Nvcc fall 2016

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Hi,

I just need some insight from all of you...I am planning to apply for nursing at NVCC for fall 2016. I have finished all my prerequisites and general requirement with the gpa of 3.7 but my teas score is on the lower side. I still have two chances to take it again but the student services have told me that since I passed I can't take it again. Is it true? If I were to take it again, will the nursing team take my highest score for consideration? Any help will be appreciated! 😊

I spoke with them today and heard they are accepting only 72 students into the Traditional Nursing program. They had nearly 400 applicants to both the Traditional and LPN program some of which were weeded out for missing things/incomplete applications. Students services told me that it could be another 2 weeks before we hear but then the nursing dept. said either this afternoon or tomorrow. So who knows when we will actually hear. :( This waiting game is no fun! Good luck everyone!

Thank you for calling! Do you know if 72 is the final firm number, or could the amount of students accepted still possibly increase?

From searching up the two nursing classes in the first semester (NUR 111 and NUR 150), I calculated the amount of clinical spaces from those that are posted up and it seems to be around 92-95 spaces for each class since each clinical section is broken down into 8 students, so I'm not sure why they're accepting way less than that, or if the clinical sections shown on the SIS system are incorrect.

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I see this as two different ways:

1) All of this is just a scare tactic so the school seems competitive. I am pretty sure the school will want to take in as many students as they can and are able to. I say this because if you look at classes for NUR 111 which would be the clinical classes as Jennifer has stated above, you see there are about more or less than 100 spots open for both the clinical and the lab classes for NUR 111. They would not lower the TEAS score unless they needed more of a turnout for students. From previous years postings on all nurses, you can see they accepted all eligible students that applied. They will keep accepting students up until they don't have any more space. Plus the traditional program is supposed to take in more students than the hybrid program. The hybrid program took about 80 sum students for fall 2015.

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2) If you look for classes for Nursing 150, there is only one class with space for 46 students. Maybe they don't have another teacher to teach another session for NUR 150 or in the process of obtaining another teacher. Which could be why they said at first they would only accept about 20% of the students--roughly about 50ish students.

But then again I could totally be wrong for both ideas.

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I like this idea, though...

Sending good vibes to all of you!

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It just seems like to me, they don't know how many students they will accept because they are waiting on something. It could be for more classes or clinical sites as they previously said. Who knows at this point. All I do know is that it is definitely a frustrating waiting time and hopefully they do take in as much students as they can. Fingers crossed for everyone.

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So they posted on their Facebook that they are nearly done with domicle review process and we should get notified tomorrow or friday!!! and the Orientation is next week... OMG.... hopefully they can add more students.... One thing I don't like is that orientation is next week. There goes me asking for a day off for orientation... they should have waited until the week after but oh well.

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I just saw the Facebook post as well. Hoping for the best for everyone. It looks like we will not need to have the background check, drug test or physical done before orientation, the NOVA facebook page said they will let us know about the timeline for that at orientation.

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Wow... They got through the domicile review pretty quickly. That just made me extremely anxious for tomorrow/Friday. I'm really hoping they decided they will be accepting more students.

Good luck everyone!! The wait is almost over. I'm hoping everyone here gets in!

If you receive anything tomorrow or Friday, please let us know here! I know we'll all be anxiously waiting for an email to arrive.

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I actually don't know. But I think it is before the orientation since they will emailed us all the paperwork. Im new to the background check too. But GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!

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I asked the NOVA MEC facebook page, and they said that we will not need it done, that they will give us a timeline at orientation for all of that.

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I just saw the Facebook post as well. Hoping for the best for everyone. Does anyone know if they expect us to get our background check, drug screening and physical done by orientation? That does not seem like much time to do all of that, however I have never done a drug test or background check before so maybe it does not take all that much time to do.

It would definitely be unrealistic to get all of that done over the weekend before orientation, so I highly doubt it. The information regarding background check, drug screening, physical, immunizations, CPR certification, etc. will be given at the nursing orientation, therefore it will all have to get done shortly after orientation day!

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Best thoughts and wishes for everyone!

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I hope everyone gets in that are in here! I'm so nervous now that they confirmed that it would be either tomorrow or Friday.

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