So I am most likely going to go to this school and wanted to know what the class schedule is typically like.
1. What part of your schedule can YOU, the student pick, or is each class, the day, instructor, and time of day already chosen for you?
I am about to start a full time job, so I'd like to know how the school schedule interferes, so I can come up with a good plan for when I can work once I start the program.
2. What is the earliest classes start and until what time can they run? 6 am to 6 pm or later??? Even earlier on exam days???
3. I've already completed my A&Ps, Micro, Psyc 1101 & 1102, Engl 1101 & 1102, POLS, Humanities, and a Hist elective...So which classes that I have yet to take can I take online? Which were fairly easy to do online if you are an independent learner? Can you take any nursing courses online?
4. If you transfer in with a bunch of completed courses, will you still be required to register full time. How the my advisor made it sound, they make you enroll full time to finish in the 3 year timeframe. However, if you aren't starting from scratch at their campus, then you technically have less courses to finish in the same timeframe, so you can span them out and still finish in 3 years. Is that an option?
5. I know this is more financial, but what did you do to pay for this tuition? What are the steps to getting enough loans to cover for this program? Is it possible for you to apply for the loans and not qualify and be stuck accepted, but with no way to pay it?
This new job will change my aid eligibility, and I am pretty certain (70%) I will lose the rest of my PELL for the next aid year (2017-2018), as my newer income will change on my taxes. I still wont make enough to pay out of pocket
Thank you all for your help!
P.S. If anyone is planning to enter the program either Spring 18 or later in 2018, maybe we can connect to study for the HESI!!! if you're interested, PM me!
I'm at a different campus so I don't know if my answers will help at all but this is at least how it is at the Sac campus:
1. We do not schedule any of our own classes, our advisor schedules them for us and we cannot pick the times. However, there is a possibility to swap if there is the same class at a different time and you find a student who wants to swap with you. They said they are working on getting to where we can self schedule though.
2. So far classes seem to be at either 9am or 1pm. Once clinicals start the times can be at any time, even overnights if that's what the clinical site requests.
3. If you look at their schedule of courses available online, any class that does not begin with nr is a ge class and those are typically taken online.
4. You have to do the nr courses in the order that they are laid out in the schedule of courses. I came with most pre reqs done, so you start with nr103 and then skip over the next few sessions and go straight to nr222, then follow the regular schedule from then on, just without all the ge courses added on. I do not think you can spread them out.
5. Financial aid paid for most of my tuition plus I got a scholarship from chamberlain. They award them automatically when you submit your FAFSA based on a bunch of different criteria. I am paying between 0-$250 out of pocket per session. If you do not get financial aid and have to get a private loan, if your credit is not very good then there is a good chance you would not be approved.
So far I love this school and I highly recommend it! Good luck with your application and I hope I was of some help!
Regina_Phalange, BSN
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I'm at a different campus so I don't know if my answers will help at all but this is at least how it is at the Sac campus:
1. We do not schedule any of our own classes, our advisor schedules them for us and we cannot pick the times. However, there is a possibility to swap if there is the same class at a different time and you find a student who wants to swap with you. They said they are working on getting to where we can self schedule though.
2. So far classes seem to be at either 9am or 1pm. Once clinicals start the times can be at any time, even overnights if that's what the clinical site requests.
3. If you look at their schedule of courses available online, any class that does not begin with nr is a ge class and those are typically taken online.
4. You have to do the nr courses in the order that they are laid out in the schedule of courses. I came with most pre reqs done, so you start with nr103 and then skip over the next few sessions and go straight to nr222, then follow the regular schedule from then on, just without all the ge courses added on. I do not think you can spread them out.
5. Financial aid paid for most of my tuition plus I got a scholarship from chamberlain. They award them automatically when you submit your FAFSA based on a bunch of different criteria. I am paying between 0-$250 out of pocket per session. If you do not get financial aid and have to get a private loan, if your credit is not very good then there is a good chance you would not be approved.
So far I love this school and I highly recommend it! Good luck with your application and I hope I was of some help!