Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Spring 2021

Nursing Students School Programs

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Hello All,

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.

Application website

https://www.nvcc.edu/medical/apply/

Application Period

July 20 to September 20

Entry Requirments

  • 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

  1. The student did not take a course listed as an entry requirement
  2. The student took a course listed as an entry requirement but never transferred the credit to NOVA via the official transfer credit process.
  3. The student had a C- or did not take a required high school level course
  4. 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.

  1. GPA of 2.5 at NOVA or if you have never taken NOVA courses a 2.5 at your most recent school
  2. Completion of ENG 111 or higher
  3. Completion of SDV 101 or SDV 100
  4. Completion of BIO 141
  5. Completion fo PSY 230
  6. Completion of Open elective [ BIO 150 and BIO 142 can not be used as open electives]
  7. Provide high school transcript-
    1. 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.
    2. All students regardless of the level of education are required to provide their high school transcripts
    3. not doing so will automatically flag your application and lead to a rejection
  8. 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.
    1. BIology
    2. Algebra
    3. Chemistry

How will you be ranked

Ranking criteria are listed on the information session(

and in the nursing brochure (https://www.nvcc.edu/academics/divisions/nursing/_docs/nsg-brochure.pdf) ) Please carefully review these documents and follow all steps to submit a complete application.

How does the program consider transfer courses in its ranking? I took the English prerequisite and both CST and Humanities general elective courses at another university, with all A's, but will show up as a "T" on my transcript. How can I be competitive if ranking is based on grades? Would my chances of acceptance be greater if I took these courses at NOVA for an actual letter grade?

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4 hours ago, Laura33 said:

How does the program consider transfer courses in its ranking? I took the English prerequisite and both CST and Humanities general elective courses at another university, with all A's, but will show up as a "T" on my transcript. How can I be competitive if ranking is based on grades? Would my chances of acceptance be greater if I took these courses at NOVA for an actual letter grade?

Bio 141 and PSY 230 are the only two glades that count in the ranking! So you’re fine, plus if they did count in the ranking they would just look at your transcripts!

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40 minutes ago, nursingRNstudent said:

Bio 141 and PSY 230 are the only two glades that count in the ranking! So you’re fine, plus if they did count in the ranking they would just look at your transcripts!

This makes sense. Thank you!

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Hello!

My PSY 230 grade shows as a T on my transcript because it was transferred as a course from my first bachelor's degree. How does that get ranked in the application process since it does not explicitly state that I got an A in the course?

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Just now, acasoni said:

Hello!

My PSY 230 grade shows as a T on my transcript because it was transferred as a course from my first bachelor's degree. How does that get ranked in the application process since it does not explicitly state that I got an A in the course?

They’ll look at your transcripts from that school.

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On 8/8/2020 at 12:07 PM, nursingRNstudent said:

They’ll look at your transcripts from that school.

The application team will look at your original grade. So if you took PSY 123123 at your old school and earned a B- and transferred it to NOVA as PSY 230. you would be marked as having earned a C. Our blog FAQ goes into more detail, https://blogs.nvcc.edu/mecexchange/faq/#_Toc521950140

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On 8/1/2020 at 11:56 AM, Laura33 said:

How does the program consider transfer courses in its ranking? I took the English prerequisite and both CST and Humanities general elective courses at another university, with all A's, but will show up as a "T" on my transcript. How can I be competitive if ranking is based on grades? Would my chances of acceptance be greater if I took these courses at NOVA for an actual letter grade?

On 8/8/2020 at 12:05 PM, acasoni said:

Hello!

My PSY 230 grade shows as a T on my transcript because it was transferred as a course from my first bachelor's degree. How does that get ranked in the application process since it does not explicitly state that I got an A in the course?

Our application team would access your original transcript to find the grade if needed our blog post goes into more detail https://blogs.nvcc.edu/mecexchange/faq/#_Toc521950140.

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After being rejected last cycle, I hustled to take my final two co-requisites in six weeks this Summer. It was tough and exhausting but I did it, and I just re-applied today with everything complete. Feeling very excited and very nervous! Good luck to you all!!

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I AM APPLYING TO Spring 2021 cycle!! ANYONE WHO IS APPYLING PLEASE TEXT ME 703-870-0813! SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT OUR APPLICATIONS! Thank you all and best of luck!

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Hey everyone!
Im applying for Spring 2021 and would love to talk to any other applicants about pre reqs and such!
Reach out to me at 571-226-6912

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Hello everyone !

After being rejected lasts semester I retook some prereqs and will hopefully get in this semester. I have an A in Bio141 and A in Psych 230. I hope that means I am pretty much in since there are no other ranking criteria.

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How many coreq classes do you have?

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