Chances on getting in????

[atl_libra]

I'm 25 and have been a 911 EMS dispatcher for 4 years...and figure now is as good as time as ever to go ahead and start on my career. I feel I am mature enough now and will be focused enough to achieve goals I set. I ultimately plan to become a CRNA. My problem is that I graduated high school with a 3.5 gpa...if I remember correctly my ACT was 24. Then College happened, I went to UNLV in Las Vegas and fell apart from there. My parents were paying out of pocket for my schooling and ended up pulling me out, but not before I was actually put on academic suspension. I was young and dumb and look back now and want to kick myself in the butt everytime I think about it. My question now is...have I dug too deep a hole for me to get into a BSN program? I have been looking at various ones here in the atlanta area. Emory, Ga State, and Medical College of Georgia in Savannah. Am I doing a lot of wishful thinking? Could I maybe take classes at one of the schools as a non degree seeking student and just get my GPA up and apply for the program when it's sufficent? Any help is appreciated.

[20mom10]

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.

[able2009]

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.

[relentlessrunner]

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!

[cornpoohRN]

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!