JoeW

I'm just devastated at the idea that all my hard work could be undone by something that was truly just a dumb mistake. I'm making a motion for expunction ASAP, but even if its granted, it wouldn't be til november at the earliest according to attorney. I panicked the same way when all my friends and neighbors started getting their acceptance letters and mine hadn't arrived... it turned out that the postal worker forgot to put it in my box. the only thing I can truly do right now, is to continue on as though nothing came up, and focus on being in the program. accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, all that jazz. thanks everyone for your feedback thus far.

I submitted my application at the beginning of Feb. But because of the system used to evaluate applications involves grades and performance in the spring semester, the school didn't look at or evaluate "good candidate" apps until the 1rst week of June, and didn't mail acceptance letters until the first week of July. rejections went out as early as middle April. How they determined that early that the applicant wasn't eligible is unknown. Break a leg though.

Hi there, I've been spending a load of time on this site, reading forums and news, and I'm loving it. Now, on to my question: I've been accepted to my school's ADN program, and carry a cumulative 3.83 GPA. I tested negative on the drug tests (but that was a given, aside from a tipple here and there, I'm a bit of a square. The background check that we had to buy for our clinical site came back with an unresolved misdemeanor charge from 2008. I even went directly to the authorities involved as soon as I found the charge I had never seen before, but in the end, I had to take the ruling of the magistrate who heard the case. It resulted in a No-Contest finding. It served to prove to me the value of tying up ALL loose ends in one area, before moving on to the next. I could have had the situation done and expunged by now had I thought to make sure that I did everything I needed to do pre-moving. I've talked to my counselors, and my department chair, but they can not and will not divulge who is in charge of making the final decision on who is and is not allowed to do clinicals at that particular site. The counselor said that if the site rejects me, I'll have to be removed from the program. I guess it all boils down to me wanting to know, until I can actually file to expunge this, is it big enough of a deal that I might actually lose my seat? Have any of you faced something similar and persisted through it to end up safe and with a seat? I won't find out until next week for sure whether or not the clinical site accepted me, and its driving me mad with worry. It's killing me to think that the hard work I put in to make sure I was an actual contender for the seat was all for naught. Any feedback would be terrific.