West Coast University - BSN Program

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Girlafraid13

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Hi, it took me a moment digging through the online catalog, but I found the full course list for the BSN.

West Coast University*-*BSN Curriculum Addendum

Thanks for the response! You're awesome.

Kailet

17 Posts

Thanks for the response! You're awesome.

No problem! =)

all of this is so helpful!

I was wondering after transferring all of the college credits from previous schools, how long did the program end up being? Since it starts out as a little over 3 years is it about 2 years or 2 1/2 years? Ill keep looking through the forum to see if the answer is there. Thank you!

Kailet

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Based on the information packet they gave me, general ed (if you don't have anything that transfers) takes up seven 10 week terms. The total program duration is 16 terms, so assuming you were able to transfer in ALL of the general ed courses, it would leave you will 90 weeks of nursing classes, which would be about 21 months. If you had most but not all of the general ed, you might be looking at 10 or 11 terms, depending on what you needed and when it was available.

MusicEMT

212 Posts

After I transferred my classes (the ones listed in my previous post), it knocked my length to 2 1/2 years. It was acutally supposed a bit shorter than that as well but they screwed up my schedule cause i transferred in my transcripts so late and certain classes I needed were full that term.. So I am ending up having to go a Term extra (10 weeks extra).

So a bit of an update on me and journey at WCU:

I started my Core Nursing classes this term, I am taking Fundamentals Of Nursing, Intro to Professional Nursing and Fundamentals of Nursing Lab (skills lab).

My schedule is as the following: Tuesdays: Fundamentals Lecture from 7am to 12pm then Lunch break then I have Intro to Professional Nursing from 1pm to 4:30pm

Wenesday: Fundamentals of Nursing Lab from 7am to 5pm (YES ALL DAY! with an hour break inbetween for lunch)

The 5th week of the lab we are going to do our clinical rotations at a nursing home with the same hours for the rest of the term.

Again as I said before this is an Accelerated BSN program, the pace is very fast! With this said, There is a lot of studying to be done each week, the workload is very high. we are expected to read about 5 chapters and do about 10 ATI modules (online module things) which take about an hour for each module for each week!

I dont recommend working anything more than part-time when doing this, I am working 4 days a week and am struggling to keep up, so I am going to have to scale my work back to 3 days a week.

Great@ thank you so much for the update and quick responses! So you transferred about 5 classes? I will have 5 classes transferred by the time i hope to apply. im going to a nursing session this thursday so i am pretty excited. Do you think it would be better to just finish the general ed and prereqs at a community college before i transfer? just to save some money. or maybe it would take even longer to get my BSN so maybe just transferring what i have now would be good. also i was wondering if they allow you to take courses there and also lets say one class on the side at a community college? or they just want you to take everything there once accepted? i was told in the nursing info session they will take a look at my classes to see what they can do, but i was hoping to get your input. also what are the terms of application? how many times a year do they accept students? is it like spring summer and fall semester? how long did you wait to actually start from the time you applied? thank you! sorry to have so many questions but this definitely has been my best source of info from all of you!

MusicEMT

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Great@ thank you so much for the update and quick responses! So you transferred about 5 classes? I will have 5 classes transferred by the time i hope to apply. im going to a nursing session this thursday so i am pretty excited. Do you think it would be better to just finish the general ed and prereqs at a community college before i transfer? just to save some money. or maybe it would take even longer to get my BSN so maybe just transferring what i have now would be good. also i was wondering if they allow you to take courses there and also lets say one class on the side at a community college? or they just want you to take everything there once accepted? i was told in the nursing info session they will take a look at my classes to see what they can do, but i was hoping to get your input. also what are the terms of application? how many times a year do they accept students? is it like spring summer and fall semester? how long did you wait to actually start from the time you applied? thank you! sorry to have so many questions but this definitely has been my best source of info from all of you!

I Transferred 9 classes: Anatomy, Physiology, Biochem, Microbio, English 1 and 2 (Written communication 1 and 2 at WCU), College math, Intro to Psych.

I would say yes It would be better to finish the General Ed classes at a CC before you transfer as it will save you a ton of money in Tuition and make your program at WCU a lot shorter as well... unless you dont mind paying the extra money then go ahead.. in a way it might be a bit faster at WCU since the terms at 10 weeks long as opposed to 16 weeks at a CC but then again its more pricey.. so its really up to you

and No you are not allowed to take side classes at a CC while in the Program, those classes will not count toward your degree at WCU.

Its either you finish your pre-reqs before you start or you take the classes at WCU. Another option I covered in one of my previous posts is to do an online Independent study program through Brigham Young Unversity, You can knock out about 2 classes in a Month (although each class costs about $500, much cheaper than WCU but more expensive than CC) and transfer those in to WCU before you start. They usually want the transcripts no later than a few days before your start date. once the terms start you cant transfer your credits anymore.

They accept students every 10 weeks, so a few times a year.. I applied about a month and a half in advance, once your financial aid/loans are all set up and ready to go then you are guaranteed a spot... you can always push back your start date as well if you didnt have enough time to finish your classes or for other reasons, I pushed back my start date twice cause I didnt finish my online pre-reqs before the start date.

feel free to ask more questions! I am glad I could contribute and help out :)

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StephytobyBSN

14 Posts

Hello :)

I got accepted to west coast in FL, they accepted like 21 credits so I have two semesters of general ed left. The campus in FL is new so there is very little students so that kinda sucks. The price is very expensive but most schools in FL are like that. But I wana know if this school has a good reputation.

junifree

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they accepted all of my credits, 40 of em and i took 70 credits at miami dade college lol. they said i'd have to take 3 classes before getting in their program and im in for the RN prog.

my biggest issue is if they are accredited in florida? do you think its a good idea going with these guys? their school is super close to my house etc, and i'd def pay the rest for the program but are they accredited in florida??? they say they are... i rather hear it from you guys.

that and i doubt fiu would take their bachelors, so i wouldnt be able to get a masters and do the arnp program like i really want in the long run... thats another big question i have.

other than that, i'm 100% positive i can get in. anyone can answer those questions for me or have an idea or guess at them, take a stab at it please... i am clueless as far as those questions go. THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!

StephytobyBSN

14 Posts

Yes they are accredited

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