Linfield Spring 2021 Cohort

Geroge · Sep 17, 2020

Has anyone heard back from Linfield yet?

thecat · Sep 17, 2020

I received an e-mail from Linfield. They told me they review all applicants holistically, and that they do factor healthcare experience.

They let me know that my prerequisites are not pre-approved. I took A&P 300 series at Portland State and Nutrition there, too. I am surprised to hear that, but I couldn't imagine them not being approved. Honestly, I was a bit surprised that no one with this similar course background has applied at Linfield in the past. Just my thoughts.

Regarding decisions, Linfield said they expect to send out admission decisions by October 1st.

Good luck to all who've applied.

Geroge · Sep 17, 2020

That is so weird. I followed their specific guidelines for PCC and made sure to take all of the courses they listed... do you think we could hear back before October 1st?

thecat · Sep 17, 2020

Linfield said on or before October 1st.

natedneie · Sep 17, 2020

Hi all, I also applied for the 2021 cohort. I have a similar GPA (all mine sGPA, prerequisite, and A&P) fall right at 3.7-3.8 and I have healthcare experience so I'm hopeful. I spoke to them today as well and they send an email as well as hard mail. I've seen in the past that the email decisions get sent before Oct 1. I also know if you have certain accounts it can get filtered into spam mail. Gmail for example will sometimes put it in the spam folder so just as a heads up. Good luck to everyone!!

Geroge · Sep 17, 2020

1 hour ago, natedneie said:

Hi all, I also applied for the 2021 cohort. I have a similar GPA (all mine sGPA, prerequisite, and A&P) fall right at 3.7-3.8 and I have healthcare experience so I'm hopeful. I spoke to them today as well and they send an email as well as hard mail. I've seen in the past that the email decisions get sent before Oct 1. I also know if you have certain accounts it can get filtered into spam mail. Gmail for example will sometimes put it in the spam folder so just as a heads up. Good luck to everyone!!

I constantly check my email (more periodically now that we are closer to October).. you have pretty good stats by the way! Did you complete all the prerequisites or you still have some in progress?

natedneie · Sep 17, 2020

Ha agreed I'm always refreshing mine as well! And I did have everything completed when I applied I was paranoid because OHSU required it as far as I know so I just went ahead and did them. However I don't think not having them all done is a big deal either. Are you an external transfer?? I know Spring cohort is more friendly to those who aren't existing Linfield students.

Geroge · Sep 17, 2020

I have only one course in progress (which I completed last term). I am an external applicant - according to linfield, existing linfield students enrol in Fall cohort (which is why I applied for the Spring, otherwise, I would have waited to complete them all before applying)

natedneie · Sep 17, 2020

Oh okay, then I think that shouldn't cause an issue right? And same here that's why I applied for the Spring term as well. My experience is as a ER scribe manager and I also mentor younger transgender kids (as I'm trans myself). I'm hopeful everything together pushes me in LOL. Especially since my grades aren't all A's ya know

Geroge · Sep 17, 2020

15 minutes ago, natedneie said:

Oh okay, then I think that shouldn't cause an issue right? And same here that's why I applied for the Spring term as well. My experience is as a ER scribe manager and I also mentor younger transgender kids (as I'm trans myself). I'm hopeful everything together pushes me in LOL. Especially since my grades aren't all A's ya know

Well hopefully we’ll both get in! I’ve also heard about the new campus Linfield purchased specifically for nursing students which I think is exciting.. my healthcare experience is definitely not as good as yours - I worked as a medication aide for about a month or two before moving to Portland so I don’t think it will do much.. good thing is that Linfield doesn’t care much about experience (from what I’ve heard)

by the way: is your GPA based on the entire prerequisites list or on the A&P, and sciences as well? For what I understood, Linfield focuses more on the lab sciences than others...

natedneie · Sep 17, 2020

Yeah I hope so too. I think any experience is good. Where did you move from?? I know it's less important but they try to view candidates holistically, but I think that depends on a lot anyway. Individually my science GPA is 3.71 and pre reqs total is 3.79 and my A&P is 3.7. However my overall GPA is around 3.37 because of classes I took a while ago when I first started college and didn't care. I know that GPA isn't looked at very closely, and they care more about A&P and lab sciences.

Geroge · Sep 17, 2020

6 minutes ago, natedneie said:

Yeah I hope so too. I think any experience is good. Where did you move from?? I know it's less important but they try to view candidates holistically, but I think that depends on a lot anyway. Individually my science GPA is 3.71 and pre reqs total is 3.79 and my A&P is 3.7. However my overall GPA is around 3.37 because of classes I took a while ago when I first started college and didn't care. I know that GPA isn't looked at very closely, and they care more about A&P and lab sciences.

I think your GPA is very competitive! Especially with so much healthcare experience! I’m getting some experience now just in case I don’t get in (always gotta plan for the worst) have you applied to other places besides Linfield?