Help! What am i going to do??!!!

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Hello everyone! I am very excited to be apart of this website and hopefully a future nursing student. Anyway, I have my B.A. in History and Political Science from Rutgers University. Unfortunatly I only graduated with a 2.4 GPA. I have about a year of prerequisites aheard of me.

What I want to know is do I have a chance at an accelerated nursing program if I ace all my prerequisite classes even with my GPA?

I have experience as an EMT (6+ years) and have volunteered in the ER. I do have another option for a career, but first passion is medicine and helping people. I strongly feel that my future is in the medical field.

I am very grateful for everyone's insite, opinions, and advice. Thank you in advance!!

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Try calculating out what your GPA would be if you ace all of your prereqs. My guess is that you would definitely need to get As in all of them in order to bump your GPA to what it needs to be. Look into possibly retaking some classes. I do not know if your GPA will be high enough for an accelerated program, but I know that there are some non-accelerated programs that will only look at your prerequisite GPA and not your cumulative GPA. Good luck!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

If you have improved studying skills now and those grades do not represent your learning abilities, you shouldn't have too much of a problem getting into a good nursing program. The easiest way that you can show them you mean business is to ace your pre-reqs. With that and a well-written letter detailing why you got a low GPA, and how the GPA from your undergraduate isn't indicative of your abilities and skills, they should let you in.

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You may want to look into an associate degree program or traditional BSN that just looks at your pre req GPA and ace those pre reqs. Accelerated BSN programs tend to be very competitive & I don't know if a previous cumulative GPA of 2.4, even with A's in pre reqs, will get you in.

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

I agree about trying for your ADN then bridging to a BSN later. NJ is pretty competitive, from what I have read here. Do your best to boost your GPA, but cast a wide net when you start applying. Don't limit yourself to aBSN programs. There are also plenty of people who go the traditional BSN route that already have a bachelor's.

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