[fresia2114]

Hello everyone,
my name is Fresia and I'm 17 yrs old and I would like to become a nurse... I have, as of right now, a 3.6 GPA and I would love to get help from all the nurses... I've been looking at colleges and I want to get a bachelor's degree, then a master's and I would love to become a Pediatric Nurse in Oncology someday... I've been reading and I can say I am well informed..but my problem is college!! UCLA or University of Phoenix?! they are not my top choices, but what is the difference? can I make it if I just get into a moderately hard university like Biola or UCI? I live in California and I'm planning to study nearby my home, which is in the OC. Please help me! I need to find one

[Rhone]

http://www.rn.ca.gov/schools/rnprograms.shtml

That's a list of RN programs approved by CA's Board of Registered Nursing. I would suggest going through the list and looking at the websites of the schools in your area to see how the programs compare.

[DOOMED]

Do you need to have really high grades to become a nurse? im in highschool myself

[NurseJewels]

It depends on the college of the program you are looking into. I believe in the state of California there are still minimum GPA requirements to get into California State and UC schools (at least there was when I was applying to college 7 years ago). Also depends on how impacted the nursing program is. I don't know of many that take you into the program straight from high school; usually you have to do pre-requisites first and apply to the programs directly if you're admitted to the school as a freshman.

I'm not an expert though, so I would look into the acceptance requirements for individual programs/schools. Just telling ya from my experience applying to UCs and state schools 7 years ago, my 4.1 GPA wasn't good enough for UCLA's biology program, I can't imagine they've gotten any easier.

[KellyHealthcare]

Community college is also a great option if you don't have the best grades. Colleges look for candidates with college credit hours before highschool students.