I'm about a year behind you, but once I wrap up the pre-reqs in Fall I'll be applying to the BSN program at CSUS and the ASN programs at ARC & SCC. Samuel Merritt isn't on my radar screen, but at my volunteer duties I run into SM students on their clinicals and they have all kinds of good things to say about it. I'm also going to apply to a bunch of programs outside the area just to be safe.
Let me know how your apps turn out, and good luck!