George Brown or Centennial - RPN to BSCN Bridge for Sept 2021

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Hello everyone,

Anyone else applied the Bridge 2021 at George Brown or Centennial?

want to wait for offers with me?

I am wondering if I can hear from past students at either of these two school about their experiences? 

When did offers come out? hard to get into? They are both listed as noncompetitive?

Did you like the program? I heard these schools are not really self-directed like McMaster programs, care to share your thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance.

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hi, I just applied to both centennial and George brown today. I attended George browns information session and they said offers start rolling out from April.

Are you working presently? or still in school. I am in my final semester.

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3 hours ago, Oyin12 said:

hi, I just applied to both centennial and George brown today. I attended George browns information session and they said offers start rolling out from April.

Are you working presently? or still in school. I am in my final semester.

I am in my final term as well. Yes I was at one too and they said they start going out in February and all are out by April 1st..so exciting!! I just did my Casper Test so now I guess its just wait and see... ?

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Thats good to know, How did your casper exam go? are you applying to any other schools apart from George brown

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2 hours ago, Oyin12 said:

Thats good to know, How did your casper exam go? are you applying to any other schools apart from George brown

Hi there, Just centennial and GeorgeBrown. MoMac and CoMac I won't write my cpnre in time for so I cannot qualify for those schools. I am in last semester so I won't be finished until April which means I can only write after June 1st.

The casper was great, not to hard at all. I thought it was kind fun to be honest. It take like 3 weeks to get it to the schools I hear and I either did good or bad but don't really get my mark on that if I understand correctly. 

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On 1/13/2021 at 9:05 PM, MOMTORN said:

Hi there, Just centennial and GeorgeBrown. MoMac and CoMac I won't write my cpnre in time for so I cannot qualify for those schools. I am in last semester so I won't be finished until April which means I can only write after June 1st.

The casper was great, not to hard at all. I thought it was kind fun to be honest. It take like 3 weeks to get it to the schools I hear and I either did good or bad but don't really get my mark on that if I understand correctly. 

Thats good then, I will be taking my casper in February. I am in the exact boat as you, also in my final semester but I still applied to momac( fingers crossed). On the comac website, its stated there that students finishing this April will most likely not be accepted. sigh.

For George brown we have to send a proof of registration for the cpnre and that won't be available until the end of the our program.

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  • 14 hours ago, Oyin12 said:

    Thats good then, I will be taking my casper in February. I am in the exact boat as you, also in my final semester but I still applied to momac( fingers crossed). On the comac website, its stated there that students finishing this April will most likely not be accepted. sigh.

    For George brown we have to send a proof of registration for the cpnre and that won't be available until the end of the our program.

    yes, but I checked and they said as long as we have that before the start of the program we are good. The same with centennial. I am annoyed we have to wait so long for the casper results to get processed...seems like so much waiting LOL. 

  • They said offers for both schools come put feb and should be all sent out by April so that is a good thing. Perhaps we will be going together ? 

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Hey guys I'm in my last semester of my George Brown PN program, and the decision of my conditional offer for GBC was made on the 1st of February and the offer letter was emailed to me on the 10th of February. My I wrote my casper test on January 12th and I applied to all of the schools in late December; the conditional offer is different for everyone in-terms of deadlines to meet, you usually have to complete everything by the middle of July. For centennial they said that I have to complete my PN program and pass my CPNRE before they can make a decision, and I believe I have until July 1st to do so.

The RPN to RN bridging programs do like to take their own RPN students into their bridging programs (hence Humber only accepting Seneca/Humber RPN students, and GBC having over 700 applicants but accepting 50% of those applicants from the GBC RPN program; I was also in a group session for GBC's bridging program and they admit applicants off of a first come first serve type acceptance rate, and not a competitive GPA, so if you have meet all of their requirements before Feb 1st then you probably would have got an offer into the program, they won't look at your application until you have met their required level on the CASPer test(so people who wrote the Casper test in January have the best chance of admission so long as their other requirements meet GBC standard; the CASPer test takes 3 weeks to grade and an additional 1-2 weeks before the school receives your result), GBC will still send out offers after February 1st; they gave offers to 200 applicants last year admitted about 140 into their program and were still giving out offers to people until the first day of class due to some people not meeting the conditional offer terms and some people rejecting their offers).

You'll probably have a better chance of getting into the bridging program at the school you did your PN program at, but hopefully this helps and I hope you get an offer into the bridging program of your choice.

