College of the Redwoods Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

College of the Redwoods' Associate Degree RN program uses a multi-criteria screening process awarding points for academic performance, work/volunteer experience, non-English language proficiency, life circumstances, and TEAS score - but the LVN program is selected by pure random lottery among qualified applicants, with no points system at all. Students should not prepare for LVN the way they'd prepare for RN (maximizing GPA and experience points won't help lottery odds), and conversely shouldn't assume RN admission is luck-based the way LVN is - these require genuinely different application strategies.

Nursing students can enroll concurrently in Cal Poly Humboldt's CEP alongside their CR Associate Degree Registered Nursing coursework, so that upon completing the ADN and passing NCLEX-RN, they also receive a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Cal Poly Humboldt - a genuinely integrated dual-institution pathway, not a typical after-the-fact RN-to-BSN bridge. Students should apply to the CEP at Cal Poly Humboldt on its own separate timeline (with its own application due date) while still completing CR's nursing prerequisites, since tuition and fees are paid separately to each institution even though financial aid becomes primarily administered through Humboldt once accepted.

CR's RN application requires a minimum passing composite TEAS score of 62%, but the test must have been taken within a specific 3-year window tied to the application cycle (for example, January 2023?January 2026 for a given cycle) - not simply "within the last three years" from whenever a student happens to apply. Students should confirm the exact eligible testing date range for their specific target application cycle before scheduling the TEAS, since testing even slightly outside the stated window invalidates an otherwise strong score.

Located on California's Redwood Coast, CR offers an Aquaculture program focused on culturing aquatic species in production systems and a Forestry & Natural Resources program - both leveraging the region's coastal and forest ecosystem in a way few community colleges can replicate. Students interested in environmental or natural-resource careers should request program-specific advising early, since these programs often involve field-based, seasonally-timed coursework (like aquaculture production cycles) that doesn't follow a standard semester rhythm the way a general transfer major would.