ConstantGardener

I never actually wrote that you couldn't work a full time job and succeed, merely those they weren't strong students (academically) couldn't. Your just projecting your own insecurities on to my post. There are many LPNs that work full time and succeed in the program, their just in the advanced standing track and not in traditional.

After PoMiiii and others withdrew, they offered 2% in extra credit due to my section's class average below in the low 70s and anything below a 77% is failing. So, unfortunately for him or her, they might have passed if they stayed. They said throughout the term there was no extra credit but after the withdraw deadline our class average was still several percentage points below failing so they made a last minute decision. So it sorta screwed the people that withdrew and didn't want to risk failing versus the people that stayed and were heading towards taking a 10 credit F. But just saying, I knew well over a handful of people that were failing and thanks to extra credit just barely squeaked by.

It won't really matter, aside from working. The issue is too many people think they can work 30 to 40 hours a week and make it. I had several people like that in my group. They never applied for Seminole so they didn't attend Seminole information session where they REALLY explained how much commitment is required. I literally had these guys breaking down in tears after class and lashing out in anger saying they can't afford not to work full time, or they have to take care of their children and that they didn't know about how much time commitment was needed, when it was really their own fault for not listening or doing research. If you're a strong student and you've worked as a CNA for 10 years then sure you can work 40 hours a week and barely squeak by. But if you're not a strong student, or you're young and naive and wait to be told by your professors what you should do to improve your grades and still want to work 20, 30, or 40 hours a week then reconsider. Nursing 1 is by design a weed out semester in Valencia. My professor never told our class that the exams were based off of NCLEX style questions or even explained what that was. The smart students figured it out after doing bad on the first exam. The academically weaker students and the naive students just sat there clueless, not resourceful enough to figure that out on their own and just drowned and kept failing exam after exam. After the withdraw deadline had passed, our class average was a 74% (anything below a 77% is failing) with only 2 more exams to go, the only way they avoided a blood bath (having a majority of the class fail) was to dole out a large amount of extra credit when all along they said there would be none.

She got accepted in 2015 and like I said you won't know until you try. I didn't think I'd get in as my stats were barely above the minimum GPA except for my TEAS score. You have no choice but to kill it in the TEAS and try. Though just to let you know UCF concurrently has a Florida State College System Concurrent. Meaning that you can apply to concurrent separately once you complete 1 semester of any state community college nursing school. I looked at all of the ones in the state, and some of the rural community college nursing programs have next to no pre reqs and are shorter than Valencias (4 semesters) and you can get started on your BSN after completing Nursing 1 in any of them. And Valencia's science pre req requirement doesn't mean you can't get a C.

Cost..... textbook, Castlebranch fee, UCF version of Castlebranch and equipment... I'd say $1500. Valencia tuition is about $1100 with UCF course tuition around $700 per semester. FYI UCF side of the concurrent program doesn't know this yet but since 2017 Valencia does not give financial aid for the UCF courses you take in concurrent. Everyone in financial aid department will say otherwise as they don't know and only going off of what use to be the case. I actually got in touch with the Valencia financial aid contact for concurrent and she confirmed there is no financial aid for the UCF course ever since they got audited by the DoE back in 2017. Which means you will only get 3/4 financial aid as you'll only be in 3/4 attendance at Valencia without the UCF course. Schedule can vary but so far for nursing 1 it's Monday and Wednesday lecture til noon, Thursdays all day lab/ half day lab + half day clinicals half way through the term. Fridays morning is concurrent Pathophysiology.

Don't know why I'm writing this but I figured I'd be nice. I just had several people in my group drop out because they weren't strong students and thought they could work 30 to 40 hours a week and didn't plan financially otherwise. They don't tell you that Nursing 1 tests are all based off of NCLEX style questions, which you have to understand NCLEX strategies to really answer as the textbook only covers concept. The strong students figured this out after the first test and the weaker students just drowned. Watched 2 girls in my group cry in class as they said they couldn't devote anymore time to studying due to needing to work full time and children. And how no one told them that they needed several whole days to study. These people were just studying from the book and bashing their heads over and over against the wall withdraw deadline came and reality hit them. Not saying you can't work as several classmates did, but they were CNAs and only did Per Diem and were straight A students.

