I am a loser

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I didn't win the ADN lottery. :( It is ok, since it wasn't my first choice school, or my second, or even my third. I did "want a date to the prom" though, and would have gone with whomever asked first. Certainly I was hoping to have choices! Oh well. I am still waiting on my first choice and should get word in the next week, and if that doesn't work out, I at least have numbers for 2 other schools and should be in by Spring. If that is the case, at least my house will get clean while I wait.

So hard to trust that it will all be just as it should. My husband reminded me that I will get in when and where I belong. True enough. Now hand me another Corona so I can cry in my beer!

I am sorry to hear that the lotto was not in your favor. I know how you feel. I have applied to 3 schools that are ADN and over the last 2 years (4 semesters) of applying I have not been selected either. It is really hard to accept that you were not a "Lucky" to win the lotto, I haven't been "Lucky" myself.

What programs did you apply to?

I have applied to the CC's here in Sacramento.

I applied to 1 BSN, and 3 ADNs. One was the lottery, and the other two gave me waitlist numbers a year and a half ago. I was in the upper 300s and am now in 100s. I keep reminding myself that I have a slot ... eventually. So that is a nice safety net.

I did consider Sac State, but I looked at their admission criteria and while I did fine with the GPA and entrance exam, I don't really qualify for any (maybe 1!) of the many supplemental points offered. They really give out a lot of social/economic hardship points! It seems that a person who is less advantaged but a lesser student could get in before a better student ... negates merit, IMO. I see the need, yet, found it discouraging all the same, so didn't bother to apply.

Do any of the schools you applied to offer numbers? Or are all lottery? Good luck

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I applied to 1 BSN, and 3 ADNs. One was the lottery, and the other two gave me waitlist numbers a year and a half ago. I was in the upper 300s and am now in 100s. I keep reminding myself that I have a slot ... eventually. So that is a nice safety net.

I did consider Sac State, but I looked at their admission criteria and while I did fine with the GPA and entrance exam, I don't really qualify for any (maybe 1!) of the many supplemental points offered. They really give out a lot of social/economic hardship points! It seems that a person who is less advantaged but a lesser student could get in before a better student ... negates merit, IMO. I see the need, yet, found it discouraging all the same, so didn't bother to apply.

Do any of the schools you applied to offer numbers? Or are all lottery? Good luck

Well I applied to 3 ADN programs this round and I still haven't heard from any of them just yet. These schools do not do a waitlist at all. It's either you are in or out! Harsh I know.

I did apply to Yuba City last semester in Oct 07 and was placed on their waitlist. I have 257 people in front of me as of January. They only accept 30ish a semester so I have about another year and a half to go.

The bummer is that this school is 50 miles away from me and with gas prices now at $4.00 I am really going to suffer when it's $5.00 next year and I am driving 100 miles a day!

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MedicalNerd, I hear ya on the gas woes! I have $4 bridge toll in some cases, too. Ugh. Have you considered Solano in Fairfield? It is a waitlist school, but the numbers move really fast. It seems to go down by about a 100 for fall and 60 or so for spring. Though, it would put you in commute traffic. Certainly a quality of life issue to consider!

LOL, need that Stafford loan just to get to and from school!

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Wow, I didn't know this. Those law school graduates must feel ripped-off that they are prevented from "passing" not by their performance on the test but by the fact that so many people apply to take it!

Lots and lots of misconceptions about the California bar exam, even among people who have taken it. Just in my brief research into a legal career, I've learned that there is no quota or limit on the number who pass. In fact, the pass rate has varied substantially from one administration to another.

Two factors in CA are thought to drag down the pass rates. One is that CA allows graduates of non-ABA-approved programs to take the bar. There are seventeen of these programs in CA alone. The other consideration is that they allow unlimited retakes, with a candidate's chance of passing tending to decrease after each failed attempt.

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As for the CA info, I'm sharing my news based on the fact that a lot of my family members are attorneys or graduated from law school. Obviously, I'm in nursing, and respect the information shared with me by people in my family who've practiced law for many years/my uncle (my cousin's father) a professor.

California, New York, and Florida are known to be amongst the most difficult states in which to pass the bar. No, there isn't a set number who pass, and what makes one pass and not another is something not even those who passed can tell you, but those states have hoards of students taking the exam, and those exams are known to potential exam-takers to be not as easy to pass as in other states. My cousin passed the bar in other states, first try, but her husband has a business in CA, which limits her geographical options.

And, my point, as a nursing "person", I'm sorry for your struggle to get into CA nursing schools, as I understand how tough it can be out there to compete for limited spots! GOOD LUCK!

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