Hillsborough Community College Fall 2017

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Is anyone else planning on applying for the Fall 2017 nursing program? I know it is really early, but I am just too excited. I want other people to share my excitement with!! :)

Still waiting over here. When did you submit your application - if you don't mind me asking?

I dropped mine off May 5th. How about you?

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I dropped mine off May 5th. How about you?

I dropped mine off last minute on Friday May 12th. So I am hoping they just haven't gotten to me yet!

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I dropped mine off the day before you and mine just updated today. @dlasty yours should update any day now

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Wow! So much has been going on since I last posted. 500 applicants is such a crazy number I can't believe it! But my pre-reqs updated and they are now recieved :D I turned my application in on May 4th around the end of the day.

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I applied last semester and got put as an alternate. I hope I get in this semester but with 500 applicants it looks slim. Hopefully we both get in and can be study buddies.

Yes definitely. I'm curious. I read in previous forums about being put on a list. What does that mean can someone explain to me. Does it mean depending on how many people decline your like on a waiting list ?

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Yes definitely. I'm curious. I read in previous forums about being put on a list. What does that mean can someone explain to me. Does it mean depending on how many people decline your like on a waiting list ?

According to what I understand, they ask you to be an alternate. You have to accept it and then they put you on an alternate list. If someone who was accepted decides not to go (matbe they decide to go to a nursing program in another school) or don't show up for orientation, someone from the nursing program at hcc would contact you to fill in the spot. How many people are on this alternate list? I have no idea. I was hoping I would get a last minute call last year but nope.

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Specializes in GYN Oncology, Post Surgical.

Yes, 500 hundred is a crazy number... but I heard straight from the mouth of the Director of Admissions at PHSC they had 437 total applicants. So, I am sure something close to 500 is an accurate number. Dang it!

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Specializes in GYN Oncology, Post Surgical.
This whole process is too nerve wrecking! I got my AA and finished all my prereqs in December so I've just been waiting to start a nursing program since then & i'm now coming to the realization that I really might not be starting a nursing program till maybe January 2018. My prereq GPA at HCC is an 3.569. At USF I have an 3.88 prereq and I've already been denied for their first cycle. I have a 3.78 prereq at PHSC and I had not been accepted, I've been put on their wait list - they do not tell you what number you are on the wait list. At SPC I have a 3.7 and am now just hopeing I may be put on their wait list and accepted, if I'm put on the waitlist at SPC I won't know if I'm accepted till the end of July :( So anxious praying we are all accepted & for perseverance to never give up

I feel your pain. I am in the exactly same boat.... maybe even worse, because most of my pre-requisites are now 5 years old, which means expiring, which means I would have to do it all over again. 2 years ago, when I finally got all my pre-requisites done and was able to apply I had to move to South Korea with my military husband - I moved back to the US in the end of 2016 (sigh). Impressible how this whole process becomes a soap opera so quickly.

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Its like now a days getting into RN school without a 3.8-4.0 is impossible. I know a few people that have gotten declination letters from a few schools ...

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Specializes in GYN Oncology, Post Surgical.

Yes, the shortage of programs and the need of nurses is making the program as competitive as P.A school! the difference between both are some pre-requisites and a GRE (or MCAT) instead of TEAS. It seems exaggerated to me, but the problem is Florida. Up here in VA, you can get into a program with a 3.3 GPA. I couldn't try to make it here because I wouldn't have enough time to finish it before having to move again (as I am going back to FL this summer).

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Its like now a days getting into RN school without a 3.8-4.0 is impossible. I know a few people that have gotten declination letters from a few schools ...

Totally agree! I did bad my first year of college (didn't think I was doing bad at the time), I wasn't at all aware of how difficult it is to be accepted into nursing school (Cs get degrees?!?!?!! LOL) or even aware of some of the prereqs, have had horrible advisors, getting handfuls of Bs and a couple of Cs have really made things difficult for me - causing me now to be really stressed out. It's hard not to be discouraged, I do believe we are all very smart and capable with great GPAs. If I'm accepted somewhere this fall it will take me 6 years to get a 4 year degree (BSN). It is frustrating being told and on the websites it stating we only need an 2.8, 3.0, etc. to be admitted. An advisor at SPC last week told me those admitted for the fall generally have an prereq GPA of 3.5-3.7 BUT that is not true at all!!!! Last fall 3.76 was the cut off (lowest GPA accepted) - sorry for all the ranting! Just hopefully understandably frustrated

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I wasn't mature enough for college- hence why didn't do well either. Also I struggle academically. It took me going back to school in my late 20s and now early 30s to understand that I have to put in the extra effort to do well. I went from B's and a few C's to straight As....In the sciences!

Want to know why it took me this long to try nursing? Because i didn't think I was competent, but when I earned my first A in A&P, I felt that I was. Now I feel like I'm not all over again. Two B's is what's hurting me--- like really?

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