Southwestern College ADN Fall 2019

[anikoo96]

Hi everyone! I’m starting this thread so we can share our application criteria points with each other! I just turned in my application today. I have between 85 and 88 points. I have 3 B’s on my science prerequisites :((, 4.0 gpa for all the general Ed courses. I have fluency in Spanish, an associates degree, CNA, and volunteer experience. I scored an 88 on my TEAS! I hope they can look past my grades in my prerequisite courses and I get in!!! I hope we all get into this cohort! Good luck everyone

[W12]

Anyone by chance call today, or receive any updates on the ETA of email notification?

[Kms2019]

I received a call to turn in paperwork and the lady said to turn it in by noon today. So I think today is the day guys!!

[AspiringDNP]

Probably be tomorrow

[themostcorrectanswer]

Hi everyone! I am a current student in the 2020 cohort and I've been in touch with faculty regarding applications. I understand how frustrating it is waiting day after day but hang in there, I'm sure you'll all find out soon enough. As stated before, there was only one person looking through applications this time around, and there were about 200 applicants for the ADN program, not including step ups. The cut off is 75 points, which is the same as last year's cut off. 60 students will be offered a position, with 10 alternates aside from those 60. With how late they're sending acceptances out this year, I would imagine other people who get accepted will have accepted positions at other schools by now, so alternates do have a chance of getting in. As far as for step-ups, they are accepting 11, and all will be in evening/weekend, with one going to the day class. For the first year students accepted, anticipate your orientation to be in early June. I'm hoping to be there to speak to everyone about the program and what it entails ? Our cohort is eager to meet you all and provide whatever help we can. Keep your hopes up! Feel free to reply to me with questions about the program! P.s. I saw a post about no writing being involved in nursing- that is unfortunately false. Learn how to do proper APA formatting!

[AspiringDNP]

6 minutes ago, themostcorrectanswer said:

Hi everyone! I am a current student in the 2020 cohort and I've been in touch with faculty regarding applications. I understand how frustrating it is waiting day after day but hang in there, I'm sure you'll all find out soon enough. As stated before, there was only one person looking through applications this time around, and there were about 200 applicants for the ADN program, not including step ups. The cut off is 75 points, which is the same as last year's cut off. 60 students will be offered a position, which 10 alternates aside from those 60. With how late they're sending acceptances out this year, I would imagine other people who get accepted will have accepted positions at other schools by now, so alternates do have a chance of getting in. As far as for step-ups, they are accepting 11, and all will be in evening/weekend, with one going to the day class. For the first year students accepted, anticipate your orientation to be in early June. I'm hoping to be there to speak to everyone about the program and what it entails ? Our cohort is eager to meet you all and provide whatever help we can. Keep your hopes up! Feel free to reply to me with questions about the program! P.s. I saw a post about no writing being involved in nursing- that is unfortunately false. Learn how to do proper APA formatting!

Thank you so much. I always appreciate when a current student comments on these posts, it really helps keep us sane. Aww man, I really hate writing papers. Hopefully there aren't too many required. 75 was the cut off for acceptances and/or alternates?

[atirona91]

23 minutes ago, themostcorrectanswer said:

Hi everyone! I am a current student in the 2020 cohort and I've been in touch with faculty regarding applications. I understand how frustrating it is waiting day after day but hang in there, I'm sure you'll all find out soon enough. As stated before, there was only one person looking through applications this time around, and there were about 200 applicants for the ADN program, not including step ups. The cut off is 75 points, which is the same as last year's cut off. 60 students will be offered a position, with 10 alternates aside from those 60. With how late they're sending acceptances out this year, I would imagine other people who get accepted will have accepted positions at other schools by now, so alternates do have a chance of getting in. As far as for step-ups, they are accepting 11, and all will be in evening/weekend, with one going to the day class. For the first year students accepted, anticipate your orientation to be in early June. I'm hoping to be there to speak to everyone about the program and what it entails ? Our cohort is eager to meet you all and provide whatever help we can. Keep your hopes up! Feel free to reply to me with questions about the program! P.s. I saw a post about no writing being involved in nursing- that is unfortunately false. Learn how to do proper APA formatting!

In your experience or have talked to your classmates about their experiences , is getting a phone call about paperwork a good thing?

[hayitsraymond]

just hoping its today cant take all this anxiety anymore LOL

[themostcorrectanswer]

15 minutes ago, AspiringDNP said:

Thank you so much. I always appreciate when a current student comments on these posts, it really helps keep us sane. Aww man, I really hate writing papers. Hopefully there aren't too many required. 75 was the cut off for acceptances and/or alternates?

We feel for you guys! It really sucks that they’ve pushed it back so far ? ahhh there’s quite a few papers we’ve had to write so far lol. They’re not all big papers though! 75 is cut off for acceptances. Alternates depends on how many make the cut off.

[themostcorrectanswer]

3 minutes ago, atirona91 said:

In your experience or have talked to your classmates about their experiences , is getting a phone call about paperwork a good thing?

It doesn’t necessarily mean a good or bad thing. It really just means they’re missing paperwork from you.

[AspiringDNP]

5 minutes ago, hayitsraymond said:

just hoping its today cant take all this anxiety anymore LOL

Right, I really hope its today!!!

[Caligirl85]

You’ll usually have 1-2 papers per semester I believe one semester there was about 3-4 but they aren’t terribly hard ? I really hope you all find out soon I can’t imagine what your going through waiting until April was hard enough for me as a alternative.

Also so you don’t have clinical rotations at paradise valley hospital I read someone asked earlier in the discussion.

clinicals are usually

UCSD

Kaiser

Sharp

Alvarado

Scripps

Navy Base

i belive thats it for the hospital rotations day and evening varies in clinical rotations.

I’m graduating next week and my recommendation is to take evening/weekend based off of my experience. You will find it’s not truly evening classes until second year from 5-7pm it’s a great program and if you asked me if I would take evening or day I would choose evening also my sister graduated here too and she switched from day to evening ☺️

[Kms2019]

4 minutes ago, Caligirl85 said:

You’ll usually have 1-2 papers per semester I believe one semester there was about 3-4 but they aren’t terribly hard ? I really hope you all find out soon I can’t imagine what your going through waiting until April was hard enough for me as a alternative.

Also so you don’t have clinical rotations at paradise valley hospital I read someone asked earlier in the discussion.

clinicals are usually

UCSD

Kaiser

Sharp

Alvarado

Scripps

Navy Base

i belive thats it for the hospital rotations day and evening varies in clinical rotations.

I’m graduating next week and my recommendation is to take evening/weekend based off of my experience. You will find it’s not truly evening classes until second year from 5-7pm it’s a great program and if you asked me if I would take evening or day I would choose evening also my sister graduated here too and she switched from day to evening ☺️

Congratulations and thank you for the feedback!