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(
I’m subscribed to the MEC blog and got an email today about a virtual RN-BSN transfer event on Wednesday (10/14). I know these have been open to prospective and incoming nursing students in the past, wanted to share here since we’ve been talking so much about co-enrollment and the Advance program!
Has anyone noticed they changed the application dates for future semesters? These are the new dates:
March 1-15 to start in August
September 1-15 to start in January
Does anyone know why they would change it? The only thing I can think of is to possibly limit the amount of applications since it will be a shorter deadline and some people wait until the last minute to apply.
There's also an announcement that the decision on whether or not to waive the TEAS again would be made around the time we should hear back on our applications (so maybe in the next week or two).
I have not noticed until you pointed that out. That is an awfully short window.
I think maybe because they have had record applications this year, and are trying to cut down the applications.
I really hope decisions come out next week. Reynolds nursing program wants me to start paying for their background check on the 26th, so I hope nova can decide by then!
I just read that. It is hard to wait that long time. I think they will not sent the emails during these two weeks. I hope they will doing well with their sickness.
Has anyone noticed they changed the application dates for future semesters? These are the new dates:
March 1-15 to start in August
September 1-15 to start in January
Does anyone know why they would change it? The only thing I can think of is to possibly limit the amount of applications since it will be a shorter deadline and some people wait until the last minute to apply.
There's also an announcement that the decision on whether or not to waive the TEAS again would be made around the time we should hear back on our applications (so maybe in the next week or two).
The shorter window is to help manage the processing of applications more efficiently. We don't expect it to impact overall application numbers that much.
There is still no official decision on what they will do about the TEAS for Fall 2021.
On 10/19/2020 at 2:10 PM, Victoria Palma said:
Are all districts with the ones that NOVA accepts, all treated equally in consideration?
Yes. All areas that fall under the service area are treated the same.
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I’m subscribed to the MEC blog and got an email today about a virtual RN-BSN transfer event on Wednesday (10/14). I know these have been open to prospective and incoming nursing students in the past, wanted to share here since we’ve been talking so much about co-enrollment and the Advance program!
https://blogs.nvcc.edu/mecexchange/2020/10/12/attention-october-14th-RN-to-BSN-transfer-event/