Palomar College and MiraCosta College - Fall 2023

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Starting a column for those of us applying for the fall 2023 cohorts through Palomar and MiraCosta colleges. Good luck applicants!

The email said they would reach out sometime in march with an "update" anxiety has set in ?

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Hoping this is our week to hear back!

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@fantasticachica absolutely!! 

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fantasticachica said:

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painfully true haha

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Heidi Ortiz said:

painfully true haha

Hopefully this one doesn't get me reprimanded...

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fantasticachica said:

Hopefully this one doesn't get me reprimanded...

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trying to play it cool...and honestly your memes are helping to turn my anxious waiting into laughter. love it!

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Heidi Ortiz said:

trying to play it cool...and honestly your memes are helping to turn my anxious waiting into laughter. love it!

Aww! I am so glad that they are helping, not that I wish this anxiety on anyone else, but it's nice knowing I'm not the only one who is freaking out !

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Today's Meme.

(and the neighbor's complimented me on my yard work- so I guess I'm channeling that energy well. LOL)

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...and the cycle of refreshing begins again.

Happy Week 2 of Mid March ?

 

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Did anyone get in palomar??? I got an email saying they were updating today just to let me know they are still completing admits... ?

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I just came to post a similar thing. Biggest non-update in the history of updates.

I thought the computerized system was supposed to make it quicker and easier for them? 

Seems like they might either have limited staff or really be pacing themselves, I know they are thorough but holy moly!

 

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Heidi Ortiz said:

They "hope" to have decisions by May...ummm k thanks bye....

 

the waiting continues.

 

did anyone else catch the '21/‘22 NCLEX pass rate for Palomar? Dropped to 86%. Wonder why it dropped so much? 

I have to speculate that it was because those cohorts were affected by the change to online learning & clinical placement problems. Looking at the CA RN board site, 86 students took it, which is more than usual.

If they were taking it in Fall '21 - then they had to adapt to online learning in March 2020 (so the last half was online)

the Spring ' 22 cohort likely was part of the rampant cheating in the fundamental sciences --not to be a jerk but the switch to online classes led to people learning how to cheat [even during teacher proctored exams I would see other students blatantly cheating] vs learning how to study effectively.

I likened it to people behaving weirdly when wearing costumes or more properly in uniform- some people just didn't take class as seriously when it was online- where we find memes, trolling and all kinds of weirdness.  (But, I'm no sociologist.)

It does look like most CA schools suffered a dip in NCLEX pass rates in that season. 

There is also the possibility that many people were burnt out and learned more in practice than in theory (and if the NCLEX is anything like the NREMT, some questions are weird and logic would override the "technically correct" answer).

 

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