do i go for absn or bsn??

[clairelett]

Hi all,

I am new to the allnurses community however have continuously been coming to this page for various school reviews and general nursing help. I am currently going into my third year at a university and have been a pre-nursing major for the past two years. However, I am now at a point where I must either get into a nursing program or change my major. I'm currently residing in California and as many of you probably know, where I live has the most competitive schools to get into (yikes).

I unfortunately messed up freshmen year and did not take my grades too seriously but was able to pick up my grades sophomore year, leaving me with a 3.36 cum gpa and a 3.0 science gpa. Ive only take the teas once as a practice round and got a 73 but am retaking it this coming month and am hoping to bring it up to atleast 80 but hopefully high 80s! I also have 60+ volunteer hours.

I've looked around at manyyy BSN programs in and out of the state, however my family would prefer i stay on the west coast, limiting a good amount of choices for me already. I also don't have a competitive gpa AT ALL and have found this to be extremely discouraging while looking for BSN programs to get into. I am now faced with the choice of either taking a break from university, of which i am already halfway done with, to pick up my grades and hope to get into a BSN program in fall 2019 or in the year of 2020, OR continuing at my university with a different science major and after graduating, go for an ABSN program or an RN program.

Anyways, sorry this is an extremely long post but I have been stressing about this decision for the whole summer now and still haven't really reached a viable conclusion. I realize both are not bad options, however I am not sure which would be best to become a nurse.

Does anyone have any advice??

Thank you so much in advance to anyone who replies.

-aspiring nurse