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Hello! I am starting this topic so we, who applied to LATTC, can keep each other informed. I have applied July 2 2018, and so far I have not started the program. When I went to go check where I was at on the waitlist, it looks like they only got to those who applied April/May 2018 for the cohort Fall 2020. That being said I believe I will be starting Spring 2021. Please comment any information you may have or when you applied ?

On 7/22/2020 at 10:16 AM, Nastacia Anastakkis said:

Hello, I scheduled 3 meetings with -------------------- to see where I was on the waiting list as after the fall it will be my 3rd full semester waiting and just wanted to see if I was a prospect for starting Spring 2021. The first meeting she flat cancelled, and the other two she just never showed up for. I have also sent her 3 emails she has never replied to. I am at a loss and feel helpless and hopeless.

When do you applied?

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Just now, Lizesita2010 said:

When do you applied?

I applied February 21, 2019. So I will be at 3 full semesters at the end of this coming fall.

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9 minutes ago, Nastacia Anastakkis said:

I applied February 21, 2019. So I will be at 3 full semesters at the end of this coming fall.

I applied Nov 2018 and there is people who said that applied June 2018. I think I’m going to get in until fall 2021. The waiting list is going super slow. Try to do the extra clases for BSN while you wait, save money, exercise and focus on yourself the waitlists is pretty long and we are not getting any younger, so just be patient and enjoy life. Good luck

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26 minutes ago, Nastacia Anastakkis said:

I applied February 21, 2019. So I will be at 3 full semesters at the end of this coming fall.

I applied July 2019. She had previously said on an email that I sent her the following.....

”Good afternoon!

I apologize for not responding sooner. I am working from home and have been having some technical difficulties. This past January we pulled 50 names from the waiting of students who applied in March through June of 2018. I will be pulling more names for the Spring 2021 cohort in October. Hopefully, I will get to your name. I hope this information is helpful. “

This email was sent to me on April 30, 2020.
I am also applying to other schools just incase since the waiting list can even take longer than what it usually does due to the COVID-19.
Hope this helped.

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16 minutes ago, Lizesita2010 said:

I applied Nov 2018 and there is people who said that applied June 2018. I think I’m going to get in until fall 2021. The waiting list is going super slow. Try to do the extra clases for BSN while you wait, save money, exercise and focus on yourself the waitlists is pretty long and we are not getting any younger, so just be patient and enjoy life. Good luck

So, I am finished with all the BSN courses that are necessary already, I have actually got another degree and am an LVN, so to kill time and get used to the meds I even took the Pharmacy Tech course at Los Angeles Mission. I am pretty upset. I finished my pre reqs 4 years ago, which took 4 years because on my last class Micro I had to drop because LAVC where I was taking it had an awful, brand new, no teaching experience instructor who lost 75% of her classes. At that point a coworker (I work in a hospital) suggested LAMC and told me Micro there would be a breeze, the catch was they required Bio 3 as a pre req to that class they didn’t accept High School Bio. So there went yet another wasted semester, no counting the Summer I had to wait to get into Bio 3 for the fall. It literally took me 2 years to finish my last pre req, then I went to LATTC workshops and got invited for the TEAS, yay! Not. I was in a major accident and lost 1.5 years, then I finally recovered, took the TEAS and applied the same day. I was told various things. “Oh it will only be a year” No it will be 3 full semesters” and Now it looks like 4. I have literally wasted nearly a decade trying to become a nurse, actually I am a nurse, but an RN. Initially in life I wanted to be a Lawyer, and I am skilled in that field, I worked in Law prior to deciding on becoming a nurse and if I knew I was going to be waiting over 3 semesters I would have taken my butt to law school in February of 2019 and been graduating before this program even started. I feel like I have wasted my life on this. As someone who works in the hospital and has for 7 years, I worked in 3 different ones, nursing school isn’t our only hurdle. After this if you most will have an extremely difficult time landing a first nursing job as a new grad and some will never be in one that is worth anything they will settle on home health which to me is worthless. I am an LVN who works as a CNA for a Union Hospital and my pay is 25 bux an hour I make just as much as an RN who works in home Health because they are paid per visit and at the end of the day the hours they spend driving and waiting in between to see the patient equals to about 25.00 an hour even though it’s 50 dollars per visit. I can tell you right now had I known beforehand, the waits, and all the other red tape I would have absolutely gone to be a lawyer. Now I feel just stuck I have devoted the last 8 years of my life to working in Healthcare and it has not paid off.

