Anyone went to nursing school in Farmingdale?

Or anyone who knows anything about nursing programs!!!!!

I know Nassau Community is SUPER competitive to go into. Like it's a 4.0 GPA minimum. I know it has a great reputation.

I am looking for an associate degree. Not a bachelor! Too long!

So Farmingdale is also not too far from me.

Anyone knows about their program.

I heard they have an entrance exam. What does that entails to?

I would love to go into nursing with focus on prenatal/perinatal or lactation consulting, child birth education.

Thanks!!!!!!

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my brother is in the nursing program at Farmingdale and a good friend graduated from there about 3 years ago.

My brother took some pre reqs, non nursing classes then took the exam. He got in. Its very competitive.

He has been going PT so its taken awhile but he loves it. He also now works at New Island as a PCA so its a great step for him!

Any thing specific I can put you in touch with him via FB if you like.

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I am hopefully going into nursing school and I have literally talked to every college in Nassau and Suffolk that have nursing programs.

Farmingdale is VERY VERY competitive. They have about 2000 applicants and only 40 or so spots. They have info sessions every week so you should go to one for more detailed info. You need almost perfect grades in Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2, Freshman English and Intro to Pysch to get in. The girl who gave the seminar scared me half to death with how strict they are with accepting people. If you take over a class they average the two grades, not replace the bad one. I have the sheet they gave me with ALL the details so I can email it to you if you want. ANd they have an entrance exam.

I talked to Nassau and Suffolk as well.. again very hard to get into but easier than Farmingdale. They also have an evening part time program as well. No entrance exams and only look at A & P 1 and 2, Freshman english and psych... thats it. Suffolk has the program at both western and ammerman campuses.

Those are the only RN associates around besides the city. The other schools are for BSN's or some only allow you entrance with an RN license to get the BSN.

FM if you want more info.... like i said I have researched this for months and have been to every college!

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Posted by dottiemchugh
Farmingdale is VERY VERY competitive. They have about 2000 applicants and only 40 or so spots. They have info sessions every week so you should go to one for more detailed info. You need almost perfect grades in Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2, Freshman English and Intro to Pysch to get in.

I just wanted to add, I dont know much about the programs but I can PROMISE you my brother who has 1 class left in the Farmingdale nursing program does not have perfect grades.

Once you are in the program I think the lowest grade is a C if I remember, but getting in is so hard the woman at the school told us that at least a B+ in the pre-req classes and that is even low. I was . It has recently become so competitve because of huge amount of applicants into nursing programs and not enough spots.

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Posted by dottiemchugh

Posted by Kelly9904

Posted by dottiemchugh
Farmingdale is VERY VERY competitive. They have about 2000 applicants and only 40 or so spots. They have info sessions every week so you should go to one for more detailed info. You need almost perfect grades in Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2, Freshman English and Intro to Pysch to get in.

I just wanted to add, I dont know much about the programs but I can PROMISE you my brother who has 1 class left in the Farmingdale nursing program does not have perfect grades.

Once you are in the program I think the lowest grade is a C if I remember, but getting in is so hard the woman at the school told us that at least a B+ in the pre-req classes and that is even low. I was . It has recently become so competitve because of huge amount of applicants into nursing programs and not enough spots.

I think C+ was the lowest you could get when i was in the program. If you got a C, i think you had to take it over (i oculd be wrong though, my memory suckss these days lol).

As far the competitiveness, i was actually going to start a thread on the topic (just as an FYI to those who are/will be applying to nursing school). I was recently speaking to a couple of nursing school professors (1 from Farmingdale and 1 from Queensborough) and both said that their programs recently cuts the acceptances drastically due to the job market (the National League of Nurses has guidelines that accredited programs need to adhere to, and one is that if there are no jobs in the area, you can't accept applicants at the same rate. Farmingdale had been accepting for 150 spots in the program, this fall, they're accepting 56! That's 1/3 from what was already a competitive spot to begin with (i think when i applied there were about 1500 applicants, and they accepted 150, so 10%... and we thought THAT was hard/bad). I think the nurse i spoke to from queensborough said they used to accept 150 and were now taking 100, but it was a convo in passing at a seminar, so i dont remember exactly.

I understand the logic behind it though, and think maybe more disciplines should be like that (not accepting hundreds of people into a specialized program knowing that there are no spots on the island hiring them). I go on a nursing forum and its amazing how RNs that graduated LAST may still aren't finding any positions, nevermind the ones that just graduated this may. I'm sure it will turn around eventually (there are tons of nursing ready to retire and with the amount of OT i've been working, i dont understand why we dont just have more nurses) and i dont want it to sound disheartening, but just to give a heads of of what its like out there right now.

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Posted by neenie

Posted by dottiemchugh

Posted by Kelly9904

Posted by dottiemchugh
Farmingdale is VERY VERY competitive. They have about 2000 applicants and only 40 or so spots. They have info sessions every week so you should go to one for more detailed info. You need almost perfect grades in Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2, Freshman English and Intro to Pysch to get in.

