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1000x what mrsboots187 said. If you are going BSN you will have 2 years of pre-reqs regardless. Everyone has done it and it really doesn't matter if you take bio before English. Honestly. They are just courses and just because you didn't get the class you want now doesn't mean it isn't coming. Your advisor put you in those classes because you NEED them. He specializes in students with your major. He isn't doing it to spite you.

I did tell him but he wouldn't listen. I even told him to place me in English 102 since I got a 26 in English on my act.

The only thing that proves is that you are ready for English 101 and not remedial English. In order to get credit for English 101 you need to either take it or test out of it for credit if they even offer CLEP exams anymore.

I suggest going to your university's website and looking up the pre'-nursing curriculum. Everything you've listed looks right for the beginning of any pre-nursing program.

BSN programs require 120ish credit hours. Usually only the last 4 or 5 semesters are actual nursing classes. Which you will likely have to apply to get into. In most cases, being accepted as pre-nursing does not mean you are "in nursing school".

It's called general education for a bachelor's degree program.

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This is what the curriculum at one of the local BSN programs looks like .... Look familiar??? Also, you have to apply to get into the 4th semester nursing portion.

I have been to 3 colleges and never once has someone went ahead and enrolled me into classes. Something isn't adding up wIth OP.

If it is a community college make sure your advisor/ counselor is associated or at least familiar with the nursing program and its prerequisites. Our local CC has several campuses located across the region. Our local campus counselors have no idea what is required for the nursing program. I have known a couple of people taking all the wrong classes and not find out till a semester or even 2 later. One guy this happened to was in his 50's. Never been to college at all and it was a full year before he found out nearly all the classes he had taken would not go towards pre-req's for the ADN program.

Edit: just re read the OP and saw it is for a BSN program. The above probably won't apply at all. 4 year colleges are a lot different than CC.

It absolutely looks like the first semester of pre-nursing. Biology is most likely a pre-requisite for A&P, and Intro to Nursing may not be allowed until you are almost finished with pre-req or actually in the program.

You have to start with the basics.

Good luck with nursing school!

I'd like to add that just because you test out of a class doesn't mean that you should skip it. I tested out of College Algebra, and man, it really regretted skipping it in Trig and Calculus (didn't take those for nursing).

Your 3 on the Biology AP exam doesn't indicate a mastery in Intro Biology. Even if you do know everything, just think of it as an easy A that will boost your GPA when you apply to nursing school. Same for Engl 101. Your GPA will be very important.

Biology makes sense for a couple of reasons: 1) you need to understand cell structure, genetics, energy production and use, etc. as a basis for A&P; 2) the people in the program may come from high schools of varying quality. This will both get everyone on the same page, and may help persons who might otherwise never make it through A&P by showing them that they need to remediate first.

Communications is a core thing that nurses do every single day. English 101 is something all college students take. And, even if you think you can write well, you may not be at college level and may need to learn how to use APA, etc. You will write many papers in school, and will write things for the rest of your life. Being able to write well is a make-or-break skill. If you are bad at it, you will go much less far in your career, so take it seriously, ask for feedback, and use it to improve.

When you get to NU courses, you will learn how to do medication calculations. You will face a math quiz on which you will be expected to score 100% after (at most) 3 attempts. If you don't succeed, you will be out of luck. (Please don't panic--it is at best 9th grade math.) That explains why you need Algebra.

We both took AP biology together even though she scored a 4 on it and I only scored a 3. But still a 3 is still good enough to take A&P. That's why I was angry because I felt worthless sorta.

Think about it: Might you not be better off to build a really strong foundation first? This is not just you, but many of the nursing students I teach have developed over-confidence and a distorted sense of themselves because they received inflated grades in HS. They are SHOCKED when they struggle in college, and often blame us for making things too hard.

How does this happen? It is simply easier for high school teachers to pass out good grades like candy rather than deal with the pressure from students and their parents if they don't. Nursing schools, however, have to make sure you can both be a safe practitioner and pass NCLEX. They are accountable to the State Board of Nursing for their NCLEX pass rate. If it is too low, the program will be put on a suspension list. They are making sure you will be able to succeed, even though you might want to rush through the program. Is that all that bad?

This comment is intended for you and all the others on this site who complain about prereqs: Were any of you part of a team that did an analysis of the knowledge and skills needed to be a safe, effective practitioner for today's diverse populations? Do you know what it takes to be a manager or team member in a complex healthcare systems? Do you know how to use data and statistics to analyze and improve the care you deliver?

Have you advised the National League for Nursing of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education on the critical components of nursing education? How you read the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report? Do you know more than these learned professionals about educating nurses?

If you want to be a truly excellent nurse, realize that there is no easy, fast, cheap way to get there! And let's all stop thinking that it is OK for nurses to be the least educated persons in a meeting room when compared to all the other healthcare professionals around us. Let's stop arguing about what you have to know and do to be a professional nurse and just get it done.