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Hey, did you end up going into the GBC bridging program? If so how was it? I accepted my offer to this bridging program and I was hoping that you could give me some tips and feedback on about this program. Thank you for your response in advance!

Thank you! And yes this is my first time applying to the bridge and I'm currently in my last semester of my RPN at GBC. Good luck to you, I hope you get in!

They started sending out offers on the 1st of February, I received mine on February 10th, but the date on the offer letter stated February 1st. Go to the "admissions summary" on the GBC website and see if you’re missing anything, this will also tell you where they're at with your application.

I'm in my last semester of my GBC PN program, and it is NOT advisable to work part-time whilst in this program; I didn't work and my GPA is much higher when compared to my classmates who did work. You will be at school basically everyday for the first year, in your 3rd semester you might have 1 day off, so if you do plan on working work on the weekends only. A lot of student took a LOA from work in their third semester to get their GPA up for the bridging program, I got accepted into GBC's RPN to RN bridging program on Feb 1st, but it definitely took a lot of hard work and I wouldn’t have got accepted into the RN-bridging if I worked. The program coordinators say that if you do plan on working keep it under 15 hours/week, so hopefully this helps. For reference my GPA is in the low 80's range. Financial wise, all of the books are apart of your tuition and will be made available to you online, so you won't need to buy any physical books unless you want the physical copies. And my Osap grants covered my tuition, so if you are provided with osap you might not have to pay back anything if your grant covers your tuition. the school also gives out different bursaries but you need to apply for them on time. Most of the teachers at GBC are kind and they actually want to see their students succeed. In-terms of tips, study what is stated in your course outline, that's it; I wish I knew that from the beginning but literally everything that you will be tested on in each course is listed in that course outline; so if you study everything that is listed in those outlines then I don't see why your GPA wouldn't be high. Also remember to give yourself a break, semester 1&2 are the hardest material wise but if you pace yourself you'll get through it! Also remember to keep yourself motivated by remembering why you want to become a nurse and hold onto that because in this program you will cry and you will want to give up but keep pushing through, cause it will get easier. But yeah hopefully this helps, if you do need to buy a physical textbook it might be the anatomy one and its about $160 (cause you might need the activation key), and I'll try to answer your other questions if you have anymore and good luck! If you got into GBC for RPN then you can definitely get into a bridging program!

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Hi, theres not really a difference between wether you’ve taken university or college level's because both are still high school and both meet the school's requirements, since RPN is college level it doesn’t matter, but you wouldn't be able to get into a RN program will college level high school courses. I'm in my last semester of the GBC PN program and it is a highly competitive program so applying for the May start will be your best bet. I also applied 3 years after graduating from high school so I was a mature student but its the high school marks that they accept you off of. You've already graduated from high school and I'm assuming that you're over 19 so you would be considered a mature student anyways which is fine. My high school marks were relatively the same as yours and I got accepted into GBC, so hopefully you get accepted, and there is an interview portion for GBC too! But hopefully this helps and I hope you get in! And if you do plan on bridging over to RN you cant have any fails in nursing courses while in your rpn program, or it will limit your choices; so if you can just get in to a RN program from the jump then I would recommend that you do that, because the admission requirements for the RPN to RN bridging programs are only getting harder.

Correction, the gta bridging programs and some other well known schools are highly competitive. Some other bridging programs outside of the gta may not be highly competitive but they are still considered competitive programs and will have additional admission requirements such as 1 year of work as a RPN prior to your application for their bridging program.

I'm in the RPN program for GBC right now, and the all of the RPN to RN bridging programs are highly competitive, for some schools you need to apply fast and for some schools meeting the bare minimum in terms of requirement is not enough; in terms of self-directed Centennial would probably be the least self-directed and in my opinion GBC would be the most self-directed because 90% of the program is online, you really have to keep up and do a lot of self studying for the GBC bridging program; from what if heard its not hard but the amount of work you get is tedious. I can't speak on past experience because I just got accepted into the GBC program, hopefully this helps. But if your looking for a more hands on school then Centennial is the better option.