I got accepted into Valencia/UCF concurrent with low 3 ish GPA. And straight B's except for 1 A in science pre reqs. A nursing youtuber got into Seminole concurrent years ago with C's in her science pre reqs and low overall GPA as well. It's competitive so it depends on the year with Spring being harder to get into and Fall being easier to get into. Overall Seminole seems to be more competitive. Valencia admits a lot of students that shouldn't be in the program. As in folks who thought they could work 40 hours a week and take care of their kids while in the program and never planned financially for otherwise. So you wont know until you apply and just kill it on the TEAS, as in like get a 96%, which isn't hard as I got in the high 80s on the first attempt with almost no studying. With a high 90s TEAS and even with just borderline minimum GPA you still might get in depending on everyone else's grades. A warning though, if you are a weak student, you better buckle down, as nursing school has a higher grading scale. Anything below a 77% in Valencia is failing. And it's easy to fail as all tests are NCLEX style questions and they don't explain that to you. So the academically weak students fail from the test 1 and almost never pick themselves up as many are clueless and sit there waiting to told what to do. (Studying the textbook is of little help as the NCLEX style questions doesn't exactly correlate to the textbook.) So if that sounds like you and your not driven and resourceful and fight for that grade then you might want to reconsider, because they won't show you how to succeed and it's up to yourself to figure that out. Plus, Nursing 1 is weed out semester for Valencia, and by tradition large portions of Nursing 1 class body fails the course and drop out of the program.

This is Florida in general. Having grown up in South and Central Florida and then setting foot on University of Florida, the socio economic disparity is just shocking. Going from about 40 to 50% minorities in upper middle class suburbs to University of Florida's 20% minorities at best was disheartening. Also, SW Florida is less urban then SE and Central Florida, thus has attracted fewer Hispanic immigrants putting down roots, so it's super pasty.

Orlando, specifically. Loved seeing people making $12 an hour, driving an hour each way to their manual labor job complain about spending $120 a month a tolls and then thinking the North East or the West Coast is a literal hell hole compared to the hell hole their physically living in now. Yep, where in a near by rural county a few months ago, a guy with a long rap sheet, drove up to another car in an intersection. Unloaded his entire magazine killing the unarmed driver, hitting other cars nearby and striking businesses on that side of the street. Only stopped firing because he ran out of bullets. And yet the local sheriffs department claimed they lacked evidence to charge him with murder because he claimed stand your ground, that he thought the other driver reached into his car and he assumed he had a weapon, so he drew first and pressed the trigger until he ran out of bullets. These kind of things do not attract America's top talent or draw a highly educate work force. And yet, we're a magnet for people seeking easy to find low wage jobs cleaning hotel rooms. Among my 500 person high school graduating class, the most successful are the most educated with graduate degree. Whom, not surprisingly live and work in the North East and West Coast as that's where the high paying jobs are and the most educated work force. Those who stayed ended up at middle, lower middle class, with about 1/3 of them straight out struggling to survive cleaning hotel rooms.

You just debunked your own statement. Everything is more expensive in California because everyone wants to live there. It's the most populous state in the US. If you actually did what you wrote and considered cost of living you would see that it balances out. I know from my own high school buddies, a doctor, occupational therapist, a pharmacist and a lawyer that all live in California and none of them think that somehow Texas is more affordable in relation to the pay there. As they can do the math and see that moving to Texas means a 50% or more pay cut. California is the most populous state for a reason, it has the things that attract people and a highly educated work force. Silicon Valley doesn't exist in the South for a reason. I live in a state that only attracts retirees and poor people seeking low wage jobs. It's really sad the ignorant knee jerk comments in here written by people who literally didn't even bother to think about the facts. My state is an income tax free state that's considered cheap and yet rent is sky rocketing due to the influx of people seeking low wage jobs in the metro area. The local newspaper has been writing about people moving out of the area as the low wage jobs can't match the massive rent increases, the 2nd highest rent increases in the nation for 2 years running. People often complain the my city is ringed with toll highways and it's common for people to spend several hundred dollars a month in tolls. Yet, none of them ever think why the state has no income tax and what those taxes pay for. Vast majority of the people in my metro area simply cannot afford the $2400 a month rent for a 3 bedroom house within city limits and can only to live in the suburbs with their $12 an hour jobs and commute an hour each way. Too many people lack basic critical thinking and never asked themselves why NYC and San Fran attract literally the most educated work force in the US and why people seek to live there and why employers put their HQs there. It's not for 0 state income tax, low wage manual labor jobs or an uneducated work force. Just to give you a hint how far ahead California compared to the rest of the nation and the WORLD. California has the 5th largest GDP IN THE WORLD. Ahead of the UK. Single handedly makes up for nearly a quarter of America's total GDP.

