I didn't get into Nursing School!! Help!!

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So, according to Georgia State, my overall GPA is a 2.98, and my science GPA is a 2.44 currently. I've applied to 4 nursing schools for the fall 2016 semester (Ga Southern, Armstrong, Clayton and Emory). I didn't get into Ga Southern and Armstrong and I'm waiting to hear back from the other two. However, i am not very confident about getting into them either. I have no idea what I'm going to do after this summer (ill be done with all my pre-reqs for nursing school) if i don't get into a program and i don't have any idea of what i can do to still get where i want to. My goal is to be a nurse midwife. Could anyone help me please? Im beyond desperate and I'm going crazy with all the stress and frustration and crying over the past few months.

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I'm sorry but your grades are not at all competive for pretty much any nursing school no matter where it is.
Investor-owned schools of questionable repute (read: ITT Technical Institute, Brown Mackie, West Coast University, University of Phoenix, South University, Rasmussen, Walden, Chamberlain College, Platt, Galen, Pima Medical Institute) will accept the original poster into their nursing programs with the GPA he/she quoted.

However, tuition is tremendously expensive and the degree may lack prestige.

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Those schools may accept her, but they will also take her tuition money and if she doesn't cut it, she's out with a big loan and no degree. She still has to take and pass boards to work. I don't think she cares about prestige. There is only so much help any school can and will give. Look online at the board pass rates in your state and compare them. Some of those schools have a high weed them out rate.

She's setting herself up for a tough time. Better to get the issue fixed now then to funk out mid way through.

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I don't know about you guys, but I don't think the notion of getting OP to move to a less competitive area or apply to for profit schools will help in the long run. They want to be a nurse midwife but have only achieved a 2.44 science GPA. They really need to sit down and assess where they went wrong. I remember back in pre-reqs many students that just didn't have "it" when it came to the classes whether it be time management, studying, or just simply recall. Of course they didn't make it in and eventually changed their majors, so much for really wanting to be a nurse, but if OP really is in it for the long run retaking all those classes is needed. I don't know if Id want care from a nurse or be working on an intensive floor alongside a nurse who didn't understand the basics of the human body, but that's just my 2 cents.

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Aren't GPAs based on letter grades and not%? For example, an 80, while considered a "C", is that a 3.0 or a 2.0?

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Aren't GPAs based on letter grades and not%? For example, an 80, while considered a "C", is that a 3.0 or a 2.0?

Schools carry different weights, an 80 in my program is a 2.0 (the min for passing a class)

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Schools carry different weights, an 80 in my program is a 2.0 (the min for passing a class)

Okay, thanks. That's not what i figured, but i havent started school yet.

But it does mean that a 2.44 isn't necessarily a bad GPA.

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Okay, thanks. That's not what i figured, but i havent started school yet.

But it does mean that a 2.44 isn't necessarily a bad GPA.

It is a low GPA if the average GPA of accepted students is 3.5 or higher.

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Okay, thanks. That's not what i figured, but i havent started school yet.

But it does mean that a 2.44 isn't necessarily a bad GPA.

What horseshoe said. A competitive GPA (aka a good chance to get in) is Around a 3.8. Factor in attending a state university and the amount of applicants who have even higher grades with better experience and credentials means the chances are even slimmer if you don't meet the benchmark.

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It is a low GPA if the average GPA of accepted students is 3.5 or higher.

Agreed. It doesn't mean that she's not smart, though and that she's not capable of being a nurse. It simply means that she won't get accepted into that particular program.

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A 2.98 is a low GPA for nursing no matter what school she is trying to get in. That doesn't mean she isn't capable of doing better, it just means she has to put in the effort to retake her science classes and get better grades. Alot of people want to be a nurse but you can't be in this profession without a lot of hard work and dedication.

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Agreed. It doesn't mean that she's not smart, though and that she's not capable of being a nurse. It simply means that she won't get accepted into that particular program.

There are a whole lot of programs she won't get into with that GPA. It doesn't matter that she is smart and capable if the school is using GPA as a major criteria. She probably needs to retake the classes if she can't find a school which is not competitive or which doesn't give GPA much weight.

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Take a few more classes and increase you gpa. You're not competitive at all where you're at. Not meant to be mean but you can't get admitted on love so you have to use logic to take that next step forward

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