Hey guys I'm in my last semester of my George Brown PN program, and the decision of my conditional offer for GBC was made on the 1st of February and the offer letter was emailed to me on the 10th of February. My I wrote my casper test on January 12th and I applied to all of the schools in late December; the conditional offer is different for everyone in-terms of deadlines to meet, you usually have to complete everything by the middle of July. For centennial they said that I have to complete my PN program and pass my CPNRE before they can make a decision, and I believe I have until July 1st to do so. The RPN to RN bridging programs do like to take their own RPN students into their bridging programs (hence Humber only accepting Seneca/Humber RPN students, and GBC having over 700 applicants but accepting 50% of those applicants from the GBC RPN program; I was also in a group session for GBC's bridging program and they admit applicants off of a first come first serve type acceptance rate, and not a competitive GPA, so if you have meet all of their requirements before Feb 1st then you probably would have got an offer into the program, they won't look at your application until you have met their required level on the CASPer test(so people who wrote the Casper test in January have the best chance of admission so long as their other requirements meet GBC standard; the CASPer test takes 3 weeks to grade and an additional 1-2 weeks before the school receives your result), GBC will still send out offers after February 1st; they gave offers to 200 applicants last year admitted about 140 into their program and were still giving out offers to people until the first day of class due to some people not meeting the conditional offer terms and some people rejecting their offers). You'll probably have a better chance of getting into the bridging program at the school you did your PN program at, but hopefully this helps and I hope you get an offer into the bridging program of your choice. And I haven't heard anything from Mohawk or Conestoga, I think those are the 2 worst schools in-terms of communication and updating their applicants, like at least GBC and Centennial tell you about what you’re missing, but good luck everyone!

Hey, Thanks for your reply and the information! If you don't mind me asking, are you talking about the GBC Bridging program? Because right now the GBC RPN-RN program has 13 courses (over a span of 2 semesters) in total, including clinical, so do you just mean you took the program as a part time student; and you said you had 16 courses but theres only 13 so did the program formate change? If you are talking about the GBC RPN-RN program, I have a some questions, and I'm apologizing in advance for them (hopefully you reply?). You said clinical was cancelled for September but isn't clinical in the Jan-Apr term; and for clinical is it offered as a group clinical or a preceptorship type clinical? What is the IPE course? And you said that I can take all of the course online, do this mean that prior to the pandemic you could take the classes at the GBC campus? How do the 7-week classes work? Like do you have 7 weeks of one course and then it changes to a different course after reading week, or would you be taking all 4 of the 7-week courses at the same time? How did/do you like the formate of the online learning; do you feel like the program is well thought out (in terms of how the teachers teach and the amount of evaluations given (assignments, quizzes etc)) or do you feel like there was a lot of self learning that you needed to do? Did you have any labs in this program? and what uniform do you have to wear for clinical and those labs (was it just any type of scrub)? Lastly, I would really appreciate if you get back to me about your Ryerson application, but what about the Trent part of the program, do you plan on bridging into it, and if not may I ask why? Thank you soo much for your response in advance!

Hey everyone I hope you’re doing well. I’m looking for good RPN-RN Bridging programs specifically in the gta; I’ve looked at all of the websites for my choices but don’t know which school to go to (they mainly spoke of the admission process/requirements). So if any of you have been in a nursing bridging program for any of these schools, please let me know your experience with those programs (like how was the program in general, the formate of the program, communication between the school and students, how were the courses, and the teachers etc). If you can, I'd really appreciate detailed responses! Also how were your clinical experiences and did any of you have a clinical in maternity; cause I really want to have a clinical for maternity?. The schools that I’m applying to are: George Brown College/Trent (I'm current in my last semester of the RPN program at GBC so how is the bridging program compared to the RPN program if you have/are doing both?) how is the formate of this program because I read the it's blended. In that schools have a virtual for mate now, but prior to this how was this bridging program? Was it all online or did you go to class on campus? And how were the online classes? Conestoga/McMaster Mohawk/McMaster Durham/Ontario Tech (UOIT) Georgian/Ontario Tech (UOIT) I’m also applying to the Centennial bridging program but how does this work in terms of bridging? I've heard that Ryerson reserves spots for centennial bridging students, but at the same time Ryerson’s website says that admission is not guaranteed. Lastly, after you finish the bridging programs do you have to pay and apply into the University on OUAC? (I don't mean the guaranteed acceptance, cause I know that all the programs that I've listed (expect of centennial) have a guaranteed accepts in to the RN portion of the program so long as you meet the minimum bridging requirements). Thank you for all of your reply’s in advance, I really appreciate all the help I can get!