Academic adviser says I'm selling myself short by going into nursing.

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It met with my adviser last week to find out what other courses I needed for nursing after taking English 101 . She didn't seem to like that I was taking nursing and told me that I was selling myself short and that I should be doing something else. She kept trying her best to talk me out of nursing , yet she did not have any lists of other careers that is an alternative to nursing. Not that I was looking for one ,but you would think they would have other suggestions. She then said that nursing is so hard to get into and how it takes so long, which I know already and I do agree that getting into nursing is not easy but it's definitely not impossible.

Anyway my questions are have any of you all experienced this with your advisers ?

My other questions is Why do some advisers try to talk students out of nursing career paths ?

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used to be called GUIDANce councillor! IF you want to be a nurse..DO IT! For someone you dont know, this guidance councillor is awfully mouthy. If you think you can because a nurse, what is stopping you, because some loud mouth ego ridden advisor.

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I only took one class a year that's why it's not a 4.0 gpa at the time I couldn't afford to take more classes . But hopefully I can turn that around this year.
GPA is the numeric value assigned to your cumulative grade divided by the number of classes taken. I'm sorry, your answer doesn't make sense. If only taking 1 class at a time, you should be able to focus on just that class material and ace it, meaning higher GPA. Maybe I'm missing something?
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GPA is the numeric value assigned to your cumulative grade divided by the number of classes taken. I'm sorry, your answer doesn't make sense. If only taking 1 class at a time, you should be able to focus on just that class material and ace it, meaning higher GPA. Maybe I'm missing something?

I don't think you are missing anything.

I have watched this thread, and my gut told me in the very first post when the advisor said "nursing is so hard to get into and takes so long" ... that she was trying to nicely steer OP in another direction, due to factors we cannot see here.

A 3.0 GPA would be one of those factors. Only being able to take one class at a time, and having a 3.0 at that pace, would be another.

Why the advisor can't just be real about it is beyond me. It's not helpful to leave people confused.

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Your advisor is letting her bias corrupt the purpose of her job. She obviously doesn't believe in the profession. Do what YOU want to do. Advisors are human and are not the final word on what is best for you.

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Just to let you guys know I'm working on getting a scholarship so I can take more than one class next year and my goal for my gpa is a 4.0 I haven't gotten my grades back for this year but i'll let you guys know what my gpa is for the last class I took .

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GPA is the numeric value assigned to your cumulative grade divided by the number of classes taken. I'm sorry, your answer doesn't make sense. If only taking 1 class at a time, you should be able to focus on just that class material and ace it, meaning higher GPA. Maybe I'm missing something?

I got a B+ in my last class so maybe that's why it was not a 4.0 but my original gpa was 3.80 gpa the advisory before were telling me my gpa was fine but just raise it to a 4.0 . I'm not sure how gpas work so maybe that's why I'm confusing you .

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