Okay so I am a college freshman, currently in elementary education. I absolutely hate it. I want to switch to nursing which has always been in the back of my mind, but my school unfortunately does not exactly have a nursing program. I absolutely love my school, and I would hate to transfer. My mom doesn't even want me to transfer. She told me to get a degree in something like biology and then do a accelerated-bsn program somewhere, which doesn't sound like such a horrible idea, minus the money wasted which is kinda the thing stopping me. I really, really don't want to leave my school and the nursing "satellite" program that is connected to my school would technically also make me not a student here and according to the admissions office, "transferring your courses is extremely difficult and needs to be started as early as fall of your freshman year. Your highest chances of being admitted (64 seats available) is if you declared your major as pre-nursing in your freshman application). This discourages me a lot and pushes me more to pursue an accelerated program after graduation, which many girls on my campus are doing for this same reason (ridiculous that we have to do that in my opinion).
My questions are:
1. Opinions on this?? Is it stupid to be so concerned about not wanting to leave my school? I worked my butt off to get to this school and leaving would more than bum me out, but at the same time, the career comes first.
2. If I did pursue a bachelor's degree in something besides nursing and then went on to do an accelerated program, which would (generally, I know course load varies at different schools) be the best major to choose? I heard biology actually isn't a good choice because the course load does not even close to overlap, but I'm not sure what else. Obviously I would take courses according to pre-reqs of the nursing schools I would later to apply to, but what majors are reccomendations to possibly declare?
Thanks so much, please be honest if this is stupid because I may/may not need some sense knocked into me!
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Okay so I am a college freshman, currently in elementary education. I absolutely hate it. I want to switch to nursing which has always been in the back of my mind, but my school unfortunately does not exactly have a nursing program. I absolutely love my school, and I would hate to transfer. My mom doesn't even want me to transfer. She told me to get a degree in something like biology and then do a accelerated-bsn program somewhere, which doesn't sound like such a horrible idea, minus the money wasted which is kinda the thing stopping me. I really, really don't want to leave my school and the nursing "satellite" program that is connected to my school would technically also make me not a student here and according to the admissions office, "transferring your courses is extremely difficult and needs to be started as early as fall of your freshman year. Your highest chances of being admitted (64 seats available) is if you declared your major as pre-nursing in your freshman application). This discourages me a lot and pushes me more to pursue an accelerated program after graduation, which many girls on my campus are doing for this same reason (ridiculous that we have to do that in my opinion).
My questions are:
1. Opinions on this?? Is it stupid to be so concerned about not wanting to leave my school? I worked my butt off to get to this school and leaving would more than bum me out, but at the same time, the career comes first.
2. If I did pursue a bachelor's degree in something besides nursing and then went on to do an accelerated program, which would (generally, I know course load varies at different schools) be the best major to choose? I heard biology actually isn't a good choice because the course load does not even close to overlap, but I'm not sure what else. Obviously I would take courses according to pre-reqs of the nursing schools I would later to apply to, but what majors are reccomendations to possibly declare?
Thanks so much, please be honest if this is stupid because I may/may not need some sense knocked into me!