I am a 20-yr veteran ICU RN that has decided to go back to school to do my BSN. I have been accepted at a great University and am planning on doing some general Ed classes at a local community college because they charge about $170 a credit compared to the University's $420 a credit. I only need a few classes, like Social Science, Diversity and Humanities, and then will do my core nursing classes at the University.
The Community College want me to do an entrance test and it includes two components...English and Math. While I excel at English I suck at math and have managed to avoid it for the best part of 20 years. Included in this test is Algebra, and I have never actually done any Algebra. I tried reading up on some to see if I could muddle my way through what is apparently a very short and basic aptitude test. It's like Greek to me! I simply could not make sense of any of it and now I'm panicking. It seems so silly because the University, which is a very prestigious school, accepted me without hesitation when they read my resume, but the didly little Community College is the one giving me a hard time. I can't see why I should have to do a general Ed test when I've been emplyed for 20 years at a professional level and the course I intend to do does not contain any math! They say it's to "place me" whatever that means, but if I fail Algebra miserably, which I will, will they deny me entrance to the college? I can just go and do all these classes at the University but it's a difference of $17,000 at the college and $24,000 at the University. That's a lot of money just because of a silly math test! What should I do?
