Parah

Congrats!!!! I'm so thrilled for you!!! Okay ladies, let's officially meet - My name is Sarah, some have nicknamed me Parah. We'll have to find a way to seek one another out during bootcamp. Does anyone know what bootcamp actually is, anyway? I can't contain my excitement!

Guys! I just got my acceptance e mail -- to my personal e-mail address for some reason. Go check your inbox! If it's not there it should be soon. Good luck to you ladies! I hope to be working beside you the next few semesters!!

My husband and I were talking about this yesterday. I would assume they would let everyone know their status at the same time? They won't know who gets in until they calculate everyone's scores, so I'm not sure that a late response this time around is necessarily a bad thing. It could be that last year they got a lot of applications in early, and this year they had a lot of last-minute applications and weren't able to get ahead in calculating everyone's rank, or it could even have to do with where spring break is this year compared to last year. But unless there's something else I don't know about the process, I'll bet hearing back later than usual doesn't have much to do with our individual placement.

Several times a day I check my e mail and I haven't seen anything yet! I think I got a final score of 94 with my ranking sheet as well. That's crazy you heard back so early last year! Dang. That makes me extra nervous. I'm a little bit shocked by how competitive this program is. I suppose we'll really know how competitive once we all hear back. Rooting for all of us!

I wish I knew more! All I know is that it will be no more than 30 day after the application deadline. So sometime in the month of April we will know. I check my school e mail every day. I know this is pretty competitive program, but if you don't get in with a 4.0 and a score in the high 80's of the HESI, then this is a much more competitive program than I thought! We are looking at moving back near the end of the summer. We moved to North Carolina in September and just really miss the West. Not to mention I got into a program at a school out here that is practically robbing us. It's $20,000 a year, and so far I've taken five classes. Only three of them transferred to FRCC, and I am only receiving 2/3 the amount of credits per class after the transfer evaluation, costing me a whopping $14,000 bucks. Take me back to community college! Ha.

Ah. You're doing/did accelerated. Good on you! That's a lot of information to take in on an accelerated course... and still maintain a 4.0. I took Nina Kahrina for both I and II, and she was an amazing teacher. Hard to understand at first because she has a very thick Russian accent, but I thought she was just fantastic. I'm not really familiar with any of the other science teachers. How is your experience with online A&P so far? They did expedite my stuff! I was able to turn in my application on the night of the 30th! I e-mailed and called around until I could find the person who was actually doing the transfer credit evaluation. I explained to her my situation and asked her myself to expedite it, rather than rely on someone who had just simply requested an expedited evaluation via form or something. I'm glad I did, because I don't think it would have happened otherwise. Now that the whole process of applying is over I feel much less stressed. At this point I feel like if I don't get in, it wasn't meant to be (not that I won't be really disappointed). You actually get two points for being a resident. If you're feeling nervous, you can find--somewhere on the nursing portion of FRCC's website--a PDF of ranking point system. If you haven't looked at it yet, maybe go check it out. It might ease your mind a little bit in the midst of waiting!

I think an 87.5 sounds really good! You are also probably a resident of the area, and you have a 4.0. Those are all great things that give you points on the ranking system. Have you taken A&PII? Who was you teacher for your A&P classes at Front Range?

I'm in the same boat! Sort of. It's down to the wire, but I literally just finished my final prereq (Microbiology) at a different school two days ago, and then took the HESI yesterday. I was able to get my transcripts overnighted to Front Range, and as long as they are successful in expediting the process of getting Microbiology added into my transcripts today (the rest of my prereqs came from Front Range but I'm in North Carolina now... long story) I will be able to finish the application JUST in time for the Fall 2017 cohort deadline. It's due tomorrow. So far I am in shock that it is all working out, and crossing my fingers that it continues to do so. My application process has been crazy! When my husband and I decided last month to move back to Colorado from NC, I discovered that I had three weeks to study for, and take the HESI. Not only that, but I discovered that Front Range changed their prerequisite courses, and that I needed microbiology now -- which I just happened to be taking at a school which works on a quarter system, so I was lucky enough to finish my finals in that class three days before the FRCC application deadline. I was able to get my transcripts overnighted to Front Range, and now I simply wait until they get my current school's transcripts entered into the Front Range database before I can apply, just in the nick of time. I also have a 4.0, and ended up with a 92.5 composite on the HESI. Although I only got an 80 on the chemistry. Nice work in the sciences. You sound like a great candidate to me! Hopefully we'll both end up being in the same cohort come Fall. I'm super nervous too!