Traditional students

NurseGirl525, ASN, RN · Aug 4, 2016

Are you wanting to live in a dorm?? Is that how traditional you want to be? Due to your age, you will be a nontraditional student. That's the way it goes.

You enroll in a college with a good nursing program. Most places it's called pre-nursing. Then, you work hard and take prereqs, apply to a program, and yes, jump up and down IF, you get in. There are many applicants for few seats.

Its two years once you are in the core program. Depending on whether you do an ASN or BSN those prereqs can take 1-2 years.

Then you graduate college, and take your boards. Only when you pass NCLEX do you become a nurse.

MrChicagoRN, RN · Aug 4, 2016

GED & never taken any college courses?

I'd recommend going to your local community college, talk to a counselor, take the placement tests, and enroll in some courses you'd also need to earn your nursing degree. Sometimes you have to learn how to learn. Good grades will help you in being accepted into a program down the road.

Best of luck.

AreEnd · Aug 4, 2016

Thanks guys, no I don't mean dorming lol i would even want to avoid taking classes with the young ones if possible. I mean corse wise. It seems like all i keep getting offered are these adult programs that barely count. I will def speak to a counselor this week.

What major did most of you guys choose as freshmen?

roser13, ASN, RN · Aug 5, 2016

Thanks guys, no I don't mean dorming lol i would even want to avoid taking classes with the young ones if possible. I mean corse wise. It seems like all i keep getting offered are these adult programs that barely count. I will def speak to a counselor this week.
What major did most of you guys choose as freshmen?

If you want to be a nurse, then you will choose a nursing school and major in nursing. Not sure where you're only finding tourism & hotel management, but community colleges, state colleges & universities, and even some for-profit schools all offer nursing degrees.

Sour Lemon · Aug 5, 2016

You got a lot of good advice when you asked a similar question two years ago. It still applies. Look through those answers, too.

AreEnd · Aug 5, 2016

If you want to be a nurse, then you will choose a nursing school and major in nursing. Not sure where you're only finding tourism & hotel management, but community colleges, state colleges & universities, and even some for-profit schools all offer nursing degrees.

thank you. So just to make sure i went to a counselor not too long ago at a CC that has a horrible rep but has an amzing nursing program. The counselor said I would need to choose Liberal arts anywhere i go. Sounds correct?

AreEnd · Aug 5, 2016

You got a lot of good advice when you asked a similar question two years ago. It still applies. Look through those answers, too.

Defnitely, i just want all the info. I ended up investing/co opening a business (subway restaurant) which is going very well but goes to show i will never be happy untill my dream of becoming a nurse is fulfilled. But you can't imagine the run arounds i get at all these schools here in NYC it really is a downer. They make it so hard if you're not coming out of high school but i am only speaking of New York City area CC, very reputable schools like NYU, Columbia and Pace wich are all extremely close to my home have great info but neither would look at me.

roser13, ASN, RN · Aug 5, 2016

thank you. So just to make sure i went to a counselor not too long ago at a CC that has a horrible rep but has an amzing nursing program. The counselor said I would need to choose Liberal arts anywhere i go. Sounds correct?

No. A Nusing degree is not a Liberal Arts Degree.

bellakat · Aug 5, 2016

I don't know why they would tell you a liberal arts degree. I'm in a community college, and even before i was accepted in the program, my major was nursing.

Ladyscrubs · Aug 5, 2016

If you go the liberal arts route it should give the flexibility to take not only chemistry, micro, A&P, sociology etc (courses needed for RN), but also you could branch off and take some really neat, off the wall, electives. :yes:

I declared a nursing major, and all I got was, "you can't take that, it's not for your major." So what! I changed my major so many timesâ€¦I majored in culinary arts, law enforcement, diesel trunk mechanics, fire science, and turf management, all because I wanted to be able to classes I was interested in. From LPN graduation to acceptance in a LPN fast track RN diploma program was just under four years. Two years later I was an RN and I just kept taking classes and received two undergrad degrees. Four years ago I graduated with my MSN which is my neck of the woods is just as worthless as a liberal arts degree, but I sure had fun and learned a heck of a lot of other things while getting it! :wacky:

Moral of this story: Stay focused on the prerequisites for nursing, but have fun with the electives...you only go this life once, so why not enjoy the journey.

BSN16 · Aug 5, 2016

I did the traditional student route. Graduated highschool, went off to a liberal arts college. Took one year of prerecs, as well as a religious studies class and an art class. was accepted into the nursing program for the next 3 years, while i still took some random english and history classes :) Earned my straight BSN in may with a psych minor. Although there were no untraditional students in my class there were a few in the class above me. Very do-able.