Confused on what route to take...

[cannolis]

Hello,

Hope everyone is doing well this holiday season!

I'm a little lost on what path to take.

I finished a majority of my pre-reqs a few years ago with an intention to get an AA then get a BA in ”said career”... At the time I wasn't sure what career I was going to go with so that's why I was focusing on general education courses.

Now to my understanding it takes 3 years for someone to get their ADN. All I'm missing are my science courses if I wanted to go that route... But then I realized if I wanted to go the BSN route, the classes I'm missing are the same plus a statistics course (which I'm not that excited about.) I'm sure the BSN degree also requires a human development class but I am not sure.

I know financial aid covers of I would go the ADN route but I may need to go out of pocket if I choose to go the BSN route instead.

I was also thinking of maybe going the RN-BSN route but if the university requires to have all pre-requisites for that particular program, despite already having RN license, it would just make sense for me to just do the BSN instead. I'm not really clear on what is *required* to go this route.

Sorry if I have confused anyone... This train of thought has been driving me nuts for a while. I'm trying to figure out if doing the ADN is pointless in my situation. It seems like if it would take twice as long than just doing a BSN.

[x_factor]

I would look at each school's requirements, see what you have completed and what you still need, and then decide. I am finishing up pre-reqs at my local CC that has a good ADN program, and I will be applying there next semester, and also applying for a BSN program at the local university. The pre-req requirements for the university are almost the exact same as the CC, except for a sociology class.

The ADN program at my CC is 2 years once you get accepted into the program. Their required pre-reqs are pretty much the standard seen around most other schools. They require College Algebra, General Statstics, English Comp I and II, Biology I and Lab, A&P I and II, Microbiology, Psychology I, Psychology of Development, Art Elective, and Humanity Elective. The University's BSN program requires all of these, plus Intro to Sociology.

I would speak with prospective schools, see what pre-reqs you need to complete, and then make a decision on which route to take.

[cannolis]

Sounds like a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion.

What also worries me are the academic recommendation letters some of these schools require. How does one go about getting them for every school? I'm taking my pre-reqs at a neighborhood college before transfering out. Would some of these professors consider writing letters for other institutions?