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It does, thanks! I'll be attending the Kingston campus, but a lot of your advice holds true. :)

Anyone got them? I've applied there and will be going, as myself and my fiance both got into the programs of our choice there. I'm an older student completing one bachelor's degree now so I'm pretty confident about my ability to succeed through the program, but if anyone has any experiences about the curriculum or campus I'd love to hear it! I haven't been able to find ANYONE who's been in this program and graduated, even from my highschool. Pretty weird..

50-80% is pretty common up here in Canada for nursing, from what I've heard. I also know it's very common in university level institutions (graduating from UWaterloo in a month). My biochemistry class started with 300 people, 15 are in the graduating class. Competition and high drop-outs are not a bad thing, but it can be if the institution is causing it the wrong way.

Yeah, I've heard nothing good about a lot of the nursing programs in the GTA. Benefits of applying to St. Lawrence were pretty good for me: smaller classes, 45 mins from my parents and family, cheap housing, and not having to compete with 100 bajillion teenagers for slots. In the end, it worked out splendidly.

I just got accepted to both the BSCN and PN programs at St. Lawrence, and the fiance got accepted there for their medical lab science! It was the college of our choice, so now we can just chill out and accept our offers!

;__; I swear, getting into university the first time wasn't this stressful. I really don't want to do the prenursing program, I've taken the equivalent courses in university and highschool! What a waste of time if I have to...

Well, same diff, under review just means you're being compared to the pile now, but don't worry, I'm sure you'll get in!

Pending just means your application has made it from their OCAS files to their pile of applications to be looked over. I wouldn't expect to hear anything decisive back from colleges until later this month. A lot of them require extra paperwork and will really scrutinize that and your transcripts. Yesterday was the last day to apply, so they could have had hundreds of applications come in just then. It takes time to review, and they have until May. They're not going to rush.

AGH! So I got an email this morning saying I got into Centennial!........ too bad it was for the ECE program I applied for there in like September! So now I'm going to be faking myself out all month about those, because almost everywhere I applied has 2 different programs I "applied" to. Ontariocolleges is a WEIRD system. I applied for ECE programs, got my letters back, applied for nursing instead by changing choices, and now all my letters from schools say I've applied to both. I have an acceptance from Humber for ECE too, and I'm not even applying there for nursing. So I got like... 10 apps for the price of five XD Either way, here's hoping guys! I'm a mature student so I don't expect to hear back soon, but if they're already emailing for ECE, the rest have to be coming down the pipes!

Ryerson is already sending out acceptances, so there's no doubt that many colleges and universities will send out their acceptance letters/notifications through ontariocolleges.ca on Feb 1st or sooner.

It's a pdf that you download from their website. Their acknowledgement of application letter has the link typed on it for the pages. They're your typical "age, name, highschools attended, post-sec attended, program you want to be in, etc". The second page is basically for your manifesto about why you want to be in nursing and why you think you'd be a successful student.

Even if you aren't educated in Canada, you can't just walk into a business in the US and get a job... your student Visa wouldn't allow you to work. Chances are the people who work at the border would be the experts here, but you could contact their Visa authority yourself and ask. Chances are they are correct.

Joanna, the site I referred to lists the actual average of students who were offered admission in the year previous. If you ask colleges, they'll tell you what it was; the highest I've heard was actually from Loyalist College (Bellevillle) with 88%, so I'm feeling a little more at ease now. Of course as you said it does change from year to year. I'm hoping someone can answer this for me, since I don't want to go and ask the admissions office and look like a complete wiener: St. Lawrence told me if I am not accepted into a BScN program to 'enroll in a pre-nursing program and apply in one year with the appropriate average'. Don't you still have to apply to get in to the pre-nursing program? How can I enroll if the equal consideration date has long past (which I assume it will, by the time I hear back from the college regarding the BScN)? :uhoh21:

Got my letter today from George Brown saying to mail/fax my supplementary nursing forms.. Gotta get on that ASAP! Haven't heard or gotten anything otherwise but got the typical 'thanks for applying' from Centennial. I find it funny that they both collaborate with Ryerson and yet have totally different policies.

