Help !Schools mistake cost me clinical seat starting Jan. 8!

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Need advice! Applied for clinicals starting Monday way back when. Got letter that I was being considered, was eligible and had completed all prereqs. Went to orientation, hired a sitter for my little ones, got my physical, scheduled my drug screen, got my shots/titers, scheduled my NET and my fingerprinting, did the CPR and so on. Got a letter Dec. 22, the day the university closed for the holidays saying the competition was stiff and my point totals and GPA weren't as high as others and that I could apply for next fall with another 40$ app. fee. I have a 4.0GPA and very high point totals so I thought something was up. Called school today as soon as they opened. They made a mistake in calculating my GPA. I should have been in instead of out. The person in charge doesn't come back till the end of the week and so I have to wait till they discuss it to see how they want to proceed. Monday the program starts. They don't want to take an accepted candidate out of the program to put me in from the sounds of it. I am in a lurch... the babysitters waiting, my spring break plane tickets are waiting, my family is waiting. It was heartbreaking to tell people I didn't get accepted when the letter came.

I guess I need to vent some. I also need to know has anyone ever heard of them adding a seat to a program to fix a mess up? Or maybe removing an accepted candidate to fix a screw up? Or maybe just some suggestions to deal with this can of worms. I'm really trying to be nice but I really feel that I've been wronged and I'm not sure how to approach the chair of the department without making myself look like a twit as a candidate. Any outside the box solutions would be nice.

Thanks!:o

A girl in our program was sent a letter of acceptance starting in January, and the paperwork was screwed up and they told her she was not in. She took her copy of the letter up and threatened a lawsuit, boy what do you know, a spot opened up for her. Stay respectfull, but fight for your right. It was their mistake and they should own up to it!!! Do NOT take no for an answer, you have earned this spot.

My good friend had the same thing happen to her except they said they never got her application, but she sent it...twice. She had a 4.0 GPA, and ACT score of 25 etc, etc... Basically she was probably at the top of her class with all the points. She called and demanded to know why they didn't get her application and when they searched around they found that the business office had it and it just never reached the nsg dept. They had to meet with the "heads" and decide what to do. The accepted her like 2 weeks before the program began. I was shocked because I'd never heard of them doing that before. She was elated to say the least and a little angry they lost all her stuff that she had turned in wayyyyy ahead of time.

I guess it depends on the school and how strict they are. Good luck to you.

Specializes in CNA, RN Student.
I'd be soooo mad, something would hit the fan if it happened to me ;)

I hope things will work out for you and the school realizes that they made an error and correct it. Good luck!

Seriously! It made me mad at the school just reading it and I had to take the advice in the first reply---breathe...breathing....breathing....

Gosh, I'm no lawyer but I am sure your argument is valid. I hope you make it through.

The next person in line to deliberate on the matter isn't due back to the college until Friday. Classes start Monday. I just talked to my babysitter and asked her to be ready for anything. Thank goodness she's so flexible. I've got to go to the bookstore for other things and I'm considering asking them their return policy and just buying the books on the off chance that I will need them. Plan ahead I quess!

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
Got letter that I was being considered, was eligible and had completed all prereqs.

I wasn't clear from what you wrote, did you actually get an acceptance letter? If you show them your acceptance letter I don't see how they can refuse to let you in the program. Fingers crossed that on Monday you are sitting in class listening to a lecture. Jules

Finally tonight, Friday 6:30 p.m., finally I made contact with the right person at the college. Spent all day on this and I am exhausted. Bottom line...I'M IN! I start Monday morning.

(Jules, I got a letter saying that I wasn't accepted because I didn't have a high enough GPA when I have a 4.0.)

I got a stern lecture about how the college wasn't really in error (I'm not certain how they figure that!) but that I was "reluctantly" allowed to register for a seat to start Monday in the program. It was weird. They wouldn't admit to a mistake or that they were wrong in any way in their calculations. I am somehow the bad guy for catching the mistake and asking if it made a difference in my status as a candidate for the program which of course I knew it did. So anyhow, they didn't admit to an error and yet they said I could start. No complaints here!

