Polk State College January 2016

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Hello people! Since no one has begun a thread for those that have applied or intend on going to Polk State College beginning January 2016, let's use this as a forum for questions and meet other students prior to starting.

I didn't even think about that, but it makes sense that more people would apply to the Fall start program.

The advisor I turned my application in too seemed to be in some sort of hurry, so I never did see how many points I had total. However, I did calculate it on my own. I got 113.35, but I was a little unsure about what my prerequisite GPA came out to be. I think the 113.35 is very close to accurate though.

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That's awesome! The advisor found mine on the interactive degree audit. I saw someone mentioned getting a packet after turning in their application. I didn't get one, was I supposed to? I only got a yellow paper saying I turned in my application.

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There were like three pages attached to the original application that was turned in. It just mentions the Oct 9 meeting for all accepted students and a little heads up about class schedules and expectations.

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Oh ok. Thanks.

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Specializes in Oncology, Transferring to L&D.

Quick question for everyone! I was reading some old threads for the program and it was saying that on passport if you click the limited access application status icon on the top left under quick links it would say application received or pending. Well I got curious and clicked it on my passport but it says I have no active limited access applications to display. Does anyone else have theirs say this or is it supposed to say application received or something?

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Hey! I saw the same on a different thread & looked on the limited access & it says no application. I think it will change after the application deadline. I also have a question. In the printout of the application it says that a schedule must be turned in with the application. My advisor told me I didn't need it so he didn't put it with the application. Did anyone else turn a schedule in with their application or did an advisor say it wasn't necessary?

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My advisor also told me the schedule was not necessary so I didn't attach mine either. Under that link, mine does say application received, no display available but I don't think that really means anything.

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Specializes in Oncology, Transferring to L&D.

Thanks guys! I was hoping it didn't mean anything but I was like hm I wonder why mine doesn't say anything. I know I turned it in and have that receipt stating I turned it in so I'll just take that as I'm good. The advisor didn't even mention anything at all about a schedule to me so I definitely didn't have that attached with mine. Lol.

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So I was looking on passport just to try & get familiar with it & I noticed there were like 3 different forms of "gpa." One from the degree audit, one from gpa info & the last from gpa calculator. Does anyone know which one should be used for calculating the nursing score?

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You can find the overall GPA that they will use to determine your points on the "Unofficial Transcript" Document found on Passport (it will be listed as "Overall Cum: GPA:". You can also find that same GPA value under "GPA Information" (it is also listed next to "Overall Cum GPA".)

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I guess I should've specified. My overall gpa is the same throughout passport but how do you know which gpa is used for the program gpa calculation?

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Oh gotchya! I'm not 100% sure on that one, but I assumed that you would take each individual GPA for your nursing prerequisites plus any other required nursing classes that you've taken, add them all together, and then divide by however many of those classes you've taken. That's what I did to find mine before I filed my application. Then, when the advisor was filling in my GPA & Teas-V score information on my application, it was pretty much the same exact same number I got by doing this. Like for an example, if you had 5 prereqs that go towards the nursing program and lets say you got A's in 3 of those classes & B's in the other 2, you'd add (4.0 + 4.0 + 4.0 + 3.0 +3.0). That totals to 18 & then divide by the number of classes (5 in this case). So, the nursing program GPA would average out to be 3.6

Don't quote me on that! lol But I'm pretty sure that's how they figure out that GPA number.

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