Practical Nursing (Ontario) Application Question

[wctenshi]

I am in need of some advice/help, as I have NO experience whatsoever applying through ontariocolleges or with nursing schools. I am currently in my 3rd year of UNIVERSITY studying life sciences. I will be applying for nursing school starting this October for the September 2017 intakes.

Prospectively, I will be applying to the 2-year PRACTICAL NURSING programs at:

1. Humber 2. Sheridan 4. Seneca 5. George Brown 6. Centennial

My issue is that my university GPA is very very bad (2.5), while my high school average from 3 years ago is 88% with pre-requisites completed:

English (U): grade 11 92%, grade 12 81% /// Math (U): grade 12 82% ///Chemistry (U): grade 12 92% /// Biology (U): grade 12 88 %

Question 1)

For my application to the nursing colleges (above), should I only send my HIGH SCHOOL transcript, or shall I need to also send my UNIVERSITY transcript (even with my poor GPA)?

Question 2)

If I do not send my university transcript, will the colleges assume I am a "mature student" and request additional testing for me? AM I a "mature student" since I am in university, or does "mature student" mean something else?

---> because I saw from George Brown's PN website:

"Mature Student status (19 years of age or older) - Mature applicants are eligible to test for Mathematics, Science and English."

I also saw on a forum, someone posted

"[Centennial] sent me a rejection letter last month, and it turns out it was because I hadn't taken an english assessment test. This totally surprised me, because I had NO clue I needed this, with my really good gr. 11 sciences, and my grade 12 C english was 91%. I am guessing I needed to take the assessment because I was out of high school for a few years.. but I would have never known"

Thank you so much!

[CG93]

I also got a rejection letter from Centennial soon after applying to the program, I was not aware it had to do with failing to complete the English assessment.

Thought it was weird as I was accepted to other Practical Nursing programs.

I completed 1 year of a B.Sc and did not send my transcripts to any of the programs I applied to. I just sent my high school marks.

Good Luck.

[wctenshi]

Hi CG93 (and other perspective applicants who are thinking of RPN), just wanted to let you know that I called Centennial and they said the English assessment is required, and it is to see what level you are at so that they know which English class to place you in :)

All the best of luck in your nursing studies!

[loriangel14, RN]

My daughter applied to GB RPN and had to include her university grades.