Anatomy with Stats, or Anatomy with Chem?

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Hi Everyone,

I am a pre-nursing student taking my last pre-reqs at a community college. I work full time, and value my GPA, so I am only up for maybe one - two classes a semester since we are getting down to the comprehensive science portions. I am signed up for 3 classes this coming fall and need to drop one or two of them. What would you suggest eliminating or pairing together?

Anatomy - was once a fitness trainer so I'm okay at the concepts

Stats - have always struggled with math

Chem - know nothing about it but I'm good with memory (not sure if that's important with Chem)

Thanks so much! After these classes I take micro and physio then I'm hopefully off to a program!

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Specializes in ICU.

Why not take all three? My first semester back I took 5 classes and the second one I took four. Out of the nine classes I only had one B, the rest were As. The only reason I mention it is because you are not adequately preparing yourself for nursing school classes where you will have several classes plus clinical at once. It's going to be a shock. The core nursing classes are harder than the prereq classes. I have seen people fail the way you are doing this. They can't into the program and are not ready for the sheer volume of reading, studying, and projects. Plus, you will be waving bye-bye to that 4.0 in nursing school. The grading scale is more difficult and you will eventually be happy with just passing a test.

I'm not trying to be harsh here. But there is more to this than just having a 4.0 GPA.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

If you're like me & not so good with math I would take stats by itself. I could handle A&P & chem together but I stats I can't grasp.

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I'm trying to maintain my GPA so I can gain admission into a program. I work 40+ hours a week because I live on my own in the Bay Area and I'm trying to save up for Nursing school so I can then cut back on work and dive into a program when it comes time. Not everyone has the luxury of living at home and not working. I'm not slacking and I don't want to drag community college out longer than I already have, but I really have no other options at the moment.

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Take stats alone I hated that class yuck. That being said my school looked at our sciences for points so those grads were the most important it all depends on your school specificity regarding that. No matter what stats is not my friend so glad I took it alone

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