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. >
yay congrats Jmullahsbaby! nice to know were finally in even if it's not for Jan :)
I called the program advising line yesterday, and luckily got the head adviser for the nursing program!! and within 5 min I found out every course that they accepted and can be used toward the program and which ones couldn't. so if I were you i would call them! the number is 604-434-1610. From what she told me about my courses from Vic, English 135 or 115 transfer and are good for the English requirement and both psych 100A and 100B from vic are needed to fulfill the psych requirement. If you have a lot of 200 courses you should be okay for the extra 6.0 credits but they would need to be from the humanities or the social science department.
anyways she told me that the best decision is to defer and take the four courses I need in Jan. which i am now signed up for!! because she said that the ppl that do the best in the program have most of them done beforehand.
As for orientation they emailed me this morning saying im welcome to still attend in December one, but there's gonna be one in May as well. I think im still gonna go to the December one tho just to be more prepared for whats coming up!!
Nvan604...good call :) I spent the last year front loading (taking all those self scheduled courses) and now I really feel ready! And hopefully I will be allowed to get a head start on my advanced specialty certificate during the summer months :)
I haven't front loaded at all so we will see how this goes haha. Fortunately, I have 2.5 years of university and I concentrated on political science and sociology so I'm hoping that they will honour my 200/300 level courses as some of the electives. I'm pretty sure I have the english requirement as well but am going to speak to someone about that on Monday and figure it all out. What specialty are you wanting to choose??
I'm sure they will! so at least you have some of those courses done. I am planning to get my advanced specialty certificate in neonatal nursing or perinatal nursing-neonatal option from BCIT, right after we are finished the RN program. We are required to take 2 specialty electives and I am hoping, since I will have the time, that I can take the first 2 theory courses and a couple of electives during my summers and a couple more in level 5/6....they offer their specialty cert. in a compressed time frame format, which allows the whole certificate to be done in one semester if you go full time :) but I'm hoping to be finished all the theory so my final placement can count towards my clinical hours for the specialty.....I have no idea if that's allowed so I will be going early to orientation :)
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yay congrats Jmullahsbaby! nice to know were finally in even if it's not for Jan :)
I called the program advising line yesterday, and luckily got the head adviser for the nursing program!! and within 5 min I found out every course that they accepted and can be used toward the program and which ones couldn't. so if I were you i would call them! the number is 604-434-1610. From what she told me about my courses from Vic, English 135 or 115 transfer and are good for the English requirement and both psych 100A and 100B from vic are needed to fulfill the psych requirement. If you have a lot of 200 courses you should be okay for the extra 6.0 credits but they would need to be from the humanities or the social science department.
anyways she told me that the best decision is to defer and take the four courses I need in Jan. which i am now signed up for!! because she said that the ppl that do the best in the program have most of them done beforehand.
As for orientation they emailed me this morning saying im welcome to still attend in December one, but there's gonna be one in May as well. I think im still gonna go to the December one tho just to be more prepared for whats coming up!!