Southwestern College ADN Fall 2021

[Alexandria]

Starting a thread for applicants of the ADN program at Southwestern College for Fall 2021. 

I was sent an email confirming my application was received by the nursing department this week. 

I believe my points are 87 if they accept my life experiences and special circumstances. 

With past semesters stats, I’m not too worried about my position. I might apply at Grossmont and City, but I prefer Southwestern because of their partnership with SDSU (PLNU has a poor NCLEX pass rate ?).

***Please read the Southwestern nursing department web site for common questions such as: when to expect acceptance, prerequisites, start dates, etc. “To be a nurse takes initiative!”***

Remember anxiety will not speed up the process or increase your odds of acceptance ?

[Alexandria, CNA]

35 minutes ago, JenCST619 said:

I did the National classes and felt like I was 100% on my own. An I’m getting a bad feeling too because a few of my friends who did their program still don’t have a job as an nurse. Makes me thinks somethings wrong. It’s only a last chance effort if I can’t get in anywhere else and even then I think I’d have to think hard about it ? 

I have heard from some NU BSN graduates that employers look down on you if you attended that school. They consider it a degree mill, not a true school that will prepare you for nursing. 

[JenCST619, RN]

I’ve heard the same thing. That’s really discouraging ? 

[acesena]

Hello everyone!

My breakdown is:

CNA + AA (30), GPA 25 + 10, Life experiences (4) if all accepeted, Language verification (3) and TEAS (15)

Total=87 points

[aspiringnurse225]

Hey guys I will be applying to the nursing program cohort coming up. For your guys physical did it matter if a NP does it or a physician. 

 

 

[Alexandria, CNA]

As long as the person who did your physical is in a “provider” role, and physicals are within their scope of practice, it is fine. A PA did my physical. 
 

Do you mind sharing your points for future cohorts?

[Isaqe12]

Hi guys, 

I’m taking the TEAS on Monday. Any tips? ? I’ve been stressing like crazy.  I would like to apply and I know the deadline is sooo close. 

[avocadoplease, CNA]

I’m testing on Tuesday!! So nervous. Been studying for 6 weeks. 
we got this!

[Alexandria, CNA]

14 hours ago, Isabella_p123 said:

Hi guys, 

I’m taking the TEAS on Monday. Any tips? ? I’ve been stressing like crazy.  I would like to apply and I know the deadline is sooo close. 

I absolutely bombed the English language part. I kept getting “which demonstrates a verb-subject form?” Like, what?! I even went over the questions with my neighbor who is a high school English teacher. She was even perplexed. So that was the tricky topic for me. Without that stupid subject, I would have easily earned a 92% instead of 86%

[Isaqe12]

On 2/14/2021 at 12:44 PM, Alexandria said:

I absolutely bombed the English language part. I kept getting “which demonstrates a verb-subject form?” Like, what?! I even went over the questions with my neighbor who is a high school English teacher. She was even perplexed. So that was the tricky topic for me. Without that stupid subject, I would have easily earned a 92% instead of 86%

Do you know if you need a 62% score for all the subjects? Or as long as you have a 62% or above composite score, you’re good? 

[Alexandria, CNA]

Most likely it’s a 62% composite score. I’ve only seen CSU’s and UC’s care about individual subject scores. Usually the wording would say “62% or greater with at least a 70% in science” if they cared about the individual subjects. 

[Isaqe12]

13 minutes ago, Alexandria said:

Most likely it’s a 62% composite score. I’ve only seen CSU’s and UC’s care about individual subject scores. Usually the wording would say “62% or greater with at least a 70% in science” if they cared about the individual subjects. 

Its because I ran out of time on the math portion of the TEAS and got below a 62:( but I did get a composite score of 71.3% ? and I don’t know if that’s good enough. I do have a 4.0 in the science pre-reqs and 3.5 in the gen-ED. I’m soo stressed ?

[Alexandria, CNA]

62% is the minimum for a reason; you know someone has earned that score and still went through nursing school. You have reason to be anxious, but nursing school can and will happen if you keep at it. If merit-based nursing schools aren’t working out, you can apply to a lottery-based school. It takes years longer to get in, but you WILL get in eventually. An example is Butte Community College or College of the Redwoods nursing programs.