Sacramento: when to take the TEAS

[greatpyr_mom]

My post is part question and part vent:

I am having trouble trying to figure out when and where to take the TEAS in Sacramento. I am looking to apply to American River College, Sac City, and Sierra College for the class that starts in Fall 2010 . I'm not having any luck in getting accurate information from any of the representatives at any of the schools.

I am told conflicting things: don't take the TEAS until you get selected for a program or some counselors tell me to take it as soon as possible before applying to a program.

Also, for ARC and Sac City you need to meet with a counselor to set up an 'educational plan'. I scheduled the appointments and met with counselors, only to be told that they can't do an educational plan for me until I'm done with all my pre-requisites. (I will be finishing the last pre-req in a few days).

So now I'm wanting to apply for Fall 2010 which means applications are accepted in Feb-March 2010. I'm worried that I won't be able to make an appointment with the counselors again before the applications are due. It was really hard to get an appointment this semester, and again when I did finally met with them, they were like, "come back next semester when all the pre-reqs are complete".

Not helpful at all, in fact one woman at ARC even laughed at me over the phone when I said I wanted to make an appointment with a counselor. She said, well you better come down to the school right at 7am on a certain date to stand in line, with no guarantee that I will be seen by a counselor.

On the other hand, I met with a counselor at Samuel Merrit, and they took lots of time answering my questions and were very helpful. What a surprise, the private school that costs big $$ acted like that actually gave a you know what, while the jr. colleges laugh in your face when you ask questions.

And I am a 4.0 student, but apparently jr. colleges don't care about dedication and working hard to get good grades, they will still give you the 'run around' when trying to find out about how the application process works.

So the question is:

Where and when can I take the TEAS in Sacramento?

[sacstate2010]

Hi greatpyr mom!

Congratulation for finishing your prereq.!!! :yeah:I was there not a while ago and just got into SacState for Spring 2010. I know what you mean about SCC and ARC. The staff is simply rood. I was taking my prereq in SCC and ARC. I also know about Samuel Merrit, they are so nice and they should be for their tuition fees... If you talked to them it's mean you have a bachelor already? With your GPA, why don't you apply to SacState. It is much easier to get there than to any of JC. I know it from my experience and the staff from SacState nursing department is just awsome.

You don't need to take TEAS for college untill you get there, but if you want to apply to Delta in Stockton, then you need, but you can take it from there. If you still want to take (even you don't need it) TEAS, let me know I'll tell you where in Sacramento you can take it.

[greatpyr_mom]

Thanks for much for responding!

I will apply at CSUS also, but I have to take organic chem first. So, after next week when I take my micro final, then I will have all the prereqs for the JC, so I'll apply there first to see what happens.

Next semester I signed up for pharmacology and Spanish. I know CSUS gives points for a foreign language (need to take 4 semesters for the points). I took Spanish in high school, but that was 20 years ago!

Also I know CSUS gives points for work experience, of which I have no health care experience, so I sent in applications to volunteer at the hospitals. I'll follow up on that after the holiday break.

Yes, I do have a BS in marketing, so Samuel Merrit is a consideration. I talked to them in depth about their entry level master's ...but it costs $87k, and boy I don't know if I want to take on that much debt. Their accelerated bachelor's costs $53k, still very costly.

I finally received an email back regarding the TEAS from Sac City. Apparently the Sutter Campus with be accepting a new class for Fall 2010, and they do require you take the TEAS before you apply. So probably I'll take it thru the Sutter Campus, so I can be considered for that.

So my plan is to work through the TEAS manual during Xmas break to prepare.

Thanks for you help!

[sacstate2010]

wow, you have good plans, I am sure that one of them will work out for you. I know that prereqs don't have exparation date in CSUS, so maybe your Spanish, too.

I wanted to go to Samuel for MSNP and it's little over $100K, just for tuition. I decided to go without spending that much, however it might be a longer road. So, I understand your frastration.

It's a big news about Sutter. Are you sure? It would be so nice if they will accept students again. I heard it's a great program. My friend applied to SCC for Spring 2010, didn't get in, but she didn't know about Sutter.

Good luck with TEAS. It's a huge deal if you're going to apply to SCUS, since they are point system based.

Marry Christmas!