Has anyone gotten into nursing school with a low gpa?

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I really goofed in school when I first started out and the community college here wont let students retake classes. So I have a couple of c's in my prereq's for nursing school. I was just wondering if somone knew of anyone that got in a nursing program at a community college with a gpa of 3.0 or below. Right now I have a 3.0 just in case you wanted to know. Thanks

I am in school at east Tennessee state university , I messed up my first semester and got a C in A&P 1 . I also took some college courses while in high-school and got a couple of C's I have now retaken those classes and have a B in one and am working towards an A in the other. My advisory told me even if I make all A's this semester ( I am taking A&P 2, history 2, remidal math where I did not do average on my act for math, and art history 2, and psychology. I have an A in all of those classes except A&P 2 will most likely be a B. My advisor said even if I made all A's this semester the best I could do would be a 3.2. Well as far as I know technically you only have to have a 3.0 GPA, but the nursing school at ETSU the lowest they are going to take Spring of 2012 will be 3.6 GPA. I will apply for nursing school Fall of 2011 and if accepted I will begin nursing school in Spring of 2012 as I will have my microbiology and prob and stats math out of the way in Fall of 2011. I plan on taking A&P 1 over this summer and getting an A or a B.

Still though my adviser says I will only have a 3.2. What am I suppose to do with a 3.2 ? I want to go into the nursing field. I hear you can be a LPN for 1 year and get straight into RN school.

Does anyone know of any nursing programs on the east coast that accept lower GPA's like mine? I live in Tennessee so I would like to stay close to home, but this really has me worried as I have wedding plans as soon as I graduate.

Help please? I am in a 4 year program but an willing to do a 2 year.

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Wranglergirl

Specializes in LTC, Med-surg.

^ My university is accepting applicants with a minimum GPA of a 3.0

Its Rutgers University-Camden. Camden, the city that the university is located in is DANGEROUS but the campus is well-protected by a staff of 42 guards that patrol the whole square acre of the campus and 19 police men.

You need to have completed all of your prerequisites at Rutgers University-Camden though.

I say it is relatively easy to get into the program. I got accepted into the program straight from high school and my GPA was only about 3.31

I was accepted into my school Idaho State University with a 3.56 gpa. They said that ~3.4-5 was the lowest that made it in even though they would accept as low as 3.0. There were only about 130 applications for 70 spots, which is pretty nice.

jngo91- What if you have completed your pre reqs. at a different school?

pls, could you give me the names of the school you all are at. because am searching for nursing schools and everything is getting hard.

pls what school is that

daggg that sucks man so after reading all these posts its safe to say it just depends on the shcool but it is possible cause u seem to have the highest average thus far out of everyone on this post and u didnt even get in now thats crazy to me i would def try to apply else where

daggg that sucks man so after reading all these posts its safe to say it just depends on the shcool but it is possible cause u seem to have the highest average thus far out of everyone on this post and u didnt even get in now thats crazy to me i would def try to apply else where

Specializes in LTC, Med-surg.

I think they are accepting transfers as well. Every semester we always have someone who fails the class so people are constantly being matriculated into the program as seats are available.

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