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Accelerated BSN Options

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Thanks for the advice everyone.

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