Moving to Tucson...HELP

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i am currently in japan and when i heard that i was moving back to the southwest i was thrilled!! then i started looking into how my pre-requisites in nursing were going to transfer. thankfully all of my class but one:rolleyes:. i have been admitted to pima community college and have began applying at university of arizona.

then i was researching how long the clinical wait was and i just wanted to scream :banghead:. i found an article that said pima cc has a waiting list of 300+ and only accepts 34 students a semester. university of arizona had 170+ students apply and only 50 were accepted last spring. then i ran into random articles that said Grand Canyon University and pima medical institute were opening a nursing program; but couldn't find a lick of information on it. i am 4 classes away from petitioning. with money not being an issue which school offers the quickest entry; associates or bachelor doesn't matter.

please help me :bowingpur

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As far as pima community college goes, you usually get in earlier than they say. I wasn't supposed to start until spring 08 but got in spring 07. they take more than 34 students a semester. When i started in spring 07 there was 125 of us. I don't know anything about U of A's nursing program though.

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i am currently in japan and when i heard that i was moving back to the southwest i was thrilled!! then i started looking into how my pre-requisites in nursing were going to transfer. thankfully all of my class but one:rolleyes:. i have been admitted to pima community college and have began applying at university of arizona.

then i was researching how long the clinical wait was and i just wanted to scream :banghead:. i found an article that said pima cc has a waiting list of 300+ and only accepts 34 students a semester. university of arizona had 170+ students apply and only 50 were accepted last spring. then i ran into random articles that said grand canyon university and pima medical institute were opening a nursing program; but couldn't find a lick of information on it. i am 4 classes away from petitioning. with money not being an issue which school offers the quickest entry; associates or bachelor doesn't matter.

please help me :bowingpur

well, if you don't care about money, pmi charges about $40k for an adn.

i responded to your other post about the lpn wait, but for the rn the wait is indeed longer.

how are your grades? i've noticed that people with mediocre grades tend to wait the whole time, while people with 4.0 tend to get in much, much sooner.

also, pima cc admits more than 34people! they have 3 classes per semester. it's usually around ~105-120 per semester that they admit.

i don't know anything about gcu's traditional program.

have you emailed any of the advisors yet?

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My grades are decent at my previous school I carried a 3.8. I have emailed an advisor at both pima cc and at the university. Needless to say they didn't want to come right out and tell me how long the wait would be; thats when I started researching. I am definatly glad to hear that they are admitting more students per semester. I suppose I will just finish my last semester. Heck if all else fails just apply to all the programs I can and wait it out. Thank you soo much for your help.

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40K for an ADN!! I mean yeah I have tuition reimbursement and the old GI bill I gotta start using, but DANG. Talk about finding where the need is and banking off of it.:uhoh3:

Well if nothing else at least I know that PMI does have a nursing program in Tucson; if all else fails.

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Ooh, GI bill! Then I would go with the cheapest and pocket the rest.

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I use to live in Tucson and was working on my prereq. to get in the nursing program at PCC. I then started to look into other colleges elsewhere. I started applying and was acceptted. I applied in January and in September I started classes. I feel the wait back in Tucson is long and there are many colleges out there with much shorter waits and do not cost what PMI is wanting. I had some problems with them, beware that those class credits may not transfer.

Wish you the best.

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Is there other colleges other then CC with the wait list in Tucson please help I wanna apply to all and see where I stand at getting in sooner then later I have all pre reqs done just waiting now .

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I applied to PCC with a 3.7 GPA and was on the list for a year. The universities require additional prereqs so perhaps you could apply to PCC and take whatever additional classes you need while you wait. Not many people know this but NAU offers a nursing program here in Tucson. I got accepted this month so will be doing their program instead of Pima's. NAU only accepts 20 students a semester, but if you get accepted, there is no wait. I had to take an additional semester or two worth of prereqs for NAU, but like me, you could take the additional prereqs while you wait for a spot in Pima's program. Which ever one you get accepted into first you could take. I could have chosen either Pima or NAU to begin next month so I chose NAU! It's a semester longer and requires more credit hours a semester, but Ill be getting my BSN vs an ADN in only a semester difference.

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And where is this NAU college in Tucson at?

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I'm looking on there website for NAU and it says it's BAC which you said but you have to already have an AND or AAS in nursing already and it says it's in the Flagstaff not tucson ???

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