Good Morning Everyone,I know many of you are either working as nurses, in nursing programs, or in the application process so I have come to ask for your opinions. I have an UG gpa of 3.0 and a grad gpa of 3.9 (social sciences) and I am now looking at finally making the jump to nursing. I have already completed A&P 1 and Lab with an A in both, but before I keep pouring money into pre-req courses I want to make sure it will be worth it. The few people I have spoken to have told me that with my 3.1 GPA I have no chance at any of the Accelerated BSN options I am looking at (FIU, UF, UCF, UMiami, FAU) and that maybe I would be lucky to get into one of the RN community college programs. I am open and willing to complete a CC RN program however I was hoping to get the BSN since I know many employers here in South FL prefer to hire BSN nurses.Any help and/or advice is great appreciated.Frank
veriteblesse 33 Posts Jun 8, 2016 I did my RN to BSN at St. Petersburg College. It's all online, only 4 semesters, and it got the job done. It's pretty cheap, too, and SPC offers a good amount of scholarships. It's accredited and all that jazz, too.
mrphil79 125 Posts Jun 16, 2016 I did my RN to BSN at St. Petersburg College. It's all online, only 4 semesters, and it got the job done. It's pretty cheap, too, and SPC offers a good amount of scholarships. It's accredited and all that jazz, too.Florida has a whole bunch of small state colleges that have an online RN-BSN for around $100 per credit (including SPC as mentioned)A school like Polk State College will let you start doing the BSN classes after your first RN semester (assuming your grades are good enough, gotta have a b in your nursing classes to qualify...). Florida is a great state to be in for your situation - between the RN at a community or small state college and an RN-BSN at a state college here, you can go from nothing to BSN for less than $15000. Even better in your situation because you no doubt already have all of the liberal arts/humanities/etc... out of the way. But less than $15k to end up with a life changing degree/career is pretty danged cool.
GatoRNurse2018 4 Posts Jul 31, 2016 From what I understand if you have a graduate degree that is the GPA that they are looking at, and your undergrad GPA doesn't matter as much. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
