALL students are treated equally, once they are a member of that community. Could you imagine transferring to a new school and them being like "sorry, no matter how hard you work you are still a second class student here." I understand them doing that to us, the direct transfer students who aren't yet affiliated with the school, but to do that to their own students and create a pecking order like that is just BEYOND ME!
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That's what I got... And it still shows the satellite campuses.