Welcome and Congrats, Linda! I'm amazed that Sellersburg got their letters out so quick. . . but then again, makes you wonder why other campuses take so long. Obviously it's possible to do it faster!
Lennon, what do they accept as proof of immunization? Is the little card that they fill out and give to you at the dr. office good enough, or does it have to be some official state record? I have one from my Ped's office that has a date from 1970 written in it for the MMR and am wondering if that would be accepted.
I guess it's more what your MD/NP who does your physical will accept as vaccine proof. I had some original forms and then the form that my high school wrote dates on 15 years ago and my NP had no problem with these.
Each campus might require different things, but Bloomington required proof of 2 MMR vaccines (or titer results), proof of 2 negative TB tests, proof of at least starting the Hep B series (I think there was an option to decline, not sure. Titer results acceptable also) and proof of either having had the chickenpox, having an acceptable titer, or declining the vaccine.
I'm probably just going to have to either get titers or get the vaccines again. I'm pretty sure I only had one MMR anyway (that is all that is on my little card), and I had the chicken pox when I was 5 but I'm sure there is no official record of that anywhere since my old ped. is long gone and that was 1974.
So, it's more that a healthcare provider has to sign a health/immunization form? It's not that you have to turn in documentation of the immunizations to Ivy Tech? I thought we would have to turn in copies of imm. records to Ivy Tech, but it sounds like you have to take those to your doctor and then they sign the Ivy Tech health form that says you are covered for the immunizations?
Does anyone know for sure if you can take classes through the summer and graduate the following May? For example, if you start in January 2010 and go through the summer will you graduate the following May? I have heard that you can do this in Indy, but I just wanted to verify.
I'm not sure of how that works. I know that Indy says that it's mandatory now to take classes during "at least one summer." How that works with the date of graduation now, I'm not sure because I had to leave the last info session I went to before it was over so I might have missed that info. I think it would be awesome if we started in this Jan. 2010 and were able to graduate in May 2011, so I hope that is how it works.
I would love to graduate in May, and understand why Indy is utilizing the Summer Session. That being said, I can't help but wonder what I am going to do with my kiddos while I am in class. OOF!
It seems like in order to graduate in May, that they would have to use the summer session AND also have a heavier load in the other full-length semesters. Originally, when I spoke with a lady at Indy in Feb., she said that a full semester would be broken into two summer sessions and that people could graduate in Aug. instead of Dec. So now if they are saying May instead of Dec., that only allows for one summer, so they are going to have to fit the remainder into one of the other full-length terms. I wish we knew more about how it will all work. So I wonder if that means that those who just started in Fall will graduate a semester earlier, in Dec. of 2010? It doesn't seem like they would still graduate in May 2011 if we Spring people would be graduating then.
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Welcome and Congrats, Linda! I'm amazed that Sellersburg got their letters out so quick. . . but then again, makes you wonder why other campuses take so long. Obviously it's possible to do it faster!