Sac City College new selection criteria

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Hello,

I was just looking at the Sacramento City College nursing website and noticed that they now have new application criteria. I am wondering if you have the 67 points needed to get into the random selection, is there more of an advantage to have higher points beyond just getting into the pool or is it all equal once you are qualified? I am going to try to get to the July info session, thought I would see if anyone had info. Thank you in advance!

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Sorry to hear about your TEAS test, it was pretty hard! Do you need to retake one of the prereq classes? There is a lot of work involved just to get the requirements done to try to qualify for the pool, and then we have to repeat all of the paperwork each time we apply if not chosen (I think?). Hopefully everything works out for you!

Bristowa

Yes, I plan on repeating one of my courses to get a better grade. No, actually the application has gone online so it's much easier and faster to submit the application. Thanks for the well wishes :)

The application has been online for a couple semesters or so... which makes it MUCH easier to reapply to the programs. The hard part is going through the process in the first place. After that, qualified reapplicants can just breeze through the process, print out the confirmation page and just submit that.

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I thought from reading the webpage that we would have to resubmit our info each semester. Maybe just this semester they weren't carrying the previously qualified folks and made everyone resubmit all their paperwork packet. Mine was quite thick! Yuck!

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The point system is definitely going to narrow the pool of qualified applicants. Even though I scored higher than the "passing" they require for the program it still wasn't enough to earn me the points I needed. They will only take your first passing score...there is not turning back once you get a passing score so you better make sure its a high number. I wrote the school and dean about retaking my test and they will not allow it. This does not make sense to me since if you FAIL the teas then you can retake it in a year. Anyway, they suggested I repeat my class outside of the district in order to try to get enough points to even qualify to be in the pool. Just a heads up for others.

I also did not qualify with the new points system although I work in the healthcare field, got an 88 on my TEAS, and have B's and A's in all my prereqs. When I was talking to the AH adviser at SCC she was surprised that I couldn't get in, but also admitted that while she was the person they told me to work with, she still didn't know much about the new process. I think it's ridiculous that if I would have married a vet or been lucky enough to be born into a non English speaking family that I would have been accepted into the pool for that. It's my 4th time applying, and now I'm pretty discouraged.

Also, I think that if they are going to require that we have 4 college semesters of another language, they should at least offer 4 semesters of a language at that school - which they don't. Good luck to everyone applying this semester, I will be working my my AA in something random so that I may have enough points to qualify to apply next fall. Argh.

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Hi everyone,

Emails for the extended program are coming out, I just received my "congradulations" (spelled wrong as someone in another post mentioned). Good luck! I am soo excited!!

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Congrats!!!

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Hi everyone,

Emails for the extended program are coming out, I just received my "congradulations" (spelled wrong as someone in another post mentioned). Good luck! I am soo excited!!

Congrats!! I was wondering, did you get an attachment sent with your acceptance e-mail?

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Thank you, I am beyond surprised! Yes, there is an attachment, it's just a one page acceptance letter that is taken in to Mohr hall. I guess they give you a packet when you turn the letter in.

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I got an acceptance letter too, I think... but no attachment (that's why I'm not sure). I thought they might have messed up and sent me the e-mail by accident. So now I'm hoping they meant to send it and send me the attachment. fingers crossed!!

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They sent me two letters, the first one didn't have an attachment either. Expect another one with an attachment! Congratulations!

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Just got my ARC rejection letter, so if any of you are applying to them, they are also letting people know their status!

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I saw my email yesterday!!!! I already picked up my packet from the school. Im so exceed to get started and meet everyone :)

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Congratulations rnmj21!! Which program did you get into? I'm going to try and pick up my package on Monday! I'm so excited!

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