College of Marin Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

College of Marin's nursing admission uses what the college itself calls a "Multicriteria Admission Spreadsheet" incorporating your completed prerequisites, TEAS score (minimum cut score of 62%, subject to updates), and other weighted factors - and critically, the program enrollment itself is capped at 43 students per cohort, with that cap also further constrained by available clinical placement capacity, not just classroom seats. If you fail the TEAS on your first attempt, College of Marin does offer a remediation opportunity allowing you to reapply the following admissions cycle - but understand that "reapply next cycle" means a genuine year-long (or semester-long, depending on cycle timing) delay, not a quick retake-and-continue process, so treat your first TEAS attempt with the seriousness that failing it carries a real, non-trivial timeline cost.

College of Marin offers formal Advanced Placement consideration specifically for military medical personnel (including Navy Hospital Corpsman, USAF Basic Medical Service Technician, and Army Medical Specialist backgrounds) and for California LVNs meeting Board of Registered Nursing requirements - both distinct from the traditional ADN entry track. If you qualify under either category, you'll still need to meet all standard eligibility criteria (prerequisites, TEAS with the 62% cut score) but will then take a HESI Nursing Fundamentals Proctored Exam and a drug dosage calculation exam specifically to determine your placement point within the program, needing to score 75% or higher (or proficiency level 2) on these placement exams to be placed on the advanced-placement waitlist. Given that waitlisted advanced-placement candidates are admitted only on a space-available basis constrained by the same 43-student cohort cap, don't assume advanced placement guarantees faster entry - it changes where you enter the curriculum if admitted, but doesn't bypass the fundamental capacity constraint the entire program operates under.

College of Marin explicitly offers a distinct "30-Unit Option" pathway that meets California Board of Registered Nursing criteria for sitting the NCLEX and achieving RN licensure, but does not result in an Associate's Degree - a genuinely different outcome than the standard ADN track, worth understanding clearly before you assume every nursing pathway at COM leads to the same credential. Notably, this option has no requirements for how recent your prerequisite courses need to be (unlike many nursing tracks with strict 5-year or similar recency windows), making it a potentially more accessible option if you completed prerequisite coursework years ago and are re-entering the nursing pipeline after a gap. If licensure itself - not the associate's degree credential specifically - is your actual goal, investigate this option directly with COM's nursing office rather than defaulting to the standard ADN application process.

College of Marin has published a specific, detailed articulation roadmap directly with Sonoma State University's School of Nursing showing that of 42 total prerequisite and general education units required, 38 units transfer directly toward the BSN - a remarkably clean, nearly-complete transfer rate that's explicitly documented rather than something you'd need to reconstruct course-by-course on your own. If Sonoma State (or a similar BSN completion partner) is genuinely your long-term target, request this specific published roadmap directly from COM's nursing counseling office and build your prerequisite sequence around it from your very first semester, since having 38 of 42 units guaranteed to transfer is a meaningfully stronger starting position than a generic "credits generally transfer" assurance.