MCTC Nursing, U of M or St. Kate's?

[sglim92]

Hello all!

I'm thinking of where I should continue and go about getting my degree in Nursing and what's the best way to go about it. I did go to a community college in California, but my grades were terrible. I was a horrible student, didn't know what I wanted in life. I moved to MN and took a year off school to decide what it is that I wanted to do. Went back to school and am currently doing well in my pre-requisites. I'm getting A's and B's for the required classes in my program. I'm wondering how I should go about to apply into any of the schools. Will I have any chance at all? I currently go to MCTC and am trying to get into their Nursing program but a bigger part of me wants to try and apply to the U of M or St. Kate's. Are there Nursing programs pretty good? Any feedback would be super helpful! Thank you!

[8130]

St Kate's will be expensive. They are eliminating their two year program and replacing it with an evening and weekend BSN program if that's appealing to you. They'll keep their traditional daytime BSN offering as well. The comm college route will be least expensive but you'll obviously need to continue on and get an RN to BSN after that. So I would add up costs of all options and go from there. If you are getting mostly good grades now you should be competitive at application time. St Kate's will probably be the easiest to get into because the tuition is high and nclex pass rates not as good. Their program was well known for many years as excellent but that's really changed recently. i would probably do MnTC first, followed by the U.

[chely21]

Hi, I'm currently at the U of M and I got accepted the Fall, 2015 as a transfer student. I know that now they are not longer taking any transfer students for the Twin Cities campus, only for Rochester. U of M is super competitive, but there tuition is very reasonable and I love the program. People who get accepted have usually 3.6 and above commutative GPA, and 3.7 and above pre-requisites GPA. They also look for work, and volunteer experience.

[isadevon]

You can also look into the new program name MANE , it is a BSN but it is associated with the community colleges. You can apply to any of the community college that they have listed, complete your 2 years and you are automatically admitted in the university of Metro State . There is another university for MCTC that I forgot what is the name. At MCTC they will look at your general gpa, but at the other colleges they just look at the grades of the pre requisites. Metro State for what I have heard has a really good nursing program and they let you work as an RN once you finish the first three semesters and while you complete the other three. Good luck