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Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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I have been enrolled with UT Arlington for 2 years now. I'm in my last class of prereqs. Nothing more I can do. Didn't get in last term or this one. Because I didn't get in last term, I also applied at UT Tyler. Spent money to apply, take a different entrance test, etc. Still didn't get in. I have a 3.14 overall and 3.25 Science GPA before these last classes I took which it seems I will have an A and a B right now. It is not terrible but not great! I scored 76 overall on HESI. I am thinking of applying to 3 programs. I have spoken with twice and have another all scheduled today. I would need to take Biochem for them. I would need to take Nutrition for UT Tyler (which I am enrolled in this summer). Geez...each program is a little different and you could go broke just trying to meet the requirements of each one just to try to get in but could be spinning your wheels if you stick with trying to get into one...like I feel I am with UTA. What do most of you do??? Yes, I could probably get into a local ADN program and then immediately bridge but that is delaying things significantly. I feel like I am just running in circles just trying to get an education and get into programs. I am starting to feel that it is more about money. When this school requires only this and that to get in and you do that but don't get in, you have wasted your money. Then times that by how many you apply to...it is a little crazy. IS anyone else feeling like a hamster on a wheel just trying to get in somewhere????

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I feel like that too. I applied to abt 5 schools and got into the one I least wanted to go to considering its 6.5 hrs away. Not trying to sound ungrateful but I honestly did not want to move that far. Plus the school is in the middle of nowhere so it's even worse. I've never been so confused on what I want to do in my entire life. It's my 3rd yr at UTA and I'm tired of wasting time and money taking stupid classes just to fill up a schedule. There's a lot more to being a nurse besides grades and I'm pretty sure my grades are good so idk. I'm losing hope

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Wow! So you are in the same boat. I hate it but also nice to know I'm not alone ;(. It really is crazy. UTA made everything seem great. I was so excited that I got into what I thought was the program. I thought you took all of the prereqs, the nursing prereqs, etc. then you start the program. I didn't know you could put so much time and money into a school only for them to keep telling you no. I pretty much put all my eggs into UTA's basket and I guess I shouldn't have. I am so confused!!!

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I am graduating with my AA and I am feeling the same way. My gpa is a 2.7 which sucks. I scored an overal 83% on the Hesi 86% in math and 92% in anatomy. I am hoping that counts for something. I feel like running to one of those fast track schools to get into the program because I'm not sure what else to do. It is so frustrating running around trying to meet everyone's needs.

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I know how you feel. I couldn't get into the extremely competitive public university (they only let in 26 people a year. It sucks i wasted 2 years there with no gurantee of graduating) so I looked at other schools. All the other programs were private and I'd have to do at a least a year of THEIR separate pre reqs. It's ridiculous. Plus they were all 20,000 or more a year.I'm doing the ADN program now. There's nothing wrong with it. It's a good program and hospitals here don't really care which degree you have and pay the same anyway...and when I graduate I'll only need 5 classes for my BSN through the public university's bridge program. And I wont owe 50,000! Where there's a will there's a way. If you really want to be a nurse and the ADN is the only practical option then do that. And some employers still pay for you to go back for the BSN.Keep looking. You'll find something. I'd be careful with those "fast track" schools though. Many are insanely expensive and some aren't even fully accredited

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Good to know that I'm not the only one. My advisor was crap and UTA was full of crap as well. Unless you're abt to make all A's in all your classes at UTA or only a couple of B's then UTA is just a waste of time. I literally stuck around for 3 yrs now figuring out what to do next and what classes to take cause the advisors are useless. But I decided to just go to the school I got in SUPER far away and pray 2 yrs goes by quick. Really have no other options. Hope it all works out for you Shelly

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I got to a university about 2 hrs north of Arlington. Midwestern State University. Maybe you should take a look at their prereqs. I know that you would have to take the HESI again tho. Min. Score of 80 is required.

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