Mar232009
Anti-Climactic much?
Filed under School by Kim at 10:32 pm on Mar 23 2009
I got a letter from the Office of Admissions and Advising at Howard Community College! I think the thin letter/thick letter thing kind of doesn’t count when you are applying to Nursing shool at community college, but I can’t tell you for sure, because I only got a thin letter.
It goes something like this:
- We reviewed your application! But it doesn’t mean anything until the end of this semester.
- You must have a 2.0 GPA! (I have a 4.0 GPA for nursing pre-reqs) But we won’t confirm that until the end of this semester.
- You may still qualify! But if you do, you will be on the wait list.
- Yay, the wait list! Actually it’s the backup wait list of people like you who may be within spitting distance of the county line, but are sadly not over it.
- But you will be on the list! But note that it’s a lottery system that is totally random.
This letter has lots and lots of fine print. The thing that’s really irksome is this bit (emphasis mine):
In the event that a Fall 2009 seat does not become available [ed. note: foregone conclusion for out of county folks], if you qualify for the program, you will be offered the opportunity of remaining on the official Waiting List for the next available clinical semester for your program.
Wait, what does that even mean? Does that mean if I qualify I have to be on the wait list again? Or that I am waiting to be accepted until the next available semester? Verbally, the allied health adviser told me it guaranteed me a spot the next year (meaning fall 2010), not another spot on the wait list. In reality it is all academic, because this is the traditional program anyways, not the accelerated program,which is my first choice. And let me just mention my dissatisfaction with a lottery system, though I’m sure they have a good reason.
Have I mentioned that one of my chem lab partners is hoping to go to Johns Hopkins? And that she can do this because the Navy is paying for it? And it’s making me jealous? She is also on the wait list. They could tell her 2 days prior to the first day of the program that she is in. She and I both wonder: how do people come up with $65,000 or whatever within 2 days?
1 Angela @ Lost In Splendoron 24 Mar 2009 at 9:25 am
Why do they have to make it so confusing? Good luck! I’m so excited for you. Nursing is a great field to get into.
I think 2 days is sufficient time to pull a bank job.
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Kim Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I don’t know but I talked to some of my classmates who got the same letter and they are just as confused. I guess I just need to go to an advisor!
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