does high school matter?

[tate_D]

Hello, i am in the middle of my summer before my senior year of high school. my GPA is around 3.3 and have done well in all of my science classes. the idea of being a nurse has came and gone throughout the years, but as high school is coming to an end i think i have made my decision. my plan is to attend my local community college and get my basics done, but i also found out that tcc (my local community college) offers a RN program (Nursing - Tarrant County College , i found out because a coworker is currently in it and planning on transferring to get her bsn). now when it comes to my high school experience, i did o.k so far. but i know for a fact i could have applied myself much more. when i attend the tcc i know they will not care about my gpa, and sat, act, etc. but how will the nursing program view it, i'm not saying they will accept stupid people because its a community college, but will they look at my high school transcript or will only my basics, and pre-reqs taken at tcc matter?. I plan on really applying myself for my senior year, and can hopefully bring my gpa a little higher. i'm also taking anatomy and physiology, and hopefully i get scheduled for advanced bio. i do remember i did very well in bio my freshman year, and the tcc program for nursing does not require chem anymore(though i did get a B in chem).

sorry for rambling on, just alot going through my head, thank you for all who comment and discuss

-Tate

[NurseGirl525, ASN, RN]

Your high school grades are important for admission to the college itself. When I applied to my nursing program, I had to submit my transcripts from high school but I think they just looked to see what I had completed. They had no bearing on acceptance to the program. They looked at my prereq classes I had taken for the program and my Teas entrance exam score.

Now each program has different requirements but I don't know of any that take high school grades into account.

[tate_D]

well thats good to hear, if pre-reqs are of top importance then i should be just dandy. thanks for responding. getting into the school itself should be a walk in the park, i knew a guy with a 1.7 gpa in highschool, and didn't take the sat that got in, it is just a community college at the basic level.

[liane90]

To an extent, if you have dual credit courses, it definitely will. I had 12 credit hours that I actually took in high school that are college credit hours. The rest...to be honest, not to a community college. For the more prestigious colleges it will. Other than that, they make sure that you have good GPA in your pre-reqs and that you did indeed graduate high school.

[NurseGirl525, ASN, RN]

I also go to a community college. I did have to turn in my SAT score for admittance. I first went to my college in 1998 and I had only been out of college for 5 years. Fast forward to 2013 and I had to take an Accuplacer test to see where I was in math and English. You will be fine. Just make sure you kick butt in the prereqs. The nursing program at my community college is more competitive than the bigger state colleges.

[ANMpreN]

Make sure you put everything you got into your ACT/SAT. The CC may not care about it but if you school is anything like mine where your ACT/SAT scores determine the classes you are placed into and what classes you can take ( which are a lot of restrictions). So if you score really low in your math or reading you will have to take that same HS school senior class over but instead this time you'd be paying for it (lots of money if you cannot place high enough).

Nobody told me this when I took my ACT in HS and bombed the math with a 19 and when I tried to register for some classes at my CC I was not eligible to take college algreba/chem/or bio. Lol, the worst time of my life.

So instead I enrolled myself at another institution and will hopefully be in the process of transferring very soon.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Your high school grades are important for admission to the college itself.

I live in Fort Worth and attended Tarrant County College, the school that the OP wants to attend. It is an open admissions community college that will admit anyone without regard to how well or poorly they performed in high school.

His prerequisite coursework GPA will have more impact than his high school GPA, which they will not even look at. He will need at least a 3.5 GPA in his prerequisite courses if he hopes to be admitted, because they've got several hundred applicants for about 60 spaces each year. TCC nursing program admissions are competitive.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

BTW, we have moved this post to the Pre-nursing Student forum to amass input from others who may have an opinion on whether the high school grades matter.