Georgia Highlands

Published

Just wondering if anyone knows if getting accepted to GHC is still based on the application worksheet. I just sent in my application but they no longer require the app. worksheet. Does anyone know if they still use the totals on the worksheet or do they do it differently? Also, does anyone know if they have ever taken anyone who has a C? Or, what about the minimum GPA? Thanks for any info about GHC.

Specializes in CNA- many years ago.

sydnie07...this is how you calculate the total score for the ghc admission score.

you give yourself 4 points for an a, 3 for a b, 2 for a c in each of the three biology classes: anatomy and physiology 1, anatomy and physiology 2, medical microbiology. then you total those points and take 40% of the total. that is your score for that section.

do the same for the scoring on the second section for the rest of the prerequisite classes. then you total those and take 40 % of the total. that is your score for that section.

for the third section, you take 20 % of whatever number they are going to allow you for your sat if you already have a bachelors degree. that is your score for the third section.

total up your score for the 3 sections and that is your rough admission score. (there is a little bit more to the formula to calculate it on the admission worksheet, but that is basically the jist of it.)

i had the nursing department check my worksheet before i turned it in in january. it was correct. i don't believe that you can just take the number that they give you for having a bachelor's degree and add that number to the other two section scores. you have to take 20% of it first. does that make sense? it gets kind of confusing.

good luck everybody on getting in. i talked to the nursing dept at ghc yesterday and they said that we should have the acceptance letters in may. they said that they would be accepting roughly 100 students for the rome campus.

do or do not....did you apply for the rome campus or the marietta campus....or both?

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Does anyone know anything about which students are selected for the Marietta, Southern Poly Tech campus? I have heard that the students selected have to interview w/ Wellstar. I was curious about when this takes place.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Thanks for the help with the worksheet. I get it now. Do you happen to know how many people will get in to Marietta campus?

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in CNA- many years ago.

The lady I spoke with at the GHC nursing department said that they accept roughly 25 students to the Marietta campus. I believe that students at the Marietta campus have to sign an agreement with Wellstar to work for them after graduation, and in turn Wellstar pays their way through the program.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
sydnie07...this is how you calculate the total score for the ghc admission score.

do or do not....did you apply for the rome campus or the marietta campus....or both?

i applied to the rome campus. the admission lady said that they're going to mail out letters in june. maybe that's just for the rome campus, but she said they want to have the spring semester grades in before they make a choice.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

:grn:This wait is agonizing!!! I wish I had all the answers. I wonder when the Wellstar interviews will transpire. Before, or after the letters get sent out. I don't want to call up to the Nursing Dept anymore with my questions. If they have caller id, they might block my number and reject my application. :lol_hitti

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in CNA- many years ago.

dallasga123..... lol...it is so funny that you say that, because I have thought the exact same thing. I have wondered if they have caller ID also.

This wait is agonizing! I understand that they want to have the Spring semester grades accounted for before they make decisions, but surely there are some people that they could go ahead and mail letters to that will definately make it in, without have the final Spring grades. I doubt very seriously that someone with all A's is going to come up with a C or D in Spring classes.

I'm sure the wait is VERY frustrating for those students who have applied to more than one school. I hear that GHC is one of the last ones to send out acceptance letters.

I was talking to another student at GHC who applied for the nursing program last fall and didn't get in, and she said that she had heard after fall classes started there were some students who got accepted to more than one nursing program and didn't let GHC know that they wouldn't be coming....so those slots could've been given to somebody else!!! GGRrrrrrrr!!!!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

That's a shame, wasted nursing slots. Especially, when every nursing student I have met is just as driven as myself.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in CNA- many years ago.

I agree....and I hope I don't offend someone by saying this, but I have also encountered several people at GHC who were just waiting on the Dental Hygiene Program acceptance letters to go out so that they would know whether or not to turn in their Nursing Program application before the deadline. They said that they really wanted Dental Hygiene and didn't really care about Nursing at all.....but if they couldn't get in dental hygiene, they would take nursing instead.

I understand that the Dental Hygiene Program is very competitive, if not more so than the Nursing Program to get into....but I kinda feel like nursing is not where these people need to turn if their heart isn't in it. They are dealing with people's lives for pete's sake!!!

BUT, I digress..... lol

I'll keep crossing my fingers for us all. Please post if anyone else hears any more news from GHC.

Do or Do Not....let us know when you get accepted to Kennesaw! (not if...but when :wink2:)

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Dental hygiene is very different from nursing. I'm surprised to hear that people interested in that would even consider nursing. I wish that they would not apply for something their heart isn't in.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Dental Hygiene has the same pre-reqs as Nursing and the pay is just as good, so it makes sense that a lot of them would "cross-over" if they couldn't get into their first career choice. I don't really think it's right that they do that if their heart's not in nursing, especially with so many of us spending so much time in effort to get in, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

And so it does. I would hate to think of someone taking a slot when they don't really want it, only to drop out of the program later, but, as you said, that is the way cookie crumbles. All I know is that if I don't make it in, I am warning my family to stay away from me for a couple of weeks if I get a rejection letter! I'll be bitter.:flmngmd:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion