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New Admissions Procedures - FALL 2012
New Admissions Procedures for Undergraduates Nursing Programs - Fall 2012
The Generic Pathway & Accelerated Second-Degree Pathway Programs
The Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing now uses the NursingCAS, a centralized application service for students applying to all types of Nursing programs. Undergraduate Nursing Applications 2012 for the Generic & Accelerated Second-Degree Pathway Programs will open from Tuesday, November 1st through and including Friday, January 6th. Applicants will apply online through NursingCAS on https://portal.nursingcas.org. Please note that there is a $45 fee to apply. All applicants are required to submit an application and all college transcripts including Hunter College and all other CUNY college transcripts to NursingCAS. NursingCAS verifies the application components for accuracy, calculates the GPA, and distributes the materials to nursing programs. Please note that you can only apply to one of the Undergraduate Nursing programs: Generic Pathway or Accelerated Second-Degree Pathway. To learn more about NursingCAS you can visit the following link – http://nursingcas.org.
If you are applying to the Generic Pathway Program,
- You MUST be matriculated at Hunter College for the Spring 2012 semester.
- You will submit your application to NursingCAS on https://portal.nursingcas.org and send all transcripts, including your Hunter College transcript to NursingCAS. There is a $45 fee for your application. If you wish to apply to other nursing schools, there is a fee of $30 for each subsequent application. Please note that you will not be allowed to apply to the Accelerated Second Degree Pathway program if you are applying to the Generic Pathway program.
- You must have completed ALL prerequisites (English Composition, Statistics, General Psychology, Developmental Psychology (LifeSpan), General Chemistry with lab, Organic Chemistry with lab, Human Anatomy & Physiology (2 courses) and Microbiology with lab), with the exception of two which can be taken during Spring 2012. You must receive a minimum of a C in all prerequisites. If you are taking prerequisite courses in Spring 2012 and are accepted but fail to make at least a C grade, your acceptance to the program will be rescinded.
- A career goal statement of yourself will be required.
- You may take the NLN RN Pre-Admission PAX exam at the Hunter College Testing Service, or arrange to take it elsewhere. The deadline to take the exam is Thursday, March 1, 2012. Scores for the NLN RN Pre-Admission PAX exam, if taken outside of Hunter College, must be sent directly to Maria Luisa Mendoza, Pre-Nursing Advisor, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, 425 E 25th Street Room 429, New York, NY 10010.
- The deadline to apply to NursingCAS is Friday, January 6th.
- All correspondence about your application will be sent to your Hunter email address.
- You must be a baccalaureate degree graduate from an accredited institution by June 1, 2012 in order to apply to the Accelerated Second-Degree Pathway program.
- You must apply to Hunter College as an Undergraduate Transfer Student on http://cuny.edu/admissions/undergraduate.html by Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Admission to the nursing program is contingent upon admission to Hunter College. Send one set of all transcripts to General Transfer Admission, CUNY/UAPC, P. O. Box 359023, Brooklyn, NY 11235-9023.
- You will submit your application to NursingCAS on https://portal.nursingcas.org , submit an additional set of all transcripts to NursingCAS, as well – including your Hunter College transcripts, if need be. There is a $45 fee for your application. If you wish to apply to other nursing schools, there is a fee of $30 for each subsequent application. Please note that you will not be allowed to apply to the Generic Pathway program if you are applying to the Accelerated Second-Degree Pathway Program.
- You must have completed ALL prerequisites (English Composition, Statistics, General Psychology, Developmental Psychology (LifeSpan), General Chemistry with lab, Organic Chemistry with lab, Human Anatomy & Physiology (2 courses) and Microbiology with lab), with the exception of two which can be taken during Spring 2012. You must receive a minimum of a C in all prerequisites. If you are taking prerequisite courses in Spring 2012 and are accepted but fail to make at least a C grade, your acceptance to the program will be rescinded.
- A career goal statement of yourself will be required.
- You must take the NLN Pre-Admission exam, either at the Hunter College Testing Service, or elsewhere. The deadline to take the exam is Thursday, March 1, 2012. Scores for the NLN RN Pre-Admission PAX exam, if taken outside of Hunter College, must be sent directly to Maria Luisa Mendoza, Pre-Nursing Advisor, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, 425 E 25th Street Room 429, New York, NY 10010.
- The deadline to apply to NursingCAS is Friday, January 6th, 2012.
