Application questions from a student with prior health complications

[MissP87]

Hello out there! I am a 22 year old college senior in Georgia. At the end of Spring semester I will be graduating with a Bachelor's in Psychology. I'd love to go back to school and get a nursing degree; working in the health field has always been a dream of mine since I was a little kid. Unfortunately, my junior year in high school I get really sick and have had health complications ever since then; that was 7 years ago. Nobody could figure out what was wrong with me, so I continued through high school and moved onto college assuming that sick was the way I had to live my life. But amazingly, this November a doctor found out the problems and fixed them!! Now I am feeling my best and each day is only getting better.

The question I need some advice on is this - because of my illness my grades suffered a fair amount. The biggest blow that I feel happened was taking AP 1 two times and getting a D each time. Some of my other prerequisite classes were low grades too. Has anyone else been in this position?? Will that ruin my chances of getting into nursing school?? I will have letters from doctors that I can send in with my application to vouch for my situation but I am worried that there is no point in even trying. Can anyone give me some advice?

[FLmomof5]

Depends upon the school you apply to. In my school (FL), you can retake any 'D' and they use the highest grade, so you could take it again and not be impacted. They only use the grades from the pre-reqs and the score on the NAT.

[jennylouwho]

You have to research the school that you're interested in. Some schools only allow you to retake a class so many times for a higher grade.