Re: BSN question Originally Posted by WayneStateKatie 
Be aware that universities have a limit on the amount of credits they will let you transfer from a community college. I would speak with both Eastern and Oakland about your future plans to transfer. Make sure that you still have enough "wiggle room" in your credit number to ensure that these courses would indeed be eligible to transfer to these four year institutions. It would be a bummer to put money, time, and effort into a course to have it later not transfer.
I'm not sure if they need to include all your ADN credits when transferring you into the RN-BSN program. Usually the max number of credits universities will take from a CC is 60, and I don't know if the rules are different with a RN-BSN. They may potentially take more of your credits, but I would check with the programs before I did anything.
Good luck in your program!
In my notes from Wayne State's BSN completion program, it states that
a maximum of 64 credits (not including nursing courses) may be used from a community college toward your BSN.
This is from last summer, so it may have changed. I am assuming that if you have more than 64 non-nursing credits from a CC, they would take the ones that would go toward the BSN (ie, Chem, Organic Chem) and throw out the non related electives you took just to get your degree.
I looked through my information from OU's and UofM's RN-BSN programs, and could not find that statement specific about community colleges. At U of M, and they require 37 credits to be taken at UM, and these are the 37 credits necessary for their curriculum. The rest can be transferred in.
I agree that you should absolutely check out the program and not make any assumptions - wasting time and money is not good. However, with this economy, I would highly recommend you take
all the classes you possibly can at community colleges. The quality is just as good (if not better, depending on the professor!) and it is much more economical. Just do your homework!!!
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