Where on earth are CA students with a low GPA(3.3) applying!?!?!

I can't stop breaking into tears. Depression is obviously sinking in. This is insane. Like it wasn't hard enough competing with 1500 applicants for a few dozen spots and now all the state schools are not accepting any Spring applicants if you don't already go to the school. That means next fall there will be 2x as many applicants.

It is getting to the point that if you don't have a 4.0 you are not going to be a nurse in CA. And even some of the 4.0 students are turned away (I know 2). I could shell out 50,000 to 75,000 for a private school BSN or try year after year after year to do an ADN at a community college but again it is the lottery and you could be applying for the next decade.

So what are people doing? I just calculated my "points" (points for GPA, for TEAS, for speaking a foreign language, having a CNA, etc) for a couple different schools and I din't come close to what the advisor said was competitive enough.

I am really at a road block. I have spent too much time working towards this but I really feel like I have hit a wall.

Please, please what are people doing?