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Ah, OK. Just making sure I wasn't missing anything. I'm working on the letters.... trying to wrangle up two folks to write them. I looked and it's not the TEAS, but some "accuplacer" thing. Which is good because the TEAS has a good bit of science that I'm lacking. So far, so good and no snow! Lucky you to hang up in the hill today :) I'm going to start my mad dash and back here in a minute.

I just had some ginger peach tea at the new cafe in Bennington. Awesome! I'll be frequenting there if I get accepted! Isn't the placement exam the TEAS? No? Well, crud then, I have no idea what exam it is! How do you know what to study? March 5 sounds like the week I'd want to be taking it also. That said, what part of the application are you missing still? I did the online one but am unsure as to what else I need to do besides transcripts. Snow. Again. I have to drive to Jersey and back tomorrow - here's hoping the "and back" part isn't so rough! Brandy

You are close! Well, you pegged the address of my house, but I live in the next town over towards Troy. You'd have to pass the stewarts on 7 and go a good 6 or 7 minutes still in NY. Funny about Greenwich being the "big town". It really is! We have a good time every year at the Whipple City Festival :) Where did you sign up for the TEAS? With VTC? Are you taking it this monday, like in 2 days, or the following week?

Mark, yes I do live in one of those one traffic light towns! I believe that you are north of me - I live in between Troy and Bennington (I used to go to RPI). ACC is a very long commute for me unfortunately as that was the first college I went to 4 years ago and adore it. Even Saratoga is an hour from me. Albany would be pushing it, with the kids at home - most would be 45 mins from me. HVCC would be great also, but I hear that they have a looooong waiting list. So, it looks like I'll be doing VTC. I actually like the idea of doing the LPN first and the RN second - that seems to be something that I haven't run into yet on the NY side. Looking forward to seeing the summer schedule for sure. I plan on taking A&P or micro over the summer to help out the course load at HVCC if possible. Bless your soul to try and work full time and do nursing school! Will you be doing VTC part time? Let's hope we're classmates soon!! Brandy

LOL, I remember going back to school the first time and I forgot SO much! Feel free to message me if you get stuck - I'm through Calc III now. I'm most worried about the biology stuff, which I haven't seen since grade school. Yikes! I'm hoping I can afford VTC. I'm a NY resident so it's a bit more expensive. I really, really would like to go there though because I believe that I'll like the program better than Samaritan's. Do you know anything about the class scheduling at VTC?

Mark, I just talked to VTC today and they told me that admissions are rolling now, since there are still spots after the Feb 1st cutoff. Does that sound right? I put in my application today and am getting everything together for Bennington. Crossing my fingers! Good luck to you, also :) I have to take the placement exam also... I haven't even scheduled it yet. Brandy

Melissa - I know that this is an old thread, but I am a newbie here and have applied to Samaritan's nursing program. I cannot PM yet (under 15 posts!), but I'd love to talk to you somehow about it. I'm most curious... and if anyone else would know, that would be great..... how it works with a January start. It seems as if Nursing III is only offered in the summer, but I will only have taken Nursing I at that time. I wonder if I have to wait an entire year to take nursing III? What a bummer, if so! Any help would be great!! Thanks so much, Brandy