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Practical Nursing Admissions Requirements

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Admission into the Practical Nursing (PN) program is selective. Candidates must have earned the following within the last seven years to be considered for admission:

1. High school diploma with an overall grade average of 75 or a high school equivalent (GED/) with minimal score of 245 or 2450
2. Meet Basic English requirement or one of the following:
   1. NYS ELA Regents: minimum score of 75
   2. College-level course: minimum of a “C”
   3. SAT: minimum Reading Test score of 23
   4. ACT: minimum score of 17 on the English and Reading sections
   5. TABE Reading: minimum score of 536
   6. GED English: minimum score of 145
   7. EOC Preparation English: minimum of a “C”
3. Meet Basic Math requirement with one of the following:
   1. NYS Geometry Regents: minimum of a 65
   2. Two defined math courses with a minimum of a 70
   3. College-level course: minimum of a “C”
   4. SAT: minimum Math score of 490
   5. ACT: minimum score of 19 on the Math section
   6. TABE Math: minimum score of 536
   7. GED Math: minimum score of 145
   8. EOC Preparation Math: minimum of a “C”
4. Meet Basic Biology requirement with one of the following:
   1. NYS Living Environment Regents: minimum of a 75
   2. College-level course with Laboratory: minimum of a "C"
   3. EOC Preparation Biology: minimum of a “C”
   4. Completion of BIO 095: Basic Lab Biology from Portage Prep with minimum of a “C”
   5. College-level Anatomy and Physiology I with Laboratory with a final grade of “C”
5. Meet Basic Chemistry requirement with one of the following:
   1. NYS Chemistry Regents: minimum of a 65
   2. College-level course with Laboratory: minimum of a “C”
   3. EOC Preparation Chemistry: minimum of a “C”
   4. Completion of Chem 095: Basic Lab Chemistry from Portage Prep with minimum of a “C”
   5. College-level Anatomy and Physiology I with Laboratory with a final grade of “C”
6. Must have proof of United States citizenship, legal residence. New York residents are given priority.
7. Be at least 17 years of age at the time of applying for nursing licensure.
8. Submit an application for admission into the nursing program

Transfer Students

Candidates must have earned the following to be considered for transfer into the practical nursing program:

1. Satisfy the criteria stated in Admission Requirements: PN.
2. Have a college GPA of 2.5 or higher at the time the application is submitted.
3. **Students requesting transfer from another nursing program must:
   1. Satisfy the criteria stated in the admission requirements: PN
   2. Satisfy the co-requisite criteria if seeking advanced placement.
   3. Obtain an overall college GPA of 2.5
   4. Students requesting transfer from a non-credit bearing PN course must take the Excelsior LPN Fundamentals exam and pass with a “C” or higher.
   5. Students requesting transfer from a non-credit bearing PN course will have their courses evaluated for credit allotment.
   6. Student to request a written statement from the transferring institution directly to SUNY Canton Admissions on college letterhead and sealed indicating their standing upon leaving the college.
   7. Students who wish to transfer into the LPN program in the spring semester must have completed an equivalent three-credit pharmacology or if transferring from SUNY Canton ADN program has successfully completed Pharmacology 1, 2, 3 by the start of the Spring Semester. They also must take (or have completed) pharmacology 4 as a co-requisite.
   8. Complete SUNY Canton's LPNC 102 and LPNC 103 courses.

Note: Transfer credit may be awarded for courses that were previously taken at an accredited institution, passed with a grade of “C” or better, and are similar in content and credit hours to those in the SUNY Canton curriculum, such as Anatomy and Physiology I and II. Science courses completed more than ten years prior to acceptance will need to be repeated.

Student Readmission Policy

A student who is unsuccessful in any nursing course the first time may reapply for admission into the next semester the course is offered. A student who has failed two nursing courses is not eligible for immediate readmission. The student must wait three (3) years from semester of unsuccessful advancement into the program and apply as a new student. The student will compete as a new applicant at that time. Auditing will be required depending on the time away from program.

All current admission criteria must be met at the time the student submits an application for readmission. To be eligible for readmission, a student must complete the following in sequential order:

1. Meet the minimum requirements for entry into the program
2. Attended the previous nursing class within four years.
3. Submit an application for readmission.
4. Submit an updated transcript with their admission application.
5. Submit a written plan as to how you (the student) will be successful, if readmitted. This information must be submitted with the admission packet.
   
   1. Identify factors that kept you from being successful in the program
   2. Identify factors that have changed.
6. If a student is requesting re-admission to the nursing program and it has been more than one year since the student was last enrolled in the nursing program, the student will be required to audit the lecture and lab sections of the last nursing course successfully completed.
7. Readmission is selective and on a space available basis.