Prospective State College of Florida (Manatee) ADN Students

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Hi, I am looking to see if there are any other prospective nursing students that are waiting to be accepted to State College of Florida-Manatee (I go to Venice). I submitted my application the first week of May and received an email saying that it had been accepted. It will be a long wait until July 1st to see if I am in and/or what I have to do next; I know I will need a physical, several more vaccines, PPD and there is a required Prescription for Success workshop/ Orientation (seems like they could put all that on line in the student nurse handbook like other programs and let us prepare but every thing is very secretive... even the physical form has been taken down since last year lol) Also I would love to be able to buy some books and start reviewing things. Anyway if you are in the same boat give a shout out here (or I will just see you in class in Aug. hopefully lol)

C

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just got accepted and now there is so much to do. They could have done things a little better in giving us time to prepare but I'm just glad i got in on my first attempt. I am attending the bradenton campus

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Congratulations!!!!! I was accepted as well, it kind of stinks that I could not get them to give me the physical form to be filled out by my Dr. when I went for a work physical 3 weeks ago, but now I have to have it done in 13 days.... Go figure :) Hope the rest of the program is better run, I can't access the book list either and it was supposed to be up July 1st.... Darn I sound like I am complaining, when I am actually ecstatic lol

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If you don't mind my asking, what were your GPAs? I am probably transferring from my community college in Montana down there :) but i have no idea if I'd even be able to get in with my grades!!

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Yes, I'm very curious to know what your accepted GPAs were... I'm applying for the spring. I should have about a 3.6-3.7, but I don't know if that's high enough?? Please let me know when you can, thank you and Congrats!!!! :)

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Hi, I personally had a 4.0 GPA for the program because I was allowed to use statistics (got an A) instead of College algebra (got a C) and Intro to world religions (A) instead of Humanities © and so on. The program will not disclose the cut off GPA but I did talk to an alternate who had a 3.8 so it was high. That said, the spring cut off is lower because almost all of the higher GPA's were taken in the Fall. Don't think that your GPA is set in stone either, even if it means taking similar (easy) Gen ed classes to bump it up. Also try to get the best TEAS scores you can, when the GPA is in the 3.4-3.9 range the chances of tying for a seat are good and the TEAS is used to determine who gets in. Also Edison state college has a nursing program that does not rely pre req GPA but HESI scores instead (I think that you have to have two classes done).

Good luck to everyone, any more questions just let me know :)

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Specializes in ER, Med-surg.

Do any of you guys know people who got into the program with less than 3.8 GPA? I'm retaking ENC 1101 just to get a grade in it so I can bump up my GPA. I've heard that the TEAS scores don't really matter ans it's the GPA that is the most important. Do you guys know how many students are taken per campus? Sorry for all of the questions! I plan on applying in Spring 2012 for the Fall 2012 semester.

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When you guys are talking about GPA, do you mean science/nursing pre-req GPA, or overall in every course?

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Sorry I haven't been on here in a few months. I do know a guy with a 3.8 GPA that got in, and the only the GPA of the rerequisite and general education courses matters, if a course is not required for the nursing degree then it does not figure into your admission decision. GPA is really the most important, Teas scores only count if you tie with another person for the same seat, then the highest teas score gets in so if you are borderline try to do as well as you can. We started in Venice with 32 people and I think Bradenton takes about 48ish students for a total of around 80 (don't quote me on that, I am only sure about Venice). Also don't belive most of the rumors you hear, before I got in I heard that only 4.0 GPAs were accepted and there were only like 6 or 8 in my class. I also heard that it was horribly difficult (it's not :)

Good Luck

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Thanks, corsair. I've heard about the 4.0 too. Glad to hear it doesn't have to be that high, especially since they don't let you retake a course for a higher grade!!!

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