Chances on getting in????

Right out of high school I did poorly in college too. Over 10 years later my husband urged me to go back to school, and I eventually decided on Nursing. Luckily my new 3.96 gpa made up for my old 2.15 gpa. I am now in my first year of nursing school (or second if you count the year of pre-reqs). My opinion is that it's never too late, and education is never a waste.

If you are worried about looking good to a nursing program, then you should take the science pre-reqs and work really hard on them (don't waste your time on non-lab sciences). What you can do now is more important than what you did years ago.

Maybe you can try to get an associates first then your BSN. Try a community college for all your prerequisites, then either get you AND or transfer to a 4 yr school and get your BSN.

It's never too late to get a BSN! Just take it a chunk at a time! Know your limits. The Anatomy and Physiology classes and the Chemistry classes can be hard, so just be careful and know whether you can take more than 1 science at a time. I had a 2.0 GPA in my first year of engineering and then I decided I wanted to do nursing. Well, I switched my major to language studies at a university while I worked on my science prerequisites at a community college. At the university, science is harder. I took an anatomy class that was taught by a pharmacy professor, and she took no prisoners! :) There is a 60 year old woman in my anatomy II class. Don't worry about other people - if you want to do it, there will be a way! You don't want to think five years from now - what might of been!

Take classes at a 2 year school and transfer them to a BSN school or do a ASN program and bridge into a BSN program. I had a terrible GPA from a terrible start at college right out of high school and when I went back after many years I did much better and bumped my GPA up to where it needed to be. Good luck and never give up on what you want to do!