Valencia College Spring 2020 applicants

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Hey everyone! I just applied to the Valencia college traditional ASN nursing program. Hoping to start Spring of 2020. Just wanted to create this thread for those of us who are applying right now after summer semester. Supposed to hear back 6-8 weeks from now. Let’s update each other with our acceptance letters and any questions we may have during the wait ?

So I've read in the past they call to offer open seats to those next in line... does anyone know if they leave a voicemail/email us?! I'm paranoid that I'm going to miss the call if something does open up!

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I just got an email! I got accepted for evening!!!

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4 hours ago, IrishInOrlando said:

I just got an email! I got accepted for evening!!!

Congrats!

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2 minutes ago, bent11015 said:

Congrats!

Thank you!!! You too ???

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Got my letter and accepted!!! See y'all there! ?

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11 minutes ago, Mkocab said:

Got my letter and accepted!!! See y'all there! ?

Yay! Congrats! For day or night?

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4 minutes ago, IrishInOrlando said:

Yay! Congrats! For day or night?

Night!

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On 10/28/2019 at 4:56 PM, Jenna1962 said:

Congratulations who everyone who got in! I will see all of you guys at orientation! I'm a current student who's in Nursing 2 about to go to Nursing 3 who volunteers at the new student orientations! If you got waitlisted, you still have a possibility of getting into the program! I got waitlisted, and two days later they called me saying they had a spot! (back in march) I started over the summer! Everything was so last minute! To get prepared for orientation, bring at least $300.00 cash or check. There will be a lot of purchases being made! In between scrub tops and bottoms, and community tops and bottoms. Your lab kit, stethoscope, BP cuff, watch, penlight, shears, socks, shoes and more! You'll need your lab kit and community uniform for the first week of school. From this point on here on out, get yourself in GO mode. Practice dosage starting now, because they expect you to know it when you get in. Practice your dosage bootcamp, and learn your abbreviations and conversions. You'll possibly need a rolling bookbag. I used to laugh at people who had one before and now look at me! Working full time will be hard. You'll possibly have to drop down to 1-2 days a week. In between now and orientation date (November 15th) try and get your immunizations paperwork. You'll also have to pay $160-$180 for Castlebranch, a third party company that keeps track of your immunizations, drug tests, Fit mask testing, and background check. When you get to orientation ask for me! Jenna! If you need anymore questions or help go ahead and message me! Good luck everyone! I hope this helped. ?

Do you recommend taking nursing 1 in the summer term? I want to apply for summer, but am debating if it would be better for me to wait until fall.

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12 hours ago, fpas13 said:

Do you recommend taking nursing 1 in the summer term? I want to apply for summer, but am debating if it would be better for me to wait until fall.

Personally, I did Nursing 1 over this past summer and I really didn't think it was that bad at all. Just very face paced, but it keeps you on your toes. I suggest applying NOW for summer though. I only worked 1 day a week, however. You're gonna have to take off some time from work if you want to be successful!

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I am a nursing 6 student who started in the summer semester. Even though N1 is tough, it is doable in the summer. Also, you willtake N5/6 during fall semester. I would never take 5 & 6 over the summer. We have several students who joined our cohort after failing 5/6 during summer. Good luck, everyone. Get ready for the ride of your life!

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On 11/16/2019 at 4:03 PM, fpas13 said:

Do you recommend taking nursing 1 in the summer term? I want to apply for summer, but am debating if it would be better for me to wait until fall.

It won't really matter, aside from working. The issue is too many people think they can work 30 to 40 hours a week and make it. I had several people like that in my group. They never applied for Seminole so they didn't attend Seminole information session where they REALLY explained how much commitment is required. I literally had these guys breaking down in tears after class and lashing out in anger saying they can't afford not to work full time, or they have to take care of their children and that they didn't know about how much time commitment was needed, when it was really their own fault for not listening or doing research.

If you're a strong student and you've worked as a CNA for 10 years then sure you can work 40 hours a week and barely squeak by. But if you're not a strong student, or you're young and naive and wait to be told by your professors what you should do to improve your grades and still want to work 20, 30, or 40 hours a week then reconsider.

Nursing 1 is by design a weed out semester in Valencia. My professor never told our class that the exams were based off of NCLEX style questions or even explained what that was. The smart students figured it out after doing bad on the first exam. The academically weaker students and the naive students just sat there clueless, not resourceful enough to figure that out on their own and just drowned and kept failing exam after exam.

After the withdraw deadline had passed, our class average was a 74% (anything below a 77% is failing) with only 2 more exams to go, the only way they avoided a blood bath (having a majority of the class fail) was to dole out a large amount of extra credit when all along they said there would be none.

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