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Hi everyone,

I would like to find some help from anyone who may have knowledge about a specific problem I have incurred. I am 35 year old male, have a 3.8 GPA in the science core classes to go to nursing school. I have an A in Anatomy, Chemistry 101, Chemistry 102, Nutrition, English 101, and English 102. I have B's in both Physiology and Microbiology. I also took a speech 151 course at pierce college and I am not sure this will take the place of the speech pre-requisite. Would anyone happen to know this? Nevertheless, I find this a bit ridiculous because I am a member of toastmasters and give speeches weekly in front of 30 individuals in a professional setting. In addition, I have plenty of volunteer hours/payed work experience at Kaiser Hospital (for all of you east coasters who may not know what Kaiser is! lol). I also have a bachelors degree from UCSC in psychology from 2003.

The main issue I am facing is that the undergrad at UCSC was all taken when they had pass/no pass for all their course work and all of the schools I have applied to are counting my undergrad classes as C's. For example psych 101, developmental psych, sociology, and stats. As one might see this is significantly dropping my GPA.

Overall, I have done a lot of odd and end jobs in the past to get by. I am getting married soon and would like to purse my passion in the health field.

A little about the past two years: I applied two years in a row to different nursing schools and received one interview at Denver Colorado University for the fast track bachelors and the second year at Western University E-MSN program (preferentially on the west coast but I am not opposed to relocating if I have to). Unfortunately, I was not accepted to either. I would like to get into a E-MSN program or an acc-bac program. Please advice on which schools will take me.

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Welcome to allnurses.com

We moved your thread to the Pre-Nursing forum. Others will come along and assist you.

Good luck with your Nursing career plans and we hope you enjoy allnurses.

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Most programs here on the East Coast require that you have your sciences taken within the past 3-5 years (at least the ones I will be applying to). You may have to re-take yours. I am re-taking A&P 1&2 this summer, even though I got A's in both about 10 yrs ago. Sucks, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Good luck.

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I don't know if I understand. Was this an answer to my question?

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My sciences are all the right time frame.

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Based on your previous schools, I'm guessing you're in California. Most Cal States have ABSN programs including Northridge and LA. National University and Mt. Saint Mary's have ABSN programs. UCLA, Charles Drew, and Samuel Merritt (Northern California) have entry level masters programs. I don't know if you would consider a ADN program but there are tons of community colleges in Cali that have RN programs.

Hope that helps, good luck!

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