And I haven't heard anything from Mohawk or Conestoga, I think those are the 2 worst schools in-terms of communication and updating their applicants, like at least GBC and Centennial tell you about what you’re missing, but good luck everyone!

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On 1/12/2021 at 12:38 AM, MOMTORN said:

Hello everyone,

Anyone else applied the Bridge 2021 at George Brown or Centennial?

want to wait for offers with me?

I am wondering if I can hear from past students at either of these two school about their experiences? 

When did offers come out? hard to get into? They are both listed as noncompetitive?

Did you like the program? I heard these schools are not really self-directed like McMaster programs, care to share your thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance.

I'm in the RPN program for GBC right now, and the all of the RPN to RN bridging programs are highly competitive, for some schools you need to apply fast and for some schools meeting the bare minimum in terms of requirement is not enough; in terms of self-directed Centennial would probably be the least self-directed and in my opinion GBC would be the most self-directed because 90% of the program is online, you really have to keep up and do a lot of self studying for the GBC bridging program; from what if heard its not hard but the amount of work you get is tedious. I can't speak on past experience because I just got accepted into the GBC program, hopefully this helps. But if your looking for a more hands on school then Centennial is the better option.

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2 minutes ago, FutureRN.2024 said:

I'm in the RPN program for GBC right now, and the all of the RPN to RN bridging programs are highly competitive, for some schools you need to apply fast and for some schools meeting the bare minimum in terms of requirement is not enough; in terms of self-directed Centennial would probably be the least self-directed and in my opinion GBC would be the most self-directed because 90% of the program is online, you really have to keep up and do a lot of self studying for the GBC bridging program; from what if heard its not hard but the amount of work you get is tedious. I can't speak on past experience because I just got accepted into the GBC program, hopefully this helps. But if your looking for a more hands on school then Centennial is the better option.

Correction, the gta bridging programs and some other well known schools are highly competitive. Some other bridging programs outside of the gta may not be highly competitive but they are still considered competitive programs and will have additional admission requirements such as 1 year of work as a RPN prior to your application for their bridging program.

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On 2/13/2021 at 6:18 AM, FutureRN.2024 said:

Hey guys I'm in my last semester of my George Brown PN program, and the decision of my conditional offer for GBC was made on the 1st of February and the offer letter was emailed to me on the 10th of February. My I wrote my casper test on January 12th and I applied to all of the schools in late December; the conditional offer is different for everyone in-terms of deadlines to meet, you usually have to complete everything by the middle of July. For centennial they said that I have to complete my PN program and pass my CPNRE before they can make a decision, and I believe I have until July 1st to do so.

The RPN to RN bridging programs do like to take their own RPN students into their bridging programs (hence Humber only accepting Seneca/Humber RPN students, and GBC having over 700 applicants but accepting 50% of those applicants from the GBC RPN program; I was also in a group session for GBC's bridging program and they admit applicants off of a first come first serve type acceptance rate, and not a competitive GPA, so if you have meet all of their requirements before Feb 1st then you probably would have got an offer into the program, they won't look at your application until you have met their required level on the CASPer test(so people who wrote the Casper test in January have the best chance of admission so long as their other requirements meet GBC standard; the CASPer test takes 3 weeks to grade and an additional 1-2 weeks before the school receives your result), GBC will still send out offers after February 1st; they gave offers to 200 applicants last year admitted about 140 into their program and were still giving out offers to people until the first day of class due to some people not meeting the conditional offer terms and some people rejecting their offers).

You'll probably have a better chance of getting into the bridging program at the school you did your PN program at, but hopefully this helps and I hope you get an offer into the bridging program of your choice.

And I haven't heard anything from Mohawk or Conestoga, I think those are the 2 worst schools in-terms of communication and updating their applicants, like at least GBC and Centennial tell you about what you’re missing, but good luck everyone!

thanks for this response. you did shed some light on the Gbc program. I am yet to write my casper test . will do one the 28th of this month, so I won't be getting an offer till maybe late march or April. I am hoping the program is flexible enough so we can work while bridging. how is the Gbc rpn program. did covid affect your pre grad consolidation..

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On 1/16/2021 at 1:27 AM, MOMTORN said:

  • yes, but I checked and they said as long as we have that before the start of the program we are good. The same with centennial. I am annoyed we have to wait so long for the casper results to get processed...seems like so much waiting LOL. 

  • They said offers for both schools come put feb and should be all sent out by April so that is a good thing. Perhaps we will be going together ? 

hi @MOMTORN did you hear anything yet from gbc... yeaa hopefully we will go together

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