i am actually posting this question for my sister. she attends gpc, she is trying to enter into their nursing program. it sounds like this is a tough program to get into, she has a girl in her class that has a much higher g.p.a. & net scores who didn't get in. looking @ previous posts on this site i see there are a few people in the same situation with high stats but not admitted. she is very nervous bc her g.p.a. isn't that high & she still has a few classes to complete. if any1 has any info. on this school (waitlist, stats, ect.) please post, she really needs all the advice she can get. any recommendations for other schools that might be better would help, she was considering transfering to clayton/ mercer.
nursinginga, thanx so much 4 the tips and the information. my sister is going to one of clayton's upcoming transfer orientations hopefully she can get admitted for the fall and possibly apply to the program next year. if not she could always stay @ gpc & try to bring up her stats. :redpinkhe
nursininga, congrats for passing in a school that quite honesly has the worst fail rate of any nursing school in Ga. You are probably way smarter than anyone I go to nursing school with at Clayton. We don't know what it is like to work our behinds off!
Any nursing school is going to be tough to get in, and nursininga is correct to advise applying to different schools and hoping for the best. If your sister goes to Clayton, she will be taking Pathophysiology before entering nursing--it's a prereq there, where as most schools incorporate it into their nursing curriculum. Don't let that scare her away--the course is invaluable for nursing! I'm glad that I had a whole sememster of Patho before clinicals etc... Some schools don't even offer it. If she can pass patho, get a good NET score and keep a GPA over 2.80, she has a good chance of getting in. The school will tell her that they it's rare to accept anyone under a 3.00 GPA, but I believe that is a scare tactic. The truth is most schools use scare tactics when it comes to GPAs, but they really do have the ability to be picky when making choices of who gets in.
I have found that the advisors at CSU were very helpful even before I was accepted into nursing, unlike they were at GPC when I attended. Another good school is Gordon College in Barnesville. It may be a long drive, but I know 2 friends that graduated there, and are very happy they did. They use TEAS as their testing--much easier than the NET. Both friends have jobs in the areas they like. One more thing about GPC--when I went to their nursing seminar, they told us that they couldn't guarantee which campus we would be sent to. Even if we started at the Clarkston campus, we may be asked to drive to the Lawrenceville campus for class, vice versa. They were having a shortage of professors at the time--1 year ago.
I know it sounds like I'm dumping on GPC, but I have heard too many negatives and experienced being turned down twice with high GPAs etc.. My best friend was turned down twice (with no explanation) then he went on to graduate from Clayton, Magna Cum Laude! GPC didn't give him a chance. He was so discouraged, he almost changed majors--I'm glad he decided to go somewhere else.
I agree that you should go the source. Go to the nursing schools, find out the prereqs, find out the average GPAs, make appts and bring your transcripts, talk to students already in the program, and most of all don't put all your eggs in one basket. Apply to serveral schools!!
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nursinginga, thanx so much 4 the tips and the information. my sister is going to one of clayton's upcoming transfer orientations hopefully she can get admitted for the fall and possibly apply to the program next year. if not she could always stay @ gpc & try to bring up her stats. :redpinkhe