Mountain View College Spring 2019

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Hi all! Haven't seen one for Spring application yet and I have some questions so I thought I'd start this!

It says on the app that we need closed transcripts from all previous schools. What if we have one on file with admissions, does this count? Only one of my classes is from an out of state school and on econnect it shows transfer equivalent. I have an email in to Self-Drake asking but thought maybe someone would know sooner. TIA!

Good luck to all that got in for Spring 2019! I noticed that only about half of each class makes it to graduation. I have several nurses in may family and they all say nursing school is the most stressful thing they've ever been through. I can't imagine it getting any worse than it's been the past 2 years just trying to keep a really high GPA so we could get into a nursing program. Be fierce, be strong, and never give up! You're all in my prayers!!!!

Mountain View actually has a very high success rate! When the first started the program they were only accepting around 25 students. It's one of the questions i asked during the interview. The bigger classses have no graduated yet so they couldn't tell me the numbers for them yet but overall they have a very successful graduation rate.

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I did, trust me lol. But nothing. I am guessing they must've gotten my email wrong? I don't know. I will just call them tomorrow

The dean must have sent it to the wrong email!

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Mountain View actually has a very high success rate! When the first started the program they were only accepting around 25 students. It's one of the questions i asked during the interview. The bigger classses have no graduated yet so they couldn't tell me the numbers for them yet but overall they have a very successful graduation rate.

Yes one of the questions I asked also was why did only half make it to graduation and my interviewer told me we only accepted about 28 students then so we nearly had a 100 percent graduates. This fall 2018 is the very first big class of 40. So yeah I agree with Steph because I asked this very question in my interview.

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Oh, I didn't know that. I was going off of the website that said they admitted 50 per semester. I was told my Prof Kinsey that a lot of people were lost in the first semester because of pharmacology on top of all the other classes.

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Congrats to everyone who has made it into the program for Spring 2019 :) I too received my e-mail/letter on Friday. I was also accepted into El Centro ADn for Spring 2019 and I'm not quite sure which program to confirm my acceptance for the upcoming semester.

I am very aware that Mountain View has better NCLEX scores which is VERY important, and I was a bit nervous about one student who said that El Centro had bad professors who didn't really teach. I am very thankful I was accepted but I was hoping to get a bit better idea on the set up for both programs. What made everyone here excited to go to school at Mountain View versus other programs if you don't mind me asking?

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So, I just got my email (I called them this morning) and I AM IN!!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaa I was just so nervous this whole weekend, but I am glad I made it!

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Hello, I was wondering how many points did the students who got accepted have please let me know?

Thank you.

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Actually, my first choice was Brookhaven because it's closer to my house & it only takes 16 months to complete but I didn't have enough points. I also applied to Tarrant County & Mountain View & Mountain View was my 2nd choice because it's a shorter drive for me & because I have taken all of my classes thru DCCCD so I'm familiar with their computer system. Both Brookhaven & Mountain View have great stats for passing the NCLEX. But I didn't get accepted to Mountain View either. I was accepted to Tarrant County so I'm very happy I got in somewhere. Tarrant nursing program accepts 180 students per semester so it's HUGE!!! But they supposedly have the lowest instructor-student ratio. It can be hard to tell which program is the best because we don't know all the criteria that went into developing the stats. One ranking I saw went strictly off the NCLEX scores which is fine, but I couldn't find anything that told me if the professors treated the students fairly, really helped them, or if the rules were too strict/lax, etc. I saw on a thread from allnurses last semester where one girl was accepted to Mountain View & Tarrant County & she chose Tarrant but didn't say why. It could've just been more convenient for her. There are a lot of nurses in my family & my cousin told me that employers don't care which school you went to, whether or not you graduated with honors, or what your NCLEX score was, as long as you passed because there's such a shortage of nurses. So I don't think there's any real clear cut criteria for anybody on choosing a school if you're fortunate enough to get to choose. I think anybody smart enough to make the grades & HESI scores necessary to get accepted, can get what they need from any school that has decent NCLEX pass rates. I will say I ran into somebody at North Lake that said she had been accepted to Mountain View last semester & she quit because she said the professors were "horrible" & advised me not go there if at all possible because they would make life miserable. But I didn't know her so she could've just been an overly sensitive person. I've seen some posts of complaints from Tarrant & El Centro as well.BUT, I've probably seen more positive comments about all of them. So again, I really have not been able to find anything about any of these schools that makes one better than another. My criteria was first based on how fast I could get finished so Broohaven was a no-brainer & I already know the school since I've been taking classes there. It was kind of a toss up for me between Mountain View & Tarrant but I was already familiar with DCCCD & I liked that Mountain View takes a summer break, even if it means I have to graduate 3 months later than Tarrant. It also meant that I would have 3 whole months less of 12 hour clinical shifts. The biggest plus for Tarrant is they have 8 credit hours of lecture & lab & the other schools have 9 or more, depending on which classes you've already taken. So Brookhaven & Mountain View will definitely be more intense because they have to cram the same amount of info into less time. These are the only schools I looked into & applied for. I don't know which schools you're trying to decide from but you could just make a list of pro & cons of what is important to you & go from there. Good luck.

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We only know how many points we started with. The writing sample & interview also add or subtract points so nobody will ever know what their final scores were. I started with 17 points & I felt like I did really good on the interview but I didn't get accepted. The best thing to do is apply to as many schools as possible. I applied to 3 & got accepted to one. It wasn't my first choice but nursing is so hard to get into I'm just happy I got accepted somewhere.

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I would take Mountain View over El Centro any day. El Centro supposedly made all kinds of changes since they got suspended but if you look at their website, they're still using the same screening criteria. They also could've told everybody that applied last year that they were getting shut down so don't waste your time applying here but they didn't so those that had only applied to El Centro missed deadlines to apply elsewhere. That was just so wrong. I wouldn't trust them to the right thing by their students. I would only go to that school if I had no other option. Mountaain View is easily a much better school than El Centro in my opinion.

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I applied with either 15 or 16, I can't remember, I don't remember what my final points were after the interview.

Hello, I was wondering how many points did the students who got accepted have please let me know?

Thank you.

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Congrats to everyone who has made it into the program for Spring 2019 :) I too received my e-mail/letter on Friday. I was also accepted into El Centro ADn for Spring 2019 and I'm not quite sure which program to confirm my acceptance for the upcoming semester.

I am very aware that Mountain View has better NCLEX scores which is VERY important, and I was a bit nervous about one student who said that El Centro had bad professors who didn't really teach. I am very thankful I was accepted but I was hoping to get a bit better idea on the set up for both programs. What made everyone here excited to go to school at Mountain View versus other programs if you don't mind me asking?

I also agree that mountain view would be the better choice. There's to much going on with El Centro! I wouldn't chance it

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