Changing majors - any other options?

[NY_NursingStudent]

Hi All -

I'm a college student with an Associates degree in liberal arts. After finishing my Associates I transferred to a four-year university and started studying education. (I did that for a semester). I than realized that I wanted to go into nursing (something I wanted to do right out of high school, but kept putting off for foolish reasons) and applied to my current university's nursing program and took there entrance exam. The advisors told me that, at best, I would finish the program in three and a half years. What I am trying to find out if there are any programs, anywhere in the country, that lead to a BSN and take less than 3.5 years to complete. (I'll have statistics, some bio classes, A+P II and Physiologic chem done, plus a liberal arts associates w/ several science and math courses). Any help is greatly appreciated!

[caliotter3]

You can not progress any faster than the school runs its nursing classes. You can take all of your remaining gen ed or co-requisite classes in one semester if you desire, but it doesn't change the fact that you can't take semester 2 of nursing until semester 1 is out of the way and so on. I would look for programs that offer a summer session. My school, at one time, offered a summer session in which a limited number of persons could finish the last term at an accelerated pace instead of taking it in the fall. That is the only way one could finish early in that particular program, other than the advanced placement students, a category that you would not fall under. Do some research and see what you can come up with, but don't be surprised not to find anything because of budgetary cutbacks.

[NY_NursingStudent]

You can not progress any faster than the school runs its nursing classes. You can take all of your remaining gen ed or co-requisite classes in one semester if you desire, but it doesn't change the fact that you can't take semester 2 of nursing until semester 1 is out of the way and so on. I would look for programs that offer a summer session. My school, at one time, offered a summer session in which a limited number of persons could finish the last term at an accelerated pace instead of taking it in the fall. That is the only way one could finish early in that particular program, other than the advanced placement students, a category that you would not fall under. Do some research and see what you can come up with, but don't be surprised not to find anything because of budgetary cutbacks.

Hi...thanks for getting back to me. Part of the problem is that this school doesn't offer all my remaining pre-req's in one semester, and they are not available during the summer, either, and I'm not allowed to take them as co-req's. I was hoping to find a program that either progressed faster than that or that did classify me as an Advanced placement student ( I have 80 college credits - the problem is that they are in an assortment of subject areas.)