Applying to schools and depressed

[Quel19]

Hey guys. I'm a prenursing student and I've finished my prerequisites. I'm applying to about 10 schools for fall 2009 around the northern Cali area (all cc schools) I'm applying to both lvn and rn programs to see what options I have. It just feels so discouraging, knowing that my chances of getting into a school are very low especially when there can be over 600 applicants for one school. Every night I can't help but feel anxious, scared, and stressed. I cry almost everynight feeling useless and very depressed. I've considered going to western career in Sacramento but it was so expensive. For their lvn program it's 43k and transition to rn would be an additional 30k. It just isn't worth it to me to spend that much for an associate degree. Besides the fact that I can't afford it.

Thanks for reading my post. I'm just in search for some words of encouragement. I don't know who I can talk to, it seems like my friends don't understand how stressful this is. I just want to be in school to be an rn that's all, but everytime I think about it my dream seems to get harder and harder to reach.

[craziechiq, BSN, RN]

Yeah I get how you feel. I've been on a waitlist for two years now. It is really discouraging to know that you have to postpone your dream for a couple years. Later this year my high school classmates will be graduating from college with degrees and I don't really have anything to show. I guess what has kept me going is that I will eventually get there and I have the rest of my life to work as a nurse, this is just a little bump in the road. I should be getting into a program this fall and when that time comes it will seem so weird that the time has FINALLY come. Well i wish you good luck and just want you to know that there are tons of people out there that feel the same way.

[Quel19]

yeah my friends are graduating uc Davis and sac state this June. If I wouldve stayed at UC Davis I probably wouldve graduated with them but my sophmore year I realized I didn't want to go to grad school or be a researcher I just wanted to be a registered nurse. Now with the stresses of applications for nursing school and waiting lists I kind of regret just not finishing off at Davis. I always think of "what if" situations this process of getting into nursing school is just stressful.