Hillsborough Community College / Class retake

Hello everyone I hope someone can shed some light on my situation. I am active duty Air Force, so I have taken classes at many different schools. Currently I am in Tampa Fl and planning on applying to Hillsborough Community College nursing program.

I am currently enrolled in Micro and A+P 2 in the fall. When I took my A+P 1 class 5 yrs ago, it was the first ever A+P class at the campus and needless to say it was awful. The instructor was an ER doc with no teaching experience and would go over 300+ slides a night. It was 8wks of hell the human cadaver lab was a joke, and with only a midterm and a final (no reviews) I got a C. It scared me and I stopped perusing nursing, now that I am in FL and they have a night and weekend program available I decided to give it another try. In the first day of micro I got my confidence back seeing the way a real class is conducted. I realized it was the class not my lack of knowledge that killed me in A+P 1.

My problems is the way they calculate your GPA is by only counting prerequisites needed for the nursing program (I know this is probably the normal way). I have all my general ed classes completed with straight A's, my only C is in A+P. The minimum GPA to get accepted in 2012 was 3.5. If I do not get an A in micro and A+P 2 I will not have a 3.5. I figured I could take A+P 1 again in the future if I did not get those A's, but found out from what I was reading today I cannot. Does anyone have any info on this, or been in this situation? Is there anyway around this? It just does not seem fair!

Classes needed for nursing program w/grades:

English / A

Sociology / A

A+P 1 / C

A+P 2

Microbiology

Algebra / A

Thanks for any help!