Hello, I took 2 semesters of liberal arts and business classes at Indiana University (at Bloomington) 20 years ago in 1994/95. I got all A's and B's first semester and then straight F's the second semester. My father passed away with an unexpected heart attack half way through that second semester at the age of 56 and I was pretty devastated and basically just stopped going to school and came back home to NJ. I was out of commission for a while and eventually about a year later took a couple semesters at a community college in NJ and then transferred to Rutgers University and graduated (with high honors) 3.85 GPA Bachelor's in Psychology (1998).
Now I want to be a a nurse and try to get into an accelerated BSN program in Florida. Since my undergrad GPA is good, I thought I would have good chances of getting into future master's programs....and then when I decided on nursing, a second bachelor's program. HOWEVER, now that I'm about to start taking the 5 pre-req's I need to get into the BSN program, I'm learning that they take the cumulative GPA of ALL classes EVER taken!!! That one semester is going to completely annihilate my chances now because it will destroy my 3.85 GPA and it seems that all the nursing programs around me are very competitive as the GPA of the students who end up being admitted are around a 3.8 GPA. So now it doesn't even matter if I got straight A's on my pre-req science courses because of that 1 semester 20 years ago.
Does anyone know of any nursing programs in Florida that would possibly only look at your Bachelor's Degree GPA? If not, am I just wasting my time trying to take nursing pre-reqs at a community college? Thank you very much for any info or help!
