Accelerated Nursing-Help!

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Ok here is my issue.

I'm 22 years old and I've been going to college since I was 18. I was in community college for 4 years trying to decide what I really wanted to do with my life. During my first 3 years i would withdraw from classes left and right and sometimes fail them and have to retake them. About a year and a half ago I realized i wanted to be a nurse and i changed my academics around and I got accepted to University of Florida.

I have about a year left until I graduate. I ended up getting a B+ in Developmental Psych, Nutrition, and A&P1, and an A in statistics. I'm currently enrolled in A&P2 at a community college while taking a full load at UF (since they don't offer that sequence in anatomy at UF I had to take it at the community college.)

My main issue is that I have such a rocky background with my grades even though i ended up with a GPA in community college that was a 3.4. but GPA includes grade forgiveness. At UF, I have gotten excellent grades and I have a 3.7 GPA as of right now. Are accelerated programs going to look at my improvement? or are they going to immediately count me out since I wasn't the perfect straight A student like A lot of these Pre-Nursing students are.

I have a few older people in my class and they are going to back to school to be a nurse and they are only taking 1 class at a time and getting straight A's in all of their prerequs and this is very discouraging to me because I am taking a full load of classes and adding the nursing classes on top of it and I feel like these people would be picked over me in a heartbeat.

This is something that I really want to do and my heart is completely in on this career. I just get very discouraged because of my background and seeing all these other people with perfect grades and i feel like I don't have a change. Does anyone have any tips that they can give me or any advice on this? I'm tired of being stressed about this all the time!

Thank you for your help (:

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Specializes in NICU.

There are a multitude of variables to your question. Your chances of getting in depends on the school and their policies. You need to talk to an adviser from the school you want to attend. Hopefully, they can give you an assessment of transcript and give you a no-BS evaluation of your chances. You have a very good GPA. That is to your advantage.

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Thank you for your advice! I'm going to call around to a few schools today.

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