Hey everyone, I wanted to start a place for people to post and repost about waitlist times, placement runs, and their timestamps.
It is very hard searching for all the information and maybe people will access this thread and keep it updated with information so we all can get some idea on where we stand in line for Maricopa Nursing Placement.
As for me I have a
6/11/10 8:01:32 Timestamp. The placement just ran on March 6th,2012 and I was not placed. On the application website it says that the placement did NOT reach the June timestamps. This will mark 5 semesters that I was not placed (was expecting a 3 semester wait)
I am curious how far the placement ran. If people that were placed during the last placement run (3/6/12) come across this thread and would be willing to post their timestamp and what school choice number (1 through 5) they were placed in that would give an indicator how far away it is.
With almost 2500 people still on the waiting list it looks like it can be a 4-5 year wait for people just now getting on it.
Look forward to chatting with all of you and good luck.
FutureRN101- well I think you do have a good chance of getting placed at one of the larger schools. My stamp is 4/13. I was placed in 9/14 for spring 2015 at Phoenix during their first rounds of placements. But I defered.
Dont select all those schools on your fafsa. It just creates more work for everybody. FAFSA will send your application to each school you select and then that will have them run your app and work out an aid amount. Then when you get placed, you have to log back into FAFSA and remove the schools you will not be attending. If any of the schools has awarded you an amount of aid, you will not be eligible for aid at another school until you decline the aid from the original. This requires you to go to that school and put in a request to decline the aid and it takes a few days to a few weeks. Then you have to notify the placed school so they can work up an aid amount.
Basically, just wait until you are placed. There is no reason to do it now. You have until like June or July to file a fafsa and have it in time for the new school year. You will know if you are placed by then and can apply to just one school. No need to rush it now.
Dont select all those schools on your fafsa. It just creates more work for everybody. FAFSA will send your application to each school you select and then that will have them run your app and work out an aid amount. Then when you get placed, you have to log back into FAFSA and remove the schools you will not be attending. If any of the schools has awarded you an amount of aid, you will not be eligible for aid at another school until you decline the aid from the original. This requires you to go to that school and put in a request to decline the aid and it takes a few days to a few weeks. Then you have to notify the placed school so they can work up an aid amount.
Basically, just wait until you are placed. There is no reason to do it now. You have until like June or July to file a fafsa and have it in time for the new school year. You will know if you are placed by then and can apply to just one school. No need to rush it now.
I was under the impression (perhaps I'm wrong) that the sooner you apply your fafsa the better chance you have of getting aid? A person who applies in June or July could be risking that the school has already given out all the grants they can?
That's not how it works at all. I'm sure there is a cap somewhere, but the schools haven't reached it in the 5 years I have been in school. I apply usually in June of each year and have never had a problem. The only thing that can affect you getting aid or not is filing your FAFSA before the priority filing deadline and registering for classes before the pell census date.
Also, finalization of grant amounts is not complete until after the filing deadline for each semester. If there were to be a higher number of applicants then there is full aid for, then everybody's aid gets reduced a bit.
Hmmm I don't know still, the article in az central (I think it was) said to get your maximum aid amount you should apply before March. I'm going to have to follow up with the advisor to be sure because I need the maximum aid amount I can get!
Yea the more I've looked into it everything says the sooner you apply the more aid you can get. So better safe than sorry, I need all the aid I can get!
If you want to apply and have more work then that's up to you. But when you apply has no bearing on how much aid you get. It's not first come first served because your application is not completely processed until the deadline and then everyone who applied is processed and awarded at the same time. You may see and award before the deadline, but even if you accept it, I can go up or down after the deadline depending on applicants and how many units you are enrolled in. Again, FIVE years of experience with getting FA and not applying until a couple weeks before the deadline. I have compared my aid amount with others, and my "late" application has NEVER been different. Call the FA office, not an advisor, and they will tell you the same thing. I have no idea what you read or researched, but unless it came off the MCCCD financial aid info area of the website, it may not be correct.
Just read your article and see where your misinterpretation happened. What you read about applying early is for "non federal" aid. Read that as not pell grants. Non federal aid means scholarships. You need to file a FAFSA to apply for scholarships and those have much earlier deadlines then that of the schools federally funded aid. Non federal = scholarships. Federal = pell grant = does not go up just because you applied early. It's the same no matter what and is limited to five thousand something per year per student.
Just read your article and see where your misinterpretation happened. What you read about applying early is for "non federal" aid. Read that as not pell grants. Non federal aid means scholarships. You need to file a FAFSA to apply for scholarships and those have much earlier deadlines then that of the schools federally funded aid. Non federal = scholarships. Federal = pell grant = does not go up just because you applied early. It's the same no matter what and is limited to five thousand something per year per student.
Thanks for the feedback, I totally missed the part about the non-federal. I do also plan to apply for scholarships though so June is not an option for me to file that late!
FutureRN101
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My choices are Glendale traditional, Glendale evening weekend, Phoenix traditional, Estrella, and gateway evening weekend.