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Admission Requirements

 
  1. Completely filled out Bay Area College of Nursing application form.
  2. High school transcript of records sealed and sent by the school or GED certificate
  3. All foreign transcripts must be evaluated by a member of the National Association of Educational Credential Service for 12th grade equivalency.
  4. Complete Anatomy and Physiology course of at least 3 semester units with a grade of C or higher.  This course may be taken at Bay Area College of Nursing or at a community college.  Sealed Official Transcript required. (If requesting for other course credit from previous schools, please fill out a “Credit Option Form” and include a sealed official transcript with course description.)
  5. Complete Entrance Assessment Test with a score of 200 or higher in English and a score of 210 or higher in Mathematics.   Test scores must be within 2 years prior to the date of admission.
  6. Current and valid CPR certificate.
  7. Physical examination by a medical doctor or nurse practitioner.
  8. TB clearance; hepatitis B vaccination or at least 1st injection of the series of 3; MMR or titer verifying immunity to rubella, mumps, rubeola; varicella immunization or immunity verification by titer.
  9. Tetanus within past 5 years.
  10. Personal malpractice insurance.
  11. Must be at least 17 years of age by the time the program begins.
  12. Have no convictions in any court of law of a crime other than minor traffic violations
  13. Two (2) Letters of Recommendation
  14. Live Scan
  15. Laptop
  16. Clinical Paraphernalia