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Jennifer,

I moved your post to the Nursing Career Advice Forum so you get more responses. I can tell you that in most areas it can be tough to get accepted to any nursing program. Even community college applicants are frequently career changers who may have previous four-year degrees (or graduate degrees) and high GPA's. One of the issues is that there is a shortage of nursing faculty, so that impacts the number of seats available in many programs.

As far as whether it's better to pursue an ADN or BSN, there are advantages and disadvantages to each, but I can tell you that I work alongside many nurses and the vast majority of the time I have no idea which nurse holds which degree. It's not something that really comes up.

Hi,
I would call the schools because they will be able to answer most of your questions. If you are sure you want to be a nurse and can get into a RN program I would go that route. Sadly LPNs are way below RNs on the food chain, I am one so I'm not judging, just adding my personal experience. Since most LPN programs are only a year long getting your LPN is a good choice if you can't get into a RN program, aren't sure you want to be a nurse or need a decent income while finishing school. It seems that some facilities/specialties prefer BSN but not all and for the most part whether you graduated from a CC or university if you have your RN I don't think its not a huge difference.

Hopefully others will write with their experiences. Jules