I just wanted to add, I dont know much about the programs but I can PROMISE you my brother who has 1 class left in the Farmingdale nursing program does not have perfect grades.

Once you are in the program I think the lowest grade is a C if I remember, but getting in is so hard the woman at the school told us that at least a B+ in the pre-req classes and that is even low. I was . It has recently become so competitve because of huge amount of applicants into nursing programs and not enough spots.

I think C+ was the lowest you could get when i was in the program. If you got a C, i think you had to take it over (i oculd be wrong though, my memory suckss these days lol).

As far the competitiveness, i was actually going to start a thread on the topic (just as an FYI to those who are/will be applying to nursing school). I was recently speaking to a couple of nursing school professors (1 from Farmingdale and 1 from Queensborough) and both said that their programs recently cuts the acceptances drastically due to the job market (the National League of Nurses has guidelines that accredited programs need to adhere to, and one is that if there are no jobs in the area, you can't accept applicants at the same rate. Farmingdale had been accepting for 150 spots in the program, this fall, they're accepting 56! That's 1/3 from what was already a competitive spot to begin with (i think when i applied there were about 1500 applicants, and they accepted 150, so 10%... and we thought THAT was hard/bad). I think the nurse i spoke to from queensborough said they used to accept 150 and were now taking 100, but it was a convo in passing at a seminar, so i dont remember exactly.

I understand the logic behind it though, and think maybe more disciplines should be like that (not accepting hundreds of people into a specialized program knowing that there are no spots on the island hiring them). I go on a nursing forum and its amazing how RNs that graduated LAST may still aren't finding any positions, nevermind the ones that just graduated this may. I'm sure it will turn around eventually (there are tons of nursing ready to retire and with the amount of OT i've been working, i dont understand why we dont just have more nurses) and i dont want it to sound disheartening, but just to give a heads of of what its like out there right now.

Thanks! I am going into nursing as a stepping stone for what I really want to do. Lactation consultant and child birth education. In addition to my pregnancy massage practice.

Re: Anyone went to nursing school in Farmingdale?

Posted by Disneygirl

Posted by smdl

Posted by neenie

Posted by dottiemchugh

Posted by Kelly9904

Posted by dottiemchugh
Farmingdale is VERY VERY competitive. They have about 2000 applicants and only 40 or so spots. They have info sessions every week so you should go to one for more detailed info. You need almost perfect grades in Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2, Freshman English and Intro to Pysch to get in.

I just wanted to add, I dont know much about the programs but I can PROMISE you my brother who has 1 class left in the Farmingdale nursing program does not have perfect grades.

Once you are in the program I think the lowest grade is a C if I remember, but getting in is so hard the woman at the school told us that at least a B+ in the pre-req classes and that is even low. I was . It has recently become so competitve because of huge amount of applicants into nursing programs and not enough spots.

I think C+ was the lowest you could get when i was in the program. If you got a C, i think you had to take it over (i oculd be wrong though, my memory suckss these days lol).

As far the competitiveness, i was actually going to start a thread on the topic (just as an FYI to those who are/will be applying to nursing school). I was recently speaking to a couple of nursing school professors (1 from Farmingdale and 1 from Queensborough) and both said that their programs recently cuts the acceptances drastically due to the job market (the National League of Nurses has guidelines that accredited programs need to adhere to, and one is that if there are no jobs in the area, you can't accept applicants at the same rate. Farmingdale had been accepting for 150 spots in the program, this fall, they're accepting 56! That's 1/3 from what was already a competitive spot to begin with (i think when i applied there were about 1500 applicants, and they accepted 150, so 10%... and we thought THAT was hard/bad). I think the nurse i spoke to from queensborough said they used to accept 150 and were now taking 100, but it was a convo in passing at a seminar, so i dont remember exactly.

I understand the logic behind it though, and think maybe more disciplines should be like that (not accepting hundreds of people into a specialized program knowing that there are no spots on the island hiring them). I go on a nursing forum and its amazing how RNs that graduated LAST may still aren't finding any positions, nevermind the ones that just graduated this may. I'm sure it will turn around eventually (there are tons of nursing ready to retire and with the amount of OT i've been working, i dont understand why we dont just have more nurses) and i dont want it to sound disheartening, but just to give a heads of of what its like out there right now.

Thanks! I am going into nursing as a stepping stone for what I really want to do. Lactation consultant and child birth education. In addition to my pregnancy massage practice.

That's awesome, I'm an OB nurse(and a non practicing childbirth educator) so if you have any questions about that I'd be happy to help if I can. I've been out of nursing school for 7yrs now (went to nassau) and also live OOS now so I'm out of the loop when it comes to schools. Just wanted to add you don't NEED to be a nurse to become a lactation consultant although I'm sure the path is much harder and I've heard that test is really difficult once you put in the gazillion hours that is required to even sit for it, lol. Also it sounds like between your massage cert and childbirth ed becoming a doula as well might be a good fit for you, have you considered that as well?