I'm a Fall 2010 applicant at ACC and thought it would be nice for all the Fall 2010 hopefuls to have our own thread to share exciting news, information, and support with each other.
I turned in my application last Friday (Dec. 18th) after taking the HESI exam. I feel good about my scores but I anticipate competition for the Fall spots is going to be quite fierce. After that large applicant pool for Spring I think we will see a lot of re-applicants applying with the 5 extra re-application points. Not sure what that will mean for the ranking scores but it will be interesting to see . . .
Bad news about 1105: a friend of mine emailed the department. They said they use 1105 in the fall calculation if the final grade was recorded before the application period closed March 1. Which excludes all of us first-time applicants.
My friend also asked if people who were waiting to hear about fall should reapply on May 15 for spring. The answer was that they should wait until about mid-June, so they know if they got in or not before they reapply. Which is totally counterintuitive, considering that they always say to apply as soon as possible, and that the tiebreaker between equal rankings is the date/time the app was received.
The site says they’ll email “rankings” when they finish processing apps –- is that just the same old ranking score we got before, or will it tell us what our rank placement among all the applicants is?
I wonder how much longer it could possibly be until they get all the apps processed. Since they had to process apps as they received them (so they would know who qualified for 1105), how many more could there be that weren’t processed already? And how long could it take to process the remaining ones? Like you said, Radiation, it’s not like there are interviews or essays or anything besides straight-up numbers for them to deal with…
I think our final ranking will come along with the acceptance/rejection email. From reading previous posts on here it seems that the acceptance/rejection emails say something to the effect of...."you had 53 points and ranked 87 out of 400 and we accepted 120".
Maybe they are waiting on the instructors and still working out stuff with them. The amount of acceptances is based on the number of instructors. Maybe they haven't hired a couple yet and want to wait for the last possible minute before rejecting or accepting students. Can you tell I am searching for all possible reasons for the delay?? haha!
For the summer 1105 classes they keep some of the spots open for the second half of the summer semseter for late applicants who get accepted. i got acceptance for 1105 for this march but am enrolled full time and requested for a summer spot. They are probably lazing around to get ALL applications processed to see who gets in to make sure the accpeted people all can get into the 1105 classes this summer. The wait is hell but am praying that my acceptance in mid june will be my birthday gift. I'm not sure that 170 spots will be available, probably more like 140 since i went back and counted the actual number of people enrolled and the number of open spots. They don't fill EVERY spot on the schedules mainly so people can probably move around. I would love it to be 170 but i think it might be 140 mabey 150. dunno:uhoh3:
I just got an email from my friend in San Antonio. She applied to the RN program at UT Health Science Center in December and she was notified yesterday of her acceptance for Fall 2010. *sigh* She had to sit through 3 interviews, an essay, and 3 letters of recommendation and they still found out before us. Frustrating!
Yee Haw! Any predictions on what the lowest score getting in will be? I'm taking nursing skills in June and was wondering what the ranking scores that comprise the classes are so we can get an idea of how many people have say a 51,51,53 and so on.
I am just glad to finally hear some official news from the department. I check the site everyday like a madman.
I have no idea what the lowest score to get in will be. It is so up in the air with the new Round Rock campus and if they will definitely add more spots or not. I know I had a few classmates in my nursing skills class a few weeks ago say it was their second time applying and they barely had a 50. So they must've been pretty low their first time applying.
It's a relief to have a date, but it gives me something new to stress out about. We're flying to Montana on May 28, so I really hope the email comes before then. Otherwise I'll be hyperventilating on the airplane because I won't be able to check for it!
What was the cutoff ranking score for summer 1105 petitions? Didn't they get to 46 or so with spring?
i'm a reapp from the spring and have recently posted this info on a different thread. thought it might help some of you with the stress of "will i or won't i, get in??"
i found out the stats for the past 4 semesters (see below). there was a significant jump between fall 09 and sp 10 (over 100 additional applicants with the lowest ranking at a 51, 5 points more than in the fall). of course, this would be the semester i apply for this is huge. what i take away from this is that the applicant pool is getting extremely more competitive (maybe due to a high # of re-applicants or a higher caliber student, who knows).
but, my guess based on these results is that if things continue this way that fall 10 will only be more competitive (probably 52-54+ ranking being the lowest offered with more than 400 applicants).
hoping they do admit more with the new campus opening. any word on this? i am stressed i will not make it at a borderline of 51 (that is including my 5 re-app points...ugh). but, its just "wait and see" at this point.
just wishing this career change could move a little bit faster...
good luck :) to everyone...and hope to see you in the classroom!
Well if it makes it any easier there is only a maximum of 178 eligible new applicants to be considered since there are only 178 nursing skills spots for us and not all of the nursing skills classes are filled completely. You take 359 applicants from spring and subtract like 125 people that were accepted we get about 234 re-applicants if everyone reapplies. Then add the eligible new applicants of 178 we get about 412 total applicants eligible. To put it in simple language there will be around 400 applicants that are eligible but the number will be lower depending on how many reaplicants have had nursing skills. I agree with the above post that a 52-54 will be the minimum getting in. Makes my knees shake since i have a 4.0 gpa, b on hesi and 53 ranking score. Hopefully the extra 40 seats being offered by RR will help prevent the minimum score going up. So for us on the border like me remeber this and keep hope up. Hopefully e-mails come out before final letters cause this wait is killing me. I can's sleep
Just wanted to share my application experience to ease everyone's worries. Last year I applied for Spring 2010 class. I received my ranking sheet in July of 2009 but did not receive my official admission letter until November 2009 - for the class that started January 2010. So you can see that there is typically a long time between the ranking letters and the official admission letter - and that the admission was pretty close to the class start date - just a coupla months!
I had to defer to save money (been doing the high-tech gig and although it has put me behind a semester from starting - it will make the difference in staying in school) - while all my Nsg Skills buddies went on to start in Jan this year. But I'm looking forward to meeting a bunch of new nurses-to-be in the Fall 2010 class (hey - think optimistically :-)
Any predictions on what the lowest score getting in will be? I'm taking nursing skills in June and was wondering what the ranking scores that comprise the classes are so we can get an idea of how many people have say a 51,51,53 and so on.
this is huge. what i take away from this is that the applicant pool is getting extremely more competitive (maybe due to a high # of re-applicants or a higher caliber student, who knows). 
Purkinje
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Bad news about 1105: a friend of mine emailed the department. They said they use 1105 in the fall calculation if the final grade was recorded before the application period closed March 1. Which excludes all of us first-time applicants.
My friend also asked if people who were waiting to hear about fall should reapply on May 15 for spring. The answer was that they should wait until about mid-June, so they know if they got in or not before they reapply. Which is totally counterintuitive, considering that they always say to apply as soon as possible, and that the tiebreaker between equal rankings is the date/time the app was received.
The site says they’ll email “rankings” when they finish processing apps –- is that just the same old ranking score we got before, or will it tell us what our rank placement among all the applicants is?
I wonder how much longer it could possibly be until they get all the apps processed. Since they had to process apps as they received them (so they would know who qualified for 1105), how many more could there be that weren’t processed already? And how long could it take to process the remaining ones? Like you said, Radiation, it’s not like there are interviews or essays or anything besides straight-up numbers for them to deal with…