TobeNursey, you'd be surprised. Go on electronicinfo.ca's database and look up nursing admission averages for last year. They log all the one's for universities, and some of them (Brock? methinks) accepted a 74% average overall. Even Queen's was looking at 86-89% only, the rest stopped at 81. So my chances of getting into university would have been just as good as colleges if they'd leave me the heck alone about my university grades Which is another thing that makes me crazy. No, I didn't have a bloody 80% average in university. Why are my post-sec grades taken at face value with highschool? Everyone in their right mind knows one is significantly easier than the other, yet the system is pretty much stacked against anyone who already has any post-secondary schooling (unless it's pre-nursing... and you got a 2.8+).

Am I the only one who's a little bit (or more) shocked that the admission average to even the universities generally falls at or even under 80%? For such a 'competitive' set of programs, they must have a tonne of people applying who's marks aren't that great. I think a lot of people feel that they didn't get accepted because the program 'filled too quickly', when really it's just because their marks didn't cut it. Happened to a friend of mine back in grade 12; couldn't understand why she didn't get into Queen's for nursing with a 74% average. Boggled my mind.

My average all depends on whether or not they tally math and what bio they choose to use in it, unfortunately. It's either 82% or 85.5%, so I've applied to some RPN programs as well. That way if I don't get into a BScN I can bridge later. I don't expect to hear back very quickly, since I'm technically a mature student, but I applied to places all over southern Ontario.

Well, in that case I should be getting one, and it will likely be the 'skills test' that they talk about on their website. I imagine it will be basic gr.12 science questions and the like.

Likely. I filled all that out on the ontariocolleges website, and I've actually been toying about changing my application, so that could be why I haven't gotten it yet.

Thanks everyone! I got an email back from St. Lawrence and they said they will go by my highschool admissions only, then by my post-sec grades if necessary. Their entrance average was only 80% last year, so I'm not as stressed out about it as I was before. She also said that they don't offer alternative admission, but there's generally plenty of time between their 'rejection' offers and their final enrollment dates for pre-health, so if I don't get in, I should just apply to that. So it's nice because I also don't have to spend a flipping fortune sending in my uni transcripts unless they ask for it Hopefully I get in! Like I said, I'll take the pre-health if I don't get in, but there's no sense to me to just enroll in it and spend a year doing it when, by all the college's accounts, I don't need to. I'm a 'mature student', but I'm in school and still have the qualifying OSSD credits, and apparently that makes the difference.

George Brown will take time to respond to their applications. I wouldn't expect to hear back for even an early acceptance in the next two weeks, and you may not even hear back in their first 'round' of non-conditional acceptances, which will start Feb. 1st. You could need to wait until March to hear back at all. As far as an entrance test, I've no idea. I haven't gotten any paperwork for it yet!

I noticed that too And either way, my apps are used up. Do people normally get in to a BScN program right out of highschool without a pre-health program? It seems like they do, at least in Ontario. In my mind you'd absolutely need to take a pre-health program if you graduated before the reform in curriculum for Ontario high-schools, or if you graduated either without taking the pre-reqs or without a high enough average for admission. I emailed St. Lawrence's admissions office to ask about their policy on alternative admission offers, so we'll see what happens with that!

Fantastic article! As someone who's been diagnosed with a psychological disorder and hopes one day soon to become a nurse, I actually really want to work in a psych ward. (At least I'd be putting my BA in psych to use, then...) As LuckyinKY pointed out, there are 'psych-ward-worthy' people just like me functioning just fine all around you. Having compassion is so important.

If you apply through ontariocolleges.ca, which most of the colleges require you do, you can apply for a maximum of 5 programs and no more than 3 programs at any one institution. You can't pay more to apply for more or create another account to apply for more. I think it's completely stupid, I applied for at least 8 programs when I went to university 4 years ago, but somehow 5 is enough for college students?

I agree. Besides, I'm only 21 (22 in 12 days ), so I've got the time to work and take a pre-nursing if I need to. It's just that I've already burned through enough debt with one degree, so taking more loan for even an extra year makes me grit my teeth a little bit.