Waiting for acceptance to Collin College & Grayson County College

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hey allnurses community!

i have applied to collin college and grayson county college for the spring 2011 adn program, and am so tired of waiting for letters that won't come for another month!!!! if anyone took the psb i am a little confused on the scoring, i'm not sure if i made 5 or 6 points, because i made above the 70th percentile on everything except the math (36th percentile). on the collin college nursing website it shows the scoring breakdown, but one portion is just "academic aptitude (total)" so i'm not sure of that lumps the verbal, arithmetic, and spatial all together and then averages the score. anyway i may have 15 points or 14 points, does anyone who is currently going to collin college know if many people with 15 points were accepted? also any feedback on either the collin or grayson program would be awesome, because if i get into both i have no idea which program to choose!!

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Academic Aptitude is a lump of the other 3 so you get 1 point for that if the cumulative total is over 70 percent-then add 1 point for each of the spikes you see on the test report. If you have 5 and all your scores are over 70(seems like the math was not)then you get that extra 1 point to make 6.

Collin counselor recently told me that 'everyone' with 15 or more gets in..don't hold much to that though-I guess it really just depends on how many people apply that have 16 points :)

Counselors at the college will interpret for you if you want to be sure. Good Luck!

Hope that helps some-

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Oh man thanks!! They need to update their website because that is sort of different! On the "Selection Criteria" they just say you have to score above the 40th percentile in each section to receive 1 point for each section, and if you score above the 70th percentile in reading comprehension you receive 2 points instead of one. (CCCCD Nursing Program). That is good to know though! Thanks alot! And if you have applied (sounds like you have) good luck to you as well!!

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If you do have 15 points, you have a very strong chance. (by this, I mean around 95% if you are considered in-county and have all your vaccines/paperwork completed.) There have been people in the program denied because the application was considered incomplete. Have all current shot records, official transcripts, application filled out in its entirety.

The program is incredible. You will love it. Good luck to you and post when you know something, it should be soon!

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Thanks for the info!! Hopefully I only have another week of waiting! I will definitely post the outcome and thank you for saying I will love the program, that is VERY encouraging!!! :)

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I got my letter from Collin in yesterday's mail!

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I got mine today!!!!! I got accepted!! I'm extremely nervous and excited!! Congratulations!! Hopefully we make it through!

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Congratulations to you both. It is an excellent program and an excellent school. I am in my second semester :) Enjoy the ride.

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if you don't mind me asking, which school (grayson or collin county) were you accepted into? i am looking at both programs as well. i have taken my prereqs for trinity valley, but it seems that grayson and collin require a couple of additional courses. do you mind sharing exactly what classes you have taken and a round-about gpa and entrance test scores? more-or-less, i'm not sure what i need to do to apply at these two school. i have taken a&p i and ii, intro psych, human growth/life span, eng. 1301, microcomputer (theater appreciation. in oct. and microbiology in the spring). i have taken the hesi a2 with a cumulative passing rate of 90%, but i don't mind retaking if that is not high enough. (i've only taken it once and without studying... so i know i can do much better, if needed). thank you for any advice or guidance you may share!!

one last question -- what is the attitude of fellow classmates that you are/were competing against for a spot in the nursing program? meaning, is it a 'dog eat, dog' world... people looking out for only themselves, back stabbing, doing whatever it takes for themselves to advance?

sj :p

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Hi there! I got accepted into the Collin County program for spring 2011. Both the Collin and Grayson admissions are based on a points system, but they are different.

Collin County's points system works like this:

-There are 4 Pre-requisite classes:

A&P 1

A&P 2

Microbiology

Statistics

If you have taken all 4 of these and make a C or above you receive 4 points (1 for each)

-Next they look at the cumulatvie GPA of ONLY those 4 pre-reqs.

If the GPA is 2.5-2.99 you get 1 point

If the GPA is 3.0-3.59 you get 2 points

If the GPA is 3.6-4.0 you get 3 points

So the most you can get from the GPA of the 4 Pre-reqs is 3 points

-Next they look at the cumulative GPA of only the classes that will apply towards the nursing program; which include those 4 Pre-reqs and several Co-requisite classes, which include:

General Psychology

Composition & Rhetoric 1

Lifespan Psychology

Introduction to Sociology

and any Humanities/Fine Arts/ or Philosophy class

The maximum amount of points you can get is 3 points and the same GPA scale is used as above.

-The entrance exam you have to take is the PSB - Nursing School Aptitude Examination and you can get a total of 6 points there.

If you go here http://www.collin.edu/nursing/ you can find how the scoring for the PSB is broken down and everything else about what you need to do to be ready to apply.

So when I applied I had straight A's in all of the Pre-reqs and Co-reqs except statistics, which i had not even taken. They will let you apply with 1 pre-req in progress. So I ended up having 15 out of 16 points, and got accepted. I am taking statistics now.

For Collin County it looks like the only classes you have to take are Statistics and Microbiology (also sociology but you can take that while in the program or over the summer if you want). If you wait until next spring to take both of them I think you will be able to apply for the program starting in january of 2012...but if you try and take just one of them over a wintermester you can apply in the spring for the fall 2011 class.

I currently go to a different community college, so I was not around any of my future classmates, and I don't know anyone who applied or got accepted so I can't tell you if they are nice or really competitive or what..but getting accepted is competitive and I am sure there are going to be both nice and not so nice people trying to get into any nursing program. The only advice I can give you is to try and make A's because GPA is such a factor at Collin County... I took ALL of my pre-reqs online and LOVED it....also you have to get all of your immunizations and make sure you turn them in...I would get them now!!!

So here is som info from the info packet I got from Grayson:

Required science courses are Microbiology and Lab, and Anatomy & Physiology I & II and Labs

A = 3 points

B = 2 points

C = 1 point

Maximum = 18 points. If there is only one grade for a four credit hour science course, the student

will receive the same points for the theory course and the lab.

Required academic courses receive one (1) point for each course completed with a "C" or better. (English Composition I & II, General Psychology, Life Span Psychology, Sociology, Speech, and one elective) Maximum = 7 points.

Evolve Admission Test

89.5 - 100 = 3 points

79.5 - 89.4 = 2 points

74.5 - 79.4 = 1 point

(Maximum = 3 points)

In-district residents (Maximum = 2 points) Based on GCC residency criteria.

The total maximum number of points that can be earned is 30 points for Grayson County residents and 28 points for non-Grayson county residents.

Soo I had 28 points when I applied to Grayson college and the minimum amount of points they accepted was 25...they did not accept me because I did not have my second and third Heb B shots completed...even though on their web-site it says you dont have to have those when you apply as long as you get them BEFORE the first day of classes, which I would have haha. But anyway I am really excited about going to Collin County it will be 10 minutes from my house and they accepted me knowing I would turn in those shot records as I got them! I can tell you that when I went in to both schools a spoke with people in the nursing department they were kind and helpful, so you should go and talk to people at both schools!

anyways i dont know if this has been helpful at all, but good luck in whatever you decide!!

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Congrats!!! I will be in my 2nd semester when you guys come through; I can't wait to meet ya.

If you need to know somethiing about the program, the ins and outs, don't hesitate to ask. However, you should get more than enough during your orientations. :)

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How did you prepare for PSB exam . What books did you studied. Have you worked in any medical field before.How much does that count for admission.

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