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Why not wait to see if you do get into a CA program? I personally couldn't leave since all my family and 2 kids are here, and I actually got into a program! So I guess I'm saying you never know, you could end being accepted to a program!!
As for moving. Based on what I've read (and others could chime in if I'm wrong) but you would likely have to stay out of CA until you have the experience to get a job here. The one benefit to going to school here is doing your capstone in hospitals. If you graduated school out of state and wanted a new grad position here you'd be competing with CA new grads that have been making connections in CA hospitals during their clinicals.
But...if you can go to school elsewhere and have the opportunity to gain experience as a nurse then move back to CA, it might be worth it!
So far so good. 2/5 professors have been amazing, 2/5 very very good and 1 only so so (the newest teacher of them all the USF). I don't start clinicals until January. My only advice would be to finish absolutely every non nursing class before you transfer. The school is way too expensive
I'm also from the bay area (San Jose). I know a lot of the ASN programs in the area I looked at were either first-come, first accepted as long as everything was complete (DeAnza) or a lottery based system (Evergreen). Not sure on the BSN programs -- you could always do a bridge program after the ASN. I moved out of state to Oregon to take a job with the VA and there was a single BSN program offered in my area through OHSU. I was lucky enough to get in, but it was all point based and from what I hear has like a 18% overall acceptance rate (program is offered on 5 campuses in OR).
I took prereqs with a guy who was planning on moving to Idaho for a BSN program. Said it was super non-competitive and he got accepted with a less than stellar GPA.
YassQueen
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Hi everyone,
I am a CA pre-nursing student in the Bay Area preparing to transfer to a BSN program. I have just one semester of pre reqs left and I can't help but think that my chances are slim here in CA. Every single program looks to be either highly expensive or impacted.
I have family in Idaho and Tennessee who have offered me the chance to stay with them for free if I end up transfering to a school in their area. I most likely wouldn't end up residing in either state permanately because my husband, company and most of our family are here in the SF Area.
I have a few questions:
I appreciate any info you all can provide! Thanks!