I have a few questions, if someone can please help. Thanks!

[TCLA]

I have a few questions about nursing school & classes"

I am currently a senior in high school and i want to get my BSN. I get fairly good grades, i have a 3.0 but idid horrible on my ACT, i only got a 17. my questions are:

1. do nursing schools look at your ACTscores & high School grades? or are they just worried about your pre-reqs? If i cannot get into a university with my ACT score i plan on attending a community college then transferring to a univ's.BSN program. the community colleges i want to attend are: Santa monica or Pasadena City College. and then transfer to one of this univ's. i picked which were Cal state long beach, cal state los angeles, or azusa pacific.

2. i am really confused on how to do the community college transfer thing. do i just find the pre-reqs needed @ one of the univs. i want to attend and then show that too one of the guidance councelor's @ the community college and they will place me in the right classes to complete my pre-reqs? Im just really confised & my guidance councelor at my high school is no help at all, everytime i ask her a question all she says is to search it on google. so i need someone to make this step very clear too me.

3. and i noticed that some pre-reqs are organic chem is this organic chem like BASIC organic chem class or is it the real deal, like you'd take in med school?

i want to attend college in california, as an out of state student ( i live in ohio) and all this is just so confusing!!

i planned on getting my Accociates degree then doing the bridge program to my BSN but i heard that all hospitals in california require a BSN. is this true?

[mlbnocnurse]

1) Can you retake the ACT? Have you taken the SAT's. Being a native of CA (w/ kids as well) my experience has been that most school here look @ the SAT more often (tho they will also look @ the ACT). I never took the ACT & neither did my kids. I got my ASN first, then went into the bridge program to complete my BSN.

2) You should be able to go on line for any community college & find a list of classess offered as well as the classess req. for your ASN. You should be able to find the same info @ any 4 yr college) so you can compare the required classes @ the 4 yr school w/ what is offered @ the 2 yr. There should also be a phone # you can find so that you can talk w/ some one in the nursing program @ both schools who can help you. As a point of interest, IMHO I got much beter clinical experience in the 2 yr school then students got @ the 4 yr school!!!

3) I don't think that the organic chemistry is the same as you need to take in med school. But I am not quite sure what the differences are.

4) Hospitals in CA do NOT require a BSN. However there are some hospitals (a minority) that prefer them. A BSN is a requirement if you ever want to get into management.

hope all this helps

good luck, hang in there, nursing is a worthwhile profesion, it is worth the journey to get there.