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slo3485 -- I do not have my medical form complete either, so I called Renee Creel. There is no penalty for not having it complete by tomorrow. They will just keep a hold on your registration until it is complete. They close for the holidays next week and reopen on January 3rd. Also, I had reached the maximum number of hours for financial aid (90 hrs) so I appealed for more hours. They will allow you to appeal for up to 120, so I may end up having to pay a little out of pocket in our last semester. Act quickly because you know what a pain financial aid can be! I will say that I have had some VERY helpful counselors during this appeal process, that answer the first time I call and call me back quickly with answers if they don't have them immediately. The appeal form is on the GPC website. You will need to fill that out and have Renee Creel fill out the academic plan. I would go over to financial aid immediately following orientation tomorrow if I were you. Good luck! We're all probably a little nervous (I know that I am!) but just remember that we're all in this together!

I know we can add hospitals once we find out where our clinical site is, but I wasn't sure how to delete GPC since she said not to send the results to the school. There is no way to delete them once you start the process. Oh well...I'm sure it's no big deal but I am just anal retentive about following directions. lol Thanks for the info about the titers. I'll start calling the health departments in my area to see who does them!

Thanks for the information! I'll definitely check into the minute clinic and just go to the health department for immunizations/titers. One more question... For our background check, I know Mrs. Creel said not to have our results sent to the school. However, when you sign up, you have to choose a school. Then there is no option to delete that school from the "share" list. Any idea how to fix this? Or should I just not worry about it?

Hi, everyone! I've gotten everything completed except my medical form. I pay out of pocket for medical expenses and called the health department to see if I could have my form completed there, and they told me no. They said it would need to be completed by a physician. Then, I called Planned Parenthood since they offer low-cost physicals but I was told they were not offering those services at this time. I have noticed that some of you have said that you were going to a health department. Should I just show up there to have it done? Maybe the lady that I spoke with gave me the wrong information. Any help would be greatly appreciated! We are getting down to the wire and I've got to get this done! I look forward to meeting all of you on the 15th! Thanks!

I passed the TEAS but was rejected from nursing school so I am practicing the same advice that I will give you. Don't become discouraged. That is what I am trying to tell myself. Try, try again! I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and while I may not see that reason right from the get-go, things usually work out for the better. Use a study guide, enroll in an online prep course, organize a study group...whatever it takes to ensure that you pass next time!

Hi -- I'm new here but needed to vent and get feedback from others. I apologize in advance if this is too long, but I need to get it out! I am 29 years old and a stay-at-home mother of two/full-time student at Georgia Perimeter. I started back last spring after not attending school for over 6 years. In my previous attempts at school, I didn't do so well. I was young, immature, irresponsible and dealing with severe depression. I won't go into all of that as there is really no good excuse, but I did horribly in school during that time. I went to one University and failed out. Then I moved back home and my mom convinced me to try another school. Since I didn't work on any of the issues that set me up for failure at the other school, I performed in the same poor way. Several years later, I attempted again (this is after child #1 was born) and did well but I still wasn't in the right frame of my mind for school. Flash forward to 2010. I applied for admission to Georgia State and because of my poor academic record, I was denied admission. I did get into Georgia Perimeter (obviously not that hard to do). I had no option other than to take a full load (financial aid reasons) but I ended up making 4 A's and 1 B. I have a 3.69 GPA and scored in the "advanced" range on the TEAS. I applied for admission to the nursing program for Fall 2011 and a couple of days ago, I received a rejection letter. I was very upset but at the same time, I am determined not to let this get me down. I have a couple of other classes to complete (Chem II and Micro) before I am ready to apply at other schools but I don't feel confident about being admitted to a 4 year university if I was denied admission to a 2 year program. What places would any other Atlantans recommend trying out? I have enough credits to apply for a BSN program and would really prefer to go that route now that I didn't get into GPC. I just hate that these horrible grades are following me around. I feel that if they won't consider grades for certain classes that are over 5 years old, that they shouldn't require transcripts from those schools. I am not the same person at 29 that I was at 17/18/19. Georgia Perimeter's Nursing School application is a form application only -- no interview and no essay. I really wish that I had been given an opportunity to show a bit of my personality and perhaps try to explain who I am and my past situation. I did do something that I hope will look favorably upon me...I wrote an email to the Administrator who signed the rejection letter. I asked her if there was anyone that I could come in to speak with who might give me advice on how to make myself a more desirable candidate. She has agreed to meet with me on Friday, so hopefully they will see that I am not going to give up and that I am being proactive. Anyway, I'm sorry this message was so long. I just needed to vent and see if anyone else had advice or has been in a similar situation. Thanks for reading if you made it this far!