Re: Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students Originally Posted by luv2nurse02 
How did you get your exception? I wonder why they won't at least let us take the class in the summer semester.
I had a 4.0 when I applied to the program, I submitted my application with everything done but was just waiting on the results of that test (takes about 6 weeks). I talked to them and said I was pretty sure I was short on time and that test was the only thing holding me up. Dr. Miller said it was ok but that I needed to retake it ASAP when I got the results. Dantes makes you wait 6 months to retake so that was a factor too. It would have totally screwed me up otherwise. Having a 4.0 gives you a little bit of room for unforeseen things sometimes. It would be silly to have turned me away for that. That being said, they have tightened up a lot of things since I started the program.
Probably the reason you have to have it before is because you have presentations to make from the beginning of the program so its pretty relevant. The assessment class is one of the first and you have to videotape a head-to-toe assessment so I'm sure they prefer you have public speaking before that. Community health nursing has a videotaped teaching project as well.
I took almost all of my prereq courses through Ivy Tech...to me it is much simpler to do it that way than trying to study for a test out or trying an impromtu speech...acckk. I was told that there are people who are taking 424 and 450 together this summer...I pity those poor soles. I have taken my prereqs along with my nuring courses but I think they are tightening up their retrictions and requring that prereqs be done first. I got a letter from my advisor saying that the only way to sign up for a nursing class was with her approval *after* she had reviewed your DARS to see if you had all of the prereqs to that class done. When I started, 3 years ago, we had a number to enter and just enrolled ourselves in the courses we wanted to take that semester. Chaxanmom is right....I may not be on here much until May....life is a bit crazy right now
Brenda has been posting her progress all along and I think she was just adding her thoughts to that. 
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