Is it easier to get in if you are already an LPN?

[Limik]

Hi all. I am finishing up all of my core classes for the LPN to RN program this Fall and hoping to get into the accelerated program next summer. My question is for those of you who have already been accepted into your nursing program. Did you find that it was easier to gain acceptance since you were already an LPN? I recently took the NLN and scored in the 96th percentile so I am relatively sure that will help, but my GPA for the classes used to choose candidates is only a 3.0. I'm just wondering if already being an LPN gives you an edge over other candidates who have no previous nursing experience. I am really hoping that it will potentially help me to possibly be chosen over some higher GPA's since I graduated from the LPN program at the same school I am pursuing my RN. What do you all think, does it help to be an LPN? Thanks in advance!

[billyboblewis]

I was accepted into nursing school and my lpn experince helped me in that matter. Luckily I had advice from senior students not to make a big deal or even ask for advanced standing because it was not apreciated by the faculty and I did not. The time I may have saved would not have been worth the experience I got from just going through the whole program and I really was not that much more knowledgable on the whole from other students who had some college background. We had a class of 55 students in a Catholic Hospital environment and we all worked and studied together. After graduation only one of us did not pass the boards the first time. We felt that we were truly qualified to start our careers as RN's

[prettymica, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN, APRN, NP]

No. If anything more difficult, because of the select number of slots for bridge students. I was turned down constantly by my program for 2 years. They would only accept 15 students in January. Once the amount was increase to 30 slots I got in. I was competing not only against other LPNs but EMT/paramedics.