First off, hello everyone. I'm new to the forum and stumbled on it while spending hours trying to research my alternatives.
I'm in Vancouver, BC (permanent resident) planning to go for my RN. I'm a mature student with 19 credit hours from a US university, but most of those credits are liberal arts, so I'm not sure what will really count except for the math and English. I know I'll have to take the A&Ps and Psychs- biology was much more than 5 years ago, but I did make an A! lol
When I first started looking, I found that VCC has a relatively new RN BSN program and I spoke to the academic advisers who told me that there was no wait list. I got approved for my student loan, requested all my transcripts and registered as a student. Today (only a week later) I spoke with a different adviser who informed me that not only is there a wait list, but that there are 49 students on it and that they will only be taking 24. VCC only has a fall intake so she told me that if I'm "lucky" I could get in the class of 2012 but likely 2013! ack. I suppose the only positive there is that they are a first come, first serve school so I will eventually move up the list for sure.
In the meantime, the adviser suggested I apply to multiple schools in the Lower Mainland, and choose one to attend for prerequisites while biding my time, hoping for one of them to eventually send me an acceptance. I'm sure many of you are in the same boat. I applied to Douglas and will probably actually attend there because it is much closer to home than VCC, plus they do two intakes per year so that's a plus. Will anyone be attending the Douglas psych or A&P for summer 2011? Would be nice to know someone going in.
So I guess the purpose of my post is to first make contact with anyone else currently waiting out their time, and also to compare any up-to-date info you have on wait lists. As far as Douglas' preferential placement goes, with a max number of points at 14, what is a "good" number of points to have to be competitive? I'm thinking I will have around 8. >
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You are literally the best person on these threads!! Been reading it for months really glad you got in and some others on here, super dedicated people! Thank you a lot :)
That's very sweet. :) thank you. I find these threads to be super supportive! Just knowing other people with similar goals are having some of the same intense experiences, is comforting. I like to try and help whenever I can, and am so thankful others have been able to help me too. Such a nice little community :)
I wonder if we'll recognize each other during BCIT orientation. I'm going to look around trying to guess if someone is smiley or karlyac or somoene else from this forum lol
Haha well if there's only one Karly then it shouldn't be too hard to spot me! I want to order my books online as well but how do you know what to order?
Depending on who you want to go through, I just copy the ISBN# directly off the BCIT booklist, then paste it in the search bar on the website :). Amazon.ca or amazon.com. Our list is not up yet and so I would wait for the official list before ordering cause it would be a hassle to return any that we aren't using.
Kay for some reason this thread will not let me read page 31...Missthang are you planning on phoning UFV tomorrow? I might skype call them if they are actually giving out results...put myself outta my misery. Hopfully they will change online stats soon. And by soon I mean 6am tomorrow :)
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smiley65..I tried posting on that thread but it won't let me!