Has anyone gotten into nursing school with a low gpa?

Wranglergirl · Feb 14, 2011

I am in school at east Tennessee state university , I messed up my first semester and got a C in A&P 1 . I also took some college courses while in high-school and got a couple of C's I have now retaken those classes and have a B in one and am working towards an A in the other. My advisory told me even if I make all A's this semester ( I am taking A&P 2, history 2, remidal math where I did not do average on my act for math, and art history 2, and psychology. I have an A in all of those classes except A&P 2 will most likely be a B. My advisor said even if I made all A's this semester the best I could do would be a 3.2. Well as far as I know technically you only have to have a 3.0 GPA, but the nursing school at ETSU the lowest they are going to take Spring of 2012 will be 3.6 GPA. I will apply for nursing school Fall of 2011 and if accepted I will begin nursing school in Spring of 2012 as I will have my microbiology and prob and stats math out of the way in Fall of 2011. I plan on taking A&P 1 over this summer and getting an A or a B.

Still though my adviser says I will only have a 3.2. What am I suppose to do with a 3.2 ? I want to go into the nursing field. I hear you can be a LPN for 1 year and get straight into RN school.

Does anyone know of any nursing programs on the east coast that accept lower GPA's like mine? I live in Tennessee so I would like to stay close to home, but this really has me worried as I have wedding plans as soon as I graduate.

Help please? I am in a 4 year program but an willing to do a 2 year.

-signed

Wranglergirl

strawberryluv, BSN, RN · Feb 18, 2011

^ My university is accepting applicants with a minimum GPA of a 3.0

Its Rutgers University-Camden. Camden, the city that the university is located in is DANGEROUS but the campus is well-protected by a staff of 42 guards that patrol the whole square acre of the campus and 19 police men.

You need to have completed all of your prerequisites at Rutgers University-Camden though.

I say it is relatively easy to get into the program. I got accepted into the program straight from high school and my GPA was only about 3.31

aclays · Feb 18, 2011

I was accepted into my school Idaho State University with a 3.56 gpa. They said that ~3.4-5 was the lowest that made it in even though they would accept as low as 3.0. There were only about 130 applications for 70 spots, which is pretty nice.

Wranglergirl · Feb 18, 2011

jngo91- What if you have completed your pre reqs. at a different school?

fatimat18 · Jan 22, 2012

pls, could you give me the names of the school you all are at. because am searching for nursing schools and everything is getting hard.

fatimat18 · Jan 23, 2012

pls what school is that

kappadiamond9 · Apr 27, 2012

daggg that sucks man so after reading all these posts its safe to say it just depends on the shcool but it is possible cause u seem to have the highest average thus far out of everyone on this post and u didnt even get in now thats crazy to me i would def try to apply else where

kappadiamond9 · Apr 27, 2012

daggg that sucks man so after reading all these posts its safe to say it just depends on the shcool but it is possible cause u seem to have the highest average thus far out of everyone on this post and u didnt even get in now thats crazy to me i would def try to apply else where

strawberryluv, BSN, RN · Apr 27, 2012

I think they are accepting transfers as well. Every semester we always have someone who fails the class so people are constantly being matriculated into the program as seats are available.