This is my first post, so I hope I'm doing this correctly. Recently, I transferred to school in hopes to finish my prerequisites and apply to their nursing program. I received an email from admissions with an admissions appeal attached stating I need to fill it out and turn it back in, now mind you I'm already enrolled in classes. They took a transcript from 8 years ago and applied it to my now GPA and it brought it down 1.25. I went and talked to my nursing advisor and was told I might as well change my major because I wasn't getting accepted into their program because it's so competitive, and that no matter how many times I retook a a course i still wouldn't get accepted into their program. So, she told me to look into Healthcare Administration. I get that I may not be this super smart person but for her to just tell me give up on what I want to do, my dreams it bothered me but now it also has me sitting here contemplating on changing my major but my heart is telling me and and I have no idea what else I would want to do. I know I'm not dumb, I just have a difficult time when it comes to test, I get real bad anxiety and I start to second guess myself and it could be something I know and I just freeze up because I want to do so well.
You really have to develop a backbone to pursue a nursing career. Do you know how many people will try to discourage you? a lot. If it's what you really want keep at it raise your gpa, go to another school. Look, it's not going to be easy you are going to feel defeated sometimes but keep your head up and strive for your dream. I am in a program right now, failed a class while all my friends moved on, targeted by one of my teacher in clinical. Do I feel like giving up sometimes? Of course. But I take it day by day, I pray for guidance and assistance, and I do not want to give this teacher the upper hand. Good luck!
Can anyone come up with a college of nursing that will enroll a student who has a 1.25 GPA? Other than the for-profit schemes, a college that has students who pass the NCLEX? Anyone?
Is the OP's GPA 1.25, or did it get lowered by 1.25? I didn't even know that low of a GPA was possible
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Another route that may be more open to you, if patient care is the foundation of your interest, would be respiratory therapy, sonogram technician, radiology technician or physical therapy assistant. All pay relatively well and aren't quite so competitive. All have different options both inpatient and outpatient and involve direct contact with patients.
I am sure that was disheartening to hear but don't let it bring you all the way down. You will want to apply to several different nursing schools no matter what, as entrance is competitive everywhere. There are many that don't go that far back or don't factor in grades that do not directly satisfy requirements for the nursing degree. I did poorly my first time around in college and had a 1.75 GPA. I brought it up through hard work and good grades once I had a goal in mind, but even with that, had all those grades factored in I never would have been accepted. Fortunately my first choice school did not factor in what I made in classes like "computer keyboarding" (how I managed to fail that one is a story for another time!!).
Keep plugging away and identify the schools you want to apply to. Investigate whether any other career pathways in the health sciences would make you just as happy as well. Work on conquering that test anxiety too. Best of luck!
There are plenty of schools that only care about math/science GPA or will accept retakes for replacement grades. So she's not out of options.
Plenty? I'm honestly surprised. Ones around me take in account total GPA, TEAS, and when all that is equal, then volunteering and professional recommendations. I know about this mostly because of students who come to my facility to get volunteer hours in hopes of getting placement in a nursing program, plus the students who get that Golden Ticket often talk about the challenges of acceptance. I guess the OP had best hope that some of those plenty of schools are located near her!
Is the OP's GPA 1.25, or did it get lowered by 1.25? I didn't even know that low of a GPA was possible
I re-read what she wrote and maybe you're right. It looks to me like it got brought down TO 1.25, but if it was brought down BY 1.25, why not say what that GPA actually is? Since the reason the advisor told her she wasn't going to get into that nursing program because of her GPA I'd think it would be very relevant to know what exactly that GPA is (if it's not 1.25).
How it would be possible I think might be if her old transcript involved classes she either failed outright or got Ds in and then those grades got averaged into her current school's GPA. That would kill it I guess.
OP, what IS your GPA? What are your grades for the last couple of years? Details matter!
