MATC petition process for Jan 09 students

[craigm]

Is anyone waiting to be notified of acceptance into MATC's January 2009 clinical?

I'm waiting and after ALL the pre req's, CNA certification, NLN exam, Health records, and waiting, god I better get in!

[craigm]

Got my lovely "not accepted" letter over the weekend. What do you do after you've done everything you're suppose to and you still don't get accepted. Good grades, good score on NLN, all pre req's done???? Now I need to decide if i'm done waiting and putting my life on hold for these nursing programs.

What really bothers me is that all these schools want you to take all the pre req's, become a CNA, and spend all this money on preparing but then, won't accept you??

[craigm]

Oh and by the way, I talked to my Nursing counselor at MATC and she said acceptance was a lottery so it doesn't matter what your GPA or NLN score was.

WHY TRY TO DO WELL THEN.

What a joke!

[Someday_A_Nurse]

Oh my gosh! That's terrible. Every counselor at MATC gives out different info. I am switching over to Stritch. I took the CNA course, Life Span Psych, and A&P I (II next semester), and they all transfer over. I got in based on my GPA and NET score, and they are so nice to work with.

Anyway, I would go up the ladder at MATC until you get a better answer than that. I am very curious about which counselor would say that. That's exactly why I'm leaving. This is only my second semester there, and they have changed the requirements countless times just in less than a year. I'm so sorry you have to go through that nonsense.

[blueelle]

Craigm,

If you don't mind my asking....what was your GPA? It is my understanding that they take 25% of those in the top GPA, 50% from the middle range and 25% from the lower end. Just curious with what GPA you got in relation to being rejected.

[Someday_A_Nurse]

I don't understand that at all. Why wouldn't they just take the top people? Those would be the people I'd want working on me, that's for sure. I must be missing something here.

[monkeyloaf]

I had the same issue as everyone else here. I have a 4.0 GPA and scored in the 99th percentile on the NLN Pre-Admissions Exam, and also did not get in. After many e-mails, here is the reply I was given:

I did get feedback that you did qualify for the nursing program but there were more students then could be accomodated in the next class. It's obvious that you have worked very hard and we appreciate your performance. The best suggestion I can give you is to petition again next semester. It would be unfortunate for you to leave MATC because you appear to be a very strong student. Let me know if I can help in any way. Again I am sorry for your frustration.

Since their nursing program is currently struggling, you'd think they'd want the hardest working students in ASAP.

I'm considering transferring.

[rn/writer, RN]

You might want to try petitioning at WCTC. With the freeway it's about a 35-minute drive from MATC and the facility is state-of-the-art and gorgeous. And parking is much, much better.

Best wishes to all of you.

[Someday_A_Nurse]

I cannot even believe that! So people who didn't work as hard as you are getting in? That's going to kill their reputation.

I'm so glad I'm transferring. I think they're great for pre-reqs (I love the instructor I had for A&P), but their Nursing program sound crazy. I'm going to pay more at Stritch (they also give out a lot of scholarships), but at least I can start in the Spring and be a nurse a lot sooner. The pre-reqs are all rolled into the program there.

[monkeyloaf]

I considered transferring to WCTC. They have a very good reputation. I'm just concerned since they have a petitioning process as well. I don't want to go through this again.

I'm also looking into Cardinal Stritch. I took the college level A&P classes, as well as pathophysiology. Does anyone know if microbiology and other prerequisites that were only 100 level classes at MATC transfer?

I appreciate everyone's advice. Glad to see others find this whole thing as ridiculous as I do.

[craigm]

Yeah, I'm not reapplying in the spring. I'm looking into Stritch and Carroll. Its more money but they have a much better reputation and from what I hear, a much better program. My counselor at MATC was Christine Koa. She told me that it was a lottery system and none of her "good" students got in this petition period. Whatever that means??

She also said, if you're a tranfer student transferring in all your science classes, they didn't even look at your petition.

I kinda think they took all the people who were on the waiting list before this new petition process started. You get different stories from everyone up there. Because they are so unorganized and incompetent up there, I won't be re applying.

Hope you have good luck at Stritch. I'm going to their information session in a couple of weeks to see what classes will tranfer and what the whole process is.

[craigm]

That is what my counselor told me initially but now she said it was a lottery. I scored 128 on the NLN and have a 3.7 GPA.