Golden West College Fall 2019

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Hello fellow fall 2019 applicants!

God willing, we will find out if we made it into the fall 2019 cohort at Golden West the latter part of April. I have been waiting for someone to start a post so we could all "calmly" wait this process out together! I know I am not the only one out here so please join me as we "patiently" wait for our acceptance emails/mail! All positive vibes, I am low key an internal wreck, if you cannot tell by the words I strategically placed within "quotes", lol.

@JonEMT GPA earns the most points. At GWC, GPA gets 35 pts max and the TEAS earns 30pt max. In comparison, work experience only gets 10 pts.

I've heard of students getting in with zero experience but great GPA, but not the other way around. I'd definitely retake the C class and work my butt off for an A, and delay the TEAS until I'm ready. Good luck!

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So do you all think about 2 months is plenty of time to study for the TEAS? How long did you all take?

Thank you very much everyone for answering all of my questions! I don't know how it was for you, but I found it pretty stressful trying hard to get through all the classes, knowing you had to excel in everything, and now the TEAS seems like a beast. ?

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2 minutes ago, JonEMT said:

So do you all think about 2 months is plenty of time to study for the TEAS? How long did you all take?

Thank you very much everyone for answering all of my questions! I don't know how it was for you, but I found it pretty stressful trying hard to get through all the classes, knowing you had to excel in everything, and now the TEAS seems like a beast. ?

Some study for 2 weeks and some longer than others.. it all depends on the person.. I recommend u buying the 2 practice test forms A & B and take it before & after u study.. I studied the teas for 1 year... and still got mid 80s.

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On 5/28/2019 at 5:30 PM, nursejjoo said:

YAY Congratulations!!!! Did you get the email or did they mail you? I am also in the alternate pool with 78points (same as your points) and I'm hoping that I get in too!!!?

Through email! Regularly stay on top of your email, they only give you like 2-3 days to reply or your spot is considered declined!

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7 hours ago, JonEMT said:

So do you all think about 2 months is plenty of time to study for the TEAS? How long did you all take?

Thank you very much everyone for answering all of my questions! I don't know how it was for you, but I found it pretty stressful trying hard to get through all the classes, knowing you had to excel in everything, and now the TEAS seems like a beast. ?

I studied for about 2-3 weeks for the TEAS and got 87 %. It all just depends on how well you know the material. I got in the alternate pool with 78 points. (Phlebotomist license with no work experience, AA degree, A physio ,A Anat ,B micro, foreign language in high school, 87 on TEAS, and the 3 required classes). With the new points change I would now have 76 with pharmacology and English. At saddleback I would have 80 points this go around. Some schools give more points for certain things. I would definitely fix the C but if you can make up for the missing points in GPA with other areas like a degree, work experience and high TEAS score then you should be good. LBCC is a lottery school accepts students with a low gpa. So does I think Cerritos or cypress. They are 50 % points and 50% lottery. Whatever you do don’t give up. My pre reqs expired and I had to take all of them over.

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1 hour ago, Capito said:

I studied for about 2-3 weeks for the TEAS and got 87 %. It all just depends on how well you know the material. I got in the alternate pool with 78 points. (Phlebotomist license with no work experience, AA degree, A physio ,A Anat ,B micro, foreign language in high school, 87 on TEAS, and the 3 required classes). With the new points change I would now have 76 with pharmacology and English. At saddleback I would have 80 points this go around. Some schools give more points for certain things. I would definitely fix the C but if you can make up for the missing points in GPA with other areas like a degree, work experience and high TEAS score then you should be good. LBCC is a lottery school accepts students with a low gpa. So does I think Cerritos or cypress. They are 50 % points and 50% lottery. Whatever you do don’t give up. My pre reqs expired and I had to take all of them over.

Cerritos is 75% lottery and cypress is all about high pts/gpa. Lbcc requires u to take a reading class for application unless u have a bachelors.

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I’m available for questions as well if you have any over the summer. I remember being super overwhelmed getting ready for first semester! Currently 3rd semester. I’ll pm my email if you need anything. Congrats!

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@Chadabees I'd love if you could pm your email to me. Thank you!

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@Chadabees I would love some veteran advice too =)!

This question is to any current students, what do you typically do during the intersession (January) or summer if you don't take the summer classes at Fullerton?

Do we continue with clinical during that time?

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8 minutes ago, LateRNerd said:

@Chadabees I would love some veteran advice too =)!

This question is to any current students, what do you typically do during the intersession (January) or summer if you don't take the summer classes at Fullerton?

Do we continue with clinical during that time?

No clinical during break

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On 6/8/2019 at 6:10 PM, Chadabees said:

I’m available for questions as well if you have any over the summer. I remember being super overwhelmed getting ready for first semester! Currently 3rd semester. I’ll pm my email if you need anything. Congrats!

I'd love any of your wisdom as well. PM me too! Thank you!

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On 6/8/2019 at 6:10 PM, Chadabees said:

I’m available for questions as well if you have any over the summer. I remember being super overwhelmed getting ready for first semester! Currently 3rd semester. I’ll pm my email if you need anything. Congrats!

That'd be awesome if you could send me your email. Thanks!

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