I just hope that because I asserted myself a little that I don't walk in with a big black X on my forehead. I don't want any negative comebacks for all of this from the professors. They had to add a seat to the program for me. Hopefully, I'll be welcomed with open arms and not as a troublemaker. I tried to be super sweety pie nice through all of this. I was a tad flustered today by 6:30 though and was questioning their math, nicely though.

Hope all of you out there struggling to get in advocate for yourselves...no one else will as demonstrated by this whole fiasco. Happy nursing!

Specializes in Critical Care.
I just hope that because I asserted myself a little that I don't walk in with a big black X on my forehead. I don't want any negative comebacks for all of this from the professors. They had to add a seat to the program for me. Hopefully, I'll be welcomed with open arms and not as a troublemaker. I tried to be super sweety pie nice through all of this. I was a tad flustered today by 6:30 though and was questioning their math, nicely though.

Hope all of you out there struggling to get in advocate for yourselves...no one else will as demonstrated by this whole fiasco. Happy nursing!

I doubt they jumped through the extra hoops to put you in just to bump you right back out.

Just be polite and gracious. AND - DON'T talk about this to everyone, or ANYONE in the program. There are lots of people that DIDN'T get in, and if the program has to start fielding complaints along the lines of "how come she got in . . .", that might annoy them. Don't give anyone that ammo.

Good luck. Study hard. Most important - take a long sigh of relief this weekend. See, I think I said this earlier: all that worrying was for naught.

~faith,

Timothy.

Finally tonight, Friday 6:30 p.m., finally I made contact with the right person at the college. Spent all day on this and I am exhausted. Bottom line...I'M IN! I start Monday morning.

(Jules, I got a letter saying that I wasn't accepted because I didn't have a high enough GPA when I have a 4.0.)

I got a stern lecture about how the college wasn't really in error (I'm not certain how they figure that!) but that I was "reluctantly" allowed to register for a seat to start Monday in the program. It was weird. They wouldn't admit to a mistake or that they were wrong in any way in their calculations. I am somehow the bad guy for catching the mistake and asking if it made a difference in my status as a candidate for the program which of course I knew it did. So anyhow, they didn't admit to an error and yet they said I could start. No complaints here!

I just hope that because I asserted myself a little that I don't walk in with a big black X on my forehead. I don't want any negative comebacks for all of this from the professors. They had to add a seat to the program for me. Hopefully, I'll be welcomed with open arms and not as a troublemaker. I tried to be super sweety pie nice through all of this. I was a tad flustered today by 6:30 though and was questioning their math, nicely though.

Hope all of you out there struggling to get in advocate for yourselves...no one else will as demonstrated by this whole fiasco. Happy nursing!

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Bottom line: You got in!!!!! The nursing teachers will be too busy doing their thing and nobody will worry about how you got in. I wouldln't talk about it to anyone and just start your class on time and focus....focus....focus on you studies. Good luck, and I am soooo happy for you that your school straightened things out. Of course they wont admit to mistakes. Some underpayed, under motivated clerk messed up somewhere....I had my own share of difficulties with my application a few days ago....you just wonder sometimes. Good luck in nursing school.

Unfortunately, the truth is that no one wants to admit they made a mistake...it is always the other person's fault...I guess that is just a fact of human nature. I think that is why whenever anyone apologizes for making a mistake it just flabbergasts people.

I work at a community college right now in the fee payment office and we deal with students, financial aid, the registrars office, etc., and we All make mistakes. With the rush especially during the last few weeks of a semester and the first couple of weeks (especially between fall and spring semesters), things get crazy. No one means to make a mistake, but it happens. All I can say is that cooler heads prevail...if you feel that a mistake has been happened, research it, find out and don't come all accusatory. If I make a mistake in not taking off a hold after an obligation has been satisfied, I am so much more willing to take responsibility for my mistake and remedy it as soon as possible. If someone comes with a big chip on their shoulder, and I find that I will bristle and while I will remedy the error (if it is mine), I'm less likely to be as helpful...and the truth is, although there are many, many students attending school...we at the school have great memories of which students cause us stress. We all try to do the best job we can, but just like everyone, mistakes happen.

I"m glad that you issue worked out, and I am glad that you pursued it...now it is over...it's time to get to work!

Sorry for the rant...but having been on both sides (student and school employee), and no one is free of making mistakes.

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