Getting into School with Repeated Classes

[mls(ascp)rnhopeful]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to get into a BSN program but I have a few repeated courses due to other priorities in my life at the time. I finished my bachelors in Medical Laboratory Science with a 3.3 in my major and those were heavily science based. I am now wanting to go back to nursing school but they keep focusing on the repeated classes early in my schooling. I would like to know how to show the schools that I am ready to buckle down and make nursing my number one priority. I cannot change my academic history so I just want to know how to show the schools that I have the ability to become a knowledgeable nurse and that I am not the same person as back then. Would a high TEAS-V score improve my chances of being looked as a good candidate?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

[WookieeRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

If they are focusing on repeated courses even when you retook them and got a higher score, then a high-TEAS score may help you or it may not. You may be out of the running just because you repeated and nothing will change that for some programs. If it's a points-based system you may still not get enough points to get you accepted.