Sulblazer

Why would you turn down Cal State LA over CSULB? Based on national ranking of nursing programs, CSULA ranks a lot higher than CSULB. Furthermore, wasn't CSULA your first choice? Also, you live about 5 minutes away from CSULA. Cost-wise, CSULA and CSULB are probably very similar. For me, my biggest criteria were cost and distance. I just wanted to get into a school that was close and relatively inexpensive. CSULB is about 5 minutes from my home...and is a state college, so it was the natural for me to want to get into CSULB nursing program. Had I lived close to CSULA, I would have wanted to go there instead. Different strokes, I suppose. Also, if you apply for the CSULB 'spring '15...you won't necessarily have to turn down your acceptance to CSULA. I believe the acceptance into CSULB spring term is provided during the summer. So if you find out you got into CSULB for spring...then there's still time to turn down CSULA before their Fall '14 term starts.

Just got an e-mail...I got my contingency acceptance letter too. Sweetness. I'm totally celebrating this weekend.

I received a similar e-mail about my chemistry course. I was initially confused because the Intro to Chem course I took at Coastline Community College was intentionally augmented to conform to CSULB articulation requirement. I was told to get a letter from my professor or the department chair specifying that the Chem course had an on-campus wet lab. I sighed about it, but was about to take off that very hour to get the letter done. Then on my way out, I received a follow up e-mail. It turned out my General Chemistry courses for Science Majors now counted towards the Chemistry requirement. I sighed again...because I only took the Intro to Chemistry to fulfill the requirement. I guess now all Chemistry courses over 4 units with a wet lab articulates for the chemistry requirement. In the end though, I'm glad I took the Intro to Chem course, I made a few friends in that class I would not have made otherwise. I also made a friend of my Chemistry professor. I've come to the conclusion that Chemists are very strange people. Also, in the fall of 2013, I didn't know that Statistic was a newly added required course. I just so happened to take the class as a fall back into biochemistry of I didn't get accepted into Nursing school. Geez, talk about dumb luck. If not, I don't think I would have made the cut with 4 units of C with statistics as a class in progress. My interview is at 11am with group B. I wonder if there is any difference between the groups? Is Group A more likely to be accepted into the program than B or C? Is there anyone here who is in Group A? I recalculated and I think overall score is 9.78. Could be a bit lower because I don't remember what my math TEAS score was. Good luck to everyone this Wednesday. Hopefully, we'll all get accepted and get to shake each others hands as we transition from anonymous rivals to accepted allies.

My interview invitation for 03/12 was also emailed at 7:30pm on 03/06. My calculated points is a 9.49. I wonder what the passport photo is for? Does CVS still do passport photos? Guess I'll find out tomorrow. Congrats to everyone who got an interview! If you haven't heard yet, just hang in there, maybe this is just the first round of interviews. There will probably be more. I don't see how they can cram 100 interviews into a single day.