Copper Mountain College RN Program , California

[apeters1]

I'm 20 and I've been in school taking prerequisites for Speech Pathology but decided I wanted to do nursing first. I saw that Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree, CA had an RN program and their deadline was coming up fast so I took the chance and applied, and I got in! BUT I live more inland... like really inland, riverside county to be exact. I am 94 miles away from the school. I don't have a car either. I am here asking any advice on what you would do in my situation? would you pass it up? Is there anyone else that got in that needs a room mate?! I am feeling kind of hopeless because RN programs are so hard to get into to just pass this up because I am at disadvantages :/

[817nurse]

I would get an affordable used car and commute to the school, or at least find a roommate who lives within walking distance of the school. This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity. I commuted 90 miles to school each way when I went to school in the Antelope Valley. It is possible.

[apeters1]

Any tips on saving up enough money for a car by the time it starts? It should start fall of next year. I want to make sure I do all I can now to make it happen then. I was thinking of taking a chance and dropping everything else and finding a full time job and working and saving all the way until then. You commuted from Riverside area to antelope valley? How did it affect your stress levels? was it worth it? would you change anything?

[apeters1]

oh yeah and it is an associates RN program

[Emergent, RN]

I used to live in Joshua Tree. I did my pre recs at Cooper Mt College. I finished in the ADN program down at College of the Desert, in Palm Desert. Copper Mt is a satellite campus of COD.

You will likely do most clinicals at Hi Desert Medical Center. The campus is on the way to 29 Palms. The hospital is about a mile or 2 east of Joshua Tree. You'll undoubtedly also do rotations in the low desert.

No car will be an impediment.