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So I am in community college working towards transferring to Binghamton Univ as a traditional transfer. I got a D in A&PI last year so I took it again this year and got ANOTHER D. I have taken A&PII and have gotten an A. It's not really the content that is difficult, but my life situation while I was taking the course. This semester I had a baby in February and seven other classes, so my semester tanked. The best I can do to rebound is retake the courses again and it will give me a prereq GPA of 3.2 and an overall GPA of 3.6. Do you think I still have a chance to get into Binghamton?

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You're going to have more luck asking the program itself what the general stats of those accepted is, as that info depends on the program. I'm not sure you'll run into someone here that has applied there and would thus know.

I will say that all the programs I looked at looked at the prereq GPA as more important than the overall GPA, as those are the classes that directly relate to nursing school in some way. You might need to look into retaking A&P I for a third time so that you can get an A in the class. So I wouldn't load yourself down with other classes either. It's important to get a good grade in that course and to actually know it because you have to know that info in nursing school.

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The advisor just told me today that it's hard to say if what my chances would be like in the future with a prereq GPA of 3.2, but she can tell me that it wouldn't have been competitive for fall 2018.

Not really sure where to go from there.

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After you retake every course and get an A, what's left that can be done?

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After you retake every course and get an A, what's left that can be done?

Check the requirements of the program you're interested in applying to. Some programs won't allow you to take certain core pre-reqs more than 2-3 times.

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There isn't a limit of the number of times I can take the course. Only GPA matters

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So, you'll have a 3.2 prereq GPA with an A in A&P I? In which case, are there other prereqs you didn't make an A in to improve that, or is the school averaging the first attempt with the latest attempt (which I've seen some schools do)? Is there not a way to get it higher, toward 3.6+?

Because if the program you are looking at has a competitive prereq GPA for acceptance and the GPA is significant portion of how they judge the candidates, then not much else other than having a high prereq GPA is going to help in getting in that program. You can see what percentage other stats factor in to figure out if you can improve your app those ways, but it might mean that you will have to look at other programs that have a lower GPA requirement.

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