Anyone else super nervous about applying?

[NewNurs2020]

I live in alaska and have 1 program within a 8 hour distance so I only have one option for school. Its a BSN program that starts its first semester this fall. There were 50 applications and they accept 16. In the future there will probably be more applicants but it had not been advertised or finalized until the last minute. They dont have averages yet since this is the first semester but they said the program in Anchorage averages a 3.67 gpa for admitted applicants and 76 kaplan score.

Currently I have a 3.44 which I should have to a 3.6 after the fall semester and I got a 77 on my kaplan. I am sooooo nervous I am not going to get in and there are going to be 16 people with higher GPAs and kaplan scores so I will have to wait a whole year to apply again. My husband doesnt understand the pressure when I am doing homework and get upset that I got a B. He thinks its ridiculous but I am not happy unless I am getting As because I know everyone else has good grades.

[FutureNurseInfo]

Hi,

Sorry for a late reply but I thought I'd still respond. I may say I am in some sort of the same boat as you are/were. Unlike you, I am from NYC, and chances of getting into a program is 100 times harder than yours in Alaska. For example, there are 5 schools I will be applying to, but each only accepts 30-60 students out of thousands! What do they look at? Of course, they look at GPA which is higher the better. Also, they look at the GPA of the prerequisites. Right now I am tacking chemistry, and lab and a genetics course. Everything is fine except for the stupid genetics course which is way over my head! At this point if I do manage to get a B in this course I will be the happiest in the world! So, yea, I feel nervous all the time, shaking over the grades because they can either make me or break me! So I feel like your chances to get into the program in Alaska are rather great!

[WCSU1987]

I am nervous. The BSN programs are too expensive and have a lot more requirements delaying when I can apply. So I am applying to the ASN program. Years ago it used to be a long wait list, 3 years, before you could apply to 3 community colleges. Still the CC programs are the most competitive in the State. Fiancée had a 3.0 GPA average and 4.0 in her science prerequisites. A 75 on her TEAS was wait listed as number 40. So fiancée didn't feel like waiting did the LPN program.

My fiancée says I'll get in since I am a male. Still nervous my GPA over the last 11 years is 2.94 total. Not a great standardized test person so worried about the TEAS. I would of done the LPN program if wait listed but our State did away with the program.

So it's nursing if not PTA then nursing down the road.