My husband and I are moving to Boston for family reasons in the next 6 months to 1 year. I am currently living in California and started taking pre-reqs for nursing schools here. I already have a bachelors degree in another field, but am changing careers. For monetary reasons, I am most interested in doing an RN program at a community college. One of the big problems with nursing schools in CA is they are so overwhelmed with applicants, that getting into an RN program at a community college on your first try is almost impossible. The schools in the bay area admit based on either a lottery system or by putting you on a wait list and letting students in as spaces open. It is not uncommon for people to be waiting to be accepted for 3-4 years.

Can anyone give me an idea of how long it takes to get into an RN program in the Boston area? How many students are admitted to an average program per year? Am I looking at years of waiting and hoping that my number gets called?

Also, the pre-reqs for the schools here have to be finished before you can even apply to the program, so I already have anatomy, physiology, chemistry, microbiology, etc done. Will I need to take those classes again? Can I use classes from my undergrad degree toward other general ed classes?

Any info is greatly appreciated as well as thoughts on an of the programs that are especially good or bad.

Thanks

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You should be able to transfer the classes that you have taken. From the research I have done, most programs admit around 30 people in the fall. Some of these programs also have a separate night program as well as some that start in the spring. You will have to take some type of entrance exam for most of these schools (sometimes the TEAS). If you want, I can email you a spreadsheet that I've compiled of all the programs in the area and their prereqs, tuition and distance from where we will be living (an area of Boston).

Thanks for the response Tyler. I'm glad to hear that I should be able to transfer my classes. Taking micro again would not be very fun. I would really appreciate it if you could send me your spreadsheet.

I was gonna say to PM me with your email but it seems that allnurses.com doesn't have that function. Or maybe I am just overlooking it.

I was gonna say to PM me with your email but it seems that allnurses.com doesn't have that function. Or maybe I am just overlooking it.

We do have that function but to be able to send or respond to a pm you need 15 or more posts. This restriction was made to cut down on the amount of spam that was being sent by people joining the site just to send spam via pms

Ahh ok.

So I'll just have to post 12 more times then I'll be able to send messages?