How long did it take you (or is it currently taking you) to finish all of your prereqs? I am so tempted to want to cram all of my prereqs into 3 semesters so I can apply for Fall 2011, but the 10 credit hours I'm taking right now during the 8 week Summer session is kicking my rear!!! I am starting to have second thoughts about taking 10 credits this Fall. :uhoh21:
Albeit, the 16 week Fall semester won't be quite as rushed and intense as what I'm doing right now, but I still wonder if 10 hours might be too much. I am just taking College Algebra, English Comp I, and Intro to Computer Info Systems right now and I am up until 2AM every night doing homework. :zzzzz This Fall, I am signed up for A&P I, Human Growth & Development, and English Comp II. I was planning on finishing everything up in the Spring with Micro and A&P II. That's 10 credits this Fall and 7 credits in the Spring to get all my prereqs done in time to apply for my CC's Nursing program Fall 2011. (I have a few credits that transfer from when I was in college 10 yrs ago, so this is what I have left)
If I try to spread it out any more, I will miss the deadline and will have to wait for the Spring of 2012 to apply for Fall 2012. Please someone, give me a big fat dose of patience and tell me to take it slow.....or tell me to go for it and chug full steam ahead through these classes.
When it is all said and done, I will have spent 2 years completing my prereqs, but I should say it was less than that because there was one semester (last fall) in which I took no classes. I generally took one class last spring (micro) and last summer 2009 took A&P 1&2 back to back in 2 summer sessions and this summer took two prereqs in one summer session (7 cr total), finished last week ... all this while working full time also. My major prereqs are all done, those that are required for all my schools like the sciences. Whatever I am completing this coming fall and spring are courses that only certain nursing programs will require (like stats or ethics). I purposely only took what I felt I could handle and avoided taking more than one science at a time. Labs alone sometimes feel like a 2nd class with its accompanying lecture, freak that ... that way also, I had a better chance at working towards a top grade.
5 semesters but the first semester I was part time and had a different major. In fact the first 4 semesters I had a different major but it was for a BS in dental hygiene so once I decided on nursing, I only had a semester of prereqs to take since the BSN and BSDH programs had very similar requirements.
PacoUSA, BSN, RN
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When it is all said and done, I will have spent 2 years completing my prereqs, but I should say it was less than that because there was one semester (last fall) in which I took no classes. I generally took one class last spring (micro) and last summer 2009 took A&P 1&2 back to back in 2 summer sessions and this summer took two prereqs in one summer session (7 cr total), finished last week ... all this while working full time also. My major prereqs are all done, those that are required for all my schools like the sciences. Whatever I am completing this coming fall and spring are courses that only certain nursing programs will require (like stats or ethics). I purposely only took what I felt I could handle and avoided taking more than one science at a time. Labs alone sometimes feel like a 2nd class with its accompanying lecture, freak that
... that way also, I had a better chance at working towards a top grade.