Open: September 2025
Close: November 2025
Cohort start date varies.
Thank you for your interest in the Hartnell College Registered Nursing program. The program is impacted, meaning that far more qualified students apply than can be accepted. Before applying, please be aware that classroom and some clinical courses are taught using face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats. Clinical courses occur throughout Monterey County and are scheduled seven days per week and 24-hours each day. Clinical class times, dates, and places are subject to change based on unanticipated circumstances.
Your success is important to us. Please consider your level of preparedness before committing to an education in registered nursing. Research indicates that successful Hartnell nursing students work less than 16 hours per week and have an extended support system of family and friends. Because of intricacies and rigor of the registered nursing program, we cannot accommodate your employment or family responsibilities.
We ask that you review our Nursing and Health Sciences Student Handbook and Policy and Procedure Manual. Become familiar with our mission, vision, values, and philosophy before you apply. Please be sure that Hartnell College is a good match for you.
LVN-to-RN Applicant: Multi-criterion Screening Worksheet
Student Support Program(s) Verification Form
Your Step-by-Step Guide
New, Returning and Dual Enrollment Students are required to have a current application.
It is required that all prerequisites be completed before applying to the program. In progress courses will be not be considered.
Skip this step if you completed all prerequisite courses at the following schools listed below.
A Hartnell College counselor must evaluate course descriptions and transcripts for each prerequisite course taken at colleges other than those listed below; it is required for admission.
-
- Hartnell College
- Cabrillo College
- Cuesta College
- DeAnza College
- Evergreen Valley College
- San Jose City College
- Gavilan College
- Mission College
- Monterey Peninsula College
Skip this step if you were educated in the US or attended a US accredited institution.
Mail To:
ATTN: Nursing and Health Sciences
411 Central Ave Salinas, Ca 93901
Electronic Request To: NHS@hartnell.edu
Foreign transcript evaluation (2 orders), if applicable
Other college transcripts
(1 official hard copy to be mailed or 1 electronic order from each college where you
took prerequisite courses)
Official AP transcript (1 order), if applicable
If all prerequisite were courses completed at Hartnell College you do NOT need to order a Hartnell transcript.
LVN-to-RN Application
| Selection and Admission LVN-to-RN 2024 Timeline | |
| September 9, 2024 |
LVN-to-RN- Application opens |
| November 1, 2024 |
LVN-to-RN - Final application deadline Late and incomplete applications are not reviewed. |
| November 15, 2024 | LVN-to-RN- Email notification of conditional acceptance or denial for placement assessments |
| November 25/26, 2024 (by invitation only) |
LVN-to-RN - ATI Placement Assessment(s) |
|
November 27, 2024 |
LVN-to-RN- Email notification of conditional placement or denial |
|
December 4, 2024 |
LVN-to-RN- Mandatory Nursing New Student Orientation |
Open: November 18, 2024
Close: February 7, 2025
Cohort begins every Fall semester.
Thank you for your interest in the Hartnell College Registered Nursing program. The program is impacted, meaning that far more qualified students apply than can be accepted. Before applying, please be aware that classroom and some clinical courses are taught using face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats. Clinical courses occur throughout Monterey County and are scheduled seven days per week and 24-hours each day. Clinical class times, dates, and places are subject to change based on unanticipated circumstances.
Your success is important to us. Please consider your level of preparedness before committing to an education in registered nursing. Research indicates that successful Hartnell nursing students work less than 16 hours per week and have an extended support system of family and friends. Because of intricacies and rigor of the registered nursing program, we cannot accommodate your employment or family responsibilities.
We ask that you review our Nursing and Health Sciences Student Handbook and Policy and Procedure Manual. Become familiar with our mission, vision, values, and philosophy before you apply. Please be sure that Hartnell College is a good match for you.
RN Applicant: Multi-criterion Screening Worksheet
Student Support Program(s) Verification Form
Your Step-by-Step Guide
New, Returning and Dual Enrollment Students are required to have a current application.
It is required that all prerequisites be completed before applying to the program. In progress courses will be not be considered.
Skip this step if you completed all prerequisite courses at the following schools listed below.
A Hartnell College counselor must evaluate course descriptions and transcripts for each prerequisite course taken at colleges other than those listed below; it is required for admission.
-
- Hartnell College
- Cabrillo College
- Cuesta College
- DeAnza College
- Evergreen Valley College
- San Jose City College
- Gavilan College
- Mission College
- Monterey Peninsula College
Skip this step if you were educated in the US or attended a US accredited institution.
Mail To:
ATTN: Nursing and Health Sciences
411 Central Ave Salinas, Ca 93901
Electronic Request To: NHS@hartnell.edu
Foreign transcript evaluation (2 orders), if applicable
Other college transcripts
(1 official hard copy to be mailed or 1 electronic order from each college where you
took prerequisite courses)
Official AP transcript (1 order), if applicable
If all prerequisite were courses completed at Hartnell College you do NOT need to order a Hartnell transcript.
RN Application
| Selection and Admission RN Timeline | |
| November 18, 2024 |
RN- Application opens |
| February 7, 2025 |
RN- Final application deadline Late and incomplete applications are not reviewed. |
| March 14, 2025 | RN- Phase 2 Email notification of conditional acceptance or denial |
| March 2025 (by invitation only) |
RN- ATI TEAS Assessment (by invitation only) |
| March 2025 |
RN- Email notification of conditional acceptance or denial |
| April 2025 | RN- Mandatory Nursing New Student Orientation |
| July 2025 | Student Orientation Documents Due |
| August 2025 | Fall 2025 semester begins |
On-going
Thank you for your interest in the Hartnell College Registered Nursing program. The program is impacted, meaning that far more qualified students apply than can be accepted. Before applying, please be aware that classroom and some clinical courses are taught using face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats. Clinical courses occur throughout Monterey County and are scheduled seven days per week and 24-hours each day. Clinical class times, dates, and places are subject to change based on unanticipated circumstances.
Your success is important to us. Please consider your level of preparedness before committing to an education in registered nursing. Research indicates that successful Hartnell nursing students work less than 16 hours per week and have an extended support system of family and friends. Because of intricacies and rigor of the registered nursing program, we cannot accommodate your employment or family responsibilities.
We ask that you review our Nursing and Health Sciences Student Handbook and Policy and Procedure Manual. Become familiar with our mission, vision, values, and philosophy before you apply. Please be sure that Hartnell College is a good match for you.
Your Step-by-Step Guide
New, Returning, Transfer and Dual Enrollment Students are required to have a current application.
It is required that all prerequisites be completed before applying to the program. In progress courses will be not be considered.
Skip this step if you completed all prerequisite courses at the following schools listed below.
A Hartnell College counselor must evaluate course descriptions and transcripts for each prerequisite course taken at colleges other than those listed below; it is required for admission.
-
- Hartnell College
- Cabrillo College
- Cuesta College
- DeAnza College
- Evergreen Valley College
- San Jose City College
- Gavilan College
- Mission College
- Monterey Peninsula College
More Information
Skip this step if you were educated in the US or attended a US accredited institution.
Mail To:
ATTN: Nursing and Health Sciences
411 Central Ave Salinas, Ca 93901
Electronic Request To: NHS@hartnell.edu
Foreign transcript evaluation (2 orders), if applicable
Other college transcripts
(1 official hard copy to be mailed or 1 electronic order from each college where you
took prerequisite courses)
Official AP transcript (1 order), if applicable
If all prerequisite were courses completed at Hartnell College you do NOT need to order a Hartnell transcript.