Valencia/Seminole College Nursing acceptance requirements-Florida

ConstantGardener · Dec 7, 2019

I got accepted into Valencia/UCF concurrent with low 3 ish GPA. And straight B's except for 1 A in science pre reqs. A nursing youtuber got into Seminole concurrent years ago with C's in her science pre reqs and low overall GPA as well.

It's competitive so it depends on the year with Spring being harder to get into and Fall being easier to get into. Overall Seminole seems to be more competitive. Valencia admits a lot of students that shouldn't be in the program. As in folks who thought they could work 40 hours a week and take care of their kids while in the program and never planned financially for otherwise.

So you wont know until you apply and just kill it on the TEAS, as in like get a 96%, which isn't hard as I got in the high 80s on the first attempt with almost no studying. With a high 90s TEAS and even with just borderline minimum GPA you still might get in depending on everyone else's grades.

A warning though, if you are a weak student, you better buckle down, as nursing school has a higher grading scale. Anything below a 77% in Valencia is failing. And it's easy to fail as all tests are NCLEX style questions and they don't explain that to you. So the academically weak students fail from the test 1 and almost never pick themselves up as many are clueless and sit there waiting to told what to do. (Studying the textbook is of little help as the NCLEX style questions doesn't exactly correlate to the textbook.)

So if that sounds like you and your not driven and resourceful and fight for that grade then you might want to reconsider, because they won't show you how to succeed and it's up to yourself to figure that out. Plus, Nursing 1 is weed out semester for Valencia, and by tradition large portions of Nursing 1 class body fails the course and drop out of the program.

Kiki0416 · Dec 7, 2019

19 minutes ago, ConstantGardener said:
I got accepted into Valencia/UCF concurrent with low 3 ish GPA. And straight B's except for 1 A in science pre reqs. A nursing youtuber got into Seminole concurrent years ago with C's in her science pre reqs and low overall GPA as well.
It's competitive so it depends on the year with Spring being harder to get into and Fall being easier to get into. Overall Seminole seems to be more competitive. Valencia admits a lot of students that shouldn't be in the program. As in folks who thought they could work 40 hours a week and take care of their kids while in the program and never planned financially for otherwise.
So you wont know until you apply and just kill it on the TEAS, as in like get a 96%, which isn't hard as I got in the high 80s on the first attempt with almost no studying. With a high 90s TEAS and even with just borderline minimum GPA you still might get in depending on everyone else's grades.
A warning though, if you are a weak student, you better buckle down, as nursing school has a higher grading scale. Anything below a 77% in Valencia is failing. And it's easy to fail as all tests are NCLEX style questions and they don't explain that to you. So the academically weak students fail from the test 1 and almost never pick themselves up as many are clueless and sit there waiting to told what to do. (Studying the textbook is of little help as the NCLEX style questions doesn't exactly correlate to the textbook.)
So if that sounds like you and your not driven and resourceful and fight for that grade then you might want to reconsider, because they won't show you how to succeed and it's up to yourself to figure that out. Plus, Nursing 1 is weed out semester for Valencia, and by tradition large portions of Nursing 1 class body fails the course and drop out of the program.

Who was the YouTubeer? And that was years ago. I was told they haven’t accepted anyone in that tier in years.

ConstantGardener · Dec 7, 2019

6 minutes ago, Kiki0416 said:
Who was the YouTubeer? And that was years ago. I was told they haven’t accepted anyone in that tier in years.

She got accepted in 2015 and like I said you won't know until you try. I didn't think I'd get in as my stats were barely above the minimum GPA except for my TEAS score. You have no choice but to kill it in the TEAS and try.

Though just to let you know UCF concurrently has a Florida State College System Concurrent. Meaning that you can apply to concurrent separately once you complete 1 semester of any state community college nursing school. I looked at all of the ones in the state, and some of the rural community college nursing programs have next to no pre reqs and are shorter than Valencias (4 semesters) and you can get started on your BSN after completing Nursing 1 in any of them.

And Valencia's science pre req requirement doesn't mean you can't get a C.

Kiki0416 · Dec 7, 2019

12 hours ago, ConstantGardener said:
She got accepted in 2015 and like I said you won't know until you try. I didn't think I'd get in as my stats were barely above the minimum GPA except for my TEAS score. You have no choice but to kill it in the TEAS and try.
Though just to let you know UCF concurrently has a Florida State College System Concurrent. Meaning that you can apply to concurrent separately once you complete 1 semester of any state community college nursing school. I looked at all of the ones in the state, and some of the rural community college nursing programs have next to no pre reqs and are shorter than Valencias (4 semesters) and you can get started on your BSN after completing Nursing 1 in any of them.
And Valencia's science pre req requirement doesn't mean you can't get a C.

What did you use to study for the TEAS?