Associate of Arts Degree to BSN?

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Hi. I live in Washington state. Where I live theeee is a program called Running Statrt where, as a highschool Junior and Senior you can take college classes at a community college or certain Universities. I am currently a sophomore and plan on taking Running Start next year. I will likely graduate my senior year with my Associate of Arts degree. My question is, when I transfer to a four year university such as WSU, Gonzaga, or hopefully UW with my associate of arts degree, will I go straight into my BSN major, or will I still have some pre-reqs to get out of the way? The only reason I'm not going to get my Assocaite of Pre-Nurisng at my local COmmunity College is because my parents want me to keep an open mind to other career paths, so they wanted me getting the general degree, not a specific one. If I was to get my degree in pre-nursing, would this be better? Why? Thank you!

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Sorry. Meant *there not theee.

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Bump. Anyone? Anything? Very much appreciated.

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Oncology.

I don't know what the pre-reqs are like in Washington but you could compromise. What are the pre-reqs? I know here in Florida to get your AA you have to have sciences and humanities along with your other gen-ed requirements. Why not take some of your nursing pre-reqs that meet gen ed requirements and pre-nursing requirements? Classes such like Chemistry, A&P, Psychology, Sociology, Math for Nursing, etc.

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Can you get an AS instead of an AA? Or can you just take general classes?

An associates won't really help you other than getting some of the general eds out of the way. If you can do some general eds and also pre-reqs, then you'd be further along for getting the BSN but you'd have to check with the schools themselves.

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