[HeartsOpenWide]

The year I applied and got into my BSN program (on the first try thank God) was in 2006 and when there were 38,415 qualified applicants turned away from entry level baccalaureate nursing programs...its a stiff competition. It took me two year to take all my pre-reqs and to be able to transfer, because getting As was a must. I want to get my masters so working my butt off has continued. People are always shocked when I tell them I have one year left. My program is three years, I will be a fifth year senior.

[crazitree]

YES!!! I hate explaining the situation to everyone who knows your "plan" and wonders why you are not a "nurse" yet??? I feel like a complete idiot half the time! I've been in the app process for a year now and just keep having to take more good-to-know classes while I wait! Hang in there, your certainly not alone!

[Parade]

Thankfully, I don't get much of this at home, since my mother is an RN and my aunt who lives with us is an LVN.

But other family members have been less than understand about the entire process. "You changed your major to WHAT? But you were so close to finishing, and on and on and on blahdee blahdee freakin' blah." And then they quickly jump to "Well, with the nursing shortage, I'm sure you won't have any problem getting into the program."

Riiiight. I have no idea how long the wait for the program here is or how many people have applied, but I was told that unless I was willing to bust it and study hard and make as many A's as humanly possible, I don't stand a chance in Hades.

I think part of the problem is that people don't understand what nurses truly do. They think it's all changing bedsheets and refilling water pitchers and turning patients and cleaning pee off the floor. Yeah, that may be part of it, but that ain't the only way the cookie crumbles. You do actually have to have a brain in your skull, which I think a lot of people don't realize.

It's hard to get into nursing school because being a nurse is hard.

[beba42]

OMG! I feel the same way, I hate when people keep saying the same thing "oh your are still going to school!" they don't understand how hard it is to get in. .. I keep telling myself I cant give up. and I wont.