Still Frustrated with Pre-requisites. I'm sorry guys, please help me.

[sweetie_pie]

Okay, so I started a thread a little while back on my frustrations with community colleges needing pre-reqs before I am allowed to take the pre-reqs I need for nursing school. As a few of you so wisely suggested , I having been "shopping" around for community colleges, looking to see which ones require less pre-reqs or who allow students without the pre-reqs into the classes with instructor permission.

Newest road block: I e-mailed a lot of instructors at a couple different colleges today and many of them told me the same thing: the classes fill up fast and priority is given to students with more credits. Ummmm...how am I supposed to get "more credits" from their school if I just need to take 3 classes and they won't let me in?! I don't want to take classes I don't need just to give me more credits so I can actually register for the ones I do need!

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what did you do? I explained that I was applying to nurisng school and only needed a few classes and this was still the response. Please correct me if I am ignorant here, but I really thought you could just..."take" the classes you needed at a community college as long as you signed up early enough....

Please help me, I am very frustrated!

[duckyluck111]

Here's what I figured out...community colleges seem like a good deal because they are inexpensive but you might end up taking more classes than you need taking prerequisites for your needed nursing prerequisites, which in the long run doesn't save you money and it may take you 2-3 times as long to get all your needed classes.

I am attending a private Catholic university and while the tuition is 4x as expensive, they are letting people register for pretty much whatever they want. You don't need to be admitted into a program. There is not so much annoying bureaucracy. Check into some of these types of programs. They may admit you as a general ed student which could make you eligible for financial aid.

[sweetie_pie]

I was starting to wonder about that....is taking all of these extra classes even making this a "good deal" anymore?? I think I am going to look into other colleges as well. If a CC won't save me time and all that much $$ then maybe I just need to take them somewhere else. Thank you duckyluck!

[THELIVINGWORST, ASN, RN]

don't buy into that....it doesn't cost more money or time...all you have to do is be diligent about getting into these classes and you will be fine. If you can't get into one class then take the other prereqs while you wait until the next semester. Biology is not your only prereq so do what you can, when you can. CC is just plain cheaper...$10000 for total program cost at a CC or $40000 at a private school or university??

[confusedstudent_88, BSN, RN]

I never declared a major. But I took that class because it was the only one available and yes it helped build my status. So when the next semester rolled around I had 1st pick of classes because of the amount of units I had taken at that school.