We are the Advisors and Counselors at the Medical Education Campus with Northern Virginia Community College. We will attempt to answer your questions about the upcoming Spring 2021 Nursing admissions process.
All course work must be final by the program deadline of September 20, 2020. Course work that
Ends after the deadline of September 20, 2020, will not count
has not transferred AND posted to your NOVA account from an external school Including other VCCS schools, will not count.
For example, you submit your GMU transcript on September 20, 2020, and your transfer credit post-September 31, your applicants would have been rejected.
Common reasons applications don't make it past the initial review for eligibility
The student did not take a course listed as an entry requirement
The student took a course listed as an entry requirement but never transferred the credit to NOVA via the official transfer credit process.
The student had a C- or did not take a required high school level course
The student never provided their high school transcript with their application.
We are still waiting on the final word for the ATI TEAS exam. Check our website for an update on July 17.
GPA of 2.5 at NOVA or if you have never taken NOVA courses a 2.5 at your most recent school
Completion of ENG 111 or higher
Completion of SDV 101 or SDV 100
Completion of BIO 141
Completion fo PSY 230
Completion of Open elective [ BIO 150 and BIO 142 can not be used as open electives]
Provide high school transcript-
If your high school was in a different country you will need a course by course evaluation by either www.ece.org or www.ierf.org.
All students regardless of the level of education are required to provide their high school transcripts
not doing so will automatically flag your application and lead to a rejection
Show that you took and passed in high school or college with a C or better [not C-]. If you took some other science course in place of Chemistry for example it is likely that it will not count.
BIology
Algebra
Chemistry
How will you be ranked
Ranking criteria are listed on the information session(
Is there any update on the status of our applications?
They said it would be mid-October thru early November. There will be no other updates until the put out the accept/denied emails (at least that's how it worked last session).
I was rejected last semester despite my GPA and having 3/4 of the coreqs done, but I finished any course I could take under General studies after taking BIO150. I ended up having to add an additional major to stay at NOVA hoping to get in for the Spring so that financial aid could still help.
how did you add that extra major? did you just contact your counselor and if so, which major did you end up choosing? I need to do the same thing because I have two more mason core classes to finish but I want financial aid to cover it.
I’m actually dreading “decision day” because with 800+ applications and only accepting 100 max, realistically probably 60-80, I’m bracing for the rejection email.
I’m actually dreading “decision day” because with 800+ applications and only accepting 100 max, realistically probably 60-80, I’m bracing for the rejection email.
Id rather know earlier than later so I can plan my future plans accordingly. I applied last semester and got rejected, and yes that email hurt, but by the next day I was getting my backup plan in order.
Last year’s cohort got their decisions on October 26, and earlier in this thread MEC said they’re working ahead of schedule this year. My guess (my hope!) is within the next week or two!
I’m with both you and @Molly15 — super nervous and dreading it but also so anxious to know either way. Being in limbo and unable to make plans for the next few months is a real challenge!
how did you add that extra major? did you just contact your counselor and if so, which major did you end up choosing? I need to do the same thing because I have two more mason core classes to finish but I want financial aid to cover it.
You can call advising or chat with them online, which is what I did. I essentially told them my situation and that I wanted to stay at NOVA until I got the decision about nursing and that I might as well take the courses I'll need for Mason. I chose Social Sciences/Psychology. It allowed me to take the rest of the MASONCORE requirements and since those courses were listed under the new major, I was able to have financial aid cover all of it. Hope this helps!
Soup1998
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I applied last cycle with an A and B in the prereqs and all of the coreqs and got rejected. Last cycle was 600 applicants, and this cycle is 800.