TonyR

Violin, All seats were 4.0s? I suppose it is possible since there are only six classes for days, but it still seems unlikely. If you don't know that that you need nearly straight As then you wouldn't think to take classes over again. This is CCRI not Harvard. I didn't know it was that competitive. That is ok but why not makes it clear to the students. I can imagine all the money people spend thinking they are doing well enough. I got an A- in Micro. I took that class in Newport with Dr Townsend. It was quite challenging, but I was happy with the grade. However I also heard there are other instructors that are much easier. I don't consider things like that because my objective is to get the best education I can. Perhaps that was a mistake. I took the test for St Josephs too. It was a little easier that the TEAS. I also took the chemistry class. I should have applied with my daughter. I will apply again in August but if I don't get in I don't know what I am going to do. Thanks for the info. TonyR:cool:

Auntyk, It sounds like by time stamp you are saying the actual date and time are considered. That is, a Feb 2nd at 2pm is considered over Feb 2nd at 3pm or Feb 3rd. I specifically asked this question and was told all applications are considered together (from the entire enrollment period - that is, Feb or June, etc.) and the tie breakers are TEAS and/or Accuplacer scores. You are clearly correct when you say you need to apply is the first round, but still if there are so many people like you who have such a high GPAs and so many apply for so few seats so quickly, why are there any left over seats at all????? P.S. Congradulations!!!

Hi, I am very interested to hear exactly what you were told at CCRI today. I also applied for the fall term and received a rejection email yesterday. I was dismayed to hear you were rejected since you have a better GPA than I do, which seems to suggest that my chances for the spring may not be good either. I too am an older student and I can't even think about waiting another 14 months just to start classes. I actually took my first prerequisite class (anatomy) in 2008, but allowed myself to be derailed when I accepted a job as an electronic tech with the USPS, (I was an engineer in a former life). After 2 years of working there (good pay/benefits, easy, extremely boring and unsatisfying, bad hours,) I decided to go back to CCRI. I have a good GPA 3.84 overall (but 3.65 for the day prerequisites). I got a B in that first anatomy class which seems to now be coming back to haunt me. I didn't take it over because it seemed to me that with so many of my classmates struggling and the rest of my grades being A, A- I thought I would be fine. I guess not. What really disturbs me though is the extremely poor information (and misinformation) from CCRI. Perhaps some things were available and it may be argued that it is my fault that I did not understand everything sooner, but they really don't help much either. These are some of the things that I was unaware of and I had to "dig" to find out: 1. I have taken 9 other (science math) courses at CCRI, all grades A. I didn't realize the GPA they consider is only the prerequisites (not even the two required PSYCHs even though they are both ultimately required. I got an A in both). 2. I did not realize that the TEAS and Accuplacer are given no weight. I did extremely well in both (they will be considered in the future, but how much?) 3. I did not realize the June enrollment was for just for left over classes. Why do they do that anyway? Why award seats in Feb for fall? Why not simply take all the applicants from Feb through June and then award seats for fall? According to the admissions advisors I spoke with the ONLY deciding factor, assuming all prerequisites done, (up till now) is prerequisite GPA, one number. I'll bet with a simple program I could sort all the GPA's in descending order of all applications of all campuses myself, in 2 hours, but it took them over 2 weeks to tell me be someone had a higher GPA that me for 15 seats at one campus. Really? Why? And this begs another question. Why are there any seats left over anyway? They went from a two+ year wait list to not having enough qualified applicants to fill all the seats (in Feb) and now reject people with 3.79s? How can that be? 4. I did not realize that they only have enrollment at the 2 campuses in the spring (the ones that have the two evening campus in the fall). 5. I did not realize they offer evening classes at 2 rotating campuses in the fall only. This really hurt because I wasted an opportunity to retake anatomy this spring because I took the Psych instead. This was a waste because the only evening classes until the fall of 2012 were 5-6 seats in Newport. I live in Providence and wasn't planning on going to Newport. And for anyone who applied in Lincoln or Providence for fall, THERE WERE NO SEATS SO YOU HAD NO CHANCE! Actually I was told I could still apply and hope someone dropped and then hope I was the next candidate on the list. This brings me to my biggest issue. They do not provide any information about seat availability at any campus, but only allow you to apply to one (again, why do we have to apply per campus anyway? Why not one application for all campuses with an order preference on where you would prefer to attend? If you list Lincoln as a first choice and it is full and Providence is your next choice and there is a seat why shouldn't you get it? Instead it's sorry you choose wrong. Sure I live close to Lincoln, but I would travel to Newport if necessary, yes it would be inconvenient but, well, you know, it's only MY BEST HOPE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I think I could have lived with that. I was actually going to apply to Lincoln this fall but happen to track down Ruby (the nursing admissions person in Lincoln) with another question and she "happen" to tell me there were no seats left in Lincoln, and further more the only way to find out was to go to each campus, find the nursing admissions person and ask if there were any seats, which is what I had to do. As an aside, even thought I went to the orientation with Ruby in Lincoln and spoke to her a number of times over the last 3 years, she is definitely one of the least helpful (and almost snobby) and was the source of much of my confusion and lack of information. The nursing admissions person in Providence (his name escapes me at the moment) was extremely helpful and finally explained everything to me, unfortunately a bit too late. 6. Lastly, I feel sorry for all those who may not be the best students and think they are going to get in (without taking most of there classes 2-3 times for better grades). Why don't they publish statistics on the kinds of GPAs/grades students are getting to get in? I remember saying to Ruby once that I thought (at the time) my chances were decent because I thought I had a good GPA, to which she rather smugly remarked that she had 8 applicants with 4.0s. I sadly also waited and lost a semester to let my daughter who is also perusing nursing catch up to me. We were taking classes together and I didn't want to miss a unique opportunity. But since she is really a B student so she decided her chances were not realistic, so she enrolled in St. Joseph's and starts next month. She was right but she probably didn't know how right. I still don't get the admissions process. If you are not going to take life experience, test grades, other academic achievements, or anything else why is the process so cumbersome? What takes so long? It makes you wonder if there isn't something else in the process they don't tell or admit to. Are there seats saved to satisfy other agendas? For instance the demographics of Providence students and Newport students are clearly different. By not allowing a single application to cover all campuses may in practice "save" seats for applicants since some students with lower GPAs may get a seat based on a guess or choice of where to apply. I hope things like that are not true but something is clearly odd. This has been a long and frustrating trip and I don't know how much more I can take. I am 51. I had better get in in the spring or this dream may be over for good.