education assistance

[sk01]

Hello everyone,

I'm very stressed and would appreciate some help. My freshmen and sophomore year of college were the most stressful times of my life. I made the mistake of continuing school through the two years and doing horribly in my classes. I have now relocated myself from Miami to Austin and want to start all new.

I am going to be starting at Austin Community College to complete my pre-nursing reqs, then I want to receive a BSN by transferring. But i know once i complete my core requirements, I am going to have trouble getting accepted. I have some courses that I have repeated, which i know a lot of nursing schools frown upon.

Is there any hope for me to get my BSN? Are there any schools that are lenient with GPA and course repetitions? What can I do?

Please, I will really really appreciate your help.

[Meeh619]

If you are starting new then you shouldn't have a problem. Unless you gave Austin your transcripts. Their are some universities that only transfer what you need so classes that you've taken which were not needed don't transfer therefore don't count. I just got into a BSN program in San Antonio & I too had a bad year, years before. It can be done just matters how u do now and how the school scores their acceptances.

[nicolet3271]

I know that UT Austin has a ADN to BSN for ACC students. If you make it through the nursing program with a 3.0 GPA then UT will transfer all your nursing classes and co and prerequisite without an issue. Here is the link :

http://www.utexas.edu/nursing/academics/ud_degree_adnbsn.html

Hope this helps

[ArrowRN, BSN, RN]

You'll have a better chance of transferring to a BSN program if you have an AA degree, not just the prerequisites. The additional courses will help boost your GPA if you focus on getting only A's from now on. Also be mindful of retakes may hurt your ability for financial aid because it may run you over the credit hour limit for BSN. If all else fails, you still have other options, such as doing LPN first then LPN to BSN. Even ADN then RN to BSN. One of my instructors went that LPN route and now has a Phd. so all is not lost. You can do this! good luck! :)