Years ago, I sat in a non healthcare interview where my late 50s old school, male, Korean GM made our HR officer squeal in her seat in horror as he repeatedly asked over and over about a female candidate's personal life plans by gently nudging her to reveal her personal plans. Alluding to whether she was married or planned on having kids, because the place was a total *** hole and the (Korean) manager she was replacing worked over 80 hours a week and he wasn't going to deal with someone putting up with anything less than that or calling out because their child's sick, let alone even contemplate the concept of maternity leave. And it was glaringly obvious to everyone as he stopped the interview and just kept rehashing his questions in every possible combination until she gave in. It was a rather sad affair as he became more and more direct and impatient as she kept dodging. She had made it immediately clear from the get go that she didn't want to discuss her personal life and he kept aggressively pushing. In the end, doubted if she would've ever accepted given the look of disgust in her face by the end of the interview. Our HR officer was sweating bullets and immediately called GM for a meeting after that panel interview. Though, to be fair I heard later on she was the relative of a of our HR officer and was hand picked by her for the position and our GM was possibly making it clear how he felt by breaking her down in front of the executive staff and me.

Physicals are covered once per year by your insurance, I had already done mine at the beginning of the year so the PA at my doctor's signed off on it. Most immunizations are covered by insurance. However, if you have to get titer like I did to prove you had Varicella that may or may not be covered by insurance. I would suggest you ladies haul butt because CastleBranch can take 4 or 5 business days to review your stuff. I submitted my immunizations and physical last Thursday and they still haven't reviewed it.

Girrrrrl, you better get all your stuff turned in! I hope your compliance deadline isn't 8/2. I would hope they give you extra time to turn all that documentation in. EDIT: Just saw your post, damn...yeah you'd better speak to compliance to get their okay.

No they just need to have it processed before class starts. And if your worried you can sign up at any class you find from American Heart Association's website. Someone in orientation signed up through Valencia and their class was 3 days before school started and they said it "should be" okay.

The "wage gap" is a complicated issue but OP literally cited a political propaganda organization that's funded by ultra right wing billionaire shale oilmen who purposely created that very "university" to influence people. They do so with Youtube videos and ads for those videos that play before other videos, that call you the viewer a "snowflake" to trigger you and gain attention. Quite a few times on Youtube I literally almost smashed my iphone from those extremely offensive video ads that tries to show how "woke" they are by making *** up that your never supposed to question or research. Just to give you an idea....the American Enterprise Institute released a paper a few years ago that questions the "myth" of minorities in poverty by basically stating that if you have electricity and have a refrigerator, your not impoverished. So there for, people in the ghetto aren't poor at all and leaves you to make the implications of that critique on your own. It's full of data too but you don't have to read it to understand this isn't scientific research but political propaganda created with a purpose dressed with data. And you would've known that by simply Googling the American Enterprise Institute. Not to be a dick but OP is probably a white male who looked on youtube for politically related videos and IMMEDIATELY got hit with "woke" ads, and clicked and went down the rabbit hole. If you even watch YouTube educational videos on political theory, you will instantly be spammed with their ads as these guys supposedly spend over $200 million on Youtube and Google ads. OP probably went down the rabbit hole and at this point thinks his demographic is getting screwed by every other demographic and pines for the old days. And anyone from any other demographic complaining, bemoaning or trying to change anything in society for any reason is just part of the PC brigade, SJW, and all their justifications are entirely fake news or their all just crisis actors. And again, not trying to attack OP or derail the thread but trying to start a serious discussion with a far right troll farm video is about as serious as discussing the abstinence by linking a Media video. Literally one of their videos has a woman equating women's rights = feminism = men hating.