Plenty? I'm honestly surprised. Ones around me take in account total GPA, TEAS, and when all that is equal, then volunteering and professional recommendations. I know about this mostly because of students who come to my facility to get volunteer hours in hopes of getting placement in a nursing program, plus the students who get that Golden Ticket often talk about the challenges of acceptance. I guess the OP had best hope that some of those plenty of schools are located near her!
Plenty was perhaps an overstatement on my part. There are no schools around here that allow retakes, either. But I've read about them on here often, so that's where my post came from. An assumption on my part.
Im so sorry you feel that way. by no means you should change majors. if i were you i would go on BRN and check ALL schools application requirements and see how many programs you are qualified to apply to. if your GPA is lowered that much i can tell you that no BSN program would even look at your application but, im sure there are ADN programs scattered around your state that would take GPAs as low as 2.0.
Im so sorry you feel that way. by no means you should change majors. if i were you i would go on BRN and check ALL schools application requirements and see how many programs you are qualified to apply to. if your GPA is lowered that much i can tell you that no BSN program would even look at your application but, im sure there are ADN programs scattered around your state that would take GPAs as low as 2.0.
dont ever give up chasing your dreams!!!
I wonder where this line of thinking comes from? Is there a belief that BSN programs only take the best and brightest minds, but ADN programs are willing to take scraps? I can tell you from personal knowledge that ADN programs will frequently have longer wait lists, higher competition to get in. Being less expensive typically than BSN programs, a shorter length of time involved, the competition can be fierce. It is not outrageous to find ADN programs where the minimum consideration for admission is a 3.0 but in reality they only accept 3.8 or 3.9.
Saying that no BSN program would accept this student but there must be ADN programs that will is insulting.
That's interesting. Are all of these classes from the same college? I failed chemistry twice getting my BS in biology (at a different school). Got a D, and then a C-. To get into nursing school, that would bring down my GPA. I retook chemistry at the college I was applying for the nursing degree. I got an A. The nursing school took the credit from their college because it was most recent. If I didn't retake, they would have used the C-. Yes I shelled out extra money to retake a class I technically passed. But it got me into nursing school. Look for programs that do that.
I have not heard of any BSN programs that would accept a GPA of below 3.0 at least not in CA. my comment was not intended to be "out of line of thinking". its based on my own research.
It is not outrageous to find ADN programs where the minimum consideration for admission is a 3.0 but in reality they only accept 3.8 or 3.9.
There are two programs in my area, a BSN program and an ADN program. The BSN program's cohort for the Class of 2019 has an average GPA of 3.89; many of the students not accepted by the BSN program were accepted by the ADN program, which had an average GPA of 3.75 this last application cycle.
However, the ADN program had a much lower overall acceptance rate, due to the fact that many more students apply for a variety of reasons. ADN programs are shorter and less expensive, but the mindset of some applicants that somehow the program would have some kind of lax acceptance standards because it's at a community college might be artificially bloating the realistic applicant pool quite a bit.
I have not heard of any BSN programs that would accept a GPA of below 3.0 at least not in CA. my comment was not intended to be "out of line of thinking". its based on my own research.
You missed my point. My point was not that there were BSN programs out there that would take this student ( I have my doubts on that as well.). My point was that your statement that there must be several ADN programs in her area that would take a GPA as low as 2.0 was what was completely out of whack. So yes, stating that ADN programs are more willing in general to take poor students is insulting. Maybe my opinion is colored by my knowledge that my own alma mater currently does not take less than a 3.8 at minimum for admission. Consider it my adding to your research.
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You really have to develop a backbone to pursue a nursing career. Do you know how many people will try to discourage you? a lot. If it's what you really want keep at it raise your gpa, go to another school. Look, it's not going to be easy you are going to feel defeated sometimes but keep your head up and strive for your dream. I am in a program right now, failed a class while all my friends moved on, targeted by one of my teacher in clinical. Do I feel like giving up sometimes? Of course. But I take it day by day, I pray for guidance and assistance, and I do not want to give this teacher the upper hand. Good luck!