Valencia College/UCF Concurrent Spring 2022

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Hi VC/UCF Concurrent Spring 2022 applicants!

I'm currently finishing my last two pre-requisites (Micro + Nutrition) in Summer 2021. Then, I plan to apply for the Spring 2022 Concurrent Valencia/UCF ASN/BSN program.

Who else plans to apply for the Spring 2022 concurrent program?

On 10/4/2021 at 11:47 AM, Stephen Heglund said:

Hello @ucfsscnursinghopefully!

If we could accept all applicants to our partnered concurrent programs with SSC and VC, we would! In fact, this is one of the reasons we opened the Florida College System Concurrent AS to BSN program. We have no acceptance limits on that track. If you qualify, you are admitted. So if you do not get into one of these as a Concurrent student (but do get admitted as a regular student to ANY Florida College Nursing program), please file an application to that track!

As for GPA calculations, you are correct. Every school figures this number on the classes they accept. For instance, if you have 3000 or 4000 level courses and transfer to a state college, they might not be able to accept those higher level classes. So, they do no use them to calculate the cumulative GPA. Grade forgiveness policies vary widely from school to school. Some schools allow far more classes than others. Some schools do not recognize the second chances at all. Others recognize only their own. UCF is in the middle of the pack.

At UCF, two classes is the most you can have forgiven. EXCEPT if forgiven classes are from another school AND that school awarded a degree in which the forgiven classes were included. In that case, UCF accepts all the classes and uses the GPA of that degree for the calculation of all classes taken to come up with the cumulative GPA. So, it can be a little brain twisting at times.

Good luck and feel free to contact me or my advising staff if you have any questions, concerns or needs. [email protected], www.nursing.ucf.edu

Dr. H

Hi Dr. H,

Thank you so much for sharing this information! I am a current Valencia student and applied for the Spring 2022 concurrent program with more than 2 classes taken for grade forgiveness, however, I will have completed my AA in December. How do you think this will fare when being considered for the program? Do I meet the requirements since I will have earned my AA by the program start date? 

Thanks for your input!

Kayla

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Specializes in Nursing Education and ER Care, @SteveHeglundPhD.

Hi Kayla!

Great question that will allow me to clarify. Admissions decisions are based on the final GPAs and not how one arrived at them. So, if the GPA is 3.5 with several grades forgiven and 3.5 with no grades forgiven, it is the same. But there is a clear distinction with calculations including and not including Grade Forgiveness instances.

If the transcript comes to UCF with a degree awarded, the forgiven grades stay in the GPA calculation for the degree. If a transcript comes to UCF without a degree awarded, a maximum of two forgiven grades are included in the GPA calculation. But either way, the admissions process does not consider Grade Forgiveness as a stand alone concept; only the GPA, however it gets calculated.

Better?

Dr. H

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11 minutes ago, Stephen Heglund said:

Hi Kayla!

Great question that will allow me to clarify. Admissions decisions are based on the final GPAs and not how one arrived at them. So, if the GPA is 3.5 with several grades forgiven and 3.5 with no grades forgiven, it is the same. But there is a clear distinction with calculations including and not including Grade Forgiveness instances.

If the transcript comes to UCF with a degree awarded, the forgiven grades stay in the GPA calculation for the degree. If a transcript comes to UCF without a degree awarded, a maximum of two forgiven grades are included in the GPA calculation. But either way, the admissions process does not consider Grade Forgiveness as a stand alone concept; only the GPA, however it gets calculated.

Better?

Dr. H

Good morning, 

Thank you so much for the quick response. I might need to take action today, hopefully before final decisions are made. I did not know that grade forgiveness is only considered by UCF after a degree has been awarded. My Valencia GPA is a 3.25, so I don’t have any wiggle room if they were to only consider two of the courses I have retaken. My plan today is to print my degree audit, the current grades for my final two courses, as well as my graduation application form and approval letter. I’m not sure if this will give me a fighting chance, but perhaps documentation that this is my graduating term will make a difference to the College of Nursing. If anything, my GPA will be more competitive come the Fall 2022 application period once I’ve graduate, however that is a painfully long wait!

 

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Hello everyone!

My application status still says under review. However, it has been given the green light and all the items have been checked off. Is this the case with anyone else's application?

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6 hours ago, Madison Stephenson said:

Hello everyone!

My application status still says under review. However, it has been given the green light and all the items have been checked off. Is this the case with anyone else's application?

Yes mine is the same. 

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Check your emails!

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I got in!

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Has anyone received their MOA’s ?? 

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Specializes in Nursing Education and ER Care, @SteveHeglundPhD.

MOAs will be coming out soon! Congratulations to everyone who was admitted!

Dr. H

@SteveHeglundPhD

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Hey, just following up if anyone has recieved their email.  I got the Valencia email about orientation but that's it. 

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24 minutes ago, FrankMPH said:

Hey, just following up if anyone has recieved their email.  I got the Valencia email about orientation but that's it. 

Hey no email from Ucf yet just from Valencia sending the orientation link for canvas. 

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