RPN Program choices! Grades! Help!

[HopefulRPN_]

I am interested in going to Durham college, Centennial, or George Brown, for the RPN program; BUT I heard that the RPN programs are highly competitive and hard to get into.

I don't know if there is really any chance I would get into any of my choices!

If I don't get into Durham College, my second choice is Centennial. Since the commute from Whitby is not too bad.

I have an 86% in BIO

a terrible 78% in MATH

and 85% in ENG

and I don't do CHEM until next semester in Night School

However, I apply next month for Fall 2013!

Does anyone know what the cut off average or grades were last year, or when you applied?

Also how hard is it really to get into an RPN program, do I stand a chance with my grades?

This is my dream job, and after I plan on going to either UOIT or Ryerson for the RN program!

[whoosa]

Thank you! :)

But my panic derives from being entirely unaware of the admissions tests! At what stage did you learn about these? I don't remember reading anything about them in the welcome letter.

Have you already been accepted to GBC? Did you apply for Sept 2014 or Jan 2015? If you log onto stuview and go to registration services, then registration, you will see a link to admissions assessment booking. When I applied for for January 2012, I wrote the admissions test in late September or early October and got my results at the end of October and found out I got accepted.

edit: I really don't remember when we are were told about the tests, but it is before you get accepted.

[bootzie]

Have you already been accepted to GBC? Did you apply for Sept 2014 or Jan 2015? If you log onto stuview and go to registration services, then registration, you will see a link to admissions assessment booking. When I applied for for January 2012, I wrote the admissions test in late September or early October and got my results at the end of October and found out I got accepted.

edit: I really don't remember when we are were told about the tests, but it is before you get accepted.

Ah, thank you! That helps! No decision has been made (I don't think they have my university transcript yet) and I've applied for January intake. I truly hope it's that late in the game as I had NO idea any test was involved with this school. I'll be in northern Ontario working six days a week, 14 hour days, so I expect I will be insanely unprepared (and I would need to prepare as I'm 29 and don't remember a lot of high school level material!). This just got stressful. :/ But I am happy to hear it sounds like I didn't miss anything.

[whoosa]

The tests were pretty easy. The biology part was like 20 mc questions that were pretty basic, the grammar part was pretty long, and the math wasn't too difficult. One bio question was like how many litres of blood are in the female body, or male body, pretty simple stuff.

[bootzie]

The tests were pretty easy. The biology part was like 20 mc questions that were pretty basic, the grammar part was pretty long, and the math wasn't too difficult. One bio question was like how many litres of blood are in the female body, or male body, pretty simple stuff.

…yeah I'd be able to answer that if I were 18 and high school was fresh in my mind but right now? Nope. I'm ancient. That sounds kind of impossible to study for this long out of high school. Because it'd boil down to, "Relearn high school science." 0.0

I know fairly detailed cell biology and pathology and all that lovely stuff we do as biology majors. But the basics are so far in the past.

[bootzie]

I finally heard back from George Brown Admissions.

If you meet the requirements on their initial Practical Nursing page, which I do, you do NOT have to do any testing. I felt this was important to post so no one else has a meltdown if they stumble upon this thread. I will be working up north with teenagers 6 days a week, 14 hour days until October so testing simply would not be practical. Hence meltdown.

[snown9]

I applied to mohawk and niagara college for practical nursing. My avg is almost an 80. I got high 80s in math, bio 72, chem 60, physics 78 and 75 in eng. All college level courses. I am nervous for the HOAE testing.