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14 minutes ago, Nastacia Anastakkis said:

So, I am finished with all the BSN courses that are necessary already, I have actually got another degree and am an LVN, so to kill time and get used to the meds I even took the Pharmacy Tech course at Los Angeles Mission. I am pretty upset. I finished my pre reqs 4 years ago, which took 4 years because on my last class Micro I had to drop because LAVC where I was taking it had an awful, brand new, no teaching experience instructor who lost 75% of her classes. At that point a coworker (I work in a hospital) suggested LAMC and told me Micro there would be a breeze, the catch was they required Bio 3 as a pre req to that class they didn’t accept High School Bio. So there went yet another wasted semester, no counting the Summer I had to wait to get into Bio 3 for the fall. It literally took me 2 years to finish my last pre req, then I went to LATTC workshops and got invited for the TEAS, yay! Not. I was in a major accident and lost 1.5 years, then I finally recovered, took the TEAS and applied the same day. I was told various things. “Oh it will only be a year” No it will be 3 full semesters” and Now it looks like 4. I have literally wasted nearly a decade trying to become a nurse, actually I am a nurse, but an RN. Initially in life I wanted to be a Lawyer, and I am skilled in that field, I worked in Law prior to deciding on becoming a nurse and if I knew I was going to be waiting over 3 semesters I would have taken my butt to law school in February of 2019 and been graduating before this program even started. I feel like I have wasted my life on this. As someone who works in the hospital and has for 7 years, I worked in 3 different ones, nursing school isn’t our only hurdle. After this if you most will have an extremely difficult time landing a first nursing job as a new grad and some will never be in one that is worth anything they will settle on home health which to me is worthless. I am an LVN who works as a CNA for a Union Hospital and my pay is 25 bux an hour I make just as much as an RN who works in home Health because they are paid per visit and at the end of the day the hours they spend driving and waiting in between to see the patient equals to about 25.00 an hour even though it’s 50 dollars per visit. I can tell you right now had I known beforehand, the waits, and all the other red tape I would have absolutely gone to be a lawyer. Now I feel just stuck I have devoted the last 8 years of my life to working in Healthcare and it has not paid off.

Yeah the waiting is pretty bad when I first started applying I was 25. I applied to 7 schools and every single one of those college told me to try again. So, I decided to sing up in the waiting list and forget about it because applying every semester is really stressful and every time you get rejected you feel bad. So now my bday is coming up next week I will be 28 and I feel really old by the time I am going to be done with school I will be 32. I just hope that two years from now when I am 30 I can say I did something with my life because if not I am going to have a crisis.

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My goal is by 40!! Now I really feel old. ? For so many reasons in life it has taken me this long. I think in the end it’s a matter of how much do you want this? Just stay focused on your goal. Even if it takes a bit longer than what you expected. Stay positive! I applied in Aug 2019. ?

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On 7/22/2020 at 11:52 AM, FutureSN said:

My goal is by 40!! Now I really feel old. ? For so many reasons in life it has taken me this long. I think in the end it’s a matter of how much do you want this? Just stay focused on your goal. Even if it takes a bit longer than what you expected. Stay positive! I applied in Aug 2019. ?

To be honest I stopped being so enthusiastic about it about 3 years ago, After working in a hospital in every single unit, including being a burn tech, I have found you don’t have to be incredibly intelligent to be a nurse, there is a lot of red tape, like wait lists, CEU’s, additional cer ts required if you want to work in certain parts of the hospital, hospital administration. There was a reason I didn’t go to West Coast University and it wasn’t the money. It was because if I was going to spend that much money it was going to be for something that had Doctor at the end of my title. The opportunities for nurses right now unless you have experience are not that great. Some are lucky if they already work in a hospital but a lot are not and are stuck taking a job in Home Health that has crummy benefits. I got in this field over law because of the benefits because many hospitals have excellent 401’k and stock, PTO, medical and dental all which I have got as a CNA working for the hospital. I already make 300 a shift and I do one day of overtime every two weeks which yields me an extra 450. Oh and I have unlimited overtime opportunities. I can pretty much work everyday if I wanted to, there have been rare exceptions like end of Summer when it’s really hot where I haven’t been able to get unlimited overtime. So my cousin is a lawyer which is my first love she gets paid 796 bucks an hour for doing a depo she does about 6 depos a week and then she gets 15% of all settlements and all the cases settle she is a work comp attorney. As an RN unless My hospital hires me and I have to go to home health like many new grads do I will be making the same amount of money I did in the hospital without any of the top tier benefits. Had ----------------- told me it’s going to 4 semesters not counting this one. I am not kidding I would have said forget this noise and gone to law school. Northwestern I could have got into right away. Also, nurses in a hospital settings are typically annoying know it alls, nursing was the best they could do in life, they were told by the schools they would be superhero’s, and how special you have to be to be one. All of this is not true. It’s al propoganda set forth by hospital and schools to ensure their is never a nursing shortage again. If you get into a non union hospital the going rate is 42.00 bux for the night shift. Sound like a lot to you? It doesn’t to me when I have cousins making 500,000 per year, another one makes close to a million as opposed to 450 a shift x 3 equals 1350 a week without overtime I pretty much make that now as a CNA

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On 7/22/2020 at 12:55 PM, Nastacia Anastakkis said:

To be honest I stopped being so enthusiastic about it about 3 years ago, After working in a hospital in every single unit, including being a burn tech, I have found you don’t have to be incredibly intelligent to be a nurse, there is a lot of red tape, like wait lists, CEU’s, additional cer ts required if you want to work in certain parts of the hospital, hospital administration. There was a reason I didn’t go to West Coast University and it wasn’t the money. It was because if I was going to spend that much money it was going to be for something that had Doctor at the end of my title. The opportunities for nurses right now unless you have experience are not that great. Some are lucky if they already work in a hospital but a lot are not and are stuck taking a job in Home Health that has crummy benefits. I got in this field over law because of the benefits because many hospitals have excellent 401’k and stock, PTO, medical and dental all which I have got as a CNA working for the hospital. I already make 300 a shift and I do one day of overtime every two weeks which yields me an extra 450. Oh and I have unlimited overtime opportunities. I can pretty much work everyday if I wanted to, there have been rare exceptions like end of Summer when it’s really hot where I haven’t been able to get unlimited overtime. So my cousin is a lawyer which is my first love she gets paid 796 bucks an hour for doing a depo she does about 6 depos a week and then she gets 15% of all settlements and all the cases settle she is a work comp attorney. As an RN unless My hospital hires me and I have to go to home health like many new grads do I will be making the same amount of money I did in the hospital without any of the top tier benefits. Had --------------- told me it’s going to 4 semesters not counting this one. I am not kidding I would have said forget this noise and gone to law school. Northwestern I could have got into right away. Also, nurses in a hospital settings are typically annoying know it alls, nursing was the best they could do in life, they were told by the schools they would be superhero’s, and how special you have to be to be one. All of this is not true. It’s al propoganda set forth by hospital and schools to ensure their is never a nursing shortage again. If you get into a non union hospital the going rate is 42.00 bux for the night shift. Sound like a lot to you? It doesn’t to me when I have cousins making 500,000 per year, another one makes close to a million as opposed to 450 a shift x 3 equals 1350 a week without overtime I pretty much make that now as a CNA

My plan was to get into the program Spring 2021 I started it so may as well finish and then immediately after getting out go straight to law school and go work with a connect of my cousin who does med malpractice. Waiting an additional semester which reall is 7 more months not to mention the 7 months before that went wasted in the semester I applied makes me feel I just wasted my life

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4 minutes ago, Nastacia Anastakkis said:

My plan was to get into the program Spring 2021 I started it so may as well finish and then immediately after getting out go straight to law school and go work with a connect of my cousin who does med malpractice. Waiting an additional semester which reall is 7 more months not to mention the 7 months before that went wasted in the semester I applied makes me feel I just wasted my life

I think that you have to decide what career you love more if lawyer or nurse because not everything is about the money. The point is that when you finally graduate you end up doing what you really love and wake up everyday with the feeling that you want to go to work not hating your job and loving what you do. However, if you love both careers I’m happy for you because lawyers is a good career too.

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3 hours ago, Lizesita2010 said:

I think that you have to decide what career you love more if lawyer or nurse because not everything is about the money. The point is that when you finally graduate you end up doing what you really love and wake up everyday with the feeling that you want to go to work not hating your job and loving what you do. However, if you love both careers I’m happy for you because lawyers is a good career too.

No, I can’t I have to do what I am more vested in . I no longer love nursing. I am a nurse, I have worked in hospitals and know all about the business. To all of you who haven’t you’re still in the idealistic phase of loving what you think it is going to be and let me tell you 9 out of 10 times. Many nurses are mere crybabies who got into it to be hailed as a “hero” and to think they know everything about medicine when they didn’t study “medicine “ they studied nursing which are two different models. The majority of nursing is charting and med passing. When I went on the waiting list Feb 21, 2019 had they said you’re going to wait 2.5 years before you start at that point I would have taken the LSAT, and gone to law school. Now, I have too much time vested. I would discourage anyone to enter this field the time it takes vs. the reward isn’t worth it

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On 7/8/2020 at 2:16 PM, Tat123 said:

So I got the application, I will fill out and pray! It said 2-3 years for waitlist ? what’s the average you guys have waited?

Did it say 2 to 3 year wait or 2 to 3 semester wait?

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