How long did you stay in school?

5.5 years for me! I transferred schools and had to take even more pre-reqs, didn't get accepted to nursing school my first time. This all put a huge wait on my career, but I'm okay with it! It takes most people 5 years anymore to get a bachelors degree in anything, so don't let it get you down!

Ha ha - I got you both beat! I will graduate with my BSN next May (2009), after being in school for 8 years! I was almost finished with a different degree, but was so unhappy. I realized nursing was my calling and switched majors. It was the best decision of my life! Yeah, it stinks because I feel like I have been in school forever, and my friends like to make fun of me, but when I think about my future as a RN, it makes it all worth it!

I spent three years getting my prereqs completed. I will start an ADN program in Sept so there's 2 more years, and then 1 year to bridge to my BSN. So I will have spent 6 years getting my BSN. Ugh, it sounds bad when you think about it like that lol!

I spent 4 years going to school part time waiting to get into the BSN program. Didn't happen, GPA was too low (3.3 needed a 3.5). So, went the LPN route and am now finishing off my ASN. I have been in school for 7 years at the end of the ASN. By the time I complete my BSN it will be 9 years. I feel special :P

5.5 years total (3 as a nursing major). I started out in a different major, took some time off to have babies, and then started back in nursing.

By the time I graduate in 2010, it will have taken me 4.5 years to get my BSN degree. It would have been 4 years exactly, but I moved to Hawaii from Alaska and had to fulfill a few of their requirements. In AK, I figured out it would have taken me 4.5 years just to get my ADN! Then nursing school is so backed up that once you get in you have to wait a full year just to start. And the college was so small that getting all the pre-req's took longer. So HI was clearly a better choice........same amount of time, better degree!
That being said, it took my uncle over 8 years to get his ADN in TX....and now he's making over 100K a year as a kidney dialysis specialist! So even if it takes a long time, it's totally worth it.

*Good luck to all*

I will have been in school for a total of 6 years when I get my ADN! I went to CC straight after HS for MIS/MIT for two years. I will have spent almost two more years on my Nursing pre-reqs after this year and then I have two years of NS. On the bright side, I will have a lot of my work out of the way when I go for my BSN after this. Lol. On the bad side, I have been out of HS for almost ten years and still don't have even an Associates degree while many of my friends have Bachelor's degrees and a few even have their Master's and are working in their chosen fields now.

4.5 years working on a BSN over 20 years ago... life happened...didn't finish...

Now I have been back at school part-time for about 3 years and still have a year to go to finish my ADN. Looking at the Master's programs that are available so I can run right into them

So - it has been a VERY long time for me to be in school and not with a lot of measurable results. Although - the ride has been great!

Time is not always the best way to measure things!

I will have five years of college when I graduate. I will be an RN, granted, but only my associates. Like you, I started out with a different major. I was an education major for my first two years. Although I really wanted to teach, I was never completely happy in the classroom. Nursing, I found, allows me to help others, teach, and feel that what I'm doing really means something. So don't feel down - at least you will have a good career. Many people